Rudd roo but not Hu

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described as "pretty off" a video of a Tourism Australia campaign which involves a kangaroo being kept in a cage on a busy Los Angeles street.
But Tourism Australia says the kangaroo was being looked after by professional Los Angeles animal handlers and was treated well while it was on display. "Any accusation ... we take it very seriously if it's been poorly treated," Tourism Australia managing director Andrew McEvoy told Macquarie Radio.

Population increases so will imports, debt and deficits

Australia’s population rose seen as a boost to demand for everything from consumer goods to housing and infrastructure.

Hu who? Gas deal!

Rio Tinto four face jail after Shanghai trial ends while Australia's biggest-ever gas deal inked

Nazi jailed - Castro hailed

Justice at last for SS murderer

Raul Castro: Fidel doing ‘very well for his age’

Rudd kitchen table talk gets the worm

Rudd kitchen table talk gets the worm

Obama raises dead politics, as US budget dies.

Barack Obama has convinced Democrats in the US Congress to pass his historic health care reform bill

Hu pleads guilty while Rudd's Reds plead innocence

Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu will plead guilty

By gum, blue started.

Operation Blue Gum
Eucalyptus globulus

...young bloke who has toughed it out for 48 hours...

Sixth wounded soldier identified after IED attack

Mandarin Rudd China Stern Hu

Australia said on Friday China had told embassy staff in Beijing they would not be allowed access to all parts of the trial of four Rio Tinto staff on charges of bribery and stealing commercial secrets.

Scientists wrong on Saturn. Global warming next wrong?

Saturn Rings Surprisingly Unstable, Violent

Rudd powerless against tree

Falling tree brings down power lines onto moving bus, holding up the Prime Minister in Sydney today.

Peter Spencer speaks

Listed below are various mp3s of radio interviews, song snippets etc that we've played on air at 2RE. All files are .mp3 format, which should automatically load into your media player.

scroll down to Craig Huth


Peter Spencer Part 1
Total Time: 5:00
Filesize: 4,667Kb

Peter Spencer Part 2
Total Time: 5:36
Filesize: 5,268Kb

Peter Spencer Part 3
Total Time: 6:07
Filesize: 5,749Kb

Christine Nixon Mk 2 commits crime

Victoria Police chief Simon Overland caught carrying bullets on flight

Rudd childish behaviour

Rudd mobbed by screaming teenagers
Now if they voted?

Rudd to call election?

Rudd calls a debate hoping to arrest falling popularity then call election in May.

Rudd Gillard - Whitlam Cairns

Gough Whitlam
Jim Cairns
Loans Affair
Now Batts, Boats and BER.

ETS - Extra Terrible Slug

Household power bills will increase by between $577 and $918 a year by 2013 in NSW according to IPART.

Rudd overboard on boat deaths

Mr Cavanagh said the three asylum-seekers men aboard SIEV 36 had set fire to the vessel to cripple it in order to prevent its "perceived" return to Indonesia.

Ray Hadley talks to Gary Zadkovich

Now link Ray Hadley talks to Gary Zadkovich, Deputy President of the NSW Teachers Federation who told of another building excess.

NSW Teachers Federation talking sense?!!

Teachers want audit of spending on new school buildings
Earlier story Berridale Public School buildings - before and after the BER scheme.

Now link Ray Hadley talks to Gary Zadkovich, Deputy President of the NSW Teachers Federation who told of another building excess.

Rudd told 'Cuba does it better'. Next Block-Watchers?

'Cuba does it better': doctor diagnoses ills in Rudd heath reform plan
Next Raul Castro May Push to Revitalize a Legacy, and Enforcement Tool, of the Revolution
Block-Watchers?

Rudd Bang Bang fizzer

Rudd Bang Bang is a fizzer with 22nd and counting.

Girl, 3, struck in head with axe

Only half the story only it seems.

Alfoil Combet clueless

New twist in insulation fiasco as Combet says he's not sure if he'll pay for foil replacement

First Indians now others create trouble.

