Iraq abuse

The cover-up has fallen on its face. Australia knew, possibly as early as August last year. We did nothing. In other news, a US report reveals that some prisoners were held for months solely for expressing "displeasure or ill will" towards the US occupying forces.

Today's writing tip

You must be very careful how you introduce your characters. The star plan is to talk about them before they appear so as to make the audience curious to see them, and sufficiently informed about them to save them the trouble of explaining their circumstance. But as some of the characters must open the play and cannot be prepared in this way, you must either fall back on the Parisian well-made play formula and and begin with a conversation between the butler and the housemaid or else start the characters with a strongly assertive scene, like Richard III.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Draft one.