Gillard's Boat People brawl in Darwin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peculiar Julia and ''ridiculous" Swan

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

Bali dangers and boys continued

Australian contracts HIV after getting Bali tattoo

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

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

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

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

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

Refugee advocate supports death boat policy

Refugee advocate Ian Rintoul supports death boat policy.

ALP sinks and says not a time for politics

Jason Clare boat sinks

Chris Bowen boat sinks

Tale of two - Havel and Jong-il

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

"climate apartheid."

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

Gillard boat person - pervert?

Detainee 'touched' girls: claim

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

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

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

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

ALP women - a sign of chao?

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

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

Michael Stern Hart (1947-2011)

Ecstasy - chronic loss of serotonin

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

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

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

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

Gillard boats - Tropical Cyclone

Tropical Cyclone Alenga

Gillard boat solution

A bigger boat

Japanese ships anchored off the coast near Kota Bharu.

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

Global warming - sea bed rising.

Canary Island volcano: A new island in the making?

Koblenz evacuated - 1.8 tonne bomb

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

ALP plot? The Gay Divorcee

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

'corrupt' ALP 'could not remember'

No sex - Woman gave me neck massage, former NSW MP tells ICAC
But he said he quickly fell asleep.
"Because I was tired, I'd had a lot to drink that evening and I fell asleep."
He denied lying on top of the woman but said he could not remember if he kissed her or not.

Chris Bowen offers 159 sq km for illegals?

So does Chris Bowen offer McMahon which covers an area of approximately 159 sq km bordered by South Creek in the west, the Western Motorway in the north, the Cumberland Hwy and Prospect Creek in the east and Orphan School Creek, Humphries, Canley Vale, Smithfield and Edensor Rds and Elizabeth Dr in the south. Suburbs include Abbotsbury, Blacktown, Bossley Park, Canley Vale, Cecil Park, Eastern Creek, Edensor Park, Erskine Park, Fairfield, Fairfield Heights, Fairfield West, Greenfield Park, Greystanes, Horsley Park, Kemps Creek, Mount Vernon, Prairiewood, Prospect, St Clair, Smithfield, Wakeley and Wetherill Park, to house the illegals?

Bali dangers and boys

teenage boy electrocuted while celebrating Schoolies in Bali

Pacific Islander/Maori appearance - shooting incident - Busby

Police renew calls for public assistance following shooting incident - Busby

With Slipper - Gair/Cope combined?

With the end of Harry Jenkins: Order! Order! and with Peter Slipper - Do we get Vince Gair and Jim Cope combined?

NSW ALP Rozelle misery continues

On January 22, 2010 End confusion over CBD Metro, Rozelle businesses plead

"After spending $2million in renovations, Adele Tahan, one of the owners of Adore Pharmacy in Sydney's Rozelle, is facing the compulsory acquisition of her pharmacy to make way for the proposed CBD Metro.

Now November 2011 Adore Pharmacy is for sale by Deloittes

Quakers Hill nursing home fire - Greens solution?

Nursing home fire death toll rises to eight
The Greens NSW: Voluntary Euthanasia Policy

Drunk man breaks into monkey enclosure

Spider Monkeys can be extremely territorial when confronted, and they didn't take too kindly to Joao's intrusion into their enclosure.

HMAS Sydney (II) - 70th anniversary of the loss

With 70th anniversary of the loss of HMAS Sydney (II) Saturday, 19th November 2011

The reconstruction of events leading up to Sydney's disappearance relies primarily on information gathered from interrogations of German survivors from the raider HSK Kormoran which Sydney engaged on the afternoon of 19 November 1941.

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.

Quakers Hill nursing home fire murder charges

Roger Dean, registered nurse, 35, Quakers Hill resident, of Asian appearance, charged with four counts of murder, refused bail over fatal fire.

Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad - drugs

Replica pistol, cash and drugs seized - Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad

In the first place the campaign was futile and unnecessary.

