Screws helped smuggle gangster sperm
By Linda Silmalis
July 12, 2009 12:00am
THREE of the State's highest-ranking prison officials helped a notorious gangland criminal smuggle his sperm out of jail so he could father a child with his girlfriend.
It is understood officials used a medical courier, believed to be the taxpayer-funded Justice Health, to speed specimens to the woman and that it took two attempts for her to conceive.
Their involvement has made a joke of security in NSW prisons and embarrassed the man who appointed them, Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham.
The Sunday Telegraph learned of the serious breach of security on Thursday as staff were being put on notice that they would be called in for interviews by Mr Woodham, who was alerted to the breach by another agency.
For legal reasons, we cannot identify the inmate - a major underworld figure - or his connections, the suspended staff or the prison, making it difficult to portray the seriousness of the breach.
But it is without doubt the Corrective Services Department's biggest embarrassment since Lucy Dudko used a hijacked helicopter to free armed robber John Killick from Silverwater jail in 1999.
The legal restrictions allow Mr Woodham to avoid public scrutiny and the State Government to shut down reporting of the incident.
Corrective Services Minister John Robertson announced an in-house investigation would be conducted by former police chief superintendent Rod Harvey.
"The minister is deeply concerned by this serious breach of protocol, but we're unable to comment further at the moment for legal reasons," Mr Robertson's spokeswoman said.
A doctor and a nurse from Justice Health have been interviewed over their role in the plot and are understood to have also been stood down pending further inquiries.
Prison sources claim three prison officials under investigation are regarded as some of Mr Woodham's closest allies. It is understood the trio were suspended on June 25 on full pay.
Senior prison sources said one of them carried the sample to a medical courier waiting at the prison gates. The prisoner's partner eventually gave birth to a boy about 10 months ago.
"Ron went off his head when he found out about it last week," a senior prison source said. "All the officers of the jail have been sworn to secrecy, but bits and pieces have come out."
Last week Assistant Commissioner Don Rodgers told staff security of the prison system had been "seriously compromised".
Serious questions about the management of the prison system remain. Last month, gang-rapist brothers Bilal and Mohammed Skaf were found with two hidden mobile phones in a maximum-security jail cell.
This month, the department was again embarrassed after the escape of Robert John Everingham, 41, from a hospital.
Everingham was being treated at the Waverley War Memorial Hospital in Sydney when he escaped, causing a security alert at a nearby girls' school.
This is nothing more than a conspiracy committed by people, paid to protect the people of New South Wales from criminals,willing to do what they did in exchange for WHAT ? and from who ?
Ron Woodham is, from all reports a good bloke, straight up and down, so how did this happen ? just what is it that this criminal had over his co conspirators ?
BTW Guess what ethnic Multicultural group controls the NSW Jails ?..........yes you got it "those of who we do not speak".... PIOUS MUSLIMS.
To be fair to those who have been stood down no one knows what possible pressures were brought to bear upon them or their families,it may not be a case of cash for sperm trafficking, it could be a case of do this or kiss you own family good bye, who knows.
A blog revealing the horrors of Islam,International Socialism,the misery these two evils are inflicting upon the free the world,and those it has already enslaved,along with various articles revealing the attacks from within upon the western Judeo Christian ethic by those we entrusted to preserve it. Videos and Pictures of many varied subjects from around the world, along with some jokes of mine and any funny ones you want to send me.
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Warning to all Muslims the world over seeking asylum and protection from the manifestations of their faith.
Do not under any circumstances come to Australia, for we are a Nation founded upon Judeo Christian Law and principles and as such Australia is an anathema to any follower of the Paedophile Slave Trader Mohammad's cult of Islam.
There is no ideology more hated and despised in Australia than Islam.You simply would not like it here.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Those who demand you believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace also demand you believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Aussie News & Views Jan 1 2009
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"But Communism is the god of discontent, and needs no blessing. All it needs is a heart willing to hate, willing to call envy “justice."
Equality then means the violent destruction of all social and cultural distinctions. Freedom means absolute dictatorship over the people."
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“ If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
“There may be even a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves”
Winston Churchill. Pg.310 “The Hell Makers” John C. Grover ISBN # 0 7316 1918 8
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This matters above everything.
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'a socialist is communist without the courage of conviction to say what he really is'.
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Hontar: We must work in the world, your eminence. The world is thus.
Altamirano: No, Señor Hontar. Thus have we made the world... thus have I made it.
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Voltaire said: “If you want to know who rules over you, just find out who you are not permitted to criticize.”
--------Check this out, what an Bum WOW!!!!
