Legislation will give security services powers to arrest people for crimes they have yet to commit
Welcome to 1984: Russia gets Soviet-era 'thought crime' law
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Nicola Roxon spin and burns victims
Nicola Roxon $20 million election pledge for Liverpool hospital
Sydney Radio 2GB reports: burns victims wait one hour today at Liverpool hospital.
Burns patients wait to enter Liverpool Hospital
John Della Bosca to bow out of politics for NGO job
Mr Della Bosca has held a number of senior ministries, including health minister between 2008 and 2009.
Della Bosca referred by Bill Shorten? MP, Federal Member for Maribyrnong and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services.
Sydney Radio 2GB reports: burns victims wait one hour today at Liverpool hospital.
Burns patients wait to enter Liverpool Hospital
John Della Bosca to bow out of politics for NGO job
Mr Della Bosca has held a number of senior ministries, including health minister between 2008 and 2009.
Della Bosca referred by Bill Shorten? MP, Federal Member for Maribyrnong and Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children's Services.
Julia to ban back stabbing?
PM Julia Gillard turns her attention to law and order by compiling a list of 22 weapons to be banned.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
ABS basket is not the basket case.
Australia's headline CPI rose 0.6 per cent in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said on Wednesday.
Poverty is creating these figures.
Poverty is creating these figures.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Obama's bungling
Obama's bungling of Shirley Sherrod issue overshadows administration's legislative accomplishments
Abbott wins debate - ALP media to rewrite history
Abbott holds his own in leaders debate
Meanwhile:
Latest Media Releases
Appeal to identify man who may assist with inquiries into war memorial damage - Rhodes
Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 10:23am
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man who may be able to assist with investigations into the desecration of a war memorial at Rhodes.
Police from Burwood LAC are conducting inquiries and have issued an image of a man who they believe may be able to assist with inquiries into the incident.
Anyone with information about the incident, or the identity or current whereabouts of the man in the images who police wish to interview in relation to the incident, is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Meanwhile:
Latest Media Releases
Appeal to identify man who may assist with inquiries into war memorial damage - Rhodes
Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 10:23am
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man who may be able to assist with investigations into the desecration of a war memorial at Rhodes.
Police from Burwood LAC are conducting inquiries and have issued an image of a man who they believe may be able to assist with inquiries into the incident.
Anyone with information about the incident, or the identity or current whereabouts of the man in the images who police wish to interview in relation to the incident, is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
two males have been described to police as being of Aboriginal
Latest Media Releases
Home invasion - Doonside
Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010 12:13am
Police are investigating a violent home invasion in Sydney’s west.
About 7.15pm yesterday, a 32-year-old man and his 57-year-old mother answered a knock at the door of their house in Hill End Road, Doonside.
Two males forced their way inside and threatened the pair, demanding cash.
The males have produced what is thought to be a replica firearm and continued to threaten the 32-year-old man and his mother.
The 32-year-old man was hit in the face with the weapon, causing a fractured eye socket.
They then forced the man into his bedroom where they started hitting him on the head and torso with a golf club whilst making further demands.
The males ransacked the house taking a quantity of cash. They left the area in an unknown direction.
The two males have been described to police as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander appearance and about 170-175cm tall.
One of the men is described as having dark hair which appeared to have been bleached, and facial stubble.
The 32-year-old man was taken to Blacktown Hospital for treatment.
Blacktown Detectives are continuing their inquiries and anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Home invasion - Doonside
Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010 12:13am
Police are investigating a violent home invasion in Sydney’s west.
About 7.15pm yesterday, a 32-year-old man and his 57-year-old mother answered a knock at the door of their house in Hill End Road, Doonside.
Two males forced their way inside and threatened the pair, demanding cash.
The males have produced what is thought to be a replica firearm and continued to threaten the 32-year-old man and his mother.
The 32-year-old man was hit in the face with the weapon, causing a fractured eye socket.
They then forced the man into his bedroom where they started hitting him on the head and torso with a golf club whilst making further demands.
The males ransacked the house taking a quantity of cash. They left the area in an unknown direction.
The two males have been described to police as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander appearance and about 170-175cm tall.
One of the men is described as having dark hair which appeared to have been bleached, and facial stubble.
The 32-year-old man was taken to Blacktown Hospital for treatment.
