Paedophile found dead

Paedophile Dennis Ferguson found dead

" Child protection advocate Hetty Johnston, from Bravehearts, says no one will be shedding tears for him.'His time has come and I think children are safer everywhere for it,' she said.'That's the truth and I really do doubt that anyone is going to be very sad about his passing, including myself.' "

 

Moustafa Salami arrest warrant has been issued

Arrest warrant issued for shooting victim - Bankstown Local Area Command

An arrest warrant has now been granted for 31-year-old Moustafa Salami for the offence of ‘Hinder investigation – serious indictable offence of other’.

sexual assault woman-two men Aboriginal appearance

Police investigate sexual assault - Yamba

Mid-East youths stab man with broken bottle

Man stabbed - Canley Vale

"Bah!" said Imam, "Humbug!"

 fatwa on christmas

2DayFM - Rhys Holleran should resign immediately

An ill-advised action and the consequences that followed should have been foreseen . Rhys Holleran should resign immediately.
Austereo boss Rhys Holleran says he's confident 2Day FM presenters who called the London hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife did not break any laws.
Rhys Holleran does not get it. A woman died because of him.

Bacteria shuts Sydney City pools

Pools at Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre closed after bacteria scare

 Bacteria shuts city pools

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

confessional - anachronism - next the telescreen

MPs slam crime secrecy in confessional

The idea that the confessional stays confidential even when people use it ... Independent senator Nick Xenophon says that's an anachronism.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four - PART ONE - Chapter 1
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

Travel by Carr

Carr's wife's travel costs taxpayers

Carbon credits a load of sh!t

Piggery earns carbon credits

ABC to be 'trained' in fact checking?

With 2GB told to check facts so will the ABC also be 'trained' in fact checking?

Man dead after Sydney double shooting

Earlier: Shooting incident - Greenacre Now: Man dead after Sydney double shooting In the past: Darwiche-Razzak-Fahda family conflict

cook a squirrel with a propane torch

US squirrel dinner sparks apartment fire

Alan Jones support - sign this petition

2GB: DO NOT SACK ALAN JONES

"...21st Century censorship, via cyber-bullying.'

Advertising suspended on Jones' show 'What we are seeing here is 21st Century censorship, via cyber-bullying.'

Christians insulted – no riots

Jesus had a wife - scholar So Christians are insulted but there will be no riots. Media does not get this. Why?

TSUNAMI WARNING - Oh only "NOT A REAL EVENT "

TSUNAMI WARNING NUMBER 2 FOR NORFOLK ISLAND Sorry, product IDY68035.txt is not not available Issued by the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre [JATWC] at 11:08 AM local time on Thursday 20 September 2012 TEST TEST TEST ** AUSNAMI 2012 - NOT A REAL EVENT ** TEST TEST TEST

Victor Chang killer freed - sick decision

Victor Chang killer freed Sick decision. How many died because Victor Chang could not save them?

Sydney protester charged with affray and breaching bail

A 29-year-old man remains in custody and will appear in Parramatta Local Court today, charged with affray and breaching bail.

Update: Ahmed Elomar, a 29-year-old champion boxer, was one of six men charged over demonstrations in central Sydney on Saturday but the only one denied bail.
Police were called to Parramatta Bail Court after one of Elomar's supporters threatened cameramen from the Seven and Nine networks with violence.

Protesters on the streets of Sydney

Protesters on the streets of Sydney on their way to the US consulate today.
Police have used tear gas on Sydney protesters who swept through the CBD as world-wide demonstrations triggered by a US film portraying the prophet Muhammad as a womaniser and paedophile reached Australia. Up to 500 protesters stormed through the city as protesters worked their way through Pitt Street before moving to Hyde Park amid a heavy police presence. The crowd carried signs saying "Behead all those who insult the prophet".
Police have begun arresting people in Hyde Park amid violent confrontations with protesters. The protesters were pushed back as police dogs and capsicum spray were deployed.
Fairfax Media saw a number of arrests and seriously injured protesters. One protester being taken away by ambulance spat at officers and chanted "Allahu Akbar".