When those sworn to destroy you,Communism, Socialism,"Change you can Believe in" via their rabid salivating Mongrel Dog,Islam,take away your humanity, your God given Sanctity of Life, Created in His Image , If you are lucky this prayer is maybe all you have left, If you believe in God and his Son,Jesus Christ, then you are, despite the evils that may befall you are better off than most.
Lord, I come before You with a heavy heart. I feel so much and yet sometimes I feel nothing at all. I don't know where to turn, who to talk to, or how to deal with the things going on in my life. You see everything, Lord. You know everything, Lord. Yet when I seek you it is so hard to feel You here with me. Lord, help me through this. I don't see any other way to get out of this. There is no light at the end of my tunnel, yet everyone says You can show it to me. Lord, help me find that light. Let it be Your light. Give me someone to help. Let me feel You with me. Lord, let me see what You provide and see an alternative to taking my life. Let me feel Your blessings and comfort. Amen.
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"The chief weapon in the quiver of all Islamist expansionist movements, is the absolute necessity to keep victims largely unaware of the actual theology plotting their demise. To complete this deception, a large body of ‘moderates’ continue to spew such ridiculous claims as “Islam means Peace” thereby keeping non-Muslims from actually reading the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, or actually looking into the past 1400 years of history. Islamists also deny or dismiss the concept of ‘abrogation’, which is the universal intra-Islamic method of replacing slightly more tolerable aspects of the religion in favor of more violent demands for Muslims to slay and subdue infidels"
*DO NOT CLICK ON ANY SENDVID VIDEOS *
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Ding Dong the Peadophile Bitch is Dead
Sex offender Robert 'Dolly' Dunn dies in jail
News.com.au
July 11, 2009 08:01am
CONVICTED pedophile Robert "Dolly" Dunn has died in jail aged 68.
Dunn died in Long Bay Prison Hospital at 4am (AEST) on Saturday, a New South Wales Corrective Services spokesman said.
He was serving a 20-year sentence for a series of sexual offences against boys in the 1980s and 1990s.
Dunn, a former school teacher, would have been eligible for parole in 2015, the spokesman said.
In 1996 a Royal Commission chaired by Justice James Woods was shown home videos and photographs from Dunn's collection featuring images of child sex abuse involving Dunn himself.
Dunn fled the country but was later found in Honduras and was successfully extradited back to Australia.
From jail he repeatedly made statements that he saw nothing wrong with sex between men and boys.
He was suffering multiple organ failure and in 2004 underwent coronary bypass surgery after suffering from angina.
Based upon the "conga lines of suck holes" (not mine but I promised myself I would use it one day ) from the ranks of the "beautiful people" and various professional " African American" industries who lined up to praise and pay homage to Michael Jackson last week in the USA, anything less than a State Funeral for this piece of shit would be a gross breech of protocol.
News.com.au
July 11, 2009 08:01am
CONVICTED pedophile Robert "Dolly" Dunn has died in jail aged 68.
Dunn died in Long Bay Prison Hospital at 4am (AEST) on Saturday, a New South Wales Corrective Services spokesman said.
He was serving a 20-year sentence for a series of sexual offences against boys in the 1980s and 1990s.
Dunn, a former school teacher, would have been eligible for parole in 2015, the spokesman said.
In 1996 a Royal Commission chaired by Justice James Woods was shown home videos and photographs from Dunn's collection featuring images of child sex abuse involving Dunn himself.
Dunn fled the country but was later found in Honduras and was successfully extradited back to Australia.
From jail he repeatedly made statements that he saw nothing wrong with sex between men and boys.
He was suffering multiple organ failure and in 2004 underwent coronary bypass surgery after suffering from angina.
Based upon the "conga lines of suck holes" (not mine but I promised myself I would use it one day ) from the ranks of the "beautiful people" and various professional " African American" industries who lined up to praise and pay homage to Michael Jackson last week in the USA, anything less than a State Funeral for this piece of shit would be a gross breech of protocol.
More Proof that Kevin 07's illegal alien policies are working as another 73 illegals are greeted by the Royal Australian Navy
Navy intercepts suspected asylum boat
The Sunday Telegraph
July 12, 2009
A BOAT carrying more than 70 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted by the Australian navy off Christmas Island. The boat, sighted yesterday at 2.20pm about 80 nautical miles north-west from Christmas Island, was surveyed by HMAS Armidale from 6pm before being intercepted.
Initial indications suggest 73 people were on board the vessel.
A spokesman for Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor confirmed the boat was not the one carrying a group of 74 Afghan asylum seekers who went missing after their vessel broke down in the Sape Strait last Wednesday.
