Abbott censored. Hansard sound links added

Abbott censored. Media does not report Abbott calling Julya "a liar" as the Speaker seeks to silence him. Will Hansard be censored?
20110301questionreps.mp3
At 59m53s Abbott said "she told a lie, broke a promise"
Hansard
she told a lie to win votes and she broke a promise to form a government.
It was a breach of faith—

Green wiped out - Fianna Fáil

FG turning Ireland blue, as Greens fade
But the Green Party will be wiped out as none of the outgoing TDs or candidates of the party will make the cut.
Failure to get votes likely to result in party's office closing

Vain, ineffective group of Twitterers who let whole country down

Julia's Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party led to revolution.
What will Julia's Tea Party lead to?

NT intervention stagnant

NT intervention stagnant, just another failed plan

Will CEOs offer to pay more tax and take a pay cut?

Tax homes and control mine boom, CEOs urge
Will CEOs offer to pay more tax and take a pay cut?

Your taxes at work

Govts give $315m for Yasi, floods recovery. Nice of them!

ALP assists vessel

Border Protection Command assists vessel

NBN - IT analysts who encouraged the dotcom bubble in 2000

Broadband network lives in a magic pudding world of glowing optical fibre filament

Is Kevin Rudd stalking Julia Gillard?

The legacies of leadership

Green tax and representation

With half of Australia voting against ALP the question no taxation without representation means we do not want the tax.
While the Greens say: `When I'm wrong I change my mind. What do you do?”'

ALP taxes to fund itself.

As BoltA said in his Column - Green mafia hoovers your wallet
That is Pacific Hydro who names Our Board and Chairman.

Benghazi handicap

forced to evacuate Benghazi and fall back to Tobruk, referred to as the “Benghazi handicap”.

Australian unit garrisoned Benghazi

It was the first Australian unit to enter Benghazi, on 6 February, and subsequently garrisoned the town until 22 February.

VC winner remind us we're at war

"We are at war," Mr Payne, who won his VC in Vietnam, told the large media contingent gathered to hear his thoughts.
Peter Veness - AAP

Another digger dies

Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Sad but he joins a digger of the past.

Chapter 3 – The Rearguard Actions in the Florina Valley

Their grey-clad infantry moved in close formation — surprising tactics to the Australians who had been schooled in the necessity for dispersion in the attack — and, near the left flank of the 2/8th, succeeded in overrunning the foremost platoon (Lieutenant Oldfield's 6) all but six of which were killed or captured.

6 Lt T.C. Oldfield, VX7066; 2/8 Bn. Clerk ; of Albury, NSW; b. Blayney, NSW, 14 Jan 1921. Killed in action 12 Apr 1941. Oldfield had added three years to his age on enlistment in Oct 1939, to 21 years and thus had enlisted at 18, been commissioned at 19, and killed at 20.

Police protect criminals

Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured.

Christmas Island - reasons for travel will be established

Border Protection Command boards vessel

Saturday, 19 February 2011

HMAS Bathurst, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted a suspected irregular entry vessel north-east of Christmas Island late last night.

Initial indications suggest there are 44 passengers and two crew on board.

The vessel was initially detected by a RAAF P3 surveillance aircraft, operating under the control of Border Protection Command.

The group will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo security, identity and health checks and their reasons for travel will be established.

Media Adviser: Jayne Stinson

Police prevent baby climbing over balcony – Auburn

Latest Media Releases
Police prevent baby climbing over balcony – Auburn
Saturday, 19 Feb 2011 02:20pm
Police are being hailed as heroes after they prevented a 22-month-old boy from climbing over a balcony railing.
About 3.20pm yesterday (18 February), a woman ran into the front counter area saying that a baby appeared to be hanging from a third floor balcony of an Auburn unit block.
Four constables attached to Flemington Local Area Command ran from the station towards the Susan Street unit block.
Two officers remained at ground level while their colleagues ran to the third floor and forced their way into the unit. The child’s mother was unaware of the events unfolding around her.
Running onto the balcony, the police found the boy standing on a lounge chair with one leg on the balcony railing.
A male constable grabbed hold of the child and returned the boy to his mother.
It is anticipated the four officers will be commended for their actions.

Other reports:
Police rescue baby 'hanging' from balcony
Police save toddler on unit balcony
Police rescue baby from balcony railing

Karl Bitar at Julia Gillard's office

Party Games: ALP's Bitar set to move on

Karl Bitar laid the blame for the party's disasterous election campaign at the door of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's office

ALP moves against national secretary Karl Bitar

Julia's kiss of death

The Top Ryde Shopping Centre has fallen victim to weak consumer spending just six months after the Prime Minister opened the massive complex.

First Christmas Island orphan, then relatives?

Christmas Island orphan to be released

Global warming - sunspot 1158

Less than a week ago, sunspot 1158 didn't exist. Now it is wider than the planet Jupiter and unleashing the strongest solar flares since Dec. 2006.

A series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) en route to Earth from sunspot 1158 will buffet our planet's magnetic field during the next 24-48 hours.

Kev's sacrament of reconciliation

The apology three years on - Kevin Rudd

The thought police have taken control

The thought police have taken control. Expect more boat crashes as it is the easiest way of getting to the Australian mainland. How many will now die? Expect the ALP media to keep blaming everybody except themselves.

