NBN retail price shock: up to $189.95/month

Promises from the government that consumers will be able to access the NBN for comparable prices to current day plans are "untenable in practice", internet provider Internode says.

A tale of two patients

One a public patient the other a private patient.

If she was wearing a burqa

If she was wearing a burqa CCTV footage would not have been evidence.
Now Privacy commissioner backs call for better protection from "serious breaches of privacy".

A Few Loose Marbles the Media Circus Clown

self-styled comedian and activist met by Ms Deng's heroic leap

young girl abduction - man Aboriginal appearance

Appeal to locate prison escapee as investigation continues into alleged abduction - Wagga Wagga

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of carbon

As we read: Hard sell: Gillard clashes with Hazelwood workers
We can remember William Jennings Bryan whose July 8, 1896 speech: with its biblical allusions, gets its popular name from its closing phrase: "Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." At the conclusion of the speech, Bryan stretched out his arms in a Christ-like manner for five seconds, while the crowd remained quiet. According to the New York World, at that point everyone seemed to go mad at once and shrieked and rushed the stage. The New York Times commented that "a wild, raging irresistible mob" had been unleashed.

Man lashed, three co-offenders, Mid East/Med appearance

Man lashed during home invasion – Silverwater

larrikin half-slum district cadets learnt why not today's youth?

Today Shoot-to-skill lessons
Earlier: Described by Charles Bean as 'distinguished by a vigorous impetuosity', Macnaghten threw himself into his work, training senior cadets in a half-slum district 'in which the bane of area-officers, the larrikin, was probably strongest'. He taught drill to unit officers on the flat roof of the University Club's premises in Castlereagh Street and his cadet battalion became known as the best in Sydney. Twenty years later a colleague recalled 'Macnaghten in his Glengarry, tight-fitting short tunic, plaid breeches, and dark blue puttees, with his masterful face, heavy shoulders, and slim legs, striding on to parade, and his … vibrant compelling voice ringing out the command “Par-r-rade, 'shun”'.

ALP PM of Welsh ancestry, walked out of caucus.

“Let all who support me, follow me.” Then he walked out of the room, followed by 23 of the 65 members of the party then present.
The parliamentary situation at the conclusion of these events was that the new Government, consisting entirely of Labour members, held its position mainly by the support of Liberal members. Of 75 members in the House of Representatives, Mr. Hughes had 13 direct supporters, and in the Senate 11 in a House of 36. But the Liberals were dependable supporters of whatever measures might be proposed for furthering success in the war, and the Prime Minister had no cause for anxiety about the continuance of this support.

indecent assault of child by male, of ME/Med appearance

Police issue CCTV following alleged indecent assault of child at Parramatta – Joint Investigation Response Squad

Africans here and there

Melbourne Police seek Sudanese help over stabbing meanwhile on the Kenya-Somalia border

Yolk on ALP PM of Welsh ancestry?

Hughes, William Morris (Billy) (1862 - 1952), prime minister, was born on 25 September 1862 at Pimlico, London, son of William Hughes, a carpenter from North Wales employed at the Houses of Parliament, and his wife Jane, née Morris.
Second Conscription Referendum
An opponent threw an egg of indubitable antiquity, which just missed Mr. Hughes, but a second from the same source broke upon his hat.
There's an egg throwing epidemic in Sydney, as Lady Gaga is the latest...Other recent targets of egg tossers include fellow pop sensation Justin Bieber. Gillard born in Barry, Wales, should watch out.

Parramatta sexual assault two men black African appearance

Police appeal for witnesses after alleged sexual assault – Parramatta
Investigators would like to speak to two men who may be able to assist with inquiries.
The first is described as being of black African appearance, about 40 years old, 160-165cm tall, and a small build. At the time he was wearing a grey puffy jacket with a fluffy collar and blue jeans. He also spoke with a heavy accent.
The other man is only described as being of black African appearance, about 30 years old, and he was wearing dark clothing.

wanker meets banker

Carbon tax hits Sydney and outside the PMG cocoon, once always voted for ALP people will support Liberals.

