Fed: Herron stolen children website shut down after legal threat

AAP General News (Australia)
01-19-2001
Fed: Herron stolen children website shut down after legal threat

CANBERRA, Jan 19 AAP - An Internet game in which Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Herron's
children are featured as stolen children has been removed after a legal threat from the
minister.

The John Herron's Stolen Children's Game, on a website called Webwank.net, reportedly
included a role reversal in which Senator Herron's 10 children were stolen, rather than
indigenous children.

In place of the game, a message instead carries a January 17 e-mail from Senator Herron saying:

"This is to formally let you know that I am …