tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62453682011-04-22T06:03:48.295+10:00Pursuing the media wildebeest.Ahmedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14934485614607155820noreply@blogger.comBlogger9591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245368.post-1097895363073994062004-10-23T13:53:00.000+10:002004-10-25T00:11:34.013+10:00

The Gnu Hunter is retiring from the fray. Tired from the hunt the Gnu Hunter is going to have a rest. It has been a hoot and I've enjoyed my time with you all, but times have changed. The forces of naughtiness are in disarray, and basically no Gnus is good Gnus. The federal Labor Party has moved to a new level of dysfunction, one that is febrile and highly unstable. It now finds itself at a

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Australians are now richer than ever before, new figures showed today, thanks to a buoyant sharemarket and high house prices. On average Australians are TWICE as wealthy as when Labor last ruled the roost eight years ago. Private wealth rose 18 per cent to a new record high of $5 trillion in the year to June, or $250,000 a head, while debt averaged $19,000 a head. Stock broker CommSec's

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The will of the people was heard last weekend when they made it plain that they wanted John Howard to legislate and govern the country. The Labor Party's apolitical arm, the ACTU, and its other affiliated unions, are being primed ready for action, to achieve Labor Party policy by proxy. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is preparing for a battle, as the re-elected Coalition

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If the Labor Party's fortunes were reversed last weekend and the fervent wishes of the majority of the press were realized then Labor would have controlled both houses of parliament (either directly or with the help of the Greens). The Labor Party would have controlled every State government, the Federal Government and the Senate as well. This was not a problem for the learned members of the

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A sixty year old woman leapt onto the back of a four metre crocodile to rescue a male friend. The pair had been asleep in their tents on a beach in far north Queensland when the saltwater crocodile attacked and dragged the man from his tent. The man, aged in his thirties, and a woman in her sixties, were at a remote spot about 300 kilometres north-west of Cairns. Early this morning, the woman

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KENYA'S new Nobel Peace Prize winner believes the virus causing AIDS was a deliberately created biological agent unleashed on Africans. In August Kenya's daily Standard newspaper quoted Ms Maathai saying HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass extermination. "We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to the primitive people," the Standard

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Australians have re-elected John Howard as Prime Minister for a near-record fourth term in office. The shrieking from the Left and from the media gave us all pause to think he might be kicked out - removed for providing us with strong border protection and for supporting the US alliance in Afghanistan and Iraq. Instead Australians have re-elected Howard with an increased majority. Voters

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Much fuss is being made of the small boost in votes for the Greens party, but here's the first piece of analysis that matters:The Greens lost their only seat in the House of Representatives.The Greens have three seats in the Senate but have lost their share of the balance of power. It's three years in the (political) wilderness. The best they can hope for is to attempt relevance by creating

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Have you noticed something missing from this election coverage? No explosions or carnage? It's not as if we don't have a shortage within our country of those who would wreak havoc upon us and our way of life. Someone has, more than likely, done a very good job. We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. - George Orwell Thanks.

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So what mistakes did the Labor Party make? What do they need to know? The mistakes they made are these: The ALP chose Mark Latham. Trees are not more important than people. The unions still hold the ALP in thrall. Australians want to decide who can get into this country. Australians are not ashamed to be Australian. The Doctors' Wives are generally pissed all day, screw the pool guy,

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The Gnu Hunter is not pissed off. The Gnu Hunter is just pissed. (**USA readers - this does not mean that I am angry). Thankyou. I love us. Australians. We cut through the crap and together, collectively, as mates, we see it how it is, and we go over the top. Together. God bless us all. Even Phillip Adams and Mark Latham. Update: Control of the Senate! Thankyou Australia. The

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Neo-Conservative just means newly-conservative. A neo-con is a small-l liberal who has seen the light and now votes conservative. This is why neo-cons attract so much vitriol from small-l liberals. A new neo-con writes: Hi, Gnu Hunter. I read your post gladly. It got me charged up to do something I intended to do anyway, but which I'd never done before: I voted the straight Liberal ticket

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The Professor appears to this Gnu Hunter to have hit the turps early, so confident is the bunyip. Mar-go! Johnny, go! go! Mar-go! Johnny, go! go! Mar-go! Johnny, go! go! Mar-go! Johnny, go! go! Johnny B. Goode And he is in good company. John Howard was asked last night on a Current Affair if he'd be having a scotch tonight and he said, "either way he'd be having more than one.".