Man Middle Eastern appearance FWA fire suspect

Man sought after Sydney office block fire Police are retrieving CCTV recordings of an arsonist who lit fires in a building in the heart of Sydney's CBD, causing the evacuation of 350 people. The fires were started on the floor that houses the Fair Work Australia Ombudsman's office.

union thug John Setka

Tim Blair – Tuesday, August 28, 2012 (5:47pm)

Fairfax 3AW axes Hinch

Derryn Hinch's 3AW contract to expire
While earlier Hinch on Vizard

1945 - just in time

Enola Gay navigator has 'no regrets'
The bomb killed an estimated 100,000 Japanese, but it ended the war and precluded an invasion of Japan, and Mr Van Kirk says he has no regrets. None of them did.

The last hurdle they had to pass was the final reduction in rations in 1945, and it is probably true that liberation came with a small margin of safety for many of them, in fact only just in time.

The news of the peace came just in time for some of the nurses, who were very weak.

Gillard and Sydney gold plated powerless

Julia Gillard says Sydney is gold plating their power pole and wire distribution systems.
As parts of Sydney are without power.

NBN Co's exchanges to be kept secret

SMH Business Day 7 August report "NBN Co's exchanges to be kept secret" So taxes spent in secret. [no link]

ALP wants to protect non-productive old cows

Treasurer Wayne Swan appalled by cattle company chief executive David Farley's comments during a speech in Adelaide on Thursday, referring to plans to build a new abattoir when he said: 'It's designed for non-productive old cows - Julia Gillard's got to watch out.'

Girl charged over chef's murder smiles

A 15-year-old girl charged over the stabbing murder of an apprentice chef in Sydney has smiled during her first court appearance, prompting the magistrate to say "she seems to be happy about the whole process".

Citius, Altius, Fortius

As with all things, Citius, Altius, Fortius. Or as with most the world today it slow, low, weak. The media celebrates rap and other 'artists'.

dingoes are wild animals

German tourist attacked by dingo
He suffered serious injuries to his head, legs and arms but is in a stable condition, says the Department of National Parks.

The skeletons are rattling Julia Gillard-BoltA

The skeletons are rattling Julia Gillard by: Andrew Bolt From: Herald Sun June 25, 2012 12:00AM

JULIA Gillard sacked only one of the ministers who backed Kevin Rudd in February's leadership brawl.

Now her victim, former Attorney-General Robert McClelland, is making her pay a high price.
"I know the Prime Minister is quite familiar with this area of the law, as lawyers in the mid-1990s we were involved in a matter representing opposing clients," said former federal attorney-general Robert McClelland.


Now her victim, former Attorney-General Robert McClelland, is making her pay a high price.
He's revived a 1990s union scandal that Gillard must have thought she'd buried - one involving her then boyfriend Bruce Wilson, accused of misappropriating $500,000.
This is a story a furious Gillard last year managed to shut down, shouting in private calls to newspaper executives and obtaining the retraction of an entire column in The Australian.
Two journalists - veteran commentator Glenn Milne and Fairfax radio's Michael Smith, a former policeman - even lost their jobs trying to report it.
For at least two months, McClelland has debated what to say about the Wilson case, which has disturbed him.



And in Parliament on Thursday, he finally did speak up - saying just enough to hint at one reason he may not think Gillard should be Prime Minister.
He spoke during debate on the Government's Registered Organisations Bill, brought in to crack down on corrupt union officials in the wake of the Health Services Union affair, in which former HSU secretary Craig Thomson, now a backbencher, was alleged to have misappropriated $500,000 himself.
McClelland told Parliament the Bill did not go far enough, and should also force the guilty to pay back what they'd taken.
Then came the sting.
McClelland said his thoughts were influenced by a case involving Gillard when she was a solicitor.