Blacktown Detectives are continuing their inquiries and anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
defence base personnel being moved out to accommodate boat people
Bob Baldwin MHR is reported on Sydney 2SM radio saying Darwin defence base personnel being moved out to accommodate boat people. Anyone else know more?
Plan floated for boatpeople to evict defence families
Plan floated for boatpeople to evict defence families
Monday, July 19, 2010
Another race crime
Images of rape suspects released
Police have been unable to locate the men who are described as being of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander appearance, aged in their late teens to mid 20s, with thin to muscular builds.
Police have been unable to locate the men who are described as being of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander appearance, aged in their late teens to mid 20s, with thin to muscular builds.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Julia's vehicle has no reverse gear
The implementation of the reverse gear is usually different, implemented in the following way to reduce the cost of the transmission.
A reverse gear implemented this way makes a loud whining sound, which is not normally heard in the forward gears. The teeth on the forward gears of most consumer automobiles are helically cut.
Sounds like her.
A reverse gear implemented this way makes a loud whining sound, which is not normally heard in the forward gears. The teeth on the forward gears of most consumer automobiles are helically cut.
Sounds like her.
Julia Sets - complex numbers and functions
Julia Jewels: An Exploration of Julia Sets
This presentation was prepared as the final assignment for the course Math 497 at the University of Washington, taught by James R. King, Ph.D in winter quarter 2000. This course dealt with selected topics in the behavior of complex numbers and functions.
Sounds like her too.
This presentation was prepared as the final assignment for the course Math 497 at the University of Washington, taught by James R. King, Ph.D in winter quarter 2000. This course dealt with selected topics in the behavior of complex numbers and functions.
Sounds like her too.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Two racist attacks we will not hear much about
Horror attack on mum in Cromer by maniac with screwdriver Insp Craig Wonders said the attacker is described as being of Pacific Island or Middle Eastern appearance, between 18 and 20 years old, about 180cm tall, of medium build, with olive skin and straight, dark hair. He was wearing a blue shirt over a light-coloured, long-sleeved shirt.
Sydney mother's home intruder terror
The intruder is described as being of Middle Eastern or Pacific Islander appearance with a solid build and a medium complexion. He was aged about 18 to 20. SMH AAP
Man jailed for 21 years for fatal, drug-fuelled sex attack on four international students - A judge has declined to consider a man's Aboriginality when sentencing him over a drug-fuelled attack on four international students.
Sydney ice binge killer gets 21 years SMH omits much.
Sydney mother's home intruder terror
The intruder is described as being of Middle Eastern or Pacific Islander appearance with a solid build and a medium complexion. He was aged about 18 to 20. SMH AAP
Man jailed for 21 years for fatal, drug-fuelled sex attack on four international students - A judge has declined to consider a man's Aboriginality when sentencing him over a drug-fuelled attack on four international students.
Sydney ice binge killer gets 21 years SMH omits much.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
ALP "'Lord forgive them, for they know not what they do,..."
Monday, July 12, 2010
East Timor parliament votes no to ETS
Sydney radio report and interview with East Timorese parliamentarian that East Timor parliament votes no to East Timor Solution.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Islamists kill 60 in Uganda
Death toll in Uganda bomb attacks at 60
Uganda bomb attacks during Cup final kill 9
Islamic militants battling Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government have threatened attacks on Uganda and Burundi, which contribute troops to an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia. But Nabakooba said the investigation is not yet focused on any specific group.
Uganda bomb attacks during Cup final kill 9
Islamic militants battling Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government have threatened attacks on Uganda and Burundi, which contribute troops to an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia. But Nabakooba said the investigation is not yet focused on any specific group.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Afghanistan Aussie Diggers
Regarding Afghanistan, Australian military history tells us that the Aussie Diggers have fought many a holding battle, only with hindsight can the value of the losses be gauged. The WWI Western Front, it took time and lives to learn. Again in WWII it took time. Korea, Malaya Emergency and Vietnam, were holding battles that gave other countries time to prepare. Vietnam probably saved Thailand and again Malaya. Now with Afghanistan we are holding and hoping. What do the present generation of Aussie Diggers believe is right? If they want to retire from the battle, I will support them; if they want to stay in the battle I will support them.
Canberra Communists?