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The Greens have alleged that a Liberal candidate in the marginal seat of Melbourne Ports hired young people to dress like Greens supporters to hand out fake vote cards. You may wonder what mode of dress identifies Greens supporters, but wonder no more because the Gnu Hunter has tracked down some pictures of the offending Liberals caught in the act of masquerading as Greens supporters. Please

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If next year the Western world is caught up in another S11 attack, or one that is much worse, or one closer to home, who would you want weighing up all of the alternatives and making the life and death decisions? John Howard and the Liberals? or Mark Latham and the Labor Party ? Howard, the proven leader, who guided his party and the country through the perilous events of East Timor, of Bali,

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Many ALP politicians and journalists continue to allege that Tony Abbott met with Sydney's Archbishop Pell to formulate a response to Mark Latham's policy to take money from 67 "elite" private schools. The problem with their widely reported and totally inaccurate story is that it never happened. Abbott met on a private matter with the Archbishop a full two weeks before Latham even announced the

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Bernard Slattery researches why it is not cool to vote Green. Energy: The principal plank of the policy is to reduce energy consumption by reducing production. The biggest “gain” will be through phasing out use of coal by 2050. No new coal fired stations would be built and the existing ones would not be refurbished (presumably even to reduce emissions). Nuclear power is the only really credible,

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Philosopher and writer Bill Whittle has put out another essay. As I watched that speech unwind, I knew, instantly and unequivocally, that this President understood what we were up against, the moment he said: We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve

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Monday's "End the Lies" march was attended by six brave young people who faced profane abuse, intimidation and (for one person) blows to have their say, voicing an alternative opinion, differing from the herd. ... we met at Starbucks before the protest to drink coffee and discuss tactics. We decided to simply state our opinions, not participate in any confrontations or heated discussions which

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If it wins power Federal Labor will introduce a nationwide version of Victoria's divisive and expensive Racial and Religious Tolerance Act. Yes, it's a very bad law. Within months of being enacted, the excesses of this legislation became self-evident. The first test case, Islamic Council of Victoria v Catch The Fire Ministries, has cost more than $1 million in legal fees and achieved nothing but

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A ragtag collection of the permanently disaffected marched in the "End the Lies" rally in Melbourne today. The rally was supported by the Greens, socialists, unionists and various activists. The rallies organised in the capital cities had speakers who promoted religious intolerance and social division. At today's "End the Lies" rally in Melbourne the Islamic Council of Victoria addressed the

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Thousands of useful idiots clogged the streets outside Sydney's town hall today in a colorful "End the Lies" protest organised and attended by a motley collection of socialists, Greens, muslims, ALP and unionists. In the sky above a sky-writer airplane fouled the sky with its message pouring out from its Left wing. Sydney's skies are often fouled by advertising. It's nice that even working in

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Mark Latham refused four times to rule out tax increases. OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham has refused to guarantee taxes won't rise under a Labor government. In an interview, Mr Latham was asked four times to give a commitment that he would not increase taxes. Mr Latham repeatedly refused to give an unequivocal pledge, instead referring to the tax and family policy he announced earlier in the

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Many headlines and much publicity is being given to the story that Health Minister Tony Abbott conspired with Sydney's Catholic Archbishop Cardinal Pell to criticise Labor's education funding policy. The Cardinal is alleged to have met in private with Tony Abbott after Mark Latham's controversial funding policy was announced. It is alleged that a conversation occurred which lead to the cardinal

