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# ABC Wails as Luvvie Jailed
- URL: https://goodoil.news/abc-wails-as-luvvie-jailed/
- Published: 2026-11-04T01:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-04T01:30:00.000Z
- Description: Childrens’ author Craig Silvey is a grotesque predator, but the ABC despairs that children won’t get to read his books any more.
- Author: Lushington Brady
- Tags: AUS Politics, Crime

When news of Australian childrens’ author [**Craig Silvey**’s arrest](https://goodoil.news/silvey-joins-the-luvvy-predator-club/) for possessing child exploitation material broke, not everyone was completely taken by surprise. “You know, that doesn’t surprise me,” said one young man. One of the generation of Australian schoolboys who’d been forced to read Silvey’s books by swooning female teachers, he noted some of the creepy subtexts in Silvey’s books. These included dwelling on the young narrator’s erections, and voyeuristic descriptions of fondling a pre-teen girl.

This, as it turns out, is just how Silvey likes ’em.

> [Prosecutor **Daniel Harrop**](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/author-craig-silvey-jailed-over-child-exploitation-material/news-story/a153d158bd82978a62ba0570e5532ed1?ref=goodoil.news) read out the sickening messages Silvey had sent through an online encrypted messaging service as he sought out child exploitation material, revealing the author had described eight-year-old boys as “the perfect age” and had told another user how he was “drooling” over the image he had distributed showing a naked pre-pubescent boy with an erect penis.

And this, remember, is the (now former) darling of the left-elite educational and literary set.

To be sure, predators can hide behind any number of façades. But if I had a dollar for every left-literary darling from WA who was a grotesque child predator, I’d have two dollars, which ain’t much, maybe, but it’s disturbing that I’d have even that much. (The other, for the morbidly curious, was communist **Dorothy Hewitt**, who was exposed for pimping out her own underage daughters to a conga-line of lefty luvvies. Unlike Silvey, Hewitt posthumously retains her position atop the luvvy totem pole.)

The court heard that Silvey, 44, had gone trawling a fetish site, graduated to an encrypted messaging app under the handle ‘Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy’, and swapped fantasies with a fellow enthusiast who turned out to be fictitious, and very probably a police officer. Police raided his Fremantle home in January and found the chat still open on his laptop. He then declined to hand over his passwords or sit for an interview. The man who spent years lecturing schoolchildren on honesty and courage chose, when it counted, the right to remain silent.

His defence was a masterclass in the genre. Silvey, we were told, had been undergoing “emotional suicide”, a phrase that gives you some idea of how the therapeutic vocabulary has colonised the legal one. He was only after the most taboo material he could find, you see, and not actually interested in children. Judge **Hayley Cormann**, to her credit, wasn’t buying it: she found he had a sexual interest in children and called his messages “open, assertive and unmistakeable”. She also declined a suspended sentence. Mr Harrop put it neatly:

> There should not be one rule for the social elite and another for the common man.

Seven months, with parole eligibility, against a maximum of 10 years. Some of us might think the common man would be looking at rather more. But this is Australian sentencing, where the scale of justice is calibrated for the comfort of the guilty.

For the ABC, of course, the greatest tragedy is not that Silvey was complicit in such horrific abuse, but that his works will be un-personed. Its coverage opens with a funeral oration: a “national treasure” felled, the book lovers bereft, the schoolteachers bereaved and the film fans heartbroken. The monsters, the ABC solemnly advises us, are not hiding in the shadows but masquerading as everyday people. That is quite true: they also masquerade as recipients of *Sydney Morning Herald* Young Novelist awards, which the ABC mentions with the wistful air of a eulogist reading out the deceased’s service medals.

Never mind the children in the videos, who are “real and traumatised”, in the judge’s words. The real casualties, in the ABC’s worldview, are the publishers who stopped promoting him, the theatre that shelved its stage show, the streaming services that pulled the films and the banks that, outrageously, declined to do business with him. The ABC treats the erasure of an offender’s back catalogue as a cultural wound, rather than the minimum hygiene any decent society would expect.

And if that is the price, I think we can bear it. If nothing else, at least future generations of schoolboys will be spared the tedium of having to read *Jasper Jones*.

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