D. M. Horner, Inside the War Cabinet
168 INSIDE THE WAR CABINET
In October and November 1944 evidence was starting to mount from Allied radio intercept organisations that information in the Australian Military Forces Weekly Intelligence Review which had a wide distribution, was reaching Tokyo.
170 INSIDE THE WAR CABINET
So far Blamey had tried to obtain action merely by stating, without evidence, that it was a matter of grave national security. He had no wish to explain the source of his information, nor widen the circle of people who might be aware of the leakage. However, to gain the action he considered necessary, he decided to enlist the help of Sir Frederick Shedden, and on 2 January 1945 explained the problem to the influential Secretary of the War Cabinet. Shedden recommended that Blamey write a more detailed letter to the Acting Minister for the Army, 'in view of the fact that he is the Minister primarily concerned with action to correct the leakages, if they are occurring on a Ministerial level or in another Department'.10 [Shedden to Blamey] This was a key sentence, because it indicates that the problem was not just a matter of information being obtained by the Chinese liaison officer, but
ESPIONAGE 171
that it was from a more serious source. It also explains Blamey's strong reaction to the Postmaster-General's Department consulting with the Department of External Affairs.
Blamey's letter to Senator Fraser, of 6 January 1945, must be seen in the light of this preceding correspondence. It read as follows: 15 [Blamey letter 3DRL 6643, 2/59]
As you know, the Allied Intelligence Organisation is now world wide and operates through many various channels, some of which are so secret that as little as possible in regard to them is set out on paper. One of its functions is to counter, as far as possible, the collection of Intelligence by the enemy. In the course of this service it has been definitely proved that there are leakages of information from Australia which have their origin apparently in Canberra.
Who told the Japs? Part Two
A cast of characters can be assembled but the plot is not clear.
Much speculation follows.
David Horner, Breaking the Codes excerpts
On 1 February 1943 the U.S. Army’s Signal Intelligence Service, a forerunner of the National Security Agency, began a small, very secret program, later codenamed VENONA. The original object of the VENONA program was to examine, and possibly exploit, encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications.
Victor Zaitsev 16 March 1943 came from USSR his identity only known later otherwise his travel may not have been allowed. Walter Clayton came from NZ in 1943, Clayton did not have a passport.
From 1943 to 1945 Russia was Australia's wartime ally.
There is speculation that Zaitsev recruited an agent in the Australian Government.
Herbert V. Evatt and his staff saw the reports that later reached Japan.
About 50 percent, of the 1943 GRU USSR Army Intelligence from Washington to Moscow and Moscow to Washington messages, were read but none from any other year.
In Australia Herbert V. Evatt was contemptuous of security.
And John Burton’s attitude is hard to fathom. Particularly as Burton was advised concealed microphone 25 [page 398 note 25 [59 DAFP Vol 12 Deschamps to Burton 20 March 1947]
229 Deschamps to Burton
Cablegram 59 MOSCOW, 20 March 1947, 5.45 p.m.
TOP SECRET
To be deciphered only under instructions from the Secretary.
PERSONAL for Burton.
Reference your Top Secret memorandum P1 46/11/7/5 of 29th
November, 1946.
Search by expert has revealed a microphone behind the skirting
board in the Minister's office and there is reason to suspect the
existence of others and the possibility that the whole of the
legation may be wired. The search is continuing and nothing is
being disturbed until the installation has been located, when,
with your approval, it is proposed to remove the whole apparatus.
Your instructions are urgently awaited. Please treat the matter
with the greatest reserve as other establishments here are also
affected and we are in consequence not altogether free agents. The
utmost secrecy is being maintained here. [1]
1 Burton himself drafted a reply in his own hand on his copy of
the cable. It read: 'Your 59. By all means remove apparatus. Utmost security must be maintained but you should immediately communicate warn personally Heads of Missions of NZ, UK and USA. We are meanwhile considering how protest should be made. Assume NZ Head of Mission is aware of discovery'. He subsequently crossed out that part of the second sentence from 'but' to 'USA'.
[SFU : EVATT PAPERS: CABLES-MOSCOW-1943-49]
Yet John Burton still wanted ‘open diplomacy’
The USA mistrusted the Labor Party in general and Evatt in particular.