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If you are weary with the manipulation of the news headlines, please read this, as a simple obvious example of what news editors do. The headline reads "Rover Takes Over: More Dogs than Children". The ONLY conclusion possible, by relying upon the headline, is that the number of dogs is larger than the number of children. Drawing your conclusions based on a news headline is a mistake: NSW boys

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There are two ways to solve the problem of the Greenhouse Effect, if indeed that phenomenon exists. One way is to turn back or slow the tide of progress and the other way is to innovate. With just one invention the naughty USA will reduce greenhouse emissions by four percent. A new plastic light bulb that will burn for 10 years is certain to reduce headaches around the house - and could also

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Internet legend says that low journalism in the Fairfax swamp has oft stirred the Professor Bunyip from the comfortable depths of his billabong. Around the midnight hour slackers, plagiarists, or journalistic incompetents, who rile the bunyip are set upon, in bold print. Their fakery is exposed and, kicking and screaming, their works are dragged through the mud at the billabong to be

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A shattered man carries his shattered son's body away after freedom fighters attacked a mass of children seeking sweets. Children gathering for sweets from American soldiers at the opening of a sewage treatment plant bore the brunt yesterday of a series of guerrilla bombings that killed at least 35 youngsters and 14 adults. About 200 people - many of them children - were wounded in the attacks

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The ABC and others have shouted Hoorah! Russia Signs the Kyoto Accord. The Kyoto accord basically limits the economic activity of the developed world in return for an insignificant reduction in Greenhouse gas emissions. There are no such restrictions on the developing nations. No one seems too concerned that the Russians were coerced into signing. The Associated Press reported President

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This sort of thing is becoming ever more popular. Wrinkly grannies all over the world are stripping off their gear and posing in erotic (or should that be neurotic?) calendars - all in the name of good causes, of course. NORTHERN Territory chief minister Clare Martin has stripped off for a calendar to raise awareness of breast cancer. Ms Martin joined a swag of high profile NT women, including

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One of Britain's community leaders says Britain should give in and release some of his buddies from prison in the UK - or else there'll be some "unpleasantness": The leader of the radical Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun today said that extremists held in Britain – such as Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza – should be released in exchange for Iraq hostage Ken Bigley.... He said the beheading of the British

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The Italian government has paid $1.4 million dollars to support kidnappers. The cuteness of the kidnapped hostages may also have helped in securing their release, the abductors and "mediating" islamic clerics being concerned at the negative publicity and damage to the brand that would be incurred by hacking off the heads of two pretty girls. The clerics mediating for the Italians' release had

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Interesting. Does publicity help or hinder their plight? Was Margaret Thatcher right to decry the 'oxygen of publicity'? The dilemma is beginning to haunt editors everywhere. How do you deal with this wave of hostage taking from Russia to Iraq? How do you cover something where, time and again, your coverage is part of the reason why the hostages were taken in the first place?

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Rove McManus knows an opportunity when he sees one. TELEVISION host Rove McManus today ambushed Prime Minister John Howard outside an election event with an invitation to appear on his chat show. Please, sir ... Rove does his best to persuade Mr Howard, but to no avail. The gold Logie winner has been appealing unsuccessfully to Mr Howard to go on his Rove Live show on Channel 10. Today he

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This is a great read from Gerard Baker about those stupid Americans. All the more bewildering for the rest of the world, and for Europeans in particular, is that Bush's gains seem to be solidifying even as the war in Iraq turns uglier. Car bombings, kidnappings, beheadings – and all the time Bush's appeal to Americans edges up. How can this be? There are a couple of comforting explanations the

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The Wilderness Society has dumped a tonne of wood chips on the pavement at the very front door of Peter Garret's Labor Party office. An activist dressed in a quoll suit lay "dead" in the doorway. The Wilderness Society's NSW Campaign Manager Francesca Andreoni said a protester dressed as a giant quoll joined activists and volunteers in the protest, calling on Labor to commit to protecting

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Bob Dylan, one of THE icons of the 60's "counter culture" dreamt of a nine-to-five existence and longed for John Howard's much villified "house with a white picket fence". "The world was absurd ... I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of," Dylan says. "I was fantasising about a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined

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President Bashir al-Assad of Syria is in secret negotiations with Iran to secure a safe haven for a group of Iraqi nuclear scientists that was sent to Damascus before last year's war to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Intelligence officials said about 12 middle-ranking Iraqi nuclear technicians and their families were transported to Syria before the collapse of Saddam's regime. The transfer was

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Australia is faced with the prospect of every government in the country being ruled by Labor. Every State government is currently a Labor Government. If Latham and the ALP win power and form the Federal Government then no one and nothing can stop them from implementing their craziest, left-wing, politically correct, economically and socially dangerous legislation. Even the Senate could be

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For the price of a few bananas the Federal government could totally rework the current expensive Arts grants scheme, outsourcing the work of artists to chimps. No one would know the difference. A CHIMPANZEE called Asuka seems to have taken the Japanese art world by storm.In a short time the three-year-old chimp has created nearly 100 works of art, which have been showing in Tokyo galleries.

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The Greens Peter Garrett presided at the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) while a battle raged over a dying widow's money. Charities and groups such as the ACF hounded the woman in her last days each urging her to bequeath them her money. A WEALTHY widow's $600,000 dying wish has been shattered by a leading green group headed at the time by Labor candidate Peter Garrett. The Australian

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Abandoning any pretence at civilized, balanced, or fair media commentary the online political editor of the Sydney Morning Herald resorts to this: Come on, voters in Liberal seats, do your duty and chuck these bastards out for a term to teach them the lesson that we care about our democracy and that the Government has shamed us all, not to mention made Australia and Australians less safe. The

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The team-mate that slapped Lay Down Sally on the shoulder has been given a two year ban suspended on the condition of good behaviour. Just a tad harsh. "We had a breach of the code of conduct which was obviously a serious breach," McNamara said. "Catriona has acknowledged that. "Rowing Australia has imposed a penalty of suspension from the national teams for 2005 - 2006. Rowing Australia

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Mr Latham compared the election contest to Star Wars, and cast himself as Luke Skywalker, with the Prime Minister as Darth Vader. "I think I would be Luke, the last of the Jedi knights, and I hope in this campaign the force is with me," he said. "Although I know one thing for sure. John Howard is not my father." The imperious Skywalker then went on to say, "If the Emperor Johnny Howard thinks

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The banana republic is making a comeback, thanks to the ALP - and the banana IRA. "We've received a letter from Biosecurity Australia seeking an extension of time to answer those questions until, surprise, surprise, after the federal election," Senator McLucas said. "This is another example of (Agriculture Minister) Warren Truss and Biosecurity Australia attempting to ensure the information

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The ABC headline tells the story: "Harassment denied in passport seizure". Happy go lucky butcher Kusmir Nesirwan has had his passport seized at Sydney airport as he prepared to jet out to Indonesia, on September 14th 2004, six days after the Jakarta embassy bomb blast. ASIO has declared him a leading member of Jemaah Islamiah's Australian support group and "assessed he has significant

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Who is this Rebecca Twigley? And just why is she in the news? Coverage of Rebecca Twigley's unforgettable arrival at the AFL's night of nights created a ravenous appetite for information on the model girlfriend of West Coast star Chris Judd like we've never seen before. Even the crowning of former rugby league cheerleader Jennifer Hawkins as Miss Universe last June couldn't rival the "tale of

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PAULINE Hanson stands to receive hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars simply for contesting the October 9 election. The One Nation founder will receive almost $420,000 in public funds if she repeats her performance at the 2001 election. This is because of special election funding provisions, which allocate $1.94 for each primary vote candidates receive above a set threshold. The

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Democrat supporters must be losing hope that John Kerry can win. How do we know? Because they are already defining their victim status and manufacturing reasons for losing. In the same way that they bleated over hanging chads, and hanging judges, after the last US election. Millions of US citizens, including a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from voting in the