Canada reads Canadian wheelchair user beaten in Australia
, NSW police say attacker "Pacific Islander in appearance"
while UPI says "A wheelchair-bound Canadian paraplegic suffered a skull fracture after two Australian teenagers attacked him Wednesday at a Sydney train station, police said.

Israel still pariah. Why?

Russia kills one, Indonesia another, little concern by media, while Israel kill is still called murder of Hamas leader.

Rudd $trip$ Off The Alfoil

Insulation bungle will 50000 stripped

Andrew Bolt Left Turn Coat

Andrew loves non-mother Julia but not mothering Abbott

mathematics education not add up

Equation for maths warns of disaster

Andrew Bolt has Abbott problems

Andrew Bolt has Abbott problems
First men now women.

Labor mates help Rudd

Tanya, ACTU, Heather Ridout and Peter Anderson

Rudd denies Christmas gift

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has said there are no plans to double the population of the Christmas Island detention centre.

paedophile Dennis Ferguson to be hung.

Dennis Ferguson portrait to be hung by gallery

Dr Kev

The 4th R Wonk

Wonky Rudd's 4th R
School students will learn about Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, Chinese medicine and natural therapies but not meet the periodic table of elements until Year 10 under the new national science curriculum.

Rudd not satisfied with Israel. Gone batty?

"Thus far we are not satisfied with that explanation."

Luxembourg Iceberg

Luxembourg Iceberg may alter ocean circulation

Rudd Combetive Contempt of Parliament

Peter Garrett stripped of responsibilities by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd

Hold your breath. Save the coral.

World's coral reefs could disintegrate by 2100

"Researchers at Carnegie Institution say corals are being overwhelmed by rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere."

Happy grave diggers?

Kevin Rudd and MP Catherine King turn the first sods at the Anthony's Cutting realignment between Ballarat and Melbourne. Photo: Jason South

Stokes moguls Conroy

Stephen Conroy has refused to say...

"Right now the sun is climbing out of a century-class solar minimum that almost no one anticipated."

"'Solar constant' is an oxymoron,"
The new solar activity cycle still puzzles all solar physicists due to its very slow start.

Indian faker

Jaspreet Singh singe

Indians kill Indian - Indians silent

Fellow Indians held over murder of Ranjodh Singh

Indian student charged with murder of two other Indian nationals in Perth

Middle Eastern Organised Crime update

Three men arrested during operation by heavily armed police – Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad
Thursday, 28 Jan 2010 09:21am

Ted's Martha's Vineyard runs dry

Brown Beats Coakley in Massachusetts Senate Race

Chappaquiddick Island again?

Or Mass Lodge complaint?

Ruddless Oceanic Viking and “provocative” anti-whaling

Ruddless

Conroy Pye in the Sky

Conroy Pye in the Sky

Hollywood Eleven and Twelve

Russians lap up the tale of a shadowy spy couple

Sunspots: Kev will fix them

Update: The UK is in the grip of its longest cold snap for almost 30 years.
As the Sun get tricky?

"SUNSPOT SURGE: 2009 is ending with a flurry of sunspots. If the past two years have taught us anything, however, it is that the sun can be tricky and unpredictable."

ETS to the rescue?

Also Sunspot Plotter allows you to compare solar activity and many historical events

Severe Space Weather At the moment, no one knows when the next super solar storm will erupt. It could be 100 years away or just 100 days.

2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age

Mal content helps ALP

Fraser accuses Abbott

Rudd Indigenous and Foreign Relations

Constable Rudd was one of two police officers injured in the attack when they intervened in a brawl between two Aboriginal families and involving up to 80 people in the early hours of Christmas Day.

Navy intercepts boat of asylum seekers
Including Saturday's incident, 58 asylum seeker boats have been intercepted in Australian waters so far in 2009.

Sunspots before their eyes

Blinded by science.

