Thursday, February 03, 2011
Australia: Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson killed in Afghanistan.
Digger Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson killed by roadside bomb
By Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph February 03, 2011
A DIGGER, engaged to be married, has been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan and a second seriously wounded.
The Department of Defence announced Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson was killed in the incident caused by an improvised explosive device.
The soldiers were with Mentoring Task Group 2 on patrol in the Oruzgan province.
Defence said Corporal Atkinson was a member of the Darwin-based 1st Combat Engineering Regiment and was engaged to be married. He was originally from Western Australia.
He is the twenty-second Australian solider to die in Afghanistan.
The wounded soldier, who was retrieved from the area by helicopter and remains in hospital in Tarin Kowt, has not been named. Defence said he was in a stable condition.
God Bless you Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson,thank you.
Australia,Queensland, Cyclone Yasi aftermath
Thankfully so far there are no reports of deaths of injuries
Australia,Queensland : Cyclone Yasi Head Quarters.
Many Thanks to Rick Bush for this link
Yasi crosses Queensland coast
1:41AM CYCLONE Yasi is starting to cross the north Queensland coast near Mission Beach, about 50km south of Innisfail, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
- Editorial: Queensland's longest day
- Gallery: Cyclone Yasi hits
- Listen: Cyclone Tracy Audio
- Listen: Resident waits it out
- Cyclone: Extreme moments that bare souls
Shelter in pub for kids of Babinda
HUDDLING in the cellar of the historic Babinda Hotel, the cyclone kids tell each other stories to block out the roaring winds outside.
Extreme moments that bare souls
A CYCLONE warning is always the catalyst for a mad rush for emergency supplies, a two-hour wait to buy fuel. Then nothing, but an agonising wait.
Longest day all too brief
BY several other measures yesterday was both the longest and the shortest day in Queensland's history. Cyclone Yasi bore down hard.
Australia’s Ombudsman / Person / Mrs./ Miss./ ms. (enlightened being) Outraged over Illegal Entrant accommodation.
Whilst Australians fight for FOOD and sleep on the floor in Cyclone Yasi evacuation centers and wherever they can in the OPEN in Queensland
Crowded house detention flaws
Simon Benson
The Daily Telegraph
February 03, 2011 12:00AM
THE Commonwealth Ombudsman will today hand down a scathing report into the Christmas Island detention centre.
During the two-year inquiry by Ombudsman Allan Asher's office, the number of detainees jumped from 32 to 2757.
"Christmas Island is overloaded," Mr Asher said in the report to be released today.
"There is little doubt resources have been sorely stretched as the facilities have sought to accommodate a continued increase in numbers.
"We remain concerned about timeliness in processing refugee applications, delays in security agency clearances and various health issues -
particularly those related to mental health."
While the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) was doing the best it could, the facility in its current form had become unsustainable:
"When Ombudsman staff first visited the Christmas Island immigration detention facilities in October, 2008, 32 people were detained there out of a
nominal operational capacity of 744.
"By the time this report was finalised, DIAC advised there were some 2757 people awaiting processing of claims, 2000 more than the facilities were
designed to accommodate."
The Ombudsman's recommendations included dramatically increasing mental health and general health services to the island. It also recommended
increased accommodation, education and recreation.
Australians are,as I write, fighting for food in Cyclone evacuation centers, sleeping on bare floors or under whatever shelter they can find out doors, I am sure these Illegal Entrants are unlike, those who pay taxes to support these illegals, well fed and are sleeping in warm beds.
Boo Fucking Hoo for Illegal Muslim Immigrants on CHRISTmas Island.
Mr Asher also called for community detention on mainland Australia for unaccompanied minors, families with children, and people who have received
positive assessments.
"Attempting to manage more [refugee applicants with] the existing level of resources potentially brings with it other problems," the report said.
Simple solution, a win win for Australians the Ombudsperson / Ombudsthingoh and the illegal entrants, send the illegal Muslim entrants back to the Islamic Utopia they ran away from, that they demand be imposed upon Australia.
Problems solved !!!!!