Traditional behaviour? ..a woman being assaulted..

Three assaulted, four charged – Moree

Lady Jean Page died 20 June 2011

Lady Jean Page aged 98 died at Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.

Ethel died in 1958; and on 20 July 1959 Page married his secretary Jean Thomas at St Paul's Cathedral, London, with Bruce as best man.

Dam, too much water.

minor rural flooding at Corowa

Hendra to send Sydney bats?

Singleton vet Matthew Mullens is advising people who own horses to ensure that water and feeding troughs are located away from trees known to be occupied by bats.

NSW spends $5m to keep bats at bay, when they are evicted from Sydney's Botanic Gardens.

Vote with your power switch and turn Gillard off.

The ad campaign would include information, such as changing lightbulbs, to help people take "simple steps" to reduce their carbon footprint before the tax arrives and they can save money.
Will Juliar create a lightbulb changing scheme? Just like the BER?

Juliair's cat's paw

Joel Fitzgibbon's cat call at Julie Bishop. Earlier we had: Joel Fitzgibbon resigns as Defence Minister after saying he did not fully comply with the ministerial code of conduct.

ALP is revolting

Nine Labor MPs in revolt over resumption of live cattle exports to Indonesia

Cops, copper thief, will he sue?

Copper theft investigation underway after man suffers spinal injuries – Katoomba
Initial inquiries at the abandoned building suggest the man fell through the plasterboard ceiling.

Greens to be dissolved?

Bob Brown vows to block Tony Abbott's carbon rollback
While the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (The Constitution)
57 Disagreement between the Houses
The members present at the joint sitting may deliberate and shall vote together upon the proposed law as last proposed by the House of Representatives, and upon amendments, if any, which have been made therein by one House and not agreed to by the other, and any such amendments which are affirmed by an absolute majority of the total number of the members of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be taken to have been carried, and if the proposed law, with the amendments, if any, so carried is affirmed by an absolute majority of the total number of the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, it shall be taken to have been duly passed by both Houses of the Parliament, and shall be presented to the Governor-General for the Queen’s assent.

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

Photo: ALAMY
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.

Juliar's bubble bursts

A recession? It's technically possible

Election was nigh

Oakeshott nearly brings down the house

Chesher ecstatic

TWU job after ecstasy arrest

Mosa Julius Mbele, 22, charged

Man charged with Sydney station murder
Teen pulled knife from chest, stabbed accused

Brandon Faananu Siaa, 16, stabbed to death

Stabbed to death ... Brandon Faananu Siaa.
Bankstown stabbing death update

two men, both described as being of Aboriginal appearance

$100,000 reward for information following sexual attack on Bourke nurse

man of Aboriginal appearance

NSW Police report Elderly man dies, a man of Aboriginal appearance demanded money before stabbing him.

ABC says a man aged in his 20's or 30's

Commandos win - McDade a loser

Australian Commandos cleared of manslaughter charges over the deaths of six Afghan civilians

Lee Rhiannon rings like a bell thru the night

Lee Rhiannon is coming and Bob Brown is offended.

Menzies era means-tested welfare system

Even ALP economist acknowledges: Our means-tested welfare system is an inheritance from the Menzies era.

Sun dims La Nina

The above image shows a recent measure of Solar cycle as seen at Solar Terrestrial Activity Report as news of La Nina is dead which follows on from Solar Activity Controls El Niño and La Niña.

Lionel Murphy's law and Kayla

Lionel Murphy enacted the Family Law Act 1975 which leads to the question: Family Law Reform: Is the "no-fault jurisdiction" causing moral decay? and we have ...It does tend to get unpleasant, very bitter and acrimonious." so once again we have deaths of man, young girl – Richmond LAC Detectives investigate. Which is reported Abducted girl Kayla Rogers found dead in northern New South Wales

...sneer about middle-class welfare.