Penny Wrong on climate change

Penny is Wrong on climate change we must stop sunspots affecting The Southern Oscillation Index
The (SOI) numbers are available at DailySOI1887-1989Base while the sunspots numbers are availabe at noaa

NewsPoll Asylum Seekers

09/11/09:Asylum Seekers

Iraq Massacre and Looting

Iraq Massacre and Looting
Coup d'état

Asteroid blast and no Bruce to our rescue

Asteroid blast reveals holes in Earth's defences and no
Bruce to our rescue.

Judge rights mental

Former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld suffering from bi-polar disorder
Rights threat to religious tolerance

ALP Crave Sydney and baby orphaned

At a cost of $1 million, Crave Sydney, a month-long festival showcasing the city's entertainment, food and art.
While Travel to Rural hospitals 'dangerous'

Rudd unaware of trade in lies

Asked by Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull if he had been advised about people smugglers using Labor's softening of border protection laws to market their services, Mr Rudd said: 'I'm unaware of such advice.'
'They represent a dishonourable profession which trades in lies.'

Evatt Doc Green envy

Hamilton to contest seat of Higgins.

As old Tim said:

"Once known as Clive Hamilton of the Evatt Foundation. Now Doc Evatt had some unusual ideas. Evatt's mental condition was questioned."

SMH makes news again

SMH Letter
I didn't say that
"Any dramatist will tell you what a cheap and lazy shot it is when a critic quotes a line of dialogue out of context and uses it to tarnish the work and reputation of the writer."
Correction on page 2 of print version only, so far.

ALP spin then and now

14 October 1960 The Warragamba Dam is opened by the Premier of New South Wales.
Loans Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Upon receiving the documents, Whitlam dismissed Rex Connor from his government for misleading parliament. In his letter of dismissal, date 14 October 1975, ...
The middleman who caused the 'blow-up' of 1975 On October 14, 1975, Connor was forced to resign. ... Pakistani loan dealer Tirath Khemlani to Whitlam government ministers Rex Connor, ...
A national study of public hospitals reveals emergency department performance is down in nearly every state.

Rudd/ock Solution

Rudd pretends.
Jakarta key to border security help - PM
Australia will continue to work with Indonesia in dealing with the scourge of people smugglers.

Copper wire telephone 1923 - Compulsory voting 1924

10 October 1923 Sydney Brisbane linked for the first time by copper wire telephone.
While compulsory voting introduced after the Commonwealth Electoral Act enacted on 10 October 1924.

Kev Express delivers more

TWO navy vessels have intercepted another suspected asylum seeker boat off Australia's north-west coast - the fourth this week.

dust storms were common in Sydney decades ago

The science behind the dust storm
University of Sydney physicist Tony Monger says dust storms were common in Sydney decades ago but have been relegated more to rural parts of the state in recent times.

Dust-storms

A century of climate extremes in Australia
Dust-storms

ALP past - ALP now

Volume II – The Government and the People, 1942–1945 (1st edition, 1970)
Chapter 9 – The Last Year – June 1944–June 1945
TO HELL WITH THE SIGNAL!
Scorfield in Bulletin (Sydney), 21 Mar 1945
Even before the war ended there were signs of a Labour Government's plans for socialisation and disregard of contrary views. Chifley, in March 1945—a locomotive driver before entering politics—disregards the warning gestures of signalman Menzies.

Telstra shareholder Ric Smith is alarmed about the Rudd government's plan to force the telecommunications giant to split its retail and wholesale network.

When the sun goes quiet: global cooling

The sun has gone quiet, with a sharp decline in sunspot numbers in the past couple of years - possibly heralding the start of a solar depression that could lead to cooler weather on Earth.

It is my melancholy duty...

