Aussies poor and overseas rich

We have Nambucca charities, Wagga families seek out help from charities while Australia Aid activities in India as Mukesh Ambani net worth US$27 billion (2011) is unduly favoured private oil and natural gas explorers including the Mukesh Amban and in India Living in the shadow of prosperity: why children in rural India don't go to school

bandana supports burqa

Lifting the veil on shock jocks

And if you'd think I could get a 10-minute rant out of this, you'd be wrong.

Carnita Matthews minders grossly disrespectful

"Dressing like that is contrary to the Islamic teachings because it is not part of our tradition to wear the name of God on our clothing. It is grossly disrespectful."

Will Marcus Einfeld use the Carnita Matthews defence?

Police are investigating a traffic incident allegedly involving former judge Marcus Einfeld while we still have: A tangle of issues caught in a burqa. And overseas it is reported: Australia considers fingerprinting women in burkas

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Man or woman?

Carnita Matthews and Crimes Act 1900

Court theatrics sees Islam rear its ugly head again

"The prosecution was unable to satisfy Judge Jeffreys that the liar was Matthews, despite the fact her friend, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, alleged to radio 2GB's Chris Smith on Tuesday that he had accompanied her to the police station to lodge the complaint."

Crimes Act 1900

318 Making or using false official instrument to pervert the course of justice
(1) In this section:"official instrument" means an instrument of a kind that is made or issued by a person in his or her capacity as a public officer or by a judicial tribunal.
(2) A person who makes a false official instrument, or who makes a copy of an instrument which the person knows to be a false official instrument, with the intention that:
(a) he or she or another person will use it to induce another person to accept the instrument as genuine or to accept the copy as a copy of a genuine official instrument, and
(b) that acceptance will pervert the course of justice,
is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.
(3) A person who uses an instrument which the person knows to be a false official instrument, or who uses a copy of an instrument which the person knows to be a false official instrument, with the intention:
(a) of inducing another person to accept the instrument as genuine or to accept the copy as a copy of a genuine official instrument, and
(b) of thereby perverting the course of justice,
is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.
(4) Section 250 applies to the interpretation of this section.
319 General offence of perverting the course of justice
A person who does any act, or makes any omission, intending in any way to pervert the course of justice, is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.
342 Certain conspiracy offences not affected
The abolition of the common law offence of conspiring to pervert the course of justice does not prevent a prosecution for an offence of conspiring to commit an offence against this Part.

burqa's law is an ass

Woman jailed for false complaint now freed.
Muslim woman Carnita Matthews escapes jail by remaining behind her burqa

CO2 North Sea

The plan would see two million tonnes of CO2 a year pumped from Longannet. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process involving the capture of CO2 from power plants and other industrial sources for storage in sites such as depleted oil and gas fields.

Juliar's wind RET - NSW electricity prices up

We have wind farms harm tourism yet Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme one reason for ipart.nsw.gov.au latest-news shows that electricity prices up

Retailers also have a legal obligation to meet their revised targets under the Federal Government’s RET scheme.
As IPART said in April, the drivers of the 2011 electricity price increases are clear and are essentially twofold:
An increase in network costs that retailers must pay that sees prices rise by 9 percentage points.
An increase in costs retailers must pay due to the Federal Government’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme that sees prices rise by 6 percentage points.

Paleontology and disease

How does knowledge of Paleontology equip someone to be accepted as an expert?
First we have Tim Flannery Now Getting the Point [Full transcript available Monday.] The story mentioned: Dr Viera Scheibner. Then we have in Mullumbimby, New South Wales a Counter culture and Whooping cough warning given by NSW North Coast Area Health Service

Beef ban opens way to new detention centres

As BoltA reports on Borallon prison and beef ban to send pastoralists out of business so leaving vacant space for new detention centres.

ALP Clunker Part Deux

With stricter emissions criteria for new cars, reminds of Julia Gillard unveils a cash for clunkers policy to get dirtier old cars off the road, meanwhile, Chinese adopting 'cash for clunkers'to spur car sales.

Villawood detainee diagnosed with leprosy

Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison is questioning the effectiveness of health checks.

Kiesha rage and Stolen Generations again

Because of Forced removal and Kevin Rudd's national apology to Stolen Generations and Kiesha and her mother Kristi are aboriginal we have Kiesha allegedly died after being thrown against the wall and knocked unconscious, causing blood to seep out of her ears.

Duthie life imitates past art

BoltA on Kim Duthie

Rhodes's mocking of his audience when he assumed he was off the air but his mic was still "hot"

Graziers beef with Juliar

Cattle export fears grow

Australian forces should be employed

The present: Four soldier deaths can't halt Afghan resolve

The past of: THE GENERAL, PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS 1945

Page 72 - It was also characteristic of the national tradition, with its sensitiveness about military honour and its desire that Australian forces should be employed in the decisive battles, that at one time critics at home should charge the Government and the commander with both doing too little and doing too much. In fact the Australian Army was doing far more than its share in 1945. In New Guinea it was employing larger forces than the Australian Commander-in-Chief had at first desired, and these were spending their strength in unnecessarily aggressive operations. In addition a corps of two divisions was committed to operations in Borneo which were to be a prelude to an invasion of Java.

ALP stampede chaos - Kev gets a vote

NT cattlemen says they'll struggle to survive
Cattle industry and Coalition condemn ban on live exports to Indonesia
Australian Agricultural Co in trading halt on ban of live cattle exports to Indonesia
Meanwhile: Rudd secures Hungary's vote for UN post

NSW ALP Lands in trouble

ALP in disarray as top man Tony Kelly quits

Tony Kelly's exit from parliament as ICAC probes

It's understood former premier Kristina Keneally has been interviewed as part of the investigation, which originally centred on the role senior bureaucrat Warwick Watkins played in buying Currawong for $12.2 million, reportedly without cabinet approval.

Warwick Watkins AM is the Chief Executive of LPMA, Surveyor General and Registrar General of NSW.