"I know the Prime Minister is quite familiar with this area of the law, as lawyers in the mid-1990s we were involved in a matter representing opposing clients.
"Indeed, my involvement in that matter has coloured much of my thinking."
McClelland specifically cited one of many legal moves in an Australian Workers Union factional brawl at the time, with AWU Victorian secretary Bruce Wilson named as a respondent.
McClelland is listed as a solicitor in that matter, but Gillard or her firm are not, suggesting McClelland was referring generally to the union fighting then, which included a battle over how far to pursue Wilson for money he'd allegedly siphoned off from companies into bank accounts with names suggesting they were for AWU "workplace reform".
The Victorian Parliament was told a decade ago that $500,000 was involved, and much of that has never been recovered. McClelland's point.
One AWU official McClelland represented, Ian Cambridge, even called for a royal commission, but the union ran dead on the case and no one was charged.
Gillard appointed Cambridge a Fair Work Australia commissioner in 2009. Gillard is involved in the scandal not just because she was Wilson's partner, but also because she gave him legal advice, with her firm Slater & Gordon acting for his union.
Bank accounts attached to an "AWU Workplace Reform Association Inc" set up for him - an association the AWU head office knew nothing about - were then used to siphon money from big business to Wilson.
The Prime Minister refused my invitation to comment, but has in the past insisted she acted lawfully, did not know what Wilson was doing with those accounts, and did not profit from them.
"Whether or not Mr Wilson was a client of mine is irrelevant," she has said, adding she was "young and naive", being at the time in her mid-30s and a Slater & Gordon partner.
What McClelland started last Thursday, Liberal frontbencher George Brandis and the Nationals' Barnaby Joyce took up in the Senate the next day. Joyce homed in on the bank accounts used in her boyfriend's scheme.
"Any competent solicitor would start asking those questions. Who is setting these up? What is the purpose of these accounts? What is the source of these funds?" Joyce told the Senate.
"They would definitely be the questions that a partner of a law firm would ask, especially if they were the ones drawing up the accounts."
JOYCE added: "The defence given by the Prime Minister is that she was young and naive. Is that believable?"
I doubt this scandal will go far while Gillard refuses to answer specific questions - and while many Canberra journalists refuse to ask them.
That Wilson is saying nothing also helps. Celebrity agent Max Markson tried to sign him up, but failed. But if McClelland says more ...

Julyiar defends trade union officials

PM defends trade union officials

...extravagant salaries, excessive credit cards claims, misuse of union funds, nepotism and poor governance...distressing...trade union officials and staff who work for trade unions are in there doing it all for the right reasons with decency and professionalism."

We could ask her friend Wilson

37 deaths and 12 deaths

Deaths occurs:
Boss killed by employees in India
Mexican bus crash kills 24 people
Brunei helicopter crash kills 12
But not headlines.
While the usual gets overdone.
murderer kills 12 at US cinema

Psychiatric laws in NSW led to killing

Mentally ill must be treated even if they say no - expert - Psychiatric laws in NSW probably played a crucial part in the tragic chain of events that led to Anthony Waterlow killing his father and sister during a psychotic episode, psychiatrists say.

Everyone's equal before the law?

Kieran Loveridge: trial by social media
Associate Professor David Rolph from the Law faculty at the University of Sydney told Linda Mottram on 702 Mornings that "the principles don't distinguish between traditional media and non-traditional media. Everyone's equal before the law."

Not true. There is much more happening here. Will we ever know?
Why did he punch people? Has he done this before? What is his background?

Horse named Blackman - shock - horror

Blackman blacklisted by horse name censors - ABC News ...
3 hours ago ... Hayes was not available for comment but he has been quoted as saying "it's the ... Audio: Blackman no name for a horse (The World Today) ...

