{"id":631,"date":"2007-03-18T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2007-03-18T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T11:18:59","slug":"g20-chris-tinkler-and-news-corporation-contribute-10-to-a-drink-and-drug-fuelled-all-ages-protester-orgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"G20: Chris Tinkler and News Corporation contribute $10 to a drink-and-drug-fuelled all-ages protester orgy!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The two journalists at the G20<\/a><\/strong> benefit gig<\/a> \/ drug-fuelled orgy on Friday — the gum-chewing Chris Tinkler<\/a><\/em> and his photographic assistant — have managed to scribble the following account as a special (possibly even EXCLUSIVE!<\/em>) contribution to the corporate media’s ongoing campaign to demonise G20 protesters. As it happens, the two hacks in question stuck out like sore thumbs, but I don’t know if they were confronted at any point. Judging by the below, it seems not.<\/p>\n

At first I thought the pair may have been ‘undercover’ police, but I suppose I should’ve guessed that, given Tinkler’s diminutive stature, it was more likely that they were simply hacks. Which is not to suggest that police and other agencies don’t routinely monitor ‘anti-capitalist’ protests, events and organising projects: they do. Thus the suspicions of ‘student leaders’ in Sydney are very well-founded, as a garbled report in today’s SMH<\/em> indicates (‘Fears of uni spies after five charged over G20 violence’<\/a>, John Kidman, Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, March 18, 2007).<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s Tinkler’s Walkley Award<\/a><\/strong> winning effort:<\/p>\n

‘Out of control’<\/a>
\nChris Tinkler
\nSunday Herald Sun<\/em>
\nMarch 18, 2007<\/p>\n

DRUG use and under-age drinking have been exposed at a wild [wild!] “all-ages” benefit gig for rioters charged over Melbourne’s G20 protests.<\/p>\n

Children as young as 10 slugged beer in front of their dazed parents, a mother smoked cannabis beside a pram containing her baby and youths openly snorted powder off a table at Friday night’s event.<\/p>\n

[Huh?<\/em>]<\/p>\n

The Sunday Herald Sun<\/em> also found traces of drugs including cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis in all of the [two] toilet cubicles. The tests were conducted with Securetec DrugWipe<\/a> kits, used by customs officers and police.<\/p>\n

The $5-a-head event was run to raise funds for protesters arrested over the riots during the summit of the world’s financial leaders in November.<\/p>\n

Police were [allegedly] bitten, vehicles [sic<\/em>] smashed and barricades and other objects thrown at officers as demonstrations degenerated into chaos.<\/p>\n

About 300 people attended the G20 Arrestee Legal Solidarity Benefit Gig<\/a>, which raged [raged!] until the early hours yesterday in a former lingerie [oo-er!] factory in Brunswick.<\/p>\n

But anti-capitalist chanting and police-baiting that characterised the G20 riot were absent — replaced by drunken and drug-fuelled debauchery.<\/p>\n

The landlord of the Pitt St venue, rented by a collective, said he had not been told of the gig, which featured punk rockers Pisschrist<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n