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What role do the media play in generating the news that they report on. Check this: In response to a question from a journalist: Prime Minister John Howard was forced to reassure Asian neighbours he had no plans to launch unilateral military strikes on terrorist networks across the region. And why was that necessary? In a noisy airport terminal, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister was told that

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A reporter asks John Howard the question about pre-emption: The question was, "If you knew there was going to be an attack on Australia, would you be willing to act to stop it?", and gets the answer, "Yes". A reporter asks Mark Latham the same question and gets the unequivocal answer of "No.". Latham and the ALP would not attack terrorists pre-emptively to prevent the deaths of Australians in a

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Iraq's Prime Minister says toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is miserable sitting in a jail cell awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity and has begged for mercy. Saddam is also a bit nervy. As he was being taken to the court, Saddam was "visibly trembling". "He thought things would go as they had done in his time and that he was being taken for execution," he said. "He only

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This Sunday, 26th September, a "spontaneous" march will be organised to protest at John Howard's election launch. The march has been endorsed by Griffith University professor Ian Lowe, A Just Australia, ALP Senator Claire Moore, National Union of Students president Jodie Jansen, the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth, Murri community activist Sam Watson, Rally for Peace, the Iraq

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Mark Latham said that there was NO WAY he would strike first if he knew terrorists were about to kill Australians. Now the ALP is pretending this spineless failure of character is a virtue !! Labor accused Prime Minister John Howard of undermining the war on terror by his renewed support for pre-emptive strikes.

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Just a little while back the media was straight-faced and full of this sort of thing. PRIME Minister John Howard had compromised the neutrality of defence forces by distributing an election campaign brochure showing images of him with Australian troops in Iraq, Labor said today. The PM it was argued must not be seen, photographed, or filmed with Defence personnel, because, it's claimed, that is

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Mark Latham did not like the question that was asked, about just where it was his son would be going to school. So he's gone to the Press Gallery looking for some censorship, and asking for action against the reporter, Samantha Maiden. Later, at a Darwin press conference, the Labor leader boiled over, suggesting "it was not coincidental" the media was asking about which school his

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Mark has been accused of stacking a branch just weeks before running for PM. Federal Labor leader Mark Latham asked party numbers man Sam Bargshoon to stack an ALP branch for him shortly before becoming leader, a NSW parliamentary inquiry was told today. Mr Bargshoon, who has admitted to branch stacking for both factions of the ALP, said Mr Latham had asked him to shore up south-west Sydney's

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"My primary responsibility in life is as a parent. These are not grown men who can speak for themselves." - Mark Latham. No Mark, your primary responsibility in life, as Prime Minister, is to speak for and defend the interests of all Australian parents and children. Not your own children. You make out that ordinary people must send their kids to public schools, and then send your own to a

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The public schools landscape is overshadowed by the might of the ALP dominated Teachers' unions. Read this appalling example. A Rhodes scholar who wanted to become a teacher was rejected out of hand by the public school system only to be fought over by the private schools wanting to snap her up. She is now working in one of the elite private schools that Latham has targetted with his cuts.

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Depending upon whether he wins the election or not, Mark Latham has got his son booked for a private pre-school. Mr Latham said his son was listed for a couple of pre-schools. The most likely pre-school is expected to be an operation based on the grounds of a low-fee private school. It is understood there are no council-based pre-schools in the immediate area. Nothing but the best for young

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Mark Latham has promised that he would NOT ACT to protect the lives of Australian citizens if a terrorist group was planning to attack Australia. Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham says he would not support pre-emptive action if a terrorist group was planning to attack Australia from a neighbouring country. Mr Latham has answered the hypothetical question about how he would react as prime

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The UN is threatening (only threatening mind you) punitive sanctions that will harm the poor people of Sudan, especially those being targeted for genocide by the muslim janjaweed aided and abetted by the Sudanes government. Parlysed by peace activists, and in fear of a backlash from muslim extremists, the countries of the UN will not commit the small number of troops necessary to stop the