"...sneer about middle-class welfare. This is very much the preserve of the well-educated middle-income earners in relatively secure employment in the tertiary sector. Journalists, academics, public servants and the like. Occasionally this can lead to a lack of self-awareness."

Race Horse that stops a nation

Black Caviar wins at Doomben
Black Caviar now boasts 13 wins from 13 starts

Two Malaysian nationals Sydney $50m heroin haul

Massive heroin seizure in Sydney
They face potential life sentences in jail if convicted.
Deport them to Malaysia. End of story.

law and straw house

The law and the straw house

What about mental ill who get DSP?

Crackdown on disability support pension.
Yet spending more on mental health care.
What about mental ill who need DSP?

City of Sydney Flood Study

City of Sydney Flood Study

Obama and Jack Ryan

Life in real time imitates art live satellite feed

Auckland NZ tornado

Two killed in Auckland as tornado hits New Zealand

“STALIN DEAD. HOORAY!”

Old Tim story:

Sir Frank Packer, father of Kerry Packer (proprietor of The Bulletin, which pays my bills, full disclosure, etc etc) once told the story of Joe Stalin perfectly in just three words. Having been handed the planned poster for a 1953 edition of Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, then owned by Packer, he objected to the announcement: “STALIN DEAD”. Packer wanted the poster to read: “STALIN DEAD. HOORAY!”

Fairfax : "a focus on improving its journalism".

Fairfax slumps on profit downgrade

But far more contentious is a plan to outsource the sub-editing of news, business and sport to AAP subsidiary Pagemasters.

Yamamoto assassination

Spinning Yamamoto

Kiesha Abrahams remains confirmed

Skeletal remains confirmed as belonging to Kiesha Abrahams

Hong Kong's Harry Brown, 81

Muggers get monstered

Kiesha's mother faces court

...distraught and "finding it hard".
Residents turn fury on accused child killer

Chaser out of race

ABC's satire The Chaser pulls its Royal Wedding special

Kiesha tests inconclusive

More tests to verify bones are Kiesha's

Outraged

Who knew until the outrage?

POW testified that Burchett was a traitor

Phillip Greville, 1925 - 2011

Brigadier Phillip Greville served with distinction in three wars and suffered as a prisoner of the North Koreans for more than a year. Greville, then a captain, was the highest ranking of 29 Australian prisoners of war in Korea after he was captured with Private Denis Condon on the night of August 22, 1952.
Greville, who had been tortured during his captivity and attested that Burchett had been present during his interrogations, testified that Burchett was a traitor.

Australian POWs in Korea
Captain P. J. Greville, after his release in August 1953. He was the highest ranking Australian soldier to be taken prisoner by the communists in Korea.

Yet Google search reveals Green-Left still support him.

shot through the chest and lay huddled behind a tree

Atkinson told later of two soldiers who went about their radically different tasks with courage and coolness. One of his platoon commanders, Lieutenant Richardson, 5 was shot through the chest and lay huddled behind a tree breathing through the hole the bullet had made:

5 Lt C. H. Richardson, NX141420; 3 Bn . Public servant ; of Canberra; b. Sydney, 7 Aug 1920.

When Richardson was shot, Downes, a country lad, always with his pipe in his mouth, tried to spot the sniper. I went down to bandage Richardson. The sniper had a go at me. The bullet went between my pack and my back and hit my dixie. Downes saw the muzzle blast, moved out into the open to see better, and shot him.

Now the rest of the story.

ANZAC - ‘silent stunts’

Thus to leave you–thus to part - The Evacuation of Anzac, December 1915

Kitchener spent just over two hours at Anzac surveying the Turkish line from Australian trenches inland of the Sphinx and at Lone Pine. Two days later, after further consultation with senior commanders, he recommended to the British War Cabinet that Gallipoli–Anzac, Suvla and Helles–be evacuated.
A detailed evacuation plan was devised by an Australian, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brudenell White. This involved elaborate deception operations such as the so-called ‘silent stunts’ of late November where no artillery fire or sniping was to occur from the Anzac lines.