Kelly - Kieran Loveridge - violent scenes

There have been violent scenes outside a Sydney court where a teenager has been refused bail over the Kings Cross murder of 18-year-old Thomas Kelly.
Eighteen-year-old Kieran Loveridge, who was arrested as he watched a Canterbury Bulldogs coaching clinic at Belmore Sports Ground last night, is charged with murdering Mr Kelly by king-hitting him in the face on July 7.

A tale of two crimes - don't mention race.

Kristi Anne Abrahams to face trial for murdering her daughter Keisha Weippeart.
Craig Field has been remanded in custody on a charge of murder.

Julyiar puts another business down

Voluntary administration for Darrell Lea

ALP fantasy park of sand dunes, salt pans, spinifex tussocks and flowering shrubs

Dignitaries head to NT Desert for IPA

Canberra to host ALP Walkley lovefest

Canberra to host Walkley awards

Carbon tax hit list - death of a thousand cuts

The Carbon Tax hit list

Fairfax courts disaster as Gina dumps on them

Rinehart sells down stake in Fairfax
Fairfax directors want Mrs Rinehart to agree not to sue fellow board members.
Fairfax's professional insurance policy, which is designed to offer legal protection to board members, does not apply to shareholders who hold more than 15 per cent of Fairfax shares.

'..mummy...she’s always confused.'

Over a decade ago a jockey made a promise; a promise to win a race.

Julyiar Bang Bang A$1 billion loan

loan facility to Indonesia of A$1 billion

Julyiar Bang Bang Solution

Having given us Julyiar taxes now another mess. Many of the boats are coming from Indonesia.

Magistrate unfair

Yes it Magistrate Pat O'Shane

After arriving from Cyprus in 1976 as a five-year-old...

Hasan celebrates first Flemington win
MELBOURNE Jun 23 2012

Things aren't bad? - Fairfax editors resign!

Doom and gloom? Things aren't nearly as bad as you think - Ross Gittins - February 15, 2012.

Chief Fairfax editors resign
Monday, June 25, 2012

Fairfax follow the Voice?

The Voice, the great sports paper of its day

Dingo killed Azaria

A dingo was responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain in 1980, a Northern Territory coroner has found.

HSU - records have been destroyed

They are finding that a lot of records have been destroyed.
As Kathy Jackson is given the Flick

Psychiatrists identify 'asylum seeker syndrome'

More money please

Craig Thomson: "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"

"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"
Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar - Carry On Cleo (1964)

Gillard's plane - rubber band broke

Google news report Gillard's VIP plane broke down in Queensland

Robber shoots himself in leg

Charges laid over alleged armed robbery - North Ryde
About 9.25am today, a 25-year-old man attended Royal North Shore Hospital for treatment to a gunshot wound to the leg. Investigators believe the wound was inflicted accidentally.
Two arrested after man shot
Man shot twice in the leg

Curti had been taking illicit drugs

Laudisio Curti had been taking illicit drugs.

Today's New Kulaks

Stalin had Kulaks Gillard has Sydney's North Shore

What is the ethnicity of the youths?

Google search of story. What is the ethnicity of the youths? Where were their parents?

Aboriginal 'scalped' by Aboriginal

Man 'scalped' as NT family feud reignites

two German tourists raped by Aboriginals

Aus teens charged after tourist rape

Japanese naval forces were on the move southward..

