Kiesha's mother faces court

...distraught and "finding it hard".
Residents turn fury on accused child killer

Chaser out of race

ABC's satire The Chaser pulls its Royal Wedding special

Kiesha tests inconclusive

More tests to verify bones are Kiesha's

Outraged

Who knew until the outrage?

POW testified that Burchett was a traitor

Phillip Greville, 1925 - 2011

Brigadier Phillip Greville served with distinction in three wars and suffered as a prisoner of the North Koreans for more than a year. Greville, then a captain, was the highest ranking of 29 Australian prisoners of war in Korea after he was captured with Private Denis Condon on the night of August 22, 1952.
Greville, who had been tortured during his captivity and attested that Burchett had been present during his interrogations, testified that Burchett was a traitor.

Australian POWs in Korea
Captain P. J. Greville, after his release in August 1953. He was the highest ranking Australian soldier to be taken prisoner by the communists in Korea.

Yet Google search reveals Green-Left still support him.

shot through the chest and lay huddled behind a tree

Atkinson told later of two soldiers who went about their radically different tasks with courage and coolness. One of his platoon commanders, Lieutenant Richardson, 5 was shot through the chest and lay huddled behind a tree breathing through the hole the bullet had made:

5 Lt C. H. Richardson, NX141420; 3 Bn . Public servant ; of Canberra; b. Sydney, 7 Aug 1920.

When Richardson was shot, Downes, a country lad, always with his pipe in his mouth, tried to spot the sniper. I went down to bandage Richardson. The sniper had a go at me. The bullet went between my pack and my back and hit my dixie. Downes saw the muzzle blast, moved out into the open to see better, and shot him.

Now the rest of the story.

ANZAC - ‘silent stunts’

Thus to leave you–thus to part - The Evacuation of Anzac, December 1915

Kitchener spent just over two hours at Anzac surveying the Turkish line from Australian trenches inland of the Sphinx and at Lone Pine. Two days later, after further consultation with senior commanders, he recommended to the British War Cabinet that Gallipoli–Anzac, Suvla and Helles–be evacuated.
A detailed evacuation plan was devised by an Australian, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brudenell White. This involved elaborate deception operations such as the so-called ‘silent stunts’ of late November where no artillery fire or sniping was to occur from the Anzac lines.

When he returned in October, White was promoted to Brigadier General, becoming BGGS of ANZAC, under Lieutenant General W. R. Birdwood. As such, his role was to plan the evacuation of Anzac. This became the first operation of the whole campaign to go off according to plan, and to be accomplished without loss.

1939 - a later generation may be at a loss understand why

Chapter 3 - The Volunteers
Oct 1939 Official Barriers 55
One man 2 who had driven from west of the Darling River in New South Wales to enlist at the nearest recruiting office later wrote his recollections of the day.

Coonamble (he wrote) had not been thrown off its balance by the war, or by the fact that men were arriving to enlist there.

2 L.M. Long (of Goodooga, NSW) later Capt 2/3 Bn.

Chapter 3 - The Volunteers

A hundred years from today, when Australia has produced a strongly- flowing native culture, and absorption in the affairs of east Asia and the Pacific have made Europe seem more remote, a later generation may be at a loss to understand why Australians (and New Zealanders) volunteered so readily for service half a world away. Nine out of ten of the recruits had been born in Australia of Australian parents, were intensely proud of their national independence and would have fought for it against all comers.

Chapter 3 - The Volunteers

The men who joined the army were the type who stood up in trams and gave their seats to women. There are people who are constitutionally unable to resist when a call is made, or when they feel they are under some obligation. I doubt whether many of them could tell why they enlisted. The real cause was something deeper than they could fathom. We could not see ourselves as fitting the glowing words of Masefield about the Anzacs at Gallipoli, and, although we were born with a tradition to carry on, and were proud of it, we were only too ready to admit that we were a ragtime army--though woe betide the militia or the civilian who suggested that. There was, I believe, a large body of men--perhaps the majority--who were adventurers at heart but common citizens by force of circumstance--how many of us are not--who saw in this call a glorious combination--the life of an adventurer with the duties of a citizen.