When he returned in October, White was promoted to Brigadier General, becoming BGGS of ANZAC, under Lieutenant General W. R. Birdwood. As such, his role was to plan the evacuation of Anzac. This became the first operation of the whole campaign to go off according to plan, and to be accomplished without loss.

1939 - a later generation may be at a loss understand why

Chapter 3 - The Volunteers
Oct 1939 Official Barriers 55
One man 2 who had driven from west of the Darling River in New South Wales to enlist at the nearest recruiting office later wrote his recollections of the day.

Coonamble (he wrote) had not been thrown off its balance by the war, or by the fact that men were arriving to enlist there.

2 L.M. Long (of Goodooga, NSW) later Capt 2/3 Bn.

Chapter 3 - The Volunteers

A hundred years from today, when Australia has produced a strongly- flowing native culture, and absorption in the affairs of east Asia and the Pacific have made Europe seem more remote, a later generation may be at a loss to understand why Australians (and New Zealanders) volunteered so readily for service half a world away. Nine out of ten of the recruits had been born in Australia of Australian parents, were intensely proud of their national independence and would have fought for it against all comers.

Chapter 3 - The Volunteers

The men who joined the army were the type who stood up in trams and gave their seats to women. There are people who are constitutionally unable to resist when a call is made, or when they feel they are under some obligation. I doubt whether many of them could tell why they enlisted. The real cause was something deeper than they could fathom. We could not see ourselves as fitting the glowing words of Masefield about the Anzacs at Gallipoli, and, although we were born with a tradition to carry on, and were proud of it, we were only too ready to admit that we were a ragtime army--though woe betide the militia or the civilian who suggested that. There was, I believe, a large body of men--perhaps the majority--who were adventurers at heart but common citizens by force of circumstance--how many of us are not--who saw in this call a glorious combination--the life of an adventurer with the duties of a citizen.

"Almost all contemporary left-wing writers of this generation and the last attacked the idea of nationalism," wrote Rebecca West, after the war.5
5 In "The Meaning of Treason", Harper's Magazine, Oct 1947. .

It must be getting cold at Villawood

The three last men on the roof of Villawood Detention Centre. Picture: Melanie Russell Source: HWT Image Library

Mr Daoud said the detainees were feeling depressed

Another ALP spy?

The Labor senator, the French consort and the KGB

Earlier Gerard Henderson wrote: Cold War secrets and the spies who came out of Canberra

Gillard devastation

Gillard arrives in devastated Sendai
As Cyclone lifeline extended by 13 weeks
While Villawood detention centre 'a basket case'

Kiesha rage and Stolen Generations

Because of Forced removal and Kevin Rudd's national apology to Stolen Generations and Kiesha and her mother Kristi are aboriginal we have Sympathy turns to rage over Kiesha Abrahams [link broken] The article was removed to comply with a legal order?
new link At CafeMom

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/01/31/1225997/724596-kiesha-abrahams.jpg
Kiesha and Robert Smith look unsure for some reason. Very sad.

ATSIC pales

From division to resistance

Calvin - five years old - reunited with mum

Five-year-old boy reunited with mum
Police locate mother of young boy – Bankstown
Police seek family after young boy located – Bankstown

Kapyong - 23-24 April 1951

Encyclopedia - Kapyong battle
A detailed account of the battle from Australia in the Korean war 1950-53, Volume 2: combat operations by Robert O'Neill.
Battle of Kapyong
Kapyong - 23-24 April 1951
Battle of Kap'yong represents a Canadian first.
Canadians in Korea - The Action at Kapyong
The Battle of Kapyong
Chinese Spring Offensive - Repeat Performance

Teen mental health death

Teen charged over mother's death

The boy suffered from a medical condition and might not have taken his medication in recent days, police said.