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We all have seen a little of what lies inside the pressure cooker, and the lid lifted again today, just a tad. Hope we get to see what's cooking inside, el dente, before election day. Well, you know, smart alec commentary, Laurie, is no use to me, nor the polls," Mr Latham said. The Labor leader's voice started to rise when Mr Oakes repeatedly questioned him about his claim that his weekly

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The headline screams: "Howard cashes up Sydney candidates": Prime Minister John Howard has announced a $50 million package to help the campaigns of 12 Liberal candidates in the western Sydney area. The clear implication is that Howard has given cash to the candidates for their campaign, but that is not true. The 12 Liberal candidates get no cash. The reality is that election policy

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Mark Latham will not answer the question. Is his son on the waiting list for a Private School or not? Mr Latham said it was private business and accused some journalists of trying to pry into the private life of his three-year-old son. It follows rumours on Sydney radio last week that suggested Oliver was on a waiting list for a private pre-school. The Labor leader said Oliver's name was down

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Tee hee. This is quite funny. Latham spurts out this stuff and the media chooks lap it up. This man has some similarities with Joh Bjelke Peterson. The Opposition Leader, Mark Latham, today promised to serve as prime minister until the war on terrorism was won. Speaking at the Labor Party's West Australian campaign launch, Mr Latham said he was the only prime ministerial candidate to

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Demonstrating his skills of taqqiya, Bugsy Bashir has denounced terrorism and has denied any involvement in the Australian Embassy, Marriot Hotel and Kuningan bombings. I personally condemn the bombing (and) I am deeply sorry and express my condolences to the victims," Abu Bakar Bashir said according to his lawyer Wirawan Adnan who had visited the cleric in his cell in Cipinang Prison. Bashir

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In that blog called the Sydney Morning Herald serial pretender Richard Glover says "Trust me and my search engine" and proceeds to deride John Howard and to give a boost to his pal "Mark Latham". Says Carlton: Your Google search for the terms "John Howard" and "trust" resulted in 137,432 matches: and Your Google search for the terms "Mark Latham" and "ease the squeeze" resulted in 137,433

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An excellent bio of "Jack" a.k.a. John Howard, PM. It's been 34 years since he told Janette Parker, on the St Valentine's Day they met, that he would be prime minister one day. It was another 17 years, in 1987, before she said publicly: "For me it's just been a matter of time. I think it is our destiny. He told me he'd be prime minister the first time we met. He will be, wait and see." It took

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Labor and the Greens have done a deal so the Greens direct their preferences to Labor in the Lower House in return for Labor directing its preferences to the Greens in the Senate. The likely result will be a better chance for Labor to win the election and also a much larger Greens presence in the Senate. Australia may soon be ruled by socialists in all governments, coast to coast, state and

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Don't let anyone know... ABC TV's Media Watch has won the 2004 George Munster Award for independent journalism. The winning episodes include "The ABC of Free Speech", and "The Minister's Complaint" which examined the difficulties in maintaining editorial integrity in the face of political pressure. Australian Centre for Independent Journalism director Chris Nash says the six episodes submitted

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Media identity Keysar Trad has emerged to speak on behalf of the muslim cleric Sheik Mohammed Naji who earlier was reported as being kidnapped in Iraq and then released after a $36,000 ransom was paid. According to Mr Trad, the sheikh wasn't kidnapped and no ransom was paid. He just had his wallet stolen, which happened to contain $36,000. Lebanese Muslim Association director Keysar Trad, a

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Despite the caption, which says, "Devastation... the embassy building after the blast", the captioned picture shown here is NOT a picture of the Australian embassy in Jakarta. The embassy is a tougher low-rise building 2 or 3 stories high that was, except for its gate and fence, comparatively unscathed by the blast. See here. Far better for media sales revenues to show the picture with the

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Lay Down Sally is still the centre of attention. Relations within the Australian women's eight rowing crew hit a new low with Olympian Catriona Oliver slapping team-mate Sally Robbins in front of onlookers at an official function on Wednesday night. Rowing Australia chief executive Andrew Dee confirmed the incident and said Oliver would be sanctioned next week. According to Dee, who was not