"This one that arrived yesterday is a completely different one,'' the spokesman said.
The group will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo security,identity and health checks to establish their identity and reasons for travel.
"Success" and even more "Success",more proof Kevin Rudd's Open Boarders Policies are working,with yet another boatload of illegal aliens entering Australian sovereign territory to be greeted by the Royal Australian Navy, and safely escorted to sanctuary at Christmas Island, where they will be "processed" ie. asked to answer yes or no to the following 1.are you a terrorists 2.do you have a criminal record,given full medical and dental treatments where required,free legal representation,unlimited free unmonitored access to the Internet and international telephone services to anywhere in the world,free access to child minding services,schooling,"skills courses",clothing shoes ans anything else their hearts desire. Following the "welcoming" at the aptly named Christmas Island, they are given Medicare cards giving them free and unlimited access to Medical and Dental services,Free Legal services so as to sue the Australian people should they feel their rights may have been violated during the "welcoming process",express access to FREE public housing along with unfettered access to Social Security benefits and services, free education, text books, uniforms, "white goods" vouchers and unlimited access to employment training scams / schemes, but hey why would they bother,no need to work here when Kevin 07 and his cabal of left wing apologists for Islam and International Socialism,simply take Australian aka.infidel "Working Families" taxes and redistribute them to illegal aliens they,correctly see as life long Labor Party voters after all they are not about to bite the hand that feeds,cloth's and houses them,
"......identity and health checks to establish their identity and reasons for travel."
Surely the "reason for travel" is obvious,even to the most dedicated apologist for Kevin 07.
10,000 Illegals Massing in Malaysia preparing to invade Australia
"You bone head, O'Connor, you are supposed to send them back to whence they came,NOT invite them in, this is the fifteenth bloody boatload this year you dope.
Whilst your Dear Leader Kevin 07 continues full speed ahead in his war against prosperity, you and that arse clown immigration Minister,are ensuring that as many illegals as possible are able to walk in the door totally unhindered whenever they want."
194 MORE "Illegal immigrants" found entering Australian waters
The Sunday Telegraph
July 12, 2009
A BOAT carrying more than 70 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted by the Australian navy off Christmas Island. The boat, sighted yesterday at 2.20pm about 80 nautical miles north-west from Christmas Island, was surveyed by HMAS Armidale from 6pm before being intercepted.
Initial indications suggest 73 people were on board the vessel.
A spokesman for Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor confirmed the boat was not the one carrying a group of 74 Afghan asylum seekers who went missing after their vessel broke down in the Sape Strait last Wednesday.
"This one that arrived yesterday is a completely different one,'' the spokesman said.
The group will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo security,identity and health checks to establish their identity and reasons for travel.
"Success" and even more "Success",more proof Kevin Rudd's Open Boarders Policies are working,with yet another boatload of illegal aliens entering Australian sovereign territory to be greeted by the Royal Australian Navy, and safely escorted to sanctuary at Christmas Island, where they will be "processed" ie. asked to answer yes or no to the following 1.are you a terrorists 2.do you have a criminal record,given full medical and dental treatments where required,free legal representation,unlimited free unmonitored access to the Internet and international telephone services to anywhere in the world,free access to child minding services,schooling,"skills courses",clothing shoes ans anything else their hearts desire. Following the "welcoming" at the aptly named Christmas Island, they are given Medicare cards giving them free and unlimited access to Medical and Dental services,Free Legal services so as to sue the Australian people should they feel their rights may have been violated during the "welcoming process",express access to FREE public housing along with unfettered access to Social Security benefits and services, free education, text books, uniforms, "white goods" vouchers and unlimited access to employment training scams / schemes, but hey why would they bother,no need to work here when Kevin 07 and his cabal of left wing apologists for Islam and International Socialism,simply take Australian aka.infidel "Working Families" taxes and redistribute them to illegal aliens they,correctly see as life long Labor Party voters after all they are not about to bite the hand that feeds,cloth's and houses them,
"It's about getting the balance right"
....remember that Kevin 07 election slogan "Working Families" ? that's what so many of you voted for in 2007, or at least that's what Kevin 07 tells us. yeah "........getting the balance right" yeah!!!!! feel that balance."......identity and health checks to establish their identity and reasons for travel."
Surely the "reason for travel" is obvious,even to the most dedicated apologist for Kevin 07.
10,000 Illegals Massing in Malaysia preparing to invade Australia
"You bone head, O'Connor, you are supposed to send them back to whence they came,NOT invite them in, this is the fifteenth bloody boatload this year you dope.