"Almost all contemporary left-wing writers of this generation and the last attacked the idea of nationalism," wrote Rebecca West, after the war.5
5 In "The Meaning of Treason", Harper's Magazine, Oct 1947. .

It must be getting cold at Villawood

The three last men on the roof of Villawood Detention Centre. Picture: Melanie Russell Source: HWT Image Library

Mr Daoud said the detainees were feeling depressed

Another ALP spy?

The Labor senator, the French consort and the KGB

Earlier Gerard Henderson wrote: Cold War secrets and the spies who came out of Canberra

Gillard devastation

Gillard arrives in devastated Sendai
As Cyclone lifeline extended by 13 weeks
While Villawood detention centre 'a basket case'

Kiesha rage and Stolen Generations

Because of Forced removal and Kevin Rudd's national apology to Stolen Generations and Kiesha and her mother Kristi are aboriginal we have Sympathy turns to rage over Kiesha Abrahams [link broken] The article was removed to comply with a legal order?
new link At CafeMom

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/01/31/1225997/724596-kiesha-abrahams.jpg
Kiesha and Robert Smith look unsure for some reason. Very sad.

ATSIC pales

From division to resistance

Calvin - five years old - reunited with mum

Five-year-old boy reunited with mum
Police locate mother of young boy – Bankstown
Police seek family after young boy located – Bankstown

Kapyong - 23-24 April 1951

Encyclopedia - Kapyong battle
A detailed account of the battle from Australia in the Korean war 1950-53, Volume 2: combat operations by Robert O'Neill.
Battle of Kapyong
Kapyong - 23-24 April 1951
Battle of Kap'yong represents a Canadian first.
Canadians in Korea - The Action at Kapyong
The Battle of Kapyong
Chinese Spring Offensive - Repeat Performance

Teen mental health death

Teen charged over mother's death

The boy suffered from a medical condition and might not have taken his medication in recent days, police said.

While ALP criticises Abbott mental health spending.

Kiesha Abraham dead - Larissa Behrendt gets limelight

Skeletal remains located - Shalvey
Police have found a bush grave in Sydney's west
Sydney Radio 2GB report Kiesha Abraham body found
Earlier we had: Watchdog to review Keisha's welfare
Then Two people charged in Kiesha Abraham's case - Homicide Squad
Kiesha Abraham's mother Kristi Abrahams and stepfather Robert Smithcharged by police with her murder. While there is Questioning credentials of an Aboriginal elite - and we have Larissa Behrendt

Villawood: hose the scum off the roof

Green-Left support rioters

A hose is used to remove scum from something. Why not scum on a roof?

Touring Ju-liar and Tim miss new disaster

Gillard meets Japanese parliamentarians.
As Villawood riots are unacceptable, says Swan

Green-Left incite riot?

Asylum-seekers burn buildings amid rioting at Villawood, in Sydney's south-west. Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition says the detainees are fed up. "I think a couple of people have said that they are going to be on hunger strike." Are the rioters following the Refugee Action Coalition Strategy? Refugee Action Coalition strategy [which] is formed using the following principles:
Collaboration: We do not oppose confronting authorities directly where necessary and we will consider employing acts of civil disobedience as part of the overall strategy to achieve our goals.
Solidarity: We work to support people suffering injustice and use their struggle and demands as the basis for our action. While Solidarity is a socialist group. As Refugee advocates plan Curtin visit led by Gerry Georgatos

SA MP, on again, off again, Finnegan?

Rann makes portfolio changes.
Because of SA MP on child porn charges after police raid home ?

off again, on again, Finnegan is a US catch phrase, deriving from an old song and has come to mean ‘intermittent’ or ‘capricious’ or ‘fickle’.

New Ice Age?

What's wrong with the sun?

If a similar spell of solar inactivity were to begin now and continue until 2100, it would mitigate any temperature rise through global warming by 0.3 °C on average, according to calculations by Georg Feulner and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. However, something amplified the impact of the Maunder minimum on northern Europe, ushering in a period known as the Little Ice Age, when colder than average winters became more prevalent and the average temperature in Europe appeared to drop by between 1 and 2 °C.
It seems that the sunspot bonanza of last century is over.

