Comments on: Corey Delaney, freedom fighter (for the right to party)

By: Stilgherrian · Heath Ledger spikes my website, Day 1

Stilgherrian · Heath Ledger spikes my website, Day 1 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:08:23 +0000

[...] in traffic from 15 January is due to Corey Worthington Delaney. Most of that is to the page Corey Delaney, freedom fighter (for the right to party), even though I’m much happier with Arrest of “teen party host” highlights stupidity of [...]

By: Stilgherrian · Arrest of “teen party host” highlights stupidity of law

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:37:06 +0000

[...] of glamorous Melbourne socialite Corey Worthington Delaney. I’ve written two essays already [1, 2], and this third one probably won’t be the last. My friends at Crikey published The Corey [...]

By: Stilgherrian · The Madness of Corey Delaney

Stilgherrian · The Madness of Corey Delaney — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:15:32 +0000

[...] Corey Delaney story symbolises everything that’s bad about our mainstream [...]

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:43:12 +0000

@Snarky Platypus: Indeed. There’s two great quotes from The 7.30 Report coverage making that latter point. Inspector Steve Soden from Victoria Police’s Youth Affairs division says:

Young people are so well networked today and they can gather in a very quick period of time. We’ve had to restructure our crime department. We’ve had to look at our computer crime. We’ve had to look at how we respond to incidences where we experience, as I’ve said, a large amount of people in a short period of time.

And child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg says:

In the UK last year, a 17-year-old girl actually issued an invitation on her MySpace profile to come and trash her house, and was astonished when 300 people turned up and trashed her house.

It cost the family $47,000 to have it cleaned by a commercial cleaner, and the family actually had to move out of the house for a month. So as I say, this isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

I think when I launch Skank Media I’ll make Corey one of our patron saints though.

By: Snarky Platypus

Snarky Platypus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:56:15 +0000

It’s like a good episode of Frontline. We need Brooke Vandenburg to ask Corey the hard questions (instead of useless Leila McKinnon, who is the female equivalent of Richard Wilkins).

I also think Corey is being given too much credit for this. It’s more the power of modern communication networks than any great promotional ability.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:03:57 +0000

@Michael: Yes, and important point. There needs to be a legal process for extracting money from people. Either they’re charged with a crime, found guilty, and a court issues a fine. Or there’s a civil offence that the courts can enforce. I’m thinking of something like a parking fine here, where it’s issued administratively and you can challenge it, but if it’s upheld by a court then you do have to pay.

I don’t know Victorian law on this point. I do know that if you plan to run a huge, disruptive event then you have to pay the policing costs — things like the Commonwealth Games. Could he become liable since the residential house wasn’t zoned for more than residential purposes, and a party of that size goes over the limit? I will ask A Friend Who May Know.

Thanks for joining us — and we’ll have to figure out how to differentiate you from the other Michael who’s commenting on Internet filtering.

As a side note, Corey has been offered a job in the promotions industry. And needless to say, the story has gone global.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:47:31 +0000

Forget about Corey (the star) — the real story here is the utter ignorance of the Victorian Police Commissioner and the local plods who seem ignorant of the law. Since when does a cop impose a “fine”? Uhh? Courts do that. All Corey did was have a party — a big party. The police aren’t legislated to charge citizens fees for their work. They should get back in their box and a lot of journalists should desist from repeating idiotic propaganda from cops as though it’s actually true.