Whilst your Dear Leader Kevin 07 continues full speed ahead in his war against prosperity, you and that arse clown immigration Minister,are ensuring that as many illegals as possible are able to walk in the door totally unhindered whenever they want."
194 MORE "Illegal immigrants" found entering Australian waters
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Iran: Aussie News & Views
I have previously stated on this and another blog,Atlas Shrugs,via the comments section, that I have no inclination to support the Iranians presently (since the Iranian Presidential election) in their struggle for 'freedom"
I have stated immediately following the "unrest" by what can only be described as very brave Iranians irrespective of their Religious or Political beliefs, are only Iranians demanding that the west support them in their struggle to overthrow the existing Islamic Despot with THEIR Islamic Despot, I made the point that should the "good guys" win in Iran that they would have no hesitation in doing to myself and my loved ones what they are demanding the west (USA) prevent the successful Iranian Presidential candidate is doing to them should it suit their Religious / Social/ and Political Agenda.
The recent history has shown that the "matyers" in Iran are made up of the Christians, who I am yet to be convinced, are in any way capable of changing anything under any Islamic Republic and the Muslims who don't like the present NUT Job and want THEIR NUT Job, in charge of the Islamic KILLING Machine that operates in Iran totally free of and unencumbered by the UN's and the Lefts "Human Rights" Bull Shit.
Lets say Ah Ma Dinner Jacket,decides that it's all too much and calls the United Nations and asks for Ban Koo Moon or whatever the fuck his made up name is, and says "Hey Moon I am outa here,I don't need this shit I am back to the Carribean to retire"
Nothing would change, Oh yeah there would hundreds of thousands of "freedom fighters" marching through the streets of Tehran claiming "Victory" and the next day the same "freedom fighters" would be cheering their /the next Islamic Sociopath as he was inducted into Islamic Sociopaths Inc.aka the President of Iran, the only difference been that the latest Islamic Sociopath agreed with THEIR way that Islamic Sociopaths Inc.should be run, for the Iranian Christians and Jews it would be BUSINESS as Usual.
Or am I wrong? If I am, show me why I am wrong, If I am not,then why is Israel not bombing the fuck out of Iran? and why is it that the over whelmingly majority of Iranians who "escape" from Iran to the west are Muslims,how come the occasional Jew or Christian is unable to slip through the 'fence" ?
How come the only Iranians that manage to 'escape" to the West,and upon their arrival / discovery, in the west demand that their "new home" be turned into the same Islamic cess pool they claim to have run away from because they were oppressed?
I have stated immediately following the "unrest" by what can only be described as very brave Iranians irrespective of their Religious or Political beliefs, are only Iranians demanding that the west support them in their struggle to overthrow the existing Islamic Despot with THEIR Islamic Despot, I made the point that should the "good guys" win in Iran that they would have no hesitation in doing to myself and my loved ones what they are demanding the west (USA) prevent the successful Iranian Presidential candidate is doing to them should it suit their Religious / Social/ and Political Agenda.
The recent history has shown that the "matyers" in Iran are made up of the Christians, who I am yet to be convinced, are in any way capable of changing anything under any Islamic Republic and the Muslims who don't like the present NUT Job and want THEIR NUT Job, in charge of the Islamic KILLING Machine that operates in Iran totally free of and unencumbered by the UN's and the Lefts "Human Rights" Bull Shit.
Lets say Ah Ma Dinner Jacket,decides that it's all too much and calls the United Nations and asks for Ban Koo Moon or whatever the fuck his made up name is, and says "Hey Moon I am outa here,I don't need this shit I am back to the Carribean to retire"
Nothing would change, Oh yeah there would hundreds of thousands of "freedom fighters" marching through the streets of Tehran claiming "Victory" and the next day the same "freedom fighters" would be cheering their /the next Islamic Sociopath as he was inducted into Islamic Sociopaths Inc.aka the President of Iran, the only difference been that the latest Islamic Sociopath agreed with THEIR way that Islamic Sociopaths Inc.should be run, for the Iranian Christians and Jews it would be BUSINESS as Usual.
Or am I wrong? If I am, show me why I am wrong, If I am not,then why is Israel not bombing the fuck out of Iran? and why is it that the over whelmingly majority of Iranians who "escape" from Iran to the west are Muslims,how come the occasional Jew or Christian is unable to slip through the 'fence" ?
How come the only Iranians that manage to 'escape" to the West,and upon their arrival / discovery, in the west demand that their "new home" be turned into the same Islamic cess pool they claim to have run away from because they were oppressed?