Fiction becomes fact

The Camp of the Saints From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Camp of the Saints is a novel about population migration and the consequences thereof. In Bombay, India, the Dutch government announces a policy in which Indian babies will be adopted and raised in the Netherlands. The policy is soon reversed after the Dutch consulate is inundated with poverty-stricken parents eager to give up their infant children. An Indian "wise man" then rallies the masses to make a mass exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run down freighters approaching the French coast. The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the plentiful food and water that are in short supply their native India. Although the novel focuses on France, it is not just the people of France that befall this fate. Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of England must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia. The one holdout until the end of the novel is Switzerland, but by then international pressure isolating Switzerland as a rogue state for not opening its borders forces it to capitulate.

Camp of the Saints (1975) online ebook.

More boats coming?

Tunisia migrants: Italy seeks EU cash over Lampedusa

Australian War Memorial dying. As ALP wastes money.

Canberra's iconic Australian War Memorial pleads in vain for funding to arrest decline

Wireless could affect NBN: report

The rising use of wireless technology could pose a risk to the national broadband network, a report commissioned by the Gillard government says.

NSW Ambulance Service, Greg Rochford, has resigned. Finally.

Mr Rochford spent 12 years as head of the Ambulance Service.

Ambulance officers want CEO Greg Rochford sacked
* By Kate Sikora, Health Reporter
* From: The Daily Telegraph
* July 23, 2008

Christmas Island to Lidcombe for burial. Why?

The bodies of some of the victims of December's Christmas Island boat crash have arrived in Sydney for burial.
So far, seven funerals are being planned at Lidcombe in Sydney's west on Tuesday morning, he added.

Global warming - M6.6 solar flare

A M6.6 solar flare has just occurred, peaking at 17:38 UT on Feb 13. This is the largest solar flare so fare from this solar cycle based on X-ray irradiance magnitude. Check for other movies and images on the SDO website!

Virus takes down NSW Ambulance computers

Virus takes down NSW Ambulance computers

Wivenhoe Dam - Emptying the dam to 75 per cent capacity

Wivenhoe Dam - Emptying the dam to 75 per cent capacity will be a temporary measure, with its future operation to be informed by the floods inquiry.

Diggers and The Egyptian Rebellion

The Egyptian Rebellion in 1919
Most of the light horse regiments before their campaigning was over were employed in the unhappy work of suppressing the rebellion in Egypt, which broke out early in 1919.

four offenders of Asian appearance

Two men serious after city stabbing
Two men undergo surgery after city stabbing

Townsville NBN repairs - exclusive picture

Yasi's 300km/h winds are thought to have brought down many of the overhead fibre cables used to connect houses in the Townsville area.



As the cost mounts:
Economist Intelligence Unit takes a dim view of Australia's NBN
Australia's Broadband Plan Too Expensive, Report Finds

NBN to cost 24 times South Korea's faster network, says research body

Mark Riley's F*** Up Only Took 8 days

Labor attack dogs off the leash and baying for blood
* David Penberthy
* From: The Daily Telegraph
* February 01, 2011

"The content of that story and the way it was put to Mr Abbott ... I think is very poor journalism." Wed Feb 9 2011

mental health drug link

Cannabis triggers earlier mental illness

Salvos say psychosis link is nothing new to them

More like a love bite really, says Croc man

Swimmer fights off croc

...a golden inheritance from when Labor truly represented the working class.

Sticking with Labor as sun sets in west

NSW National Park and state forests cannabis

$4.6m of cannabis seized by NSW police

It was the third operation by the police cannabis eradication program and it targeted areas including Cooperabung National Park and state forests in the Taylors Arm and Bowraville areas.

And Bob Brown wants more forests.

Yasi frustration ..ring these people ... or this website..

Frustration building in wake of Yasi's trail of devastation
"They say ring these people if you need help or get onto this website but we've got no phones or power."

Bligh and Gillard get headlines. Abbott gets abuse. People who need help get what?

Mounty County versus G40

Police charge 13 males over large brawl at Mt Druitt shopping centre

The fight is a violent escalation in a growing problem of Pacific Islander gang crime in the area. The Daily Telegraph understands the fight was between two local gangs known as the Mounty County - based in Mt Druitt - and the G40 gang from the Auburn/Granville area.

Fight erupts at Sydney shopping centre

Eight held after shopping centre brawl at Mt Druitt
Fight erupts at Sydney shopping centre
Police make multiple arrests after large brawl erupts at Mt Druitt shopping centre

Punxsutawney Phil - glimmer of hope

Bitter cold, power outages follow in wake of massive winter storm

NSW ALP Verity Firth not ecstatic

NSW ALP Education Minister Verity Firth denies wrong doing over husband's drug arrest

But asked if she had ever taken the drug, Verity Firth said: "I have done nothing wrong. I have nothing to apologise for.

Cyclone Ross hits Canberra

Government's global warming adviser Ross Garnaut warns of worse natural disasters to come

"The debate over whether there is a link between the floods and cyclone Yasi, and global warning could have political significance as the Federal Government tries again in Parliament to get through legislation putting a price on carbon emissions."

Carbon tax on top of levy on top of all the other taxes.

Asian and Islander in appearance - stabbings

Four teenagers injured in three separate stabbings on Burke St, Braybrook

"...fund rebuilding efforts by ditching wasteful spending programs."

Dump flood levy idea: tax expert

Digger dies

Young Digger Richard Edward Atkinson killed by bomb in Afghanistan
Sad for family and friends but in the past Chapter 13 – The Fall of Lae

9 Sept CROSSING THE BUSU
"Obviously such a crossing could not be made without cost, but for the results achieved, the cost was small. Thirty men had been carried towards the sea and did not make the crossing. Of these, 13 were drowned, and the remainder were saved by the bar where the water was only 3 feet deep."

"...scrapping the NBN was the most popular way to raise money for flood relief..."

Australians split on NBN following floods