While ALP criticises Abbott mental health spending.

Kiesha Abraham dead - Larissa Behrendt gets limelight

Skeletal remains located - Shalvey
Police have found a bush grave in Sydney's west
Sydney Radio 2GB report Kiesha Abraham body found
Earlier we had: Watchdog to review Keisha's welfare
Then Two people charged in Kiesha Abraham's case - Homicide Squad
Kiesha Abraham's mother Kristi Abrahams and stepfather Robert Smithcharged by police with her murder. While there is Questioning credentials of an Aboriginal elite - and we have Larissa Behrendt

Villawood: hose the scum off the roof

Green-Left support rioters

A hose is used to remove scum from something. Why not scum on a roof?

Touring Ju-liar and Tim miss new disaster

Gillard meets Japanese parliamentarians.
As Villawood riots are unacceptable, says Swan

Green-Left incite riot?

Asylum-seekers burn buildings amid rioting at Villawood, in Sydney's south-west. Ian Rintoul from the Refugee Action Coalition says the detainees are fed up. "I think a couple of people have said that they are going to be on hunger strike." Are the rioters following the Refugee Action Coalition Strategy? Refugee Action Coalition strategy [which] is formed using the following principles:
Collaboration: We do not oppose confronting authorities directly where necessary and we will consider employing acts of civil disobedience as part of the overall strategy to achieve our goals.
Solidarity: We work to support people suffering injustice and use their struggle and demands as the basis for our action. While Solidarity is a socialist group. As Refugee advocates plan Curtin visit led by Gerry Georgatos

SA MP, on again, off again, Finnegan?

Rann makes portfolio changes.
Because of SA MP on child porn charges after police raid home ?

off again, on again, Finnegan is a US catch phrase, deriving from an old song and has come to mean ‘intermittent’ or ‘capricious’ or ‘fickle’.

New Ice Age?

What's wrong with the sun?

If a similar spell of solar inactivity were to begin now and continue until 2100, it would mitigate any temperature rise through global warming by 0.3 °C on average, according to calculations by Georg Feulner and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. However, something amplified the impact of the Maunder minimum on northern Europe, ushering in a period known as the Little Ice Age, when colder than average winters became more prevalent and the average temperature in Europe appeared to drop by between 1 and 2 °C.
It seems that the sunspot bonanza of last century is over.

Patrons turn on armed robbers – Five Dock NSW

Patrons turn on armed robbers – Five Dock

Japanese Admiral killed by U.S.A. Army fighter aircraft

Operation Vengeance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Vengeance was carried out to kill Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

NAB private Cloud de-Clyne pay glitch last straw

NAB private Cloud builds new paradigm: Part 2
NAB pay glitch last straw for customers

Top NSW ALP home invasion

Wife of former NSW minister Michael Costa attacked in home invasion

ANZAC Day - how much is their sacrifice worth?

Green-Left leaves Andrew Bolt – Wednesday, April 13, 2011 speechless.

And again: Andrew Bolt – Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Depends who is being rude

Free speech is not free as we approach ANZAC Day we remember those who paid the ultimate price. But with these people feeding on democracy, how much is their sacrifice worth?

Gemahl Maika - "secret" witness- what secrecy?

Murdered man was due to testify on death threats in cocaine trial

''The accused persons have the current financial and material means, resolve and incentive to prevent witnesses from giving evidence against them, and members of the syndicate are actively engaged in pursuing that end,'' Inspector Greg Randall alleged in the affidavit.

So with Gemahl Maika a "secret" witness but what secrecy?
Crime pays again.

Tobruk - Easter 1941 - ...first to quail...went agley...

Chapter 4 – At Bay – The Easter Battle

The battle had reached its crisis. The penetration had not yet been contained, but the assault had been turned. To "A/E" Battery must go the main credit. For 45 minutes they had contested the seemingly relentless enemy advance, standing to their guns and proving themselves more steadfast than their enemy; the German tank crews were first to quail.