Islam can only exist as an Oppressive Majority or as a Disruptive Minority
Just what can the "West" do for the Iranians who are opposed to the rule of the present Islamic Sociopath? how can the "west" facilitate the imposition of THEIR Islamic Sociopath of choice? how many infidel soldiers lives should be donated to the cause of facilitating /imposing an Islamic Sociopath of the dissidents choosing?
Islam IS what Islam DOES
Just what can the "West" do for the Iranians who are opposed to the rule of the present Islamic Sociopath? how can the "west" facilitate the imposition of THEIR Islamic Sociopath of choice? how many infidel soldiers lives should be donated to the cause of facilitating /imposing an Islamic Sociopath of the dissidents choosing?
Islam IS what Islam DOES
The "Problem" in Iran,is Islam,the Islamic "Donkey's" ideology and "spiritual" beliefs will remain CONSTANT, irrespective of the "Jockey" who's turn it is to ride the Donkey.
It's time to shoot the Donkey!!!!
and stop demanding those who have rejected the Donkeys ideology, die fighting FOR the Donkey.
Nazism is illegal in almost every FREE country on earth, Adolph Hitler & Nazisms co conspirator, Islam, is applauded, sanctioned and praised by the United Nations,The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, it exists without sanction and indeed is praised by the President of the United States of America,Barack Hussein Obama as a "Religion"that should be respected and honoured.
I can only assume that had the Islamists been defeated in WW2 Hussein Obama would be telling us what a great bunch of guys the Nazi's are today and how much we should respect their ideals and values and that Adolph Hitler was some kind of "prophet"
In closing can some "Black American" tell me why "Black Americans" appear to have such a subservient and apologetic relationship with Muslims /Islam? ,Islam within the USA and outside the USA, and at the same time demand that 21st Century white NON Muslim Americans pay "Black Americans" some recompense for their ancestral slavery, can I ask why these 21st Century "Black Americans" are not suing the shit out of the same 21st Century descendants of the ISLAMIC SLAVE TRADERS that captured their ancestors in Africa, processed them and wholesaled them into slavery in the USA, the Middle East and England.
Better still why are "Black Americans" silent TODAY when what it is so many of them are demanding White America pay them compensation for,is, as I write taking place NOW, by the descendants of the same Islamic Slave Traders they claim abducted their ancestors,
Why was it wrong THEN but NOT WRONG NOW?
George Clooney where are you ?
Oh!! that's right, Italy,THREE MONTHS AFTER an earth quake in Italy,paying homage to the victims at the same time your US President of choice is sucking up to the Pope and the G8, Oh yeah Clueless you are wanting to film a movie in the same town as the earthquake victims in a few weeks arn't you?, gee those earth quake victims are a real pain in the arse, just as well you did a meet and greet and showed them homeless wogs what a great guy you are.
Where is Hussein Obama and his UN sponsored Cheer squad when African Africans (is that what the left would call them?) need an advocate for slave reparations today?
I guess Hussein Obama and his followers can get by by kicking the shit out of whitey on the fourth of July. after all 28 million "African Americans"are now in charge, you got that Whitey? Good , now, if you still have a job go back to work.
It's time to shoot the Donkey!!!!
and stop demanding those who have rejected the Donkeys ideology, die fighting FOR the Donkey.
Nazism is illegal in almost every FREE country on earth, Adolph Hitler & Nazisms co conspirator, Islam, is applauded, sanctioned and praised by the United Nations,The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, it exists without sanction and indeed is praised by the President of the United States of America,Barack Hussein Obama as a "Religion"that should be respected and honoured.
I can only assume that had the Islamists been defeated in WW2 Hussein Obama would be telling us what a great bunch of guys the Nazi's are today and how much we should respect their ideals and values and that Adolph Hitler was some kind of "prophet"
In closing can some "Black American" tell me why "Black Americans" appear to have such a subservient and apologetic relationship with Muslims /Islam? ,Islam within the USA and outside the USA, and at the same time demand that 21st Century white NON Muslim Americans pay "Black Americans" some recompense for their ancestral slavery, can I ask why these 21st Century "Black Americans" are not suing the shit out of the same 21st Century descendants of the ISLAMIC SLAVE TRADERS that captured their ancestors in Africa, processed them and wholesaled them into slavery in the USA, the Middle East and England.
Better still why are "Black Americans" silent TODAY when what it is so many of them are demanding White America pay them compensation for,is, as I write taking place NOW, by the descendants of the same Islamic Slave Traders they claim abducted their ancestors,
Why was it wrong THEN but NOT WRONG NOW?