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This is interesting. an Australian citizen was held hostage for three days by Iraqi militants last week and released for a ransom of $36,000. ABC television's Lateline program says one of Sydney's leading Shia Clerics, Sheik Mohamed Sidbiyani, was taken hostage by a gang of Sunni insurgents last week and was released three days later after the ransom was paid. The program says the Sheik was

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The fact this current hostage situation appears to be a hoax does not mean that we will not suddenly be confronted by pictures of bound hostages on the news a few nights from now. Who knows? I think we should brace ourselves in any case, especially with an election looming on the horizon, just over 3 weeks away. Australia has sent a 15-member team of Defence and federal police officers to Iraq

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Where is the outrage at the terrible and continuing suffering in the Sudan? The UN is presiding over a slow version of Rwanda where they also sat back and watched. PEACE talks between the Sudanese government and rebels in Sudan's bloodied Darfur region have collapsed after three weeks, a rebel faction said today. "The talks have collapsed already," said Ahmed Tugod Lissan of the Justice and

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The Prime Minister John Howard has accused the ALP of waging class warfare by targetting well-to-do private schools. Mr Howard warned the current schools on the Labor hit list could be just the beginning and said the plan was old-fashioned class warfare. "We will not go down the divisive path of opening up old hatreds and old differences in this area," he said. "It is a form of old fashioned

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With bipartisan support for the stance of not negotiating with terrorists the media has been writhing this way and that looking for a wedge opening. On the ABC news this evening they thought they'd found one. John Howard announced that there would be no negotiation with terrorists. Mr Howard is adamant he will not negotiate with the terrorists. Labor leader Mark Latham supports that position.

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Labor abandons the lumpen proletariat, and is instead seeking after the votes of the bourgeois middle class. Opposition Leader Mark Latham today conceded a mother of three who embarrassed a Labor MP on talkback radio would be worse off under the ALP's family and tax package. Mr Latham said the woman, who phoned a Perth radio station complaining about Labor's policies, would be $461 a year worse

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The media were all over the "25 minute SMS warning" like flies. Here, they thought, was a truth overboard scenario. You could see the angle being worked up was "the government knew and did nothing". As it turns out the SMS message may have been a misinformed report by a businessman to the AFP that was passed onto the government. Now the media want to turn it into "the government

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Arthur Chrenkoff has released the tenth issue of his Good News from Iraq series. The free and democratic elections are still a few months away, but the people of Iraq are already looking forward to the opportunity of electing their own government. The Iraq office of the International Republican Institute has recently released the results of an August poll of public attitudes inside Iraq...

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This hoary old chestnut has been dug up again. Was Australia a target before the Iraq war? Well, duurh! Have the jihadis noticed that we fight against them and fought in the Iraq war? Well, duurh! Do they want to target us specifically? Well, duurh! We call upon you to leave Iraq before your country turns to pools of blood," the statement warned the Australian Government. As far as I know

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Watching this evenings TV debate between Howard and Latham as dispassionately as possible I could not say which of the two had won the debate. Not that winning a debate means that you are right, winning a debate just means you sound right. I thought it was very close. I thought Latham wrong about most everything he said but he was saying it very convincingly. Sort of like those very

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Andrew Wilkie has claimed that the Prime Minister of Australia may be pleased at the terrorist outrage of last Thursday. "The terrorist outrage of last Thursday may please Prime Minister John Howard, particularly given his track record to try and play up national security for his own cynical political advantage," Mr Wilkie said. Oops, Andrew. No one's going to take you seriously now. Surely

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Despite everything, Paul is apparently still employed at the Sydney Morning Herald. Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has been accused of shooting seven Iraqi insurgents, killing six of them, in the week leading up to the handover of power from the US last month. Two unnamed people alleged to have seen the shootings have told Australian journalist Paul McGeough that Dr Allawi shot the

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A Labor government would produce budget surpluses daily. Milk and honey on tap, bread and circuses for all. If you'll just vote for Mark Latham and the gang all your dreams will come true. No need to vote Greens, because the ALP has a committment to deliver cold fusion into every home. By 2090 no Australian child will live in poverty. There's no need to vote Liberal, because Simon Crean is

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In case you were wondering what it's all about, why Australia must stay the course in the war against barbarism: It's about your right to go about your business, without being killed, maimed, kidnapped, or coerced to join a bloody religion.