The prime causes of failure were the Germans' and Rommel's over-confidence and their under-estimation of the strength of the defence. A battle plan based on the false assumption, drawn from European experience, that opposition would collapse when the tanks broke through the perimeter went agley when that did not occur. Both senior and junior commanders lost their nerve, the force its cohesion.

But the victory belonged in the main to the gunners who had fought it out with the German tanks, to the Bren gunners and machine-gunners in the posts who had not been intimidated or subdued and to the patrolmen whose bayonet charges had dislodged the enemy infantry before they could consolidate. One may accept the summing up by the diarist of "B/O" Battery: The two outstanding features of the battle were:

(i) "A/E"Battery's tank shoot, which finally stopped the tanks.

(ii) The infantry in "D"Company remaining in their positions completely unperturbed by the tanks and then attacking the ensuing infantry, together with an excellent counter-attack by "B" Company.

ADF Academy and Marxist women

"Modern society" has changed the way women are viewed.
Once we had:
Chivalry
Which in a previous time meant:

Chapter 7 – The Embarkation From Greece
164 THE EMBARKATION FROM GREECE 25-26 Apr
The troops embarked here included the remaining nurses—forty Australian from the 2/5th Australian General Hospital and forty British from the 26th General Hospital—carrying only haversacks and a blanket each. 4
4 General Blamey had left instructions that all Australian nurses must be taken off. However, on the 25th, Brigadier D.T.M. Large, the British Director of Medical Services, was doubtful whether it would be safe to embark them and whether they could be spared. At length, at the urging of Major E. E. Dunlop (the Australian medical liaison officer), Colonel Rogers and Lieut-Commander P.C. Hutton (in charge of the naval party at "P" Beach), Large agreed, and they were hurried to Megara in trucks that night.

Chapter 36 – The Australian Army Nursing Service
THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE 443
The nurses themselves all wished to stay when they realised there was no hope of other hospital ships arriving to take away their patients, but on the 11th half the nurses from each hospital and all the physiotherapists were ordered to leave.

Now we have:

Tony Abbott calls for Australian Defence Force Academy scandal crackdown

Pollies split over defence sex scandal

While we can read:
Hal Draper Marx and Engels on Women’s Liberation (July 1970)
XI. Less important is the fact that socialist women have also had to be reminded that equality cuts two ways. The old society’s tradition of ‘chivalry’ and ‘gentlemanly behaviour’, which assumes the inferiority of women, dies hard. After his visit to America, Engels related in a letter:

‘Mother Wischnewetzky is very much hurt because I did not visit her in Long Branch instead of getting well ... She seems to be hurt by a breach of etiquette and lack of gallantry towards ladies. But I do not allow the little women’s-rights ladies to demand gallantry from us; if they want men’s rights, they should also let themselves be treated as men’.[57] - 57. Letter to Sorge, January 12, 1889, in ME: Letters to Americans (NY, Internatl. Pub., 1953), 209.

Ending the politics of envy

Speech - National Press Club - Education - 6/4/11
Published 6/4/2011
HON CHRISTOPHER PYNE MP
SHADOW MINISTER FOR EDUCATION, APPRENTICESHIPS & TRAINING
ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB CANBERRA, APRIL 6, 2011

There are four key principles in the Coalition's strategy:

1. Increasing school autonomy, which is the key to improving quality teaching and learning.

2. Encouraging choice and diversity, by having a consistent approach to funding for all schools.

3. Ending the politics of envy and genuinely looking at ways to improve student outcomes across the board.

4. Delivering a quality curriculum that prepares students for the workforce or for further education or training.

Gemahl Maika - gunned down - known to police

Father gunned down in his Sydney garage was victim of a planned hit

Pink Batts in the BER?

Fire rips through classroom at Chester Hill North Public School

Van Diemen's Land transportation resumed

The creation of a detention centre in southern Tasmania is akin to resuming transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's Land, Liberal senator Eric Abetz says.