Points for persistence

For those who live on the South Pole, the Australian Football League awarded Fremantle the disputed points from last week's game against St Kilda.

The main reason the national footy bureaucrats gave for their exemplary decision was the fact St Kilda is not a real port city on account of it being in Victoria.

Yesterday afternoon, as word of the announcement spread across Fremantle, students, office-workers and prisoners alike streamed from their dank workaday lodgings out onto the historic streets to give thanks to the man who lobbied hardest for the AFL's belated decision - Councillor Les Lauder.