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A little boy looks up with his tearful eyes and asks in his soft little voice for a drink of water, and the 'fighter' bayonets him in the body. A little girl and her Indonesian mum are waiting on the footpath when they are suddenly pierced, punctured and lacerated by a 'fighter'. They are smashed down and silently scream. Lapsing into unconsciousness, their life's blood drains away. The

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Hubble bubble, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. The witch concocts her hate full poison. Does Howard think we've lost our memory about AFP Chief Mick Keelty's remark that invading Iraq had made us a bigger terorrist target, or that Howard brutally put him down (with the support of his ADF toady Peter Cosgrove) for fear that HE would be blamed if we were attacked? (See Why

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Sex, drugs and corruption among United Nations peacekeeping forces in the world's most dangerous hot spots will become fodder for a new TV series, according to the whistleblowing authors of a tell-all book. The book, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, written by current and former UN peacekeeping mission employees Heidi Postlewait, Andrew Thomson and Kenneth Cain, will be developed and

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Just eleven days ago the Treasurer, Peter Costello warned that Australia had to be careful to ward off a terrorist attack similar to the Madrid train bombings, which happened during the Spanish government elections, and which had the effect of deciding the outcome of the election there in favor of the terrorists. On the day of the attack against the Australian embassy the leaders of our

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Looking for the big scoop, the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has put out an appeal for photos or eyewitness evidence of the Djakarta blast. Let's hope the SMH will pass on all information or photos they receive to the Australian authorities. If you have evidence that the SMH has received information that they did not pass onto the Australian Federal Police could you please let me know in email or

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Not all of the 30 Chechnyan or Arabic 'fighters' were 100% behind the idea of blowing up and shooting toddlers. There was a brief discussion on the subject: Some of the militants objected to seizing a school, and their leader, who went by the name Colonel, shot one of them. He said he would do the same to any other militants or hostages who did not show "unconditional obedience." Later that

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Islamic fighter, David Hicks, and recruiter for islamic jihad, Mamdouh Habib, have asked for postal voting forms to be sent them while they are on holidays in Cuba. But how can this be? For a muslim voting is haram, forbidden, because one would be voting for infidels, non-muslims, in kufr, a non-muslim system. As staunch British citizens in England will tell you: ...the disease of democracy

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Deriding the government's 2003 Budget the Labor Party heckled the government on its "sandwich and a milkshake" tax cut (of between $4 and $11 week). The lower figure of $4 was always quoted in the press and Labor derided the tax cut as "insignificant" Today with much press fanfare Mark Latham has announced a similar tax cut (originally flagged by Simon Crean). $8 per week. It's the ALP's

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The running dogs in the Western bourgeois press have been very keen to blame the slaughter of the innocents, not on the perpetrators, but on the Russian people and their government. The bourgeois press in Russia are following suit. The lumpen proletariat however think they know where the blame lies: ...the bloodshed in Beslan has sparked a primal anger among some Russians that the government

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For those of you who were wondering.

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Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown is very keen to get Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks out of Guantanimo Bay where they are being held safely and where they cause no harm. But in the ABC's recent documentary Habib's fellow hardline muslims explained that he was allegedly raising money and recruiting jihadis in Australia for Chechnya, before he headed off to Pakistan where, coincidentally, he was

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Reader Rodney writes to point out this item in the Canberra Times. The headline says it all: "Putin Stance Fans Terror". If Putin is on the horns of a dilemma, he has no-one to blame but himself. His obduracy has needlessly fanned a nationalist struggle into a wider conflagration in which there are likely to be many more victims.

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