AUSTRALIA ENTERS THE WAR

Once the news that Britain was at war had been accepted as authentic all other action was consequential. The Executive Council approved of the prepared proclamation declaring a state of war to exist and at 9.15 p.m. from the room of the Postmaster-General at the Commonwealth Offices, Melbourne, Mr Menzies announced over every national and commercial broadcasting station in Australia:

It is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of a persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war upon her and that, as a result, Australia is also at war. No harder task can fall to the lot of a democratic leader than to make such an announcement.
Great Britain and France, with the cooperation of the British Dominions, have struggled to avoid this tragedy. They have, as I firmly believe, been patient; they have kept the door of negotiation open; they have given no cause for aggression. But in the result their efforts have failed and we are, therefore, as a great family of nations, involved in a struggle which we must at all costs win, and which we believe in our hearts we will win.

"Was there a Battle for Australia?"

Australian War Memorial Anniversary Oration by Dr Peter Stanley, 10 November 2006

"So, was there a Battle for Australia?
No: not in the literal meaning of the term."

"yelling like a lot of bushrangers”

Mont St Quentin
30th-31st Aug. 1918] THE CLIMAX
The troops, who had now been fighting for twelve hours and moving for the greater part of two days and nights, were, this time, given an issue of rum before action - the usual Australian practice was to issue it after action. Their number was few, most Australian battalions at this time having only 300 men available for action. The attack was to be made by two battalions (17th and 20th) going straight for the hill and ignoring on their right the woods and strong fortress of Peronne (the two other battalions following in close support and reserve). The troops being so few, the company leaders decided that the best chance lay in making a noise as they attacked. “yelling”, as Captain E. T. Manefield urged, “like a lot of bushrangers”.
At 5 a.m. on August 31st, as the grey sky began to show behind the Mount, which was dimly visible across a gentle dip, the Australian field artillery laid its fire on certain targets ahead, in the first place along 2500 yards of one of the old trench-lines which, with their belts of rusty wire, seamed the depression and the upslope beyond. The cheering platoons at once ran into crowds of Germans, who seemed bewildered and quickly surrendered - indeed in many cases they were simply pushed to the rear with their hands up, leaving their machine-guns lying on the ground. They were from one of the best divisions of the German Army, the 2nd Guard, which had just been sent up to relieve the overstrained garrison. “It all happened like lightning,” says the history of the Guard Alexander Regiment, “and before we had fired a shot we were taken unawares.”

River Shallow, Mountain Low

'River Deep Mountain High' songwriter, Ellie Greenwich dies.

Ted Kennedy Meets Mary Jo Kopechne

US Senator Edward Kennedy has died aged 77 after losing his battle with cancer. Which is 40 years, 1 months, 6 days after Mary Jo Kopechne who was 28 years, 11 months, 22 days ago when Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident.
The "Chappaquiddick incident" refers to circumstances surrounding the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.
Mary Jo Kopechne died 40 years, 1 months, 6 days ago today. Just past midnight on Saturday, July 19 , 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his black Oldsmobile sedan off a bridge.
Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early on Wednesday.

Bradfield PM

Electoral Division of Bradfield
First Proclaimed/Election: 1949
Demographic Rating: Inner Metropolitan
Members:
Nelson, B (LP) 1996-
Connolly, D M (LP) 1974-1996
Turner, H B (LP) 1952-1974
Hughes, W M (LP) 1949-1952

