Red wants Mal to supply ALP new ideas

Turnbull confirms he won't quit politics, attacks Rudd over ETS withdrawl

Kev's debt repayments announced

No tax cuts until all debts are repaid

John Howard talks about the Budget surplus
KERRY O'BRIEN: So what are you calling this fund?
JOHN HOWARD: Well I, we haven't decided on a name, it's not necessary because we don't at this stage have anything to invest in it.

Kev called it the stimulus fund and poof the surplus went.

WA secession whispers again

Tax review stokes WA secession whispers, in 1933 Western Australia referendum for secession from the Federation of Australia passed with a two-thirds majority.

Rudd's private dinner

Rudd roasts editors at diner

"It was a private dinner and I won't comment further."

Kev and the new lepers

And Kev said if you smoke you are like a leper, and Kev pronounces him/her unclean.
The Bible - Book of Leviticus 13–14 addresses the disease of leprosy.

Kev to legalise heroin?

Now with Smokers' midnight tax. Then we can expect Kev to legalise heroin, so that when all drugs are legal, he will be able to tax all drugs, not just nicotine, and of course alcohol.

Exclusive report: Rudd's successes updated.

Rudd's Web filter dropped
This leads to the below list of Rudd's successes.

Intentionally blank.

Like Rudd's ideas and policies.

Rudd smoke and mirrors

So I smile and say "when a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your eyes"

Time the Australian Government nationalized cigarettes into a monopoly company.

Kev is the great moral challenge of our time

He is "the great moral challenge of our time"

Kev gives us the finger

Kev's ocean current problem

Mighty ocean current plays vital climate role

Kev's Business costs increase

Business costs for materials increased

Communist agitprop, untruth, new civility

Read communist agitprop not Poster boys for free speech. While Victor Davis Hanson warns of An Age of Untruth and Obama and the New Civility
Sounds like 1984 newspeak.

No animal was harmed during the police operation.

Highway patrol engine ‘purrs like a kitten’

Police cancel concert due to safety concerns — The Rocks

Monday, 26 Apr 2010 05:57am

Did ANZAC at Gallipoli save England?

"Gallipoli cost Turkey the flower of her army as it was at the outbreak of war. Heavy casualties reduced most of her selected regiments of veteran troops."

What if no ANZAC landing?
What if ANZAC went straight to France?
ANZAC including the Light Horse may have been in earlier offensives in France.
Many more ANZAC would have died in the early attempts at rushing the German trenches.
With no ANZAC to protect Suez Canal, and Murray's lack of leadership, would the canal have fallen to Turkey?

"Murray possessed some great qualities as a soldier, and many charming qualities as a man. But he was the wrong man for Egypt at that time.
The War Cabinet, while insisting upon absolute safety for the Canal and for Egypt, demanded at the same time the release of every man who could be spared for other fields of activity."

"All British soldiers are hero-worshippers, and Murray was not in their eyes a hero. The front was without any sense of the presence of a great leader."

Shipping via Cape of Good Hope would have taken longer, and German submarines may have had more success on this shipping.
Only later with Allenby and the Light Horse did the Suez Canal become secure and final victory at Damascus.
So despite the lack of success at Gallipoli, the question did it save England?

25th Apr. 1915, Landing At Gaba Tepe

Gallipoli Campaign
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25th Apr., 1915] Landing At Gaba Tepe 255
safety catches. No shots were to be fired till daylight
The men were ashore and mostly alive, but the place was clearly the wrong one. Anyone who depended upon a set plan for the next move was completely bewildered. It had been hoped that the halt under the sandy bank would be long enough to allow all the companies to land, form, and carry out an organised attack across the open against the first ridge.
But there was no open.
25th Apr., 1915] Landing At Gaba Tepe 275 As MacLagan reached the plateau, he realised that the landing had been made in the rough country a mile north of the proper place.
278 The Story Of Anzac [25th Apr., 1915
The first Turkish gun had opened at 4.45 a.m., fifteen minutes after the landing.

Hill 504 3RAR 24 April

On 22 April 3RAR was stationed north of the village of Kapyong on Hill 504. The Australian position was attacked on the morning of 24 April, and the Chinese continued to attack in waves. 3RAR held firm, and on the afternoon of 25 April the exhausted Chinese abandoned their attack. The unit was awarded a Presidential Citation for its role in the battle.
3RAR on Hill 504
Battle of Kapyong

Dead prisoner. Ethnicity not known.

