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| | TRUE CRIME: ROSE - SEPTEMBER 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Helen Garner’s involvement in this scarcely credible tale of wilfulness and will-lessness and worse seems to have been accidental, as was the case in the so-called Ormond Affair, which began with an almost reflex private letter from Garner to the embattled Master. |
 | | Garner is struck by their demeanour: ‘resentful, wry, even defiant
like sulky children.’ One student, told he is free to go, is neatly characterised thus: ‘“Cheers,” he replied, and shambled off.’ A young journalist tells Garner that she and other contemporaries of Singh at ANU, though ‘distressed’ by the killing, are now ‘over it’. |
 | | Garner visits Justice Crispin in his chambers, and, on hearing his explanations and clarifications, feels the anger seeping from her, and also feels compassion for this judge who has lost a child of his own and endured many calumnies. |
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