Gillard's Boat People brawl in Darwin

Asylum seekers hospitalised after disturbance
Posted January 01, 2012 11:25:04

A group of asylum seekers has been taken to hospital following a disturbance overnight involving up to 60 people at a Darwin detention facility.

Police remained at the Darwin Airport Lodge for more than three hours following an incident about 9pm Saturday night (local time).

Six people received treatment for non-life threatening injuries but three were released from hospital soon after.

The Immigration Department says police will determine if any criminal offences have been committed.

A spokeswoman says there will be an investigation into the incident.

Peculiar Julia and ''ridiculous" Swan

Peculiar Julia out of headlines up in the polls.
While Swan says ''ridiculous''

Bali dangers and boys continued

Australian contracts HIV after getting Bali tattoo

The Department of Health has revealed a West Australian resident has contracted HIV after getting a tattoo in Bali.

The victim was given the news that they had contracted the virus after they underwent a blood test on their return home.

The department has not released any details about the victim or the tattoo parlour involved, but say it has not been notified of this happening before.

The WA Health Department's Director of Communicable Disease Control, Doctor Paul Armstrong, says people need to be aware of the dangers involved in getting body art overseas.
"If you are considering getting a tattoo in countries other than Australia think very carefully about it," he said.

"We would advise that you wait until you get back to this country because there is a higher risk of developing blood-born viruses in developing countries than there is here."

Refugee advocate supports death boat policy

Refugee advocate Ian Rintoul supports death boat policy.

ALP sinks and says not a time for politics

Jason Clare boat sinks

Chris Bowen boat sinks

Tale of two - Havel and Jong-il

Vaclav Havel
Kim Jong-il aka Yuri Irsenovich Kim
The exact history of Kim's family is somewhat obscure.
Kim Sung Chu
On 3 October 1945 the Russians introduced into their new nation one of these Koreans, born Kim Sung Chu but traveling under the alias of Kim Il Sung. The Russians hailed him as the leading exponent of Korean nationalism. The original Kim Il Sung had been a famous leader of Korean resistance against the Japanese. The Russian-sponsored interloper had served as a captain in the Russian Army. After going to Manchuria in 1930, he became a small-time bandit leader, and finally disappeared into the USSR in 1941 or 1942. Backed by the Russians, Kim Il Sung assumed control of the Korean Communist party in late October 1945. At the same time other Russian-trained Koreans took over key posts in the North Korean regime. This seizure of power by the Korean Communist party in North Korea was carried out boldly with complete Russian backing.

"climate apartheid."

"You've been negotiating all my life," Anjali Appadurai told the plenary session of the UN's 17th Conference of Parties, or COP 17, the official title of the United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban.
Appadurai, a student at the ecologically focused College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, addressed the plenary as part of the youth delegation. She continued: "In that time, you've failed to meet pledges, you've missed targets, and you've broken promises. But you've heard this all before."

Gillard boat person - pervert?

Detainee 'touched' girls: claim

"We never tolerated things. We turned our back on people.''

''Tolerance is a European thing brought to the country.''

Stephen Conroy says f***ing on afternoon TV show

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy drops F-word on TV shortly before 1:30pm Segment was followed by show popular with kids.
So Mummy what does f****ing mean?
Conroy is in charge of Australia's broadcasting standards and called newspapers into question has dropped the F-bomb on national television.

ALP women - a sign of chao?

Brian Burke to Carmen Lawrence
John Cain to Joan Kirner
Peter Beattie to Anna Bligh
Nathan Rees to Kristina Keneally
Lastly Kev to Julia - now Gillard's frontbench change on Monday delivered an increase of women cabinet ministers from four to five. More trouble the ALP is in it seems, increases the number of women they need.

Project Gutenberg's founder, Michael Hart, passed away September 6

Michael Stern Hart (1947-2011)

Ecstasy - chronic loss of serotonin

Ecstasy causes chronic loss of serotonin in the human brain.
Teen charged with drug supply - Sydney Olympic Park

Gillard "...hysterical and over the top."

Interview with Ray Hadley, Radio 2GB, Sydney
Posted on Wednesday, 7 December 2011

TONY ABBOTT: Look Ray, it’s true you know, I think all too often what passes for public debate is pretty lowbrow and I would challenge people who listen to the parliament regularly and listen to the questions that I ask the Prime Minister, listen to the responses she gives, listen to the speeches that I make after question time, listen to the non responses from the Prime Minister who typically goes off and sits things out in the whip’s office doing her numbers as Anthony Albanese responds on her behalf. I would challenge people to listen to all of that and make their own judgments as to who is trying to be statesmanlike about these things or at least trying to be reasonable and rational about these things and who is hysterical and over the top.

Gillard boats - Tropical Cyclone

Tropical Cyclone Alenga

Gillard boat solution

A bigger boat

Japanese ships anchored off the coast near Kota Bharu.

Widespread Onslaught - 7-8 Dec 1941
Before midnight, Japanese ships anchored off the coast near Kota Bharu.
While Malaya was being attacked, 7th December was dawning at Hawaii, 3,440 miles east of Japan, and 2,010 miles from San Suddenly, at 7.55 a.m. (1.45 a.m. on 8th December in Malaya) a cloud of planes appeared over Oahu. Because Hawaii was on the other side of the International Date Line, the date was a day earlier than in Malaya.

Global warming - sea bed rising.

Canary Island volcano: A new island in the making?

Koblenz evacuated - 1.8 tonne bomb

Koblenz evacuated for WWII bomb removal from Rhine
The 1.8 tonne bomb - dropped by the Royal Air Force (RAF) - was uncovered after water levels in the Rhine fell significantly as a result of a prolonged dry spell.

ALP plot? The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American film based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman, from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners. The Hays Office insisted on the name change, believing that while a divorcee could be gay or lighthearted, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so.