Official Histories - Second World War - Volume VII - The Final Campaigns (1st edition, 1963) - Gavin Long
Chapter 9 - The Floods and the Cease Fire
238 FLOODS AND CEASE FIRE 1945

From an early stage in the operations the troops knew that the value of the campaign, and of their efforts, was being questioned by politicians and newspapers at home. The following extracts from a history of the 42nd Battalion express views fairly widely held:

In the first place the campaign was futile and unnecessary.
At Salamaua men went after the lap because every inch of ground won meant so much less distance to Tokyo. But what did an inch of ground — or a mile — mean on Bougainville? Nothing!
Whether Bougainville could be taken in a week or a year would make no difference to the war in general. Every man knew this.
The Bougainville campaign was a politicians' war and served no other purpose than to keep men in the fight. They would have been much better employed on the farms, the mines and in building industries in Australia. Why they were not can only be answered by the few who decided that Australians must be kept in the war at all costs.
Every risk taken at Bougainville was one that could not be avoided; every life lost was begrudged. Men fought because there was no alternative. None wanted to lose his life on Bougainville . . . But despite all this men did fight and fought well. Lieut-Colonel Byrne said of the battalion: "I think that collectively the officers and men of the battalion did a grand job. It was filthy country; they were fighting what appeared to be a useless campaign and they knew it. Men are not fools and even though each man realised he was fighting for something which could benefit his country very little (and in addition his fighting received very little credit or publicity) he carried out orders energetically and in a very fine spirit “ 8

The small amount of publicity given to this and other Australian campaigns of 1945 in the Australian newspapers was undoubtedly a main cause of dissatisfaction. An education officer on Bougainville wrote to the Broadcasting Commission to complain about the dictation-speed news broadcast for the troops. He pointed out that more than half the time was usually given to crimes and accidents in Australia — for example, of the total of 45 minutes 15 had recently been allotted to describing how a man had been bitten by a stingray in St Kilda Baths and how a woman had jumped from an upstairs window, nearly 30 minutes to news of the Russian front, less than a minute each to other fronts, and nothing at all to Bougainville or New Guinea. "The reason for the stingray story as any news editor will affirm, is that `the public is war-weary and does not want to read about the war', wrote a diarist. `But the men up here aren't, and they want to know what goes on in the world'." Also they wanted to be assured that the people at home were being told about their achievements.
It was widely agreed that a policy whereby army public relations officers sent personal paragraphs about men fighting on Bougainville to appropriate small-town newspapers had a notable effect on the spirits of the men.

8 Benson, pp. 157-8 .
Benson, S. E. The Story of the 42 Aust . Inf. Bn . Sydney, Dymock's Book Arcade for 42nd Battalion Association, 1952 .

As for offshoring, the government's line is that it has been happening since the 1980s.

Offshoring: coming soon to a job near you

A Treasury spokesman said a number of the recommendations dealt with the tax treatment of Australian businesses, and the government was implementing some changes.

When asked whether there was structural change occurring within banking - not simply a blip brought about by lower activity - he defended the strength of the sector, and the increased competition occurring within it.

''The earnings announcement by the big four banks this week have shown that the banks remain highly profitable,'' he said.

As for offshoring, the government's line is that it has been happening since the 1980s. It allows businesses to take advantage of lower costs - and in the process gave Australians lower priced products and services.

women carry a .45-caliber weapon because he says they wouldn't have to be accurate, just close to the target.

South Carolina sheriff urges women to carry guns

Qantas workers how empty and worthless is the power of

Qantas workers must face global facts of life

Ruler of the waves

Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler, tells how Cnut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes. Yet "continuing to rise as usual [the tide] dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person. Then the king leapt backwards, saying: "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws." He then hung his gold crown on a crucifix, and never wore it again "to the honour of God the almighty King". This incident is usually misrepresented by popular commentators and politicians as an example of Cnut's arrogance

The world's population. Where do you fit into this story of human life?

Where do you fit into this story of human life?
Fill in your date of birth in the form that appears below to find out.

Truck 22.5 tonnes breaks bridge rated 5 tonnes

Heavy load breaks bridge
The bridge, rated at five tonnes gross, collapsed under the weight of the 22.5 tonne truck.

Sydney series of shootings - Mid-East Org. Crime Sqd

Police investigate series of shootings - Sydney
State Crime Command’s Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad

NSW Police have charged five youths, aged 16 and 17

Festival shutdown following brawl - Grafton
Police will allege most of those involved in the brawl were intoxicated.
Police have charged five youths, aged 16 and 17, with offences including offensive behaviour and malicious damage.