Later we read:
360 Shedden to Burton
Letter, CANBERRA, 7 April 1948
TOP SECRET AND PERSONAL
CONTROL OF DOCUMENTS RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT
Sir Percy Sillitoe, Head of M.I.5 of the War Office, recently came to Australia on the direction of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to acquaint the Prime Minister with information, which had come to the knowledge of the United Kingdom Authorities, that a copy of United Kingdom Post-Hostilities Planning Paper PHP(45)6(0) Final - Security in the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic, had come into the possession of the U.S.S.R. It was alleged that the copy had been obtained from an agent in Australia.
2. As the Defence Department was the recipient of this document, the matter was referred to me initially for investigation and report on the system of control, circulation, and custody of secret United Kingdom Staff and Planning Papers in the Defence Department, and on the reliability of officers who handle these documents. This has been done, and an examination of our records shows: -
(i) That none of the copies of this document are missing.
(ii) That it was circulated to the three Service Members of the Joint Planning Committee and the Secretary to the Committee.
(iii) That it was also furnished to Mr. Milner, who was apparently the External Affairs Representative on the Post Hostilities Planning Committee at the time, in accordance with a request of 6th November 1945 from him (copy attached).
Mr. Milner had the document from 15th November 1945 to 19th February 1946, and a copy of United Kingdom Paper PHP(45)15(0) Final - Security of India and the Indian Ocean - was forwarded to him at the same time.
Mr. Milner later obtained Paper PHP(45)6(0) again, and had it from 6th March 1946 to 28th March 1946.
3. Dr. Evatt suggested, at a Conference with the Prime Minister this morning, that I should communicate the above to you in order that you could look into the matter in so far as your Department is concerned, and submit a report to your Minister. I also enclose Copy No. 109 of Paper PHP(45)6(0) Final, and shall be glad if you will return it in due course.[1]
[1] Burton sent an interim reply on 9 April asking 'what has occurred recently to raise the matter of a leakage which took place some years ago? In what form did the leakage take place?'.
[AA : A6691, AS3/1, SECTION 6]
Horner, Breaking the Codes excerpt
The full story can never be told.
With the culture then existing in External Affairs in the period 1943-1945 and with later events in External Affairs regarding security in 1945-1946, we are left with more speculation.
So who told the Japs? We can only speculate that it was someone in External Affairs who was recruited by Victor Zaitsev who then passed the information to Walter Clayton who forwarded it to Moscow.
Other things to consider:
Monday, Sep. 15, 1952
Last November Australia's Communist newspaper The Tribune had a scoop: the details of a draft treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the U.S. and Australia. The treaty, which has been in the works for five years, contained no vital secrets, but the affair was nevertheless alarming: it suggested that a high government official with access to the classified treaty had given the information to the Reds.
(Although Casey denied the connection, members' questions pointed to one John Burton, a former top official under Casey's Laborite predecessor, Herbert V. Evatt. Burton last spring led a delegation of fellow travelers to Red China's 'Pacific Peace Conference.')
In introducing Burton as a guest on Radio National, Phillip Adams said; 'John Burton was probably the most controversial and visionary public servant of the 20th Century. Branded a pink eminence of the Labor Party by conservative critics, he was clearly one of the most important intellectuals and policy-makers associated with the Curtin Labor Government of the 1940's. As a close associate of 'Doc' Evatt and head of the department of External Affairs (now Foreign Affairs) he did more to shape Australian foreign policy towards Asia and the Pacific than any other person before or since.'
Burton recently died. ASIO's bounty of red herrings under the bed
168 INSIDE THE WAR CABINET
In October and November 1944 evidence was starting to mount from Allied radio intercept organisations that information in the Australian Military Forces Weekly Intelligence Review which had a wide distribution, was reaching Tokyo.
170 INSIDE THE WAR CABINET
So far Blamey had tried to obtain action merely by stating, without evidence, that it was a matter of grave national security. He had no wish to explain the source of his information, nor widen the circle of people who might be aware of the leakage. However, to gain the action he considered necessary, he decided to enlist the help of Sir Frederick Shedden, and on 2 January 1945 explained the problem to the influential Secretary of the War Cabinet. Shedden recommended that Blamey write a more detailed letter to the Acting Minister for the Army, 'in view of the fact that he is the Minister primarily concerned with action to correct the leakages, if they are occurring on a Ministerial level or in another Department'.10 [Shedden to Blamey] This was a key sentence, because it indicates that the problem was not just a matter of information being obtained by the Chinese liaison officer, but
ESPIONAGE 171
that it was from a more serious source. It also explains Blamey's strong reaction to the Postmaster-General's Department consulting with the Department of External Affairs.