By this time reports gathered by Australian and American Intelligence made a definite pattern. Japanese naval forces were on the move southward, Japanese aircraft concentrated in New Britain were ready to support this movement. But, from the Allied point of view, the destructive results of the aircraft attacks on the Japanese ships were disappointing. On the morning of the 7th May each force knew where the other was. Other than the Shoho no Japanese ships were sunk although a number, including the other two carriers, were damaged. The Americans lost the Lexington, the destroyer Sims and the Neosho, and the Yorktown was badly damaged. Despite this the Japanese turned and went back the way they had come, postponing their attempt to take Port Moresby, where from 6th May until the 9th the garrison had been anxiously awaiting heavy bombing attacks followed by the landing of Japanese troops from transports and possibly the descent of paratroops, as on Timor ten weeks earlier.
However, not only did the Battle of the Coral Sea stave off attack on Port Moresby (and air attacks on the Australian north-east coast, for both the Shokaku and Zuikaku had been detailed to press on to Townsville and destroy there the assemblage of Allied shipping and aircraft), but it helped to dislocate a wider and more ambitious plan. The army staff were opposed to an invasion of Australia which they said would require ten divisions or more. Both army and navy confirmed a plan formulated in February to take Port Moresby, and isolate Australia by occupying Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia. The seizure of Port Moresby was to be followed by that of Midway Island in order to force a decisive engagement with the American fleet.

JG and JH

JG continues her rule, while JH is ruled underfunded.

There will be no free speech under a government I lead.

There will be no free speech under a government I lead.
Julia's new censorship at BoltA

NSW Outlaws updated

OMCG member charged with breaching his bail

Meanwhile: All six males are from the Redfern area.

And now Fatal shooting - Riverwood“...incident was a targeted shooting that is the result of a feud between two individuals.”

Bob Brown - friggatriskaidekaphobia?

friggatriskaidekaphobia

Sydney airport at Marrickville-Sydenham?

Anthony Albanese wants a new Sydney airport. Why not just expand old Sydney airport? Just clear all the buildings in Marrickville, Sydenham, Mascot and Eastlakes.

Greens want criminals to escape

Greens urge police pursuit rethink after deaths

Credit card splurge. Now if he worked for HSU?

employer's credit card splurge $127,000

Another old-time ALP leaves the stage

Former Labor deputy prime minister Lionel Bowen has died in his Sydney home at the age of 89. Mr Bowen was deputy leader alongside Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1990.

Budget surplus - Gillard on Sunday April 1

Ms Gillard on Sunday said returning the budget to surplus was an economic imperative.

Earth Hour - NK joins Sydney

Exclusive photo: QLD ALP new party room

Queensland state ALP Parliament new party room made ready for first post-election meeting.

Hilda Woodward - piano and good sticky music

Single word can trap songs in our heads
The well-known phenomenon where memorable tunes appear as if at random in our heads is variously referred to as stuck-song syndrome, sticky music and earworm.
Lieutenant Pigeon
Members
Robert Woodward - keyboards
Hilda Woodward - piano
Stephen Johnson - bass guitar
Nigel Fletcher - drums

Hilda Woodward - piano


Lieutenant Pigeon - Mouldy Old Dough (HQ) Christmas TOTP '72 - YouTube



Hilda Woodward sadly died on Monday 22nd February 1999 aged 85, but all the other musicians mentioned in the story are happily still alive and well in January 2000!

West Sydney flood and Bob Carr

And the new foreign minister did not want another Sydney dam spoiling his bushwalking.

Dam spill alerts Sydney residents

As KPMG Partner Bernard Salt said 'But the “let’s not talk about the ‘d’ word” spin was nevertheless set early in Premier Carr’s foreword to the strategy: “Building a twelfth dam, as some have suggested, would be an expensive, ineffective response—it would take years to build and even longer to fill, not to mention the damage done to surrounding farmland and natural areas.” -Meeting the challenges: Securing Sydney’s water future 2004 page one

August 1995: The Carr Government rejects the proposed mitigation project and instructs Sydney Water to commence planning for an auxiliary spillway to safeguard the dam without increasing storage capacity.
Bob Carr reflected on the late Milo’s [Dunphy] view that bushwalking, even for those who travelled alone, could never be a solitary experience when we knew that countless others, now and in the future, could share the same pleasure and experience the same sights and sounds of the wild.

a 'crack' in Earth's magnetosphere - then rain.