Raise the powerlines?

Electrocution death of teenager - Port Stephens

Hydro is China's dominant low-carbon technology

China will not allow its carbon dioxide emissions per person to reach levels seen in the US, according to the minister in charge of climate policy.

Encourage the elderly out of big houses

Eight radical solutions to the housing crisis include:
Encourage the elderly out of big houses
Force landlords to sell or let empty properties

Julia and world's poor. India?

Julia Gillard throws open market to world's poor
Meanwhile: Foreign retailers are prevented from having a direct presence in India

India cabinet approves manufacturing push
The policy aims to create a 100 million jobs in the next 10 years and allows for a series of special new zones to support manufacturing growth.

Russia concern about Gaddafi human rights

Gaddafi should not have been killed - Lavrov

140 Gbps versus NBN 12Mbps

New 140 Gbps while old NBN 12 Mbps speed

Lambing Flat revisited?

First we have: Narromine community has been rocked by the death
then we have Suspicious fire at scene of Narromine death
which is like Lambing Flat riots.

Canberra rumour: angry mother-in-law

Canberra rumour doing the rounds: well known man, his affair with a personal assistant and angry well known mother-in-law.

Greens support 'unethical' ex-Commonwealth Ombudsman

Greens support Ombudsman who announced his resignation on Thursday, earlier Commonwealth Ombudsman Allan Asher has admitted to drafting possible questions for Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young to ask at a Senate estimates hearing.

ALP says union "un-Australian"

Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:41am EDT UPDATE 1-Australia's govt may force end to Qantas strike

Carbon Tax Calculator

Carbon Tax Calculator
To calculate your likely carbon tax electricity bill increase all you need is your most recent electricity bill and to enter the information to the right.

Kev Juliar - kiss of death? Ask Tommy!

Labor rejoices its carbon tax victory - but will it be a kiss of death?

Kiss of Death (1947 film) Tommy Udo

Red China: global warming is US conspiracy

Chinese sceptics see global warming as US conspiracy
As China's emissions rise, so too does sceptics' hot air

SMH says Steve Jobs" invented the mouse"

He created Apple, lost it, won it back, invented the mouse, the iMac, CGI movies through Pixar, came up with the iPod, iPhone and iPad, revolutionised the music industry with iTunes, thought differently, spawned the world's second largest company and changed the world. Bloomberg’s salute to the late great Sultan of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs.

14 year old dope

Boy, 14, from NSW arrested on drugs charges in Bali
Australian boy, 14, in Bali jail on drugs charges
Australian fourteen-year-old boy from New South Wales arrested in Indonesia's Bali on drug charges

Menadue Whitlam co-operation antipathy

John Menadue writes

In more difficult circumstances after the fall of Saigon, Malcolm Fraser, with the co-operation of Gough Whitlam, appealed to our better angels.

While at Quang Luu: Whitlam's policy on Vietnamese refugees didn't last
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The Australian 04jan06
Whitlam's antipathy towards South Vietnam and his reluctance to accept Indochinese refugees were well known.

Geoff Clark and others

Geoff Clark and one dies and another is buried

First they came…Then they came for me

First they came…
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

NSW ALP another scare campaign comes unstuck

Shut valve caused hospital water bungle in answer to ALP is demanding answers

Kim Sean Mann, 20, charged with the murder of Mounzer Taleb

Bonnyrigg murder accused denied bail

Bonnyrigg gunshot death of man

Police investigate death of man - Bonnyrigg
Sunday, 25 September 2011 03:47:07 PM

A crime scene has been established outside a home in Bonnyrigg following the death of a man.

Police and emergency services were called to the home on Kincumber Road about 2.40pm (Sunday 25 September 2011) following reports a man had suffered a gunshot wound.

Officers from Fairfield Local Area Command attended and found the body of a man.

Green/Left Brown out Bowen

Protesters chase Immigration Minister

SMH redneck denies bias

SMH EDITORIAL September 16, 2011

Murdoch papers in this country ... frequent practice of letting editorial bias show not only in opinion columns but also in news pages.