Blamey's letter to Senator Fraser, of 6 January 1945, must be seen in the light of this preceding correspondence. It read as follows: 15 [Blamey letter 3DRL 6643, 2/59]
As you know, the Allied Intelligence Organisation is now world wide and operates through many various channels, some of which are so secret that as little as possible in regard to them is set out on paper. One of its functions is to counter, as far as possible, the collection of Intelligence by the enemy. In the course of this service it has been definitely proved that there are leakages of information from Australia which have their origin apparently in Canberra.
Who told the Japs? Part Two
A cast of characters can be assembled but the plot is not clear.
Much speculation follows.
David Horner, Breaking the Codes excerpts
On 1 February 1943 the U.S. Army’s Signal Intelligence Service, a forerunner of the National Security Agency, began a small, very secret program, later codenamed VENONA. The original object of the VENONA program was to examine, and possibly exploit, encrypted Soviet diplomatic communications.
Victor Zaitsev 16 March 1943 came from USSR his identity only known later otherwise his travel may not have been allowed. Walter Clayton came from NZ in 1943, Clayton did not have a passport.
From 1943 to 1945 Russia was Australia's wartime ally.
There is speculation that Zaitsev recruited an agent in the Australian Government.
Herbert V. Evatt and his staff saw the reports that later reached Japan.
About 50 percent, of the 1943 GRU USSR Army Intelligence from Washington to Moscow and Moscow to Washington messages, were read but none from any other year.
In Australia Herbert V. Evatt was contemptuous of security.
And John Burton’s attitude is hard to fathom. Particularly as Burton was advised concealed microphone 25 [page 398 note 25 [59 DAFP Vol 12 Deschamps to Burton 20 March 1947]
229 Deschamps to Burton
Cablegram 59 MOSCOW, 20 March 1947, 5.45 p.m.
TOP SECRET
To be deciphered only under instructions from the Secretary.
PERSONAL for Burton.
Reference your Top Secret memorandum P1 46/11/7/5 of 29th
November, 1946.
Search by expert has revealed a microphone behind the skirting
board in the Minister's office and there is reason to suspect the
existence of others and the possibility that the whole of the
legation may be wired. The search is continuing and nothing is
being disturbed until the installation has been located, when,
with your approval, it is proposed to remove the whole apparatus.
Your instructions are urgently awaited. Please treat the matter
with the greatest reserve as other establishments here are also
affected and we are in consequence not altogether free agents. The
utmost secrecy is being maintained here. [1]
1 Burton himself drafted a reply in his own hand on his copy of
the cable. It read: 'Your 59. By all means remove apparatus. Utmost security must be maintained but you should immediately communicate warn personally Heads of Missions of NZ, UK and USA. We are meanwhile considering how protest should be made. Assume NZ Head of Mission is aware of discovery'. He subsequently crossed out that part of the second sentence from 'but' to 'USA'.
[SFU : EVATT PAPERS: CABLES-MOSCOW-1943-49]
Yet John Burton still wanted ‘open diplomacy’
The USA mistrusted the Labor Party in general and Evatt in particular.
Later we read:
360 Shedden to Burton
Letter, CANBERRA, 7 April 1948
TOP SECRET AND PERSONAL
CONTROL OF DOCUMENTS RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT
Sir Percy Sillitoe, Head of M.I.5 of the War Office, recently came to Australia on the direction of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to acquaint the Prime Minister with information, which had come to the knowledge of the United Kingdom Authorities, that a copy of United Kingdom Post-Hostilities Planning Paper PHP(45)6(0) Final - Security in the Western Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic, had come into the possession of the U.S.S.R. It was alleged that the copy had been obtained from an agent in Australia.
2. As the Defence Department was the recipient of this document, the matter was referred to me initially for investigation and report on the system of control, circulation, and custody of secret United Kingdom Staff and Planning Papers in the Defence Department, and on the reliability of officers who handle these documents. This has been done, and an examination of our records shows: -
(i) That none of the copies of this document are missing.