Russia Germany Afghanistan

23 Aug 1939 Russo-German pact of non-aggression signed
Chapter 4 – Australia Enters the War, September 1939–April 1940
168
"The Middle East and India are regarded as possible danger areas if Russian aggression and propaganda developed. It is essential to build up a reserve in the Middle East to meet the possible contingencies".
172
Russia might also stir up trouble and perhaps advance into Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan.
Appendix 3 – The Banning of the Communist Party
1
The Communist Party was a minority group which itself claimed only 5,000 members in 1940, but, for a time, working on the idealism, confusion, sectional selfishness and lethargy of far greater numbers, it had a marked effect both on the shaping of the attitude of Australians to the war and in impeding effective Australian participation in the war.
The Australian Communist Party had been formed originally in October 1920 from among those little rebel groups of Australian socialists who, since the eighteen-nineties, had always been found on the edges of the Labour Party, taking their socialist doctrine more seriously than their politics; and it developed through schisms and much internal bickering into a militant body preaching the class struggle, ridiculing the "reformism " of official Labour and looking towards the abolition of "capitalism" by force.
585
When the Soviet Union signed the non-aggression pact with Germany on 23rd August 1939, the party accepted the view that the "ruling circles of Britain and France" had been trying to "bring Germany and the Soviet Union into a collision", and the Soviet Union, by concluding the nonaggression pact with Germany, had "frustrated the insidious plans of the provokers of war" and ensured peace between the two largest States of Europe. Henceforward, Britain and France were regarded as war-makers and the German-Soviet treaty as a "barrier against the extension of the imperialist war". When war broke out between Germany and the Western Powers it was seen as "a struggle between two groups of imperialists for the repartition of the world". But at this point a little confusion crept into the argument. On the one hand it was said to be the duty of the workers to obstruct the waging of war by Britain. Labour Party leaders who supported the national war effort were draped with adjectives like "filthy" and "criminal". Yet, on the other hand the war was seen as not wholly deplorable. The capitalist world was "blowing itself to bits “while the Soviet Union, as the result of the pact—"one of the most brilliant acts of policy in working-class history"—was consolidating its economic, political and military might. The antagonisms of the imperialist states had been used to safeguard the Soviet Union, the base of world socialism, from capitalist attack.
Then came the partition of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, the Soviet invasion of Finland, and the Soviet treaties with Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The first was seen as the liberation of the oppressed minorities from a wicked Poland. The second was necessary to remove dangerous anti-Soviet bases of international capitalism and imperialism.
The third was a measure to protect the independence of small States.
Appendix 3 – The Banning of the Communist Party
587
At the outset of the war the attitude of the Australian Government to Communist activities was tender, considering all the circumstances. The information before the Government during the early months of the war pointed to the possibility of war with Russia, either as the result of the German-Soviet pact or of an independent attack by Russia on the Middle East, South-Eastern Europe, or Afghanistan. Russian invasion of Finland, coupled with speculation about Germany’s interest in Scandinavia, raise d a further risk that the Allies and the Soviet Union might become involved in hostilities against each other. Until Hitler struck in the East in 1941, there was never any certainty as to which side would gain Soviet aid. The Communist propagandists themselves had in mind the possibility that Great Britain and the Dominions might fight the Soviet Union.

Japan man 'e cry enough, pack oop and go HTM

Chapter 10 – Operations on New Britain

On 15th August when the news arrived that the war was over it was received quietly. Native workers and troops were assembled and told the news — "Japan man 'e cry enough" — and native runners were sent into the hills to spread the news among the villages.

Next day Gracie Fields and a party of other entertainers arrived at Jacquinot Bay from Bougainville and in the evening performed before 10,000 troops.

Highlight of the night . . . was a half hour's non-stop entertainment by "Gracie " who at the conclusion of the concert said : "I hope it won't be long before you all pack oop and go H.T.M.—home to Moom." Ten thousand troops had exactly identical hopes and the thunderous cheering showed this in no uncertain manner.

hushed thousands of men

Chapter 9 – The Floods and the Cease Fire

By the first week in August the rains in southern Bougainville had put a stop to large-scale operations for over a month. News of the dropping of an atomic bomb in Japan convinced the troops that the end of the war was near. On the 9th came news of the dropping of a second atomic bomb and the invasion of Manchuria by the Russians. On the 11th the forward battalions were ordered to withdraw all long-range and fighting patrols forthwith, but to remain on the alert. On the 16th they learnt that fighting was to have ceased the previous day. But when would all the isolated parties of Japanese know what had happened? An Australia n patrol searching for the body of a man killed on patrol some days before met a group of Japanese who seemed to have learnt the news: "Neither party knew whether to advance or make off. After observing one another our party returned to company area." 7