SMH headline September 17, 2011
'Redneck' politics: Abbott accused

another "some sort of Nick Xenophon moment"

We have NSW Greens seek inquiry into NSW police chief which follows Senator Nick Xenophon. And Andrew Scipione, NSW Police Force Commissioner, regarding comments made in NSW Parliament this afternoon: "My recollection of the conversation with the former Assistant Commissioner differs from his account."

Thomson and Hawker Britton media script?

Pair backdown: Coalition to grant Labor MP leave Media following Hawker Britton script?
Meanwhile we have Thomson: new credit card claims and public relations firm Hawker Britton again.

Gillard baby talk on whore after

ALP says Tony Abbott denies pair for Thomson baby birth

Asked whether the rule would apply to Mr Thomson, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott told reporters on Thursday: "We have made it crystal clear that only in the most extraordinary circumstances will pairs be offered for the carbon tax vote."
"This is by far the most important vote that the Australian parliament will take in the current term of parliament and the first duty of members of parliament is to be in the parliament when critical votes are taken," Mr Abbott said during a visit to Tumbi Umbi, in Mr Thomson's NSW central coast seat of Dobell.
But the opposition's parliamentary business manager Christopher Pyne took a harder line in an interview on Macquarie Radio. "No, there'll be no pairs granted during the carbon tax vote," Mr Pyne said. "It's entirely within the gift of the government when the carbon tax bills are brought on for a vote, and therefore they have had weeks of notice that we will not be giving pairs for that vote. "If they are foolish enough to schedule the vote at a time when Mr Thomson can't be there, then that will be on their head."

NSW ALP Sydney Convoy of Inconsideration

Xinhua reports on Sydney Inconsideration
All roads in Sydney's CBD had reopened, the transport department said. Slight delays were continuing for motorists and bus passengers travelling northbound on Elizabeth Street. Earlier, 500 firefighters parked their fire engines outside St Mary's Cathedral and marched to The Domain to join in the protest.

Albert Bates, bomb hoax siege

A police tactical team forced its way into the office and overpowered the 52-year-old man after negotiations began to crumble on Tuesday night, police said. Albert Bates, who was a prominent Aboriginal activist in the 1980s and 1990s.


He had earlier released his 12-year-old daughter unharmed.

NSW ALP - Vexatious litigation?

Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought, regardless of its merits, solely to harass or subdue an adversary.

Andrew Stoner referred to ICAC over solar bonus.

NSW Opposition leader John Robertson said they would be requesting that the Independent Commission Against Corruption investigate Mr O'Farrell's decision to appoint Brian Ross to the board of the Casino, Liquor and Gaming Control Authority.

Walid and Bilal Afiouny - Greenacre - counterfeit cigarettes

With Rush to be first on plain packaging on tobacco, we have unnamed Two men, aged 30 and 27, who police allege led the syndicate, were arrested at a house in Greenacre. And named: Brothers Walid and Bilal Afiouny were arrested on Thursday after police seized 60 tonnes of loose leaf tobacco and 25 million counterfeit cigarettes, possibly from Indonesia or Malaysia, from the Sydney waterfront. Again unnamed here: Two brothers accused of running a major illegal tobacco syndicate have been granted bail in a Sydney court. While earlier: For the past fortnight, brothers Bilal and Walid Afiouny, of ABW Foods Australia, have donated their Chapel St warehouse as a drop-off point for food and water donations for Somalia.

Tanilla Warrick-Deaves stolen life

Again we have Stolen Generations and The toddler’s biological father, Adrian Casaran-Warrick, lives in Ballina. And Tanilla's mother Donna Deaves, 27 and her partner Warren Ross, 28, were interviewed at The Entrance Police Station on Saturday and allowed to leave.
Tanilla's mother, Donna Deaves, 27, and Ms Deaves' partner Warren Ross, 28, faced losing Tanilla prior to the little girl's death, with Bungree Aboriginal Intensive Family Based Services (IFBS) Wyong working with the family after a referral by DOCS.

Greenacre shoot-out gunman Hussayn Ryad Toby

Alleged Greenacre shoot-out gunman Hussayn Ryad Toby refused bail

Richo says ditcho

Ten months and Labor's gone: Richardson ..."terrible mess"...
...leadership to get out of it and that's the one thing that Julia Gillard has not provided..