Patrons turn on armed robbers – Five Dock NSW

Patrons turn on armed robbers – Five Dock

Japanese Admiral killed by U.S.A. Army fighter aircraft

Operation Vengeance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Vengeance was carried out to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

NAB private Cloud de-Clyne pay glitch last straw

NAB private Cloud builds new paradigm: Part 2
NAB pay glitch last straw for customers

Top NSW ALP home invasion

Wife of former NSW minister Michael Costa attacked in home invasion

ANZAC Day - how much is their sacrifice worth?

Green-Left leaves Andrew Bolt – Wednesday, April 13, 2011 speechless.

And again: Andrew Bolt – Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Depends who is being rude

Free speech is not free as we approach ANZAC Day we remember those who paid the ultimate price. But with these people feeding on democracy, how much is their sacrifice worth?

Gemahl Maika - "secret" witness- what secrecy?

Murdered man was due to testify on death threats in cocaine trial

''The accused persons have the current financial and material means, resolve and incentive to prevent witnesses from giving evidence against them, and members of the syndicate are actively engaged in pursuing that end,'' Inspector Greg Randall alleged in the affidavit.

So with Gemahl Maika a "secret" witness but what secrecy?
Crime pays again.

Tobruk - Easter 1941 - ...first to quail...went agley...

Chapter 4 – At Bay – The Easter Battle

The battle had reached its crisis. The penetration had not yet been contained, but the assault had been turned. To "A/E" Battery must go the main credit. For 45 minutes they had contested the seemingly relentless enemy advance, standing to their guns and proving themselves more steadfast than their enemy; the German tank crews were first to quail.

The prime causes of failure were the Germans' and Rommel's over-confidence and their under-estimation of the strength of the defence. A battle plan based on the false assumption, drawn from European experience, that opposition would collapse when the tanks broke through the perimeter went agley when that did not occur. Both senior and junior commanders lost their nerve, the force its cohesion.

But the victory belonged in the main to the gunners who had fought it out with the German tanks, to the Bren gunners and machine-gunners in the posts who had not been intimidated or subdued and to the patrolmen whose bayonet charges had dislodged the enemy infantry before they could consolidate. One may accept the summing up by the diarist of "B/O" Battery: The two outstanding features of the battle were:

(i) "A/E"Battery's tank shoot, which finally stopped the tanks.

(ii) The infantry in "D"Company remaining in their positions completely unperturbed by the tanks and then attacking the ensuing infantry, together with an excellent counter-attack by "B" Company.

ADF Academy and Marxist women

"Modern society" has changed the way women are viewed.
Once we had:
Chivalry
Which in a previous time meant:

Chapter 7 – The Embarkation From Greece
164 THE EMBARKATION FROM GREECE 25-26 Apr
The troops embarked here included the remaining nurses—forty Australian from the 2/5th Australian General Hospital and forty British from the 26th General Hospital—carrying only haversacks and a blanket each. 4
4 General Blamey had left instructions that all Australian nurses must be taken off. However, on the 25th, Brigadier D.T.M. Large, the British Director of Medical Services, was doubtful whether it would be safe to embark them and whether they could be spared. At length, at the urging of Major E. E. Dunlop (the Australian medical liaison officer), Colonel Rogers and Lieut-Commander P.C. Hutton (in charge of the naval party at "P" Beach), Large agreed, and they were hurried to Megara in trucks that night.

Chapter 36 – The Australian Army Nursing Service
THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE 443
The nurses themselves all wished to stay when they realised there was no hope of other hospital ships arriving to take away their patients, but on the 11th half the nurses from each hospital and all the physiotherapists were ordered to leave.

Now we have:

Tony Abbott calls for Australian Defence Force Academy scandal crackdown

Pollies split over defence sex scandal

While we can read:
Hal Draper Marx and Engels on Women’s Liberation (July 1970)
XI. Less important is the fact that socialist women have also had to be reminded that equality cuts two ways. The old society’s tradition of ‘chivalry’ and ‘gentlemanly behaviour’, which assumes the inferiority of women, dies hard. After his visit to America, Engels related in a letter:

‘Mother Wischnewetzky is very much hurt because I did not visit her in Long Branch instead of getting well ... She seems to be hurt by a breach of etiquette and lack of gallantry towards ladies. But I do not allow the little women’s-rights ladies to demand gallantry from us; if they want men’s rights, they should also let themselves be treated as men’.[57] - 57. Letter to Sorge, January 12, 1889, in ME: Letters to Americans (NY, Internatl. Pub., 1953), 209.