7 The troops at Torokina knew of the surrender on the 15th. That day Gracie Fields, the English singer, had arrived at Torokina. In her autobiography Sing As We Go (1960), pp. 151-2, she writes:
The General who had showed me the jungle clearing where I was to sing that evening cam e up white-faced with a sort of dazed excitement. "
'I want you to come with me now,' he said. It was midday. "He took me to the huge clearing. Already it was packed with troops. With all the top brass I stood facing them. The boys must have wondered about the small odd-looking creature I looked, all muffled up in creased khaki.
"The General stepped forward.
"`Men, at last I can tell you the only thing you want to know. The Japs have surrendered.' In the second's silence of wonderment and before the cheering could start, he held up his hand. `I have England's Gracie Fields here. I am going to ask her to sing the Lord's Prayer.'
"He led me to a small wooden box. I got on to it. There was a movement as of a great sea — every man had taken off his cap. "The matted green of the tall dark jungle surrounded us, but above our clearing the noon sun seared down from the brilliant sky on to...bare bowed heads.
"I started to sing. `Our Father which art in Heaven. . ‘Because of my cold I had to sing in a low key, but there was no sound except my voice. The hushed thousands of men in front of me seemed even to have stopped breathing. Each note and word of the prayer carried across the utter stillness of the rows of bent heads till it was lost in the jungle behind them.
"It was the most privileged and cherished moment of my life.
"I treasure the letters from the many soldiers who have written to me since, telling me it was their most wonderful moment too.”

H.M.A.S. Sydney stories, either malicious or merely mischievous

Chapter 12 – Australia Station 1941
Official Histories - Second World War
Volume I - Royal Australian Navy, 1939-1942 (1st edition, 1957) G Hermon Gill

For many months thereafter stories, either malicious or merely mischievous, of news received from survivors of Sydney in Japan, continued to emerge and circulate, causing pain and distress in a number of Australian homes.

Why Burnett did not use his aircraft, did not keep his distance and use his superior speed and armament, did not confirm his suspicions by asking Navy Office by wireless if Straat Malakka was in the area, are questions that can never be answered.

If, as is possible, Burnett's action in closing Kormoran was influenced by the implied criticism of Farncomb's standing off from Ketty Brovig and Coburg, one can but conjecture what he would have done had he known of Devonshire's experience. On the other hand, both Farncomb and Devonshire's captain had more positive reason for suspicion in their encounters than had Burnett in his; and it may well be that, influenced by the near approach of darkness, he was moved to determine the question quickly; and thus was swayed to over confidence; first in the genuineness of Straat Malakka; second in Sydney's ability, with all armament bearing and manned, to overwhelm before the trap, if such existed, were sprung. Yet to act as Burnett did was to court disaster should a trap exist, disaster at the worst total, as it was; at the best professional for Burnett; for even had Sydney triumphed in an action it is improbable that it would have been without damage and casualties, and Burnett would have been unable to explain the risks he ran. In such an encounter, with the raider an apparently innocent merchant vessel, the other an undisguised warship known to the raider as an enemy, the element of surprise must have remained with Detmers until Burnett's suspicions deepened into absolute certainty. In the circumstances Burnett created, he could not have reached such certainty until Detmers abandoned all disguise and struck - a matter of almost simultaneous decision by him and action by his guns, giving him the tremendous advantage of that vital second or two in the first blow at such close quarters. In the event, Sydney must have been crippled from the outset by those devastating initial salvos at point blank range, the torpedo hit, and the fire from her aircraft's petrol. That she managed to inflict fatal wounds on her adversary after such staggering blows is evidence of the undefeated spirit of those who survived them, and who fought on in "X" and "Y" turrets, with the secondary armament, and at the torpedo tubes. It is probable that Sydney sank during the night of the 19th-20th November 1941.

Rees and Rees

Victoria's fire chief to stay on





No plot to oust Rees- Della Bosca

Di lies and weasel words

In a print only Sydney Kruddy Herald 8 August 2009 on page 2.

