Challengers in the Wood versus Corby slinging match have taken a slight respite from the media spotlight. Their camps and teams supreme settling back and shining the brass tacks as they prepare for the attention snare in upcoming days. Days lead into weeks, weeks bleed into benders going for months, and if the public is caught off-guard, years. Ever diminishing from their constant use in the news.
Hostage Douglas Wood, rescued from a 47-day stay at an undisclosed Iraqi spa retreat, set the fires warming after the recent bathing of exclusivity money proffered from the coffers of Network Ten. Douglas Wood - His Story failed to ignite a charring ember hoped from the tedium of a man conflicted over money and family.
Watching the sympathy ebb to a cool breeze, his ocular condition was announced to an eager hush of questionability. Flushed with the prospect of going blind from the glaucoma as a parting gift from his hosts in Iraq, it was enough to keep his name out of the weekend.
Clawing out with a solid dose of scalp scratching, Gold Coast hairdresser Schapelle Corby, convicted of drug smuggling with a boogie board, marked another week in Bali with an hysterical stomach contortion.
Under the stress and ills of life under death, Corby's legal team showered a scant glimpse into the hilarious effects soon to be affected by the Australian Federal government's jockeying of Industrial Relations.
Acquired, fired, rehired and all the while wired up with more gold than the veritable Mr. T, Hotman Paris Hutapea indeed remains a part of the Corby campaign. The spectacle that is the Corby legal defence team fights might against the Wood juggernaut.
With the Corby firing squad of legal eagles willing to spout such glorious quotes as "Alexander Downer is all bullshit," they can hardly be dismissed.
The journey continues...
Written on Tuesday, 28 June 2005