Palestinian organs claims - Blood libel

PA minister claims Israel harvests Palestinian organs

Blood libel

ACCC casts doubt on Telstra-NBN

ACCC casts doubt on Telstra split to NBN Co

ACR false in court - ALP false in power

ACR providing false financial information August 30, 2011
PM says no carbon tax under her govt - August 16 2010

Britain needs a rewind to Victorian education methods

It was a time when the same people wrote poetry and built bridges.’

Multiculturalism: three stories

What is multiculturalism? We Obaid Fayyaz from Pakistan and
Suresh Surendranath Nair and this - some members of the community are afraid to come forward.

NSW ALP/Greens support graffiti vandals

On Thursday night, the upper house passed amendments to the government's new graffiti laws which would have required young offenders to go to court for a first offence, and gave magistrates the power to strip them of their driving licences. Labor, the Greens and the Shooters supported removal of provisions relating to drivers' licences and limited mandatory court appearances to a second offence.

ALP Thomson twins dig deeper hole

Kelvin Thomson labelled it the “Convoy of Incontinence” while
Craig Thomson documents to the police.

Greens smoke pollution

woodheaters, not regeneration burns

Albasleaziness no Consequence

Convoy anger over Govt disdain

NSW Police - Federal Labor MP credit card allegations

Federal Labor MP Police receive information on credit card allegations

Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad - shootings

Detectives launch Strike Force to investigate shooting incidents - MEOCS

Elderly woman's shoulder broken - men Mid-Eastn/Med appearance

Elderly woman's shoulder broken in violent bag snatch - Harris Park
“The victim has told detectives both men are of Middle Eastern/Mediterranean appearance, medium build, approximately 170cm tall, aged in their 30s with short black hair. One of the men was wearing a button-up jacket, a dark grey shirt and black pants.

Superintendent Peter Marcon
“They stole $5 that was intended as a donation for the Church she was going to, and the Bible. I hope they read the Bible,” he said.

Galaxies dark energy

Galaxies running out of gas

There's a scandal in the neighborhood And it's all about Jilly Hickson

There's a scandal in the neighborhood And it's all about Jilly Hickson
It seems that long lost husband Nev Had lately arrived back in town
Why he's a husband of mine, a husband of mine
You're liable for to see him here any old time
He's a just husband of mine, a husband of mine
Gone, he's a husband of mine
would I fool you
gone, he's a husband of mine
adapted from original song A, Cousin Of Mine. Written-By – Sam Cooke

Khaldoun Abbas, 18 accused of murdering another teenager

Man charged over shooting teen in face in Rockdale

Pulver collar bomb hoax - Paul 'Doug' Peters arrested

Australian man Paul 'Doug' Peters arrested in Louisville, Kentucky over Madeleine Pulver collar bomb hoax

Who is Paul 'Doug' Peters?

NSW Police seek man of Pacific Islander/ Maori appearance

Home invasion - Cranebrook Sydney’s west last night

Orica panic ends

Orica didn't tell fire service of leak
NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker said yesterday test results showed that out of a total of 36 samples taken, only three showed low levels of hexavalent chromium.

NBN monopoly?

NBN Co urges ACCC to be flexible on competition rules

As a four-year-old he wandered the streets as his parents drank and used drugs

Not a teenage crime wave - a tsunami
High-speed police chase - another teenager totally out of control
As a four-year-old he wandered the streets as his parents drank and used drugs, their lack of supervision of him and his brother said by DOCS to be chronically inadequate.

Getup offer 31,654 houses for the homeless and destitute

GetUp says:

Decisions are yet to be made about how vulnerable children will be treated under the Malaysia Deal. Will you let this happen in your name? The print deadline is this afternoon - now is your last chance to add your name to be published in tomorrow's newspapers.