Detectives conduct inquiries following suspicious death of prisoner – Silverwater
Radio report: dead prisoner was awaiting armed robbery and sex charges and only four days in prison.

Kev's great fall of China

Backflip on rules for foreigners buying property

ANZAC Day April 23rd

Gaba Tepe

On April 19th there was a stir aboard the transports. Word had come from G.H.Q. to cease practising the troops at disembarkation. Tugs and trawlers were all to take on coal and water. The Bacchante and Talbot had that day bombarded Turkish camps near Gaba Tepe. On April 20th came the order that the first movement of troops was to begin on the morrow.
The landing had been fixed for April 23rd.
But on the morning of the 20th such a wind sprang up that, despite the
20th-24th Apr., 1915] THE GABA TEPE PLAN 243
clear sky, none of the smaller craft could work in the harbour At 5 p.m. word arrived postponing the move for twenty-four hours. The same clear gale blew fiercely throughout April 21st, and that evening the move was again deferred. On the 22nd the wind moderated towards nightfall, and the cross-movements of troops between various transports began. On the afternoon of the 23rd many British transports sorted themselves out from the others in the crowded basin and moved between the other cheering troopships into the outer harbour. Many noticed, as they passed her, a certain old cargo steamer with two masts and a yellow funnel. Slung over her starboard side were half-a-dozen men on ropes, painting that side of the ship yellow. Her name was the River Clyde. A space near the bow still remained to be coloured. That evening General Birdwood, with the chiefs of his Staff, moved into the Battleship Queen, and General Bridges and his Staff into the Prince of Wales.
At dawn next day, April 24th, four ships, carrying chiefly the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade, sailed from Mudros and moved round the coast of the island into the Bay of Purnea on its northern side. A little after midday five more ships, carrying the bulk of the 2nd Brigade and the Indian Mountain Batteries, joined them. All day they lay there anchored, their heads to a stiff breeze. Three other transports, carrying landing-stages and horseboats, anchored in the next bay. Meanwhile in Mudros, immediately after midday, destroyers came alongside the transports of the 3rd Brigade and transferred half of the 9th Battalion to the Queen, half of the 10th to the Prince of Wales, and half of the 11th to the London. The men, with their full packs and rifles, clambered on board very quietly and disappeared below decks. Every alley-way and mess-deck in the ships was full of them. The Navy had insisted on feeding them; it would not let them pay for canteen stores; sailors, marines, and officers shared in the expense of providing extras from the ships’ canteens. In each ship the flat outside the captain’s cabin was crowded with infantrymen. The major of marines, or some senior ship’s officer, insisted on giving his cabin to the colonel. and other officers turned out of their bunks to give the Australian
244 THE STORY OF ANZAC [24th Apr., 1915
officers a rest. During the afternoon the ship’s chaplain held a service beneath the great guns on the wide quarter-deck. As soon as the troops were on board, at 2 p.m., the ships left port. Colonel MacLagan, commanding the 3rd Brigade which was to make the landing, said good-bye to General Bridges in the Prince of Wales, and boarded one of the destroyers. “Well, MacLagan,” said Bridges as they parted, “you haven’t thanked me yet.” “Yes, sir, I do thank you for the great honour of having this job to do with my brigade,” was the reply. “But if we find the Turks holding these ridges in any strength, I honestly don’t think you’ll ever see the 3rd Brigade again.” “Oh, go along with you!” said Bridges, laughing. The Queen Elizabeth led the line out of the harbour. The battleships Queen, Triumph, Prince of Wales, the cruiser Bacchante, and the battleships London and Majestic fell in behind her; after them came six destroyers; then the four transports of the 3rd Brigade, all keeping perfect interval. There was tumultuous cheering from the French ships moored in the harbour. An ancient French corvette, transfigured as a hospital ship, passed them, her men waving and shouting and the Australians making with varied success efforts to whistle the Marseillaise. Outside Mudros harbour the line divided. The Queen Elizabeth headed for the Dardanelles; the five battleships moved round the west of Lemnos; a destroyer came close abreast , of each transport ; and transports and destroyers headed directly for Imbros.
Just before dusk that evening the men of the 1st and 2nd Brigades in their transports in the Bay of Purnea saw, steaming slowly along the horizon to the west, a squadron of five warships. They passed gradually across the skyline, trailing a long streamer of smoke, until the night closed over them. They were the battleships carrying men of the 3rd Brigade to Gaba Tepe.

