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PAMELA BONE

Pamela Bone - a genuine humanitarian, and a friend of this site - has died at 68.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/27/2008 at 01:00 PM

  1. Some of her most controversial columns came late in her career, when after many years objecting to the atrocities committed by dictator Saddam Hussein, she came out in strong support of the war in Iraq, upsetting many dedicated readers.

    When did moral consistency, denouncing a bloody tyrant and then supporting his forcible removal, become “controversial”? I say we need more like her.

    Godspeed, Pamela. You fought the good fight.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 27 at 01:25 PM • permalink

  2. RIP.

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 04 27 at 02:05 PM • permalink

  3. Rest in Peace Pamela, and go with God.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2008 04 27 at 02:07 PM • permalink

  4. #1: Right on, Spines. Let there be more such “controversialists”!

    Rest in Peace, Pamela.

    Posted by paco on 2008 04 27 at 02:13 PM • permalink

  5. She was a good writer and a great thinker. She will be missed.

    Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2008 04 27 at 02:26 PM • permalink

  6. “I hid behind Pam as we entered a jail full of men accused of macheting their countrymen to death and I listened to her calm voice asking them why they did it.’’

    So what was the answer?

    Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2008 04 27 at 03:13 PM • permalink

  7. Very very sad news indeed.  RIP.

    Posted by murph on 2008 04 27 at 03:56 PM • permalink

  8. “I’m not afraid of being dead,” she said. “I’m just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.”

    Amen, sister.  RIP.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 04 27 at 04:10 PM • permalink

  9. #6 Sonetka’s Mom

    So what was the answer?

    I’m curious myself. We’ll probably have to search Pamela Bone’s archives to find what she wrote… but I’m willing to bet it was nothing more complicated than “We are Hutu. The Tutsi are the other tribe. We hate the Tutsi, so they must die”.

    Sounds like Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah…

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 27 at 04:19 PM • permalink

  10. Pamela Bone, rest in peace.

    Search on “Pamela Bone” at timblair.net

    Posted by ForNow on 2008 04 27 at 05:19 PM • permalink

  11. Pamela Bone’s death is very sad, and it’s very unfair. 

    We in Australia need people of her calibre. She had a clarity of vision, a sharp eye and she was fearless, assets that aren’t shared by many of our Australian media. 

    My sincere sympathy to her family.

    Posted by ann j on 2008 04 27 at 05:57 PM • permalink

  12. RIP Pamela.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 27 at 06:14 PM • permalink

  13. Don’t know much about Pamela except she was an independent thinker and a fine writer. Clearly a sad loss to Australian journalism.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 27 at 06:58 PM • permalink

  14. A sad day and a loss to Australia.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2008 04 27 at 07:12 PM • permalink

  15. I used to call her “the topiarist” because she used to hedge so much. But I think on the whole I agree that she did not let journalistic momentum take her past uncomfortable facts. A clear thinker gone.

    Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 04 27 at 09:05 PM • permalink

  16. It was rare to see someone in The Age who wasn’t possessed by dogma.  Pamela could always see through bullshit, and cut to the truth.  The media needs more people like her.

    Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2008 04 27 at 09:22 PM • permalink

  17. From February 21, 2007

    Pamela Bone: Tell us the good news for a change Whisper it: the world may just be getting better after all

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 27 at 09:24 PM • permalink

  18. A pity shes gone while witless windbags like Marr and Adams just keep going…

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 04 27 at 09:28 PM • permalink

  19. Bless you Pam, and your family.
    You were a truly strong woman, whose wisdom will be missed.

    Posted by Brian on 2008 04 27 at 10:41 PM • permalink

  20. All ex-leftists will understand the sentiment of desiring to raise the candles high for Pamela Bone. Some came to pray. Some came to keep blank space away.

    Posted by ForNow on 2008 04 27 at 10:47 PM • permalink

  21. As I noted on another site, she was one of the few people for whom Feminism actually meant standing up for women’s rights, instead of a front for cheap political shots.

    A sad loss.

    Posted by MrMarcus on 2008 04 28 at 12:25 AM • permalink

  22. Sad. Rest in peace.

    I remember reading Pamela Bone’s columns in the Age, and thinking, “I suppose the Age isn’t all bad, if they publish this sort of opinion piece”. Then Pamela Bone left the Age.

    Posted by Apple77 on 2008 04 28 at 01:06 AM • permalink

  23. Pamela Bone: brave enough to change direction and ignore the barbs.

    Brave enough to stand up for the truly oppressed when others averted their gaze lest their leftwing peers sneer.

    Brave enough to face cancer.

    Brave enough to write a book at the same time.

    Brave enough to die with dignity and the respect that comes from having an opinion and sticking with it.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2008 04 28 at 04:44 AM • permalink

  24. The Age writer calls her published voice “strident”, a word only ever applied to women writers, no matter how hysterical and whiny a male writer may be (eg d. marr and A. Loewenstein etc).

    I call it force of character and this lady had so much. She is a great loss to journalism.

    Posted by carpefraise on 2008 04 28 at 05:59 AM • permalink

  25. BTW, how come all these types of peeople _Fallaci, Bone, Matt Price(?) etc - fine people with a knack for seeing and pinpointing hypocrisy and the like have got cancer?

    Even Tim B was afflicted (and escaped). I never read about tyrants and phonies like Fisk getting these sorts of diseases (not that I’d wish it on Fisk - I just wish he was continually confronted by the poison of much of his work).
    Am I just reading the wrong things? What’s going on here?

    Posted by carpefraise on 2008 04 28 at 06:03 AM • permalink

  26. (I think it was Matt Price…A Sydney journo who died of cancer last year…I might have got the name wrong but he was a fine guy and journo, by all accounts)

    Posted by carpefraise on 2008 04 28 at 06:05 AM • permalink

  27. Pamela Bone stiffed many who deserved the stiffing. So who does the Ague Age have (worth reading) now?
    Surely not leftist apologist, masquerading as boffin behind coke bottle glasses, Grattan?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2008 04 28 at 08:28 AM • permalink

  28. Sad to say it, but the aussie media isn’t exactly brimming with talent and this was one loss that it can’t afford.

    Posted by rob w on 2008 04 28 at 09:32 AM • permalink

  29. Mark Steyn has a fine post about Pamela Bone at The Corner.

    Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2008 04 28 at 12:27 PM • permalink

  30. Her gift to us is a long, fruitful, and important legacy that must maintained and shared. Thank you Pamela! God bless you richly.

    Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 28 at 12:46 PM • permalink

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