George Clooney where are you ?
Oh!! that's right, Italy,THREE MONTHS AFTER an earth quake in Italy,paying homage to the victims at the same time your US President of choice is sucking up to the Pope and the G8, Oh yeah Clueless you are wanting to film a movie in the same town as the earthquake victims in a few weeks arn't you?, gee those earth quake victims are a real pain in the arse, just as well you did a meet and greet and showed them homeless wogs what a great guy you are.
Where is Hussein Obama and his UN sponsored Cheer squad when African Africans (is that what the left would call them?) need an advocate for slave reparations today?
I guess Hussein Obama and his followers can get by by kicking the shit out of whitey on the fourth of July. after all 28 million "African Americans"are now in charge, you got that Whitey? Good , now, if you still have a job go back to work.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
When you dance with Rudd's Communist Devil there is occassionally a price to pay
Australian Rio Tinto exec held in China
By Xavier La Canna and Andrea Hayward
NEWS.com.au
July 08, 2009 07:19pm
THE detention of an Australian businessman in China on suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets is a warning about the dangers of dealing with the communist country's state-owned entities, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says Stern Hu, believed to be Rio Tinto's general manager of iron ore in China, together with three other executives from the global mining company are being detained by Chinese authorities.
"This afternoon Australian officials were advised that the reason for Mr Hu's detention was that he was being detained on the suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets," Mr Smith said.
He said consular officials had learned on Sunday of the detention in talks with Chinese officials in China and with the acting Chinese ambassador in Canberra.
The officials in China had been in contact with Mr Hu's wife who lives in Shanghai, Mr Smith said.
Consular officials were seeking access to Mr Hu and were doing everything they could to resolve the issue.
The detention of the Rio Tinto staff comes amid iron ore price negotiations between the miner and China steel mills.
It also comes a month after a state-owned company's bid to take a large stake in Rio Tinto failed - sparking Senator Joyce's warning the detentions should be a "sobering wake-up call".
Senator Joyce linked the detentions to a failed attempt by a Chinese state-owned company, Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco), to take a $US19.5 billion ($A24.7 billion) stake in Rio Tinto.
"Chinalco's failure to buy 18 per cent ownership of Rio would appear to have inspired Mr Hu's arrest and that of three other Rio workers," Senator Joyce said.
He said the move showed a slight to a state-owned entity in China would be pursued by the Chinese Government.
"This should be a clear example to Australia, and other countries around the world, of the extent of the relationship between a 100 per cent owned entity in the People's Republic of China and the actions of the Chinese Government," he said.
"The two are one in the same in ownership, in action, in purpose."
The Chinalco deal broke down last month when Rio Tinto abandoned the planned tie-up in favour of a deal with BHP Billiton and a share offering to raise money to help it reduce its company debt.
There has been unconfirmed speculation the arrests could relate to manipulation of the iron ore market.
Reports have also suggested Chinese authorities removed some computers from the mining company's Shanghai's offices after raiding the premises this week.
Rio Tinto and Chinese steel mills have been in tense negotiations over the contract price of iron ore, with Chinese companies seeking a drop in prices of 40-45 per cent.
Negotiations have continued longer than ever before.
According to reports out of China, Rio Tinto's iron ore team has been concerned phones and emails were being bugged, and have avoided meeting in China for more than a month.
The Rio Tinto team feared sensitive information was being sent to the China Iron and Steel Association, which is leading negotiations on iron ore contract prices.
The detention also comes amid unconfirmed reports today that Chinese steel mills had capitulated on iron ore contract prices.
According to the China Business News website the mills agreed to a 33 per cent cut in iron ore prices from suppliers.
Rio Tinto, the world's third largest mining company, earlier could not confirm the reasons the employees were being questioned by Chinese authorities but said they were concerned for their staff.
"We intend to cooperate fully with any investigation the Chinese authorities may wish to undertake and have sought clarification on what has occurred," it said.
"We are concerned about our people's wellbeing and are doing everything we can to help them and support their families."
The company has so far been unable to contact any of the men.
A spokeswoman at BHP Billiton, which has dozens of workers in Shanghai, said its operation in the Chinese city was proceeding normally.
A spokeswoman for Chinalco did not wish to comment on the situation.
Comrade Rudd, is, I am sure, busily taking notes on the tactics of his superiors at head office, in how to gain the advantage in a business transaction between a Communist Government and some arse clown Capitalist business executive stupid enough to believe the lie of Communism and Capatilism working hand in hand for mutual benefit.