Apology to Di Yerbury AO
From February 8, 2007, the Herald published a number of articles in print and online, including news blog concerning Professor Di Yerbury who had served as Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University for more than 19 years to February 2006.
Professor Yerbury has alleged that the articles depicted her as dishonesty commingling her private art collection with the University’s own art collection and failing honestly to account for her use of the University’s credit card.
The Herald at no time intended to convey any such allegations against Professor Yerbury
If readers understood the articles as in any way reflecting upon her honesty and probity, the Herald withdraws those allegations and apologies for the hurt to professor Yerbury and any damage to her reputation.

“Him and me are mates an’ we’re going over together.'

Chapter X The Climax at Anzac
The second attempt to seize control of the Dardanelles was to begin that afternoon, August 6th, starting with a feint at Helles where, at 3.50 p.m., after a short bombardment, part of the 29th Division attacked a section of the Turkish trenches. At Anzac, after Lone Pine and other parts of the old Turkish line had been bombarded in slow shoots at intervals for three days, the rate of fire was increased at 4.30 p.m.
The 1st Australian Infantry Brigade about to attack Lone Pine, was then filing into the trenches facing it and into the newly-opened tunnelled front line ahead of them, from parts of which the shallow lid of turf had just been secretly removed. The tangle of Turkish trenches where the Lone Pine had formerly stood was being slowly bombarded by eight guns and howitzers. Three small mines had been exploded in no-man’s-land close to the enemy front with the purpose of increasing the cover for the troops crossing. By 5 o’clock the 1st Brigade was in position, crowding below the openings in the underground line and on the firestep of the old, deep, open trenches fifty yards behind. “Can you find room for me beside Jim here?” said an Australian who had been searching along the bays. “Him and me are mates an’ we’re going over together.’
At 5.30, with the sun sinking behind them, pouring golden rays over the ridges and parapets, and gilding the white armbands and the calico square on each man’s back
ANZAC TO AMIENS [6th Aug. 1915
(a provision for recognition in the coming night) the troops scrambled out and ran for the Turkish line.
It took a few seconds for the Turks' rifle fire to begin and a few more for their machine-guns. By then the fore-most running figures were nearing the Turkish trenches. There, to the astonishment of onlookers, they bunched, and, as others came up, a crowd gradually lined out along the low mole-hill of enemy parapet like spectators along a street-kerb.

"the media can’t be trusted to tell the truth"

media: love, fear, rage, jealousy … but light on reality

Rudd hush-hush visit to Townsville

Rudd visit to Townsville. But you're not invited.

...people must earn right to stay by working hard, obeying the law and speaking English.

UK reveals new citizenship test

chaos: security was gone

Chapter II – The First World War breaks out

"At 11p.m. on August 4th, English time, Britain declared war on Germany which was already invading those two countries. The present writer can remember how, after the following night’s work at a newspaper office, as he walked home in the small hours through Macquarie Street, Sydney, the clouds, dimly piled high in the four quarters of the dark sky above, seemed to him like the pillared structure of the world’s civilisation, of which some shock had broken the keystones. The wide gap overhead seemed to show where one great pillar after another had crashed as the mutual support had failed; and, as the sky peered through, the last masses seemed to sway above the abyss. The stable world of the nineteenth century was coming down in chaos: security was gone."

The Battle of Romani

Chapter XVI – The defence of Egypt
July-Aug. 1916] DEFENCE OF EGYPT
Murray was urged to attack. But, before he could arrange to do so, on the night of August 2nd the Turks advanced to Katia. It seemed probable that they were marching straight into Murray’s trap. The expectation was that the enemy would try to envelop the southern end of the Romani defences and then to seize the camp and railway behind them.
Accordingly on the following night General Chauvel placed his “resting” Light Horse Brigade, the 1st. as already planned, extending southwards the line held by the 52nd Infantry Division at Romani. Two regiments (2nd and 3rd - about 500 rifles) were lined out very widely south of the camp, in small posts reaching across three miles of hummocky sand, with the main line of lofty sand hills, south-west of the Romani defences, in rear of them.
Chapter XI – The Battle of Romani
3rd-4th Aug., 1916] THE BATTLE OF ROMANI 143
As the 2nd Light Horse Brigade had returned towards Romani in the night from their last reconnaissance, they had observed a Turkish following movement. But a single shot, fired, probably by accident, in front of the outpost line near Hod el Enna at 10.30, was the first indication the Australians had of the close presence of the enemy.