(ii) That it was circulated to the three Service Members of the Joint Planning Committee and the Secretary to the Committee.
(iii) That it was also furnished to Mr. Milner, who was apparently the External Affairs Representative on the Post Hostilities Planning Committee at the time, in accordance with a request of 6th November 1945 from him (copy attached).
Mr. Milner had the document from 15th November 1945 to 19th February 1946, and a copy of United Kingdom Paper PHP(45)15(0) Final - Security of India and the Indian Ocean - was forwarded to him at the same time.
Mr. Milner later obtained Paper PHP(45)6(0) again, and had it from 6th March 1946 to 28th March 1946.
3. Dr. Evatt suggested, at a Conference with the Prime Minister this morning, that I should communicate the above to you in order that you could look into the matter in so far as your Department is concerned, and submit a report to your Minister. I also enclose Copy No. 109 of Paper PHP(45)6(0) Final, and shall be glad if you will return it in due course.[1]
[1] Burton sent an interim reply on 9 April asking 'what has occurred recently to raise the matter of a leakage which took place some years ago? In what form did the leakage take place?'.
[AA : A6691, AS3/1, SECTION 6]
Horner, Breaking the Codes excerpt
The full story can never be told.
With the culture then existing in External Affairs in the period 1943-1945 and with later events in External Affairs regarding security in 1945-1946, we are left with more speculation.
So who told the Japs? We can only speculate that it was someone in External Affairs who was recruited by Victor Zaitsev who then passed the information to Walter Clayton who forwarded it to Moscow.
Other things to consider:
Monday, Sep. 15, 1952
Last November Australia's Communist newspaper The Tribune had a scoop: the details of a draft treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the U.S. and Australia. The treaty, which has been in the works for five years, contained no vital secrets, but the affair was nevertheless alarming: it suggested that a high government official with access to the classified treaty had given the information to the Reds.
(Although Casey denied the connection, members' questions pointed to one John Burton, a former top official under Casey's Laborite predecessor, Herbert V. Evatt. Burton last spring led a delegation of fellow travelers to Red China's 'Pacific Peace Conference.')
In introducing Burton as a guest on Radio National, Phillip Adams said; 'John Burton was probably the most controversial and visionary public servant of the 20th Century. Branded a pink eminence of the Labor Party by conservative critics, he was clearly one of the most important intellectuals and policy-makers associated with the Curtin Labor Government of the 1940's. As a close associate of 'Doc' Evatt and head of the department of External Affairs (now Foreign Affairs) he did more to shape Australian foreign policy towards Asia and the Pacific than any other person before or since.'
Burton recently died. ASIO's bounty of red herrings under the bed
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Vic ALP transfer voters to Ballarat
Fifty VicRoads jobs will be transferred to Ballarat from Melbourne, as part of the State Government's regional blueprint. The Goverment plans to move a total of 400 public service positions as part of the plan.
Julia "..never suggested East Timor was the only.."
Julia Gillard has qualified her vision for solving the region's asylum seeker problems, saying she never suggested East Timor was the only location being considered for a refugee processing centre.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Saturday, July 03, 2010
..the American cause..war weariness... creeping paralysis...
Yet the Americans were unable to take full advantage of Britain’s embarrassments, for their own effort suffered more and more from war weariness, lack of strong direction, and inadequate finance. Moreover, the interests of the European states fighting Britain did not necessarily coincide with American interests.
In the summer of 1780 the American cause seemed to be at as low an ebb as it had been after the New York campaign in 1776 or after the defeats at Ticonderoga and Brandywine in 1777. Defeat in the south was not the only discouraging aspect of patriot affairs. In the north, a creeping paralysis had set in as the patriotic enthusiasm of the early war years waned.
In the summer of 1780 the American cause seemed to be at as low an ebb as it had been after the New York campaign in 1776 or after the defeats at Ticonderoga and Brandywine in 1777. Defeat in the south was not the only discouraging aspect of patriot affairs. In the north, a creeping paralysis had set in as the patriotic enthusiasm of the early war years waned.
Friday, July 02, 2010
Gillard supports dismissal of Gough
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has appealed to voters to judge her on how she does her job, not how she got there,...
So now ALP supports the dismissal of Gough.
So now ALP supports the dismissal of Gough.
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