The real joke is that Rudd and his Socialist Labor Party believe that they will be part of the Ruling Class, part of the Beijing elites if they succed in the plans to take over Australia
By Xavier La Canna and Andrea Hayward
NEWS.com.au
July 08, 2009 07:19pm
THE detention of an Australian businessman in China on suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets is a warning about the dangers of dealing with the communist country's state-owned entities, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says Stern Hu, believed to be Rio Tinto's general manager of iron ore in China, together with three other executives from the global mining company are being detained by Chinese authorities.
"This afternoon Australian officials were advised that the reason for Mr Hu's detention was that he was being detained on the suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets," Mr Smith said.
He said consular officials had learned on Sunday of the detention in talks with Chinese officials in China and with the acting Chinese ambassador in Canberra.
The officials in China had been in contact with Mr Hu's wife who lives in Shanghai, Mr Smith said.
Consular officials were seeking access to Mr Hu and were doing everything they could to resolve the issue.
The detention of the Rio Tinto staff comes amid iron ore price negotiations between the miner and China steel mills.
It also comes a month after a state-owned company's bid to take a large stake in Rio Tinto failed - sparking Senator Joyce's warning the detentions should be a "sobering wake-up call".
Senator Joyce linked the detentions to a failed attempt by a Chinese state-owned company, Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco), to take a $US19.5 billion ($A24.7 billion) stake in Rio Tinto.
"Chinalco's failure to buy 18 per cent ownership of Rio would appear to have inspired Mr Hu's arrest and that of three other Rio workers," Senator Joyce said.
He said the move showed a slight to a state-owned entity in China would be pursued by the Chinese Government.
"This should be a clear example to Australia, and other countries around the world, of the extent of the relationship between a 100 per cent owned entity in the People's Republic of China and the actions of the Chinese Government," he said.
"The two are one in the same in ownership, in action, in purpose."
The Chinalco deal broke down last month when Rio Tinto abandoned the planned tie-up in favour of a deal with BHP Billiton and a share offering to raise money to help it reduce its company debt.
There has been unconfirmed speculation the arrests could relate to manipulation of the iron ore market.
Reports have also suggested Chinese authorities removed some computers from the mining company's Shanghai's offices after raiding the premises this week.
Rio Tinto and Chinese steel mills have been in tense negotiations over the contract price of iron ore, with Chinese companies seeking a drop in prices of 40-45 per cent.
Negotiations have continued longer than ever before.
According to reports out of China, Rio Tinto's iron ore team has been concerned phones and emails were being bugged, and have avoided meeting in China for more than a month.
The Rio Tinto team feared sensitive information was being sent to the China Iron and Steel Association, which is leading negotiations on iron ore contract prices.
The detention also comes amid unconfirmed reports today that Chinese steel mills had capitulated on iron ore contract prices.
According to the China Business News website the mills agreed to a 33 per cent cut in iron ore prices from suppliers.
Rio Tinto, the world's third largest mining company, earlier could not confirm the reasons the employees were being questioned by Chinese authorities but said they were concerned for their staff.
"We intend to cooperate fully with any investigation the Chinese authorities may wish to undertake and have sought clarification on what has occurred," it said.
"We are concerned about our people's wellbeing and are doing everything we can to help them and support their families."
The company has so far been unable to contact any of the men.
A spokeswoman at BHP Billiton, which has dozens of workers in Shanghai, said its operation in the Chinese city was proceeding normally.
A spokeswoman for Chinalco did not wish to comment on the situation.
Comrade Rudd, is, I am sure, busily taking notes on the tactics of his superiors at head office, in how to gain the advantage in a business transaction between a Communist Government and some arse clown Capitalist business executive stupid enough to believe the lie of Communism and Capatilism working hand in hand for mutual benefit.
The real joke is that Rudd and his Socialist Labor Party believe that they will be part of the Ruling Class, part of the Beijing elites if they succed in the plans to take over Australia
War on Muslim Terrorism is OVER.... according to Kevin Rudd
Terror terminology in the firing line
Paul Maley
The Australian
July 07, 2009
IT'S official: The war on terror is over.
Nearly eight years after New York's World Trade Centre twin towers fell and US president George W.Bush stood amid the smoking rubble and vowed revenge, the phrase "war on terror" has been officially dropped from the Australian government lexicon.
The dumping of the phrase, criticised as a non-sequitur because terrorism is a tactic, not an entity, is part of a campaign by the Rudd government to change the way we talk about terrorism.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland yesterday launched the national rollout of "project lexicon", a joint study on the language surrounding terrorism.