ALP Selective memory

Bob Hawke forgets Hazel.
ALP forgets Bob Hawke's cover-up for Lionel Murphy.
ALP forgets Bob Hawke's treachery towards Hayden. Does Alan Ramsey?
ALP forgets treason by Doc Evatt's staff.
Media forgets to mention these and other ALP stories.

Prime Minister War warning he could not decipher it.

When this message reached him Mr. Cook was at Ballarat, where, on the previous night, he had delivered an address.

Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook C.G.M.C. M.L.A., N.S.W.. 1891/1901; Member of C‘wealth House of Reps., 1901/21. Prime Minister of Australia, 1913/14; Minister for Navy. 1917/20; Treasurer, 1920/21: High Commissioner, London, 1921/27. Of Bellevue Hill, N.S.W.: b. Silverdale. Staffs.. Eng, Dec. 1860.

But he had not the key to the cipher with him, and telegraphed to Melbourne that he could not decipher it.

ALP gambling with hospitals

31 July 1956 Government announced in 1956 that poker machines would be legalised in clubs subject to the payment of licence fees directly to the Hospitals Fund.
HISTORY OF THE NSW HOTEL INDUSTRY
Earlier Against this backdrop, a proposal was put forward to establish a Lottery to assist hospital funding, and later, in 1931 NSW Lotteries was founded.

Now Rudd gambles the lot on what?

Trad jazz hits sour note.

Trad defamation case against 2GB dismissed.

Sydney KRuddy Herald seeks to revise history

Paul Daley is a Canberra-based writer and an award-winning
political journalist. He is a political columnist for the Fairfax Sunday papers.
Abstract from his book Beersheba in Sydney KRuddy Herald seeks to revise history.
No link available.

Rudd Stimulates Profits

Woolworths reports sales growth of 7.5%
While Little guy waits for a crumb

"Interestingly, the differential is not just a result of the chains selling more goods; some of it has to do with the fact they are selling roughly the same quantity or a little bit more but at higher prices."

Japanese landed a force at Gona

Chapter 3 – Higher Policy in the Pacific, April 1942–June 1943
The Japanese landed a force at Gona on the north coast of New Guinea on 21st July and started to advance south-westward against the resistance of Australian troops.
Chapter 4 – The Japanese Advance to Kokoda
About 2.40 p.m. on 21st July 1942, a float-plane machine-gunned the station at Buna. Perhaps two hours and a half later a Japanese convoy, reported at the time to consist of 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers and 2 transports, appeared off the coast near Gona. It was part of a concentration of shipping which Allied airmen had detected gathering at and moving south from Rabaul during the preceding days. About 5.30 p.m. the Japanese warships fired a few salvos into the foreshores east of Gona. The convoy was attacked first by one Flying Fortress without result and then by five Mitchell bombers which claimed to have scored a direct hit on one of the transports. Air attacks continued as landings began on the beaches east of Gona. Darkness then shut off the ships from further attack and the whole scene from further observation.

Jakarta - Cynic Questions Timing

Russia and China need distraction, get dupe to blow up hotel. Rudd Hu and cry off the news too.

Battle of Britain - 10 July 1940

Battle of Britain 10 July - 31 October 1940
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The name derives from a speech made on 18 June, 1940 in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He said, "The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin..

Devine and McGuinness argue again.

'Louder than life' Frank Devine dies

Vivian Bullwinkel died 3 July 2000

Vivian Bullwinkel, sole survivor of the 1942 Banka Island massacre, was born on 18 December 1915 at Kapunda, South Australia. Place of death: Perth, WA
Vivian Bullwinkel-Statham AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War. She was the sole survivor of the Banka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island (Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.