AURORA OUTBURST: Last night,Feb. 27, 2012, for the second night in a row, sky watchers around the Arctic Circle witnessed an impressive display of auroras. "I've never seen anything close to this," says Aaro Kukkohovi, who photographed an eruption of light over Lumijoki, Finland: "What a fantastic burst of energy--like something blew a hole into Earth's magnetic field just above us!"
His rhetorical flourish isn't far wrong. The cause of the display was the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) tipping south and opening a 'crack' in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in and fueled a G1-class geomagnetic storm. This was a high latitude event; the lights were brightest over Scandinavia, Iceland and Greenland.

Australian Bureau of Meteorology - New South Wales Significant Weather Media Release

Australian Bureau of Meteorology - South Australia Regional Office
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING

And there was a third man there.

With one down and another up, (Gillard will remain as Prime Minister after she comfortably defeated the challenge of Kevin Rudd in a contested ballot for the Labor leadership.) time to remember:

Holly: I suppose it wouldn't interest you to know that Harry Lime was murdered? You're too busy. You haven't even bothered to get the complete evidence...And there was a third man there. I suppose that doesn't sound peculiar to you.
Holly: I am leaving Vienna. I don't care whether Harry was murdered by Kurtz or Popescu or the third man. Whoever killed him, there was some sort of justice.

Who will come next?
Dennis Atkins argues in the Courier Mail that the "third man theory" is starting to gain traction.

And the winner is....

Aussie Kirk Baxter wins Oscar

Rudd goes - ALP says @#$%

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has announced his resignation at a press conference in Washington DC at 1.20am local time, February 22, 2012 5.20pm AEDT.

MOMEA stab man

Man stabbed in the back with a knife, group of 10 to 20 men of Mediterranean/ Middle Eastern appearance.

Granville 'Bekaa Valley"

Police investigate after bullet strikes Granville house - Operation Spartan
Illicit drugs Drugs have a long tradition in the Bekaa Valley, from the days of the Roman Empire until today cultivators and tribal drug lords working with militias built up a thriving cannabis trade.
Due to increasing political unrest that weakened the central Lebanese government during 2006 Lebanon War and 2007 (Opposition boycott of the government) and due to the lack of viable alternatives (U.N. promises of irrigation projects and alternative crop subsidies that never materialised) drug cultivation and production have significantly increased,[5] but remain a fraction of civil war era production and limited north of the Town of Baalbek, where the rule of tribal law protecting armed families is still strong.

ALP and lost jobs

ANZ to cut 1000 jobs

Sleep City 450 jobs.

And wood processing company Ta Ann is blaming environmentalists for its decision to shed 40 jobs in Tasmania.

Meanwhile, hundreds of workers stand to lose their jobs with one of Australia's oldest building firms, Kell & Rigby, going into administration last week.

Many children had blatant disregard for their safety

13 teenagers detained during blitz on children-at-risk in Surry Hills
“Many of the children had a blatant disregard for their own safety let alone the safety of their friends and those around them.
“A number of parents who were spoken to by police were shocked to discover their kids had lied about where they were going and were instead out drinking and causing trouble.
“Some parents could not be contacted when police or the children themselves tried to call. This a major concern to us, parents must make themselves contactable for their children at all times.
“We appreciate raising kids is a hard job, but parents need to take responsibility and be accountable for the actions of their children,” Det Insp Crews said.
“Every parent wants to think they can trust their child, and often they can, but as a parent it never hurts to check.
“Parents need to make every effort to know where their children are and to talk to them about the dangers of drugs and underage drinking.
“It is not worth it to engage in activity that could place children in danger or worse still, ruin their future with a criminal history.
“Police will continue to run the child-at-risk operations in partnership with FACS and the Kings Cross and Central Sydney Adolescent Unit,” Det Insp Crews said.

Sydney building firm ceases trading, 500 jobs lost.