SMH full page ad claims 31,654 signed petition.
So that's 31,654 houses for the homeless and destitute.

bogus doctor refused bail

Despite guilty plea, bogus doctor who conned neighbours and others continues sham: former friend - Louise Hall June 4, 2011

Last month Zacardas, 51, of Earlwood pleaded guilty to three counts of holding out to be a registered medical practitioner under the Medical Practice Act, an offence with a maximum 12 month jail term. She will be sentenced on July 1.
However, Mrs Zakis said her former friend continues to tell the Greek community of Earlwood and Marrickville that she is a doctor, and that she recently attended the home of a neighbour having a heart attack, and travelled with her in the ambulance.

Nora Zacardas convinced all she was a doctor
Amy Dale - August 12, 2011 5:17PM

Statue of Liberty will be closed for a year for repairs

Statue of Liberty will be closed for a year for repairs. As the USA of old collapses?

Britain - "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!"

Once we had British disease. Now we have: Cameron said: “There are pockets of our society that are not only broken, “but frankly sick....It is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society, people allowed to feel that the world owes them something.”
Earlier we had: Thatcher remains identified with her remarks to the reporter Douglas Keay, for Woman's Own magazine in September 1987:
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations.

London now and then immigrant and his descendants

his does not mean that the immigrant and his descendants should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow-citizen and another or that he should be subjected to an inquisition as to his reasons and motives for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.

Gillard - London travel warning soon?

Gillard said "There are far too many spectators who are getting in the way of police operations and I'm imploring that people within those communities actually start clearing the streets."
Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said she was disturbed by the British rioting Ms Gillard said Australians there should follow the advice of local authorities.

A BBC travel alert has been issued warning that the riots have shut down Hackney Central station. Part of Mare St has also been closed.

Brighton-Le-Sands Lebanon family - Rockdale Shot youth critical

"family of a Brighton-Le-Sands youth who was shot in the head at a Rockdale house on Saturday has flown back from Lebanon to be by his side in hospital, police said."

Arab view of Tottenham

"Tottenham is a deprived area. Unemployment is very, very high ... they are frustrated," Uzodinma Wigwe, 49, who was made redundant from his job as a cleaner recently, said.

2011 and 1937

2011 and 1937

USA to demand money back?

United States foreign aid

ALP and Juliar - "We can't tell the story..."

How did she get here? And why?
"We can't tell the story," concludes one of her ministers. "One, because the structure is so fragile, and we need Kevin. Two, because the whole story doesn't reflect well on the participants."

Sun erupts - economy falters - tax looms

As Sun goes about its usual business:

the first of three CMEs produced by the recent spate of flare activity reached Earth during the late hours of August 4th. The impact was weak and is not expected to produce strong geomagnetic storms. Two more CMEs are still on the way and, as described below, they may have merged into a single cloud that could produce significant storming when they reach Earth on August 5th around 10:00 UT. At midnight UTC the visible solar disk had 6 spotted regions.
How will Juliar's carbon tax limit this?

We can read:
Stocks Nose-Dive Amid Global Fears
Australian stockmarket tumbles in wake of overseas rout
Swan moves to calm jittery market nerves
Wayne Swan denies carbon tax impact on confidence
Where are our priorities by Barnaby Joyce

Are we reassured? As water and electricity debt rise due to the carbon tax.

Bloods and a rival gang ISK

Stabbed boy Brandon Siaa had gang trouble

Burrawong Avenue, Mosman - courage and calmness of a young policewoman

Mr Murdoch praised the courage and calmness of a young policewoman who was first on the scene.
Harbourside cop Karen Lowden speaks out

`When I found her I knew that I needed to be near her,’’ Ms Lowden said.
``She was very calm - she was quite stressed but level headed.
``Police are trained to deal with the unexpected - I did know there was a girl that needed help, my main concern was getting to her.’‘

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione yesterday praised Ms Lowden’s ``selfless and brave’’ actions, saying she had gone beyond the call of duty to calm and reassure Madeleine.
“Without hesitation, Constable Lowden made a decision to remain with Madeleine to provide continuous comfort and support,’’ Mr Scipione said.

Global warming is a terrible threat, to free speech?

China's leaders losing the battle over free speech

You say tequila, I say burn rubber
Global warming is a terrible threat, but the news is not all bad. With a little luck and ingenuity humanity may yet turn it to advantage.

Media priorities

Explaining Oslo: suspicions and scenarios get headlines. While more than 11 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

Hero and villian?

Norway past alien culture

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling

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!”