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.
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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
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.

ALP spin then and now

Robert Menzies according to ALP spin "Pig Iron Bob"
Robert Menzies according to ALP spin Brisbane Line
John Howard according to ALP spin Children Overboard Affair
Now Rudd/Swan according to ALP spin

Used car salesman supports Rudd

MTAA chief backs govt's car dealer story
How convenient.

PM’s office censor shut up message held

PM’s office censor shut up message held

A few days before the declaration of war, but when it was imminent, the Postal Department held up a cablegram, in cipher, from the Imperial German Government to the chief officer in German New Guinea. Should the message be transmitted? Had the Commonwealth Government a right to stop a communication from a power, with which Great Britain was not at war, to its agent? But the transmission of the message might, in the existing circumstances, be embarrassing to the British Government. It might contain directions affecting the movement of German ships of war, or orders concerning the defence of New Guinea or Samoa. The Minister for Defence conferred with the Governor- General and the Attorney-General, and it was determined to send a cablegram to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, stating the facts, and to close the direct cable line from all other communications till a reply was received. This was immediately done, and within a few hours the reply came, consisting of one word: " Hold." The message was held.

Later:

One day I was rung up by the Prime Minister’s office and asked to call there. His secretary put in my hands a letter which Graebner had been fool enough to post to a friend in Germany. and whlch had been opened by the censor. I read only the first page, and handed it back disgusted; for it was a tissue of lies about his treatment here and about Australia generally. I said, “Shut him up,” and they did, as doubtless they would have done without a word from me. The worst of it was that poor Pringsheim had to share his fate.

Murdoch changes sides?

As the Whitlam government began to lose public support following its re-election in 1974, Murdoch turned against Whitlam and supported the Governor-General's dismissal of the Prime Minister.

Rupert Murdoch has endorsed Labor leader Kevin Rudd, saying he would make a good Australian prime minister.

Now Murdoch press reports Car Grant.

Kev Car Grant

Kevin Rudd to launch investigation into OzCar affair
ETS now Kev Car Grant, True believers accept, sceptics not allowed to question.
Who judges who?

crotch soreness cyclists' genitals ouch

Doctor warns of possible damage to cyclists' genitals
A lot of people think crotch soreness is part of the sport - it really shouldn't be.

Austrians struck at Italians

First, just when General Diaz, after delay, and under pressure from Foch and Clemenceau, was about to attack the Austrians, the latter, on June 14th, struck at him, attacking both from the mountain front, where they were faced partly by the British and French contingents, and on a wide sector near the Adriatic.

All this while, through all the German strokes, Foch had never ceased to plan his Allied counter-stroke. He had hoped that the Allied armies in Salonica and Italy would strike in co-operation with him. But when he and Clemenceau had succeeded in inducing the Italian commander, Diaz, to agree to attack the Austrians, the Austrians on June 14th struck first, across the Piave River; and though they were quickly defeated - the Piave descending in flood behind them - all chance of effective Italian co-operation vanished.

Japan's 1944 Naval Battle Strategy

The "Z Plan" Story
Japan's 1944 Naval Battle Strategy Drifts into U.S. Hands, Part 2

Australia invades Syria

Chapter 17
THE FIRST DAY
8 June THE OPPOSING FORCES 359
At the end of the first day, however, it seemed evident that Syria would have to be won by military not political operations . The French had shown that they would resist. Consequently, since the French deployed 18 good battalions of regulars against 9 good Australian, Indian an d British battalions, and 6 Free French battalions of doubtful quality, the "armed political inroad" which Churchill had advocated was likely to develop into a hard-fought campaign.

bombardments of Sydney and Newcastle.

On Monday, 8th June, the Japanese submarines varied their attacks on the east coast of Australia by carrying out brief bombardments of Sydney and Newcastle. At 12.15 a.m. the Sydney examination vessel, H.M.A.S. Adele, sighted flashes of gunfire about nine miles S.E. by S. of Macquarie
78 AUSTRALIA'S COASTS RAIDED 8-12 Jun
Light, and approximately four miles east of Cape Banks. Between then and 12.20 a.m., ten shells, only four of which exploded, one harmlessly, fell in the Rose Bay and Bellevue Hill areas.

Both beaches on D plus 1 were still under enemy artillery fire.

Securing the Beachheads
Supreme in the air, the Allies began on D Day to build up a similarly crushing superiority on the ground. By the end of 6 June 1944 First Army had succeeded in landing most of eight and a third infantry regiments-only a little less than planned. For operations on 7 June five divisions were ashore and operational (although one, the 29th, lacked one of its regiments until later in the day). All of these divisions were seriously deficient in transport, tank support, artillery, and above all supplies. The worst situation was in the V Corps zone where, of 2,400 tons of supplies planned to be unloaded during D Day, only about 100 tons actually came in. Ammunition shortage was grave. Both beaches on D plus 1 were still under enemy artillery fire. On OMAHA pockets of enemy riflemen still held out at various points along the coast; beach obstacles, even after work by the engineers during low tide of the afternoon of D Day, were still only about a third cleared; beach exits had not been opened as scheduled nor vehicle parks established inland on the scale contemplated.