Sydney building firm Kell & Rigby ceases trading, 500 jobs lost
From: AAP

About 500 Sydney workers are out of work after the collapse of building firm Kell & Rigby. Many employees and contractors have been left unpaid after the company ceased trading, the Nine Network reported today.
The company has reportedly gone into voluntary administration, but is yet to make a statement.
"The company has ceased trading and we suspect that there's about 500 jobs that have gone wanting here," Brian Parker from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) told Nine.
Federal Employment Minister Bill Shorten says he is concerned for the affected families.
"My immediate reaction is for the families who'll be watching this news broadcast," Mr Shorten told the Nine Network.
"To know that dad works for this company and when dad gets home they'll be saying 'what's happening'."
...Established in 1910, Kell & Rigby is one of Australia's oldest building firms.
It was responsible for building some of Australia's best known landmarks, including the Anzac War Memorial, the renovation of Sydney Town Hall and the Apple building in Sydney's CBD.

The possum did not survive the incident.

Possum cuts power to 12,000 homes

A possum has caused power to be cut off from 12,000 Sydney homes and businesses this morning, an electricity provider said.

The possum acted as a conductor when it came into contact with two live parts of the electricity network near a large substation at Killarney Heights on Sydney’s north shore, a spokeswoman for Ausgrid told smh.com.au.

A short-circuit was created by the contact which triggered the network's safety mechanism at about 4.30am, cutting power to properties in Frenchs Forest, Belrose and Killarney Heights.

It was restored to 6000 Ausgrid customers at Belrose and Frenchs Forest at 7.45am and to 6000 other customers just before 8am.

"There are a lot of possums in Sydney and they use the power lines as their own highway — as a connection between trees or roads," the news website quoted Ausgrid spokesman Anthony O'Brien as saying.

This morning’s power outage was different to others caused by animals because it took place near a large substation, he said.

"It was 33,000 volts. The power line you would normally see running down your suburban street is 415 volts."

The possum did not survive the incident.

Ausgrid has installed equipment to try and protect possums from parts of the electricity network.

girl's desert death

Man to face tribal punishment over girl's desert death
Police say a man who got lost in a West Australian desert with an eight-year-old girl who later died is unlikely to be charged but will return to his community to face tribal punishment.


Earlier

Caviar & Ko

Black Caviar and Lydia Ko and LydiaKoGolfer

Racists besiege Gillard in Canberra attack

Pale face with PM's shoe

Gillard escorted under guard amid Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest

Solar activity - Now it is raining heavily.

Solar activity has just hit the upper atmosphere of Earth, causing auroras. Now it is raining heavily. Is this a coincidence?

Australian Racism

We have Aussie flag flyers more racist: survey.
Well racism stops the nation every first Tuesday in November.

Usual suspects and NSW police again

Scuffle breaks out over car in Sydney
NSW police have been forced to use capsicum spray to subdue a group of people during what is believed to have been a scuffle over a car.

Officers were called to a property on Miller Road in Villawood just after 3pm (AEDT) on Thursday after a dispute is believed to have erupted over a car being repossessed, a police spokeswoman told AAP.

Four people were treated at the scene for the effects of capsicum spray, including a police officer who suffered from secondary contamination, a spokesman from NSW Ambulance said.

Another woman was treated for hyperventilation.

No one needed to be hospitalised.

Police have since arrested six people

ALP whaling

77 Watt to Ball Cablegram 84 20 August 1946
Dr. Evatt

'I am greatly disturbed by report of resumption of Japanese whaling at the very moment when the Australian Government is proposing to embark upon the whaling venture.'

Cabinet had decided on 18 January to sponsor reestablishment of an Australian whaling industry and to ratify the international Agreement on Whaling of 1937 and the Protocols of 1938 and 1945, and had appointed a subcommittee to consider the extent of the Commonwealth Govt's role in Antarctic whaling.

young girl dies "cultural reasons"

convicted paedophile