Mr McClelland said the study, to be conducted with Victoria Police, the Victorian government and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, was part of a broader strategy aimed at countering radicalisation of young Muslim men.
Mr McClelland said several of the words or phrases used to describe terrorism had the inadvertent effect of glorifying violent criminal behaviour. He said rather than framing terrorism as a struggle by describing it as a "war" or "jihad", acts of terror should be described as serious criminal acts usually directed at innocent civilians.
"The general theme (of the research) is anything that suggests a war of cultures or religions," Mr McClelland told The Australian. "So the expression 'war on terrorism' has been identified as one that suggests that if you engage in acts of violence you're a soldier participating in that war."
Mr McClelland said the research into various hot-button terms would be a precursor to a discussion with the Muslim community and the media about how to describe terrorism. The aim would not be to proscribe the use of certain forms of language, Mr McClelland said; rather to make the media aware of the research.
Mr McClelland said Australia lagged behind other parts of the world in its counter-radicalisation activities. With the terror threat increasingly likely to be home-grown - rather than imported by al-Qa'ida or its various surrogates - this was potentially dangerous.
"I think a lot of good work has been done in Australia in terms of developing law enforcement capability, intelligence capability and, indeed, the legal framework," Mr McClelland said.
"But I think the area of countering violent extremism has been neglected."
Mr McClelland said the pugnacious language employed by the Howard government and the Bush administration was counterproductive.
He contrasted the combative approach of Mr Bush and John Howard to Barack Obama's speech in Cairo last month in which he called for dialogue between the Muslim world and the West. "(That) had far more impact in terms of the election of moderates, or a greater number of people prepared to vote for moderates, in both Iran and southern Lebanon," he said.
Rudd and his left wing loon pals can call Islamic Terrorists,their acts of terrorism and the threat's to destroy Western Judeo / Christian civilization any touchy feely name they like, however, calling Muslim Terrorists and their acts of Terrorism what they are NOT will, like the Burka, only hide their identities, but I guess that is what this latest act of treachery is all about.
If Rudd and his cabal of left wing loons believe that "come the revolution" they will be getting a "get out of jail card" from their Muslim pals, in exchange for the assistance rendered to these Anti Christ's they are in for a rude shock,the useful idiots are the first against the wall or to lose their heads, after all, no one trusts a traitor.
Paul Maley
The Australian
July 07, 2009
IT'S official: The war on terror is over.
Nearly eight years after New York's World Trade Centre twin towers fell and US president George W.Bush stood amid the smoking rubble and vowed revenge, the phrase "war on terror" has been officially dropped from the Australian government lexicon.
The dumping of the phrase, criticised as a non-sequitur because terrorism is a tactic, not an entity, is part of a campaign by the Rudd government to change the way we talk about terrorism.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland yesterday launched the national rollout of "project lexicon", a joint study on the language surrounding terrorism.
Mr McClelland said the study, to be conducted with Victoria Police, the Victorian government and the Australian Multicultural Foundation, was part of a broader strategy aimed at countering radicalisation of young Muslim men.
Mr McClelland said several of the words or phrases used to describe terrorism had the inadvertent effect of glorifying violent criminal behaviour. He said rather than framing terrorism as a struggle by describing it as a "war" or "jihad", acts of terror should be described as serious criminal acts usually directed at innocent civilians.
"The general theme (of the research) is anything that suggests a war of cultures or religions," Mr McClelland told The Australian. "So the expression 'war on terrorism' has been identified as one that suggests that if you engage in acts of violence you're a soldier participating in that war."
Mr McClelland said the research into various hot-button terms would be a precursor to a discussion with the Muslim community and the media about how to describe terrorism. The aim would not be to proscribe the use of certain forms of language, Mr McClelland said; rather to make the media aware of the research.
Mr McClelland said Australia lagged behind other parts of the world in its counter-radicalisation activities. With the terror threat increasingly likely to be home-grown - rather than imported by al-Qa'ida or its various surrogates - this was potentially dangerous.
"I think a lot of good work has been done in Australia in terms of developing law enforcement capability, intelligence capability and, indeed, the legal framework," Mr McClelland said.
"But I think the area of countering violent extremism has been neglected."
Mr McClelland said the pugnacious language employed by the Howard government and the Bush administration was counterproductive.
He contrasted the combative approach of Mr Bush and John Howard to Barack Obama's speech in Cairo last month in which he called for dialogue between the Muslim world and the West. "(That) had far more impact in terms of the election of moderates, or a greater number of people prepared to vote for moderates, in both Iran and southern Lebanon," he said.
Rudd and his left wing loon