Rooster crows as Storm minify

The Rooster and the Storm

Super League's Kryptonite

John Quayle led the ARL during the Super League war in the 1990s He says Storm players would have been aware that the club was operating outside of the salary cap rules.

Super League's fictional element Kryptonite

Kev's zhengyou

Rudd announces new ANU China centre

Fairfax press possible Anzac smears

SMH AWM smear?
SMH Bean smear?

Sporting scandal Gallop along

The Black Sox Scandal followed by the boy asking "It ain't true, is it, Joe?" then the Melbourne Storm broke and fans asking Murdoch. It ain't true, is it, Rupert?

Mabo's shells

Wes Patten says a Sans Souci property contains potentially priceless artefacts.

NRL Storm out of Comp

Gallop video

National Rugby League has today stripped the Melbourne Storm of the 2007 and 2009 Telstra Premierships, the Minor Premierships of 2006-8 and of its 2010 competition points after confirming a series of salary cap breaches amounting to at least $1.7million over five years.

Earlier:
NRL tipped to dock Melbourne Storm points over salary cap breaches

Kev takes batt and goes home

Batt wait, there's no more: insulation scheme scrapped

Kev insulated from blame

Troubled insulation grants get the chop

MOMEA killed truck driver Bob Knight

...shootout between warring families...

Kev's new alphabet soup

LHN PHCO NFA NPA IHPA

WA shaken but not stirred maybe leaving.

Engineers to inspect quake damage
WA hasn't signed on
Western Australia (WA), where a 1933 referendum for secession from the Federation of Australia passed with a two-thirds majority.

NSW ALP contraflow déjà vu

Wilton - Accident - Truck Started at 19/04/2010 2:27pm
UPDATED 5:10pm Wilton - Hume Highway at 1km north of Picton Road
Lanes Affected: Southbound
Traffic conditions: Heavy
Impact: Significant
Queues: 10.0 km
RTA advice: Allow extra travel time, Use alternative route
Other advice: There are two lanes available for traffic. However, there is debris and a diesel spill on the road.
Attending: Emergency service(s), Maintenance crew, RTA

Rudd Going Baxterward now Grounded

Asylum seeker charter grounded

Rudd Going Baxterward

Onshore defence base to house asylum seekers

Man bin tree dead

A young man has died after being speared into a tree while riding in a wheelie bin with a friend in NSW.

Police investigate ‘wheelie-bin’ death – Gosford

Drummoyne Fire Station unexploded shell

An exclusion zone has been declared as a precaution after what is believed to be an unexploded shell was brought to the Drummoyne Fire Station by a member of the public shortly after 6pm.

Drummoyne - Lyons Road between Victoria Road and Marlborough Street
Changed traffic conditions - Police operation
Started at 17/04/2010 6:30pm
UPDATED 8:01pm

the jokuls on the media

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne

"You see this volcanic island," said the Professor; "observe that all the volcanoes are called jokuls, a word which means glacier in Icelandic, and under the high latitude of Iceland nearly all the active volcanoes discharge through beds of ice. Hence this term of jokul is applied to all the eruptive mountains in Iceland."

ALP earth shaking

Rann and Rudd?

Leper found. How many more?

Leprosy case arrives in New South Wales

The Man from Snowy River - Rudd MP

How `Banjo' Paterson may report today.
There was movement at the media stations, for the word had passed around, that Rudd's old Regret had got away, And Brumby had joined the wild bush horse people -- the Brumby plan was worth a trillion pound, so all the crack journos had gathered to the fray.

Elvis's Parker now Obama

How the Media Lied about Obama’s Birth Records

Colonel Tom Parker

Global warming defeats grandstanding Obama

Global warming defeats grandstanding Obama

Global warming melting a glacier

eruption in Iceland

Kev staff are dogs

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the high turnover of staff in his office is inevitable given the nature of politics and his staff's working careers should be measured in "dog years".

Montgolfier tax balloon

French tax probe An HSBC spokesman said that the 127,000 claim was "massively overstated" by the French authorities.

