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.