Ending the politics of envy

Speech - National Press Club - Education - 6/4/11
Published 6/4/2011
HON CHRISTOPHER PYNE MP
SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION, APPRENTICESHIPS & TRAINING
ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB CANBERRA, APRIL 6, 2011

There are four key principles in the Coalition's strategy:

1. Increasing school autonomy, which is the key to improving quality teaching and learning.

2. Encouraging choice and diversity, by having a consistent approach to funding for all schools.

3. Ending the politics of envy and genuinely looking at ways to improve student outcomes across the board.

4. Delivering a quality curriculum that prepares students for the workforce or for further education or training.

Gemahl Maika - gunned down - known to police

Father gunned down in his Sydney garage was victim of a planned hit

Pink Batts in the BER?

Fire rips through classroom at Chester Hill North Public School

Van Diemen's Land transportation resumed

The creation of a detention centre in southern Tasmania is akin to resuming transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's Land, Liberal senator Eric Abetz says.

Gary and Petrov

Then Gary O’Callaghan

Now Gary O'Callaghan MBE - Ambassador for Cowra Shire Council

building asylum camp revolution

With Wilkie says new detention centre shows asylum-seeker system in disarray
We have building asylum camp revolution says opposition Liberal Party immigration spokesman Scott Morrison [link] `building the detention centre revolution'

NBN keeps unravelling

NBN construction boss resigns
Key NBN executive quits
Patrick Flannigan quits as NBN's construction chief

MI5 - Vladimir Petrov and his wife Evdokia

MI5 releases new batch of files

Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov/Evdokia Alexeyevna Petrova (KV2/3439 - 3440) 1946-1955
Almost a third of the files in this release deal with the high-profile defection of Soviet agents Vladimir Petrov and his wife Evdokia to Australia in 1954. This famous Cold War incident was a turning point in Australian history and provided MI5 with the first definitive information on the whereabouts of the missing diplomats, and members of the Cambridge spy ring, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.

Files KV2/3439 and KV2/3440 are available to view on DocumentsOnline.

Kevin Foley: "too fragile"

BoltA wonders about SA Police Minister Kevin Foley. Others wonder "if he was too fragile".

Horses and courses

Blacks A Fake

Paleface Adios

Geoff Clark (politician)

Geoff Clark financial connections

Geoff Clark among Aborigines suing Bolt

He [Bolt] is intelligent, occasionally charming, and a master rhetorician.

NSW ALP denies climate changed

JOHN ROBERTSON: Well I think the first point to make very quickly is that last Saturday's result was not as a result of that.

NSW Greens claim NSW victory in Balmain

Greens claim historic victory in Balmain

Ms Firth and Mr Falk can still ask for a recount

At the time of publication, Ms Firth had made no official statement conceding defeat and comment was being sought from her. The Liberal Party's James Falk had also polled a substantial number of votes in Balmain; there has also been no official statement from him.

Legislative Assembly Summary
State Electoral District of Balmain

carbon tax head count disputed-let's vote

Thousands demonstrate for and against carbon tax

ALP-Media. How much incest?

One example: David Humphries, a former state political editor of the Herald, is married to Diane Beamer, a former Carr government minister.
While we have "Viewed at its worst, it is an attempt to co-opt the media in the hope of blunting the level of scrutiny applied by them."
This is not what we had with NSW ALP under previous NSW premiers, and with ALP Vic, ALP Qld, ALP SA and ALP WA premiers and with Kev07 and old Julia. What about Kirner and Lawrence?

One definition of incest: unhealthily intimate or interconnected, especially so as to exclude the involvement or influence of others. Does sound like the ALP-media.

Ju-liar wants $863 a year for exhaling

Treasury modelling forecasts the cost impact of putting a price on carbon