Kev to stop solar activity threat

Low solar activity link to cold UK winters

Reading the Signs

OMG! HUGE PROMINENCE

Solar Terrestrial Activity Report

Campbell F-ing 3 now "scapegoat" cycle

"scapegoat",

"I am not a crook" Which Nixon?

Nixon vigorously defended his record
Nixon had not spoken

Vics dump anthem. What common culture?

Vics dump anthem
As we can read: CHAPTER 3 THE VOLUNTEERS Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 1 – Army - Volume I – To Benghazi (1961 reprint) Author: Gavin Long

But national character forms slowly, and although the Australian had already acquired a temperament, a manner of speech and a physical appearance that distinguished him from the people of the United Kingdom, .
1939 NATIONAL SENTIMENTS 57
and, like other Dominion peoples, had acquired attitudes and habits of thinking that often made the colonial as irritating to the Englishman as the Englishman was puzzling to the colonial, all shared a common culture.

NSW ALP contraflow. Now Spin Cycle.

RTA under fire over F3 truck crash delays


ABC photo
More traffic chaos on the F3

NSW ALP contraflow

RTA Accident - Truck
Started at 12/04/2010 11:44am UPDATED 8:57pm
Police Two truck crash

Teenage drunk driver caught three times in four hours

Teenage drunk driver caught three times in four hours

Katyn massacre again?

Russians kill Polish President?
Putin, ex-NKVD, we are left to wonder.

Rudd another promise. Yet to be broken.

Rudd promises
To be broken. Like all the rest.

Poll: Abolish states. I say abolish ALP.

Rising support to abolish state governments.

Exclusive report: Rudd's successes.

Radio report: another boat arrival.
This leads to the below list of Rudd's successes.

Intentionally blank.

Like Rudd's ideas and policies.

False Refugees and Misplaced Compassion

P.P. McGuinness . Quadrant editorial . October 2002

Guinea: Rio's loss, BHP's gain. No Hu?

BHP Billiton remains as coy as ever about its development plans for a $US5.2 billion ($A5.6 billion) alumina project in Guinea.

Man charged over Salvos store blaze

Man charged over Salvation Army store blaze

Rudd's 'redneck' solution

Asylum crackdown 'redneck' solution

What about the SIEV windows?

Rudd says he is closing SIEV door. What about the SIEV windows?

AQ coming as tourists? Afghans organise Aussie tours.

Radio report: SAS soldier informs Sydney radio station about advertisements in Afghanistan that offer Aussie tours.
AQ coming as tourists?

Tasmanian devilry

ALP Green envy

House fire - Peter flies away

Two dead in house fire – Peak Hill
Radio report: Recent insulation installation.
Meanwhile: Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has flown over the bulk coal ship stranded on the Great Barrier Reef

First one bashing, then another

Radio report: 13 year old twins led attack, first at Strathfield, then at Rockdale.

Charges laid over tourist bashing age 13 to 15

Charges laid over tourist bashing
Last night two boys presented themselves to Kogarah and Hurstville police stations.
Another two boys were arrested by detectives at residential homes.
The arrested teenagers range in age from 13 to 15.

"MOMEA" aged 10-14 bash man

Radio report that they are "MOMEA"
Offender 1 - Aged between 10 and 14 NSW Police Latest Media Releases update Wednesday, 07 Apr 2010 03:28pm
A 25-year-old Scottish National is undergoing emergency neurosurgery after being assaulted near a southern Sydney railway station overnight.

Kev 747 to fly over Chinese reef polluter

Radio report: Kev 747 to fly over Chinese reef polluter and waste more money on another useless exercise for the benefit of the Kev media fan club.

Exclusive photo: New Rudd Population Centre

Plenty of room.
No mod cons, of course.
But the new arrivals are not fussy are they?

Police arrest laser pointer youths

Auburn laser pointer
Auburn youth page
MOMEA? We await details
Radio report of court case: sounds like the name is "Abdul Eid"
Yes, Abdul Eid, 18, of Auburn

Armed robber injured. Where's Cameron?

Armed robber injured

Car thief crash. Police blamed.

Same story. Different emphasis.
Teens injured when stolen 4WD crashes
Two joyriding teenagers
high speed police chase

Red China pollutes Barrier Reef

Shen Neng 1

Population minister for Christmas Island named

Population minister named

Murderer shot by guards. Where's Cameron?

Murderer shot by guards. Where's Cameron?

Bishop-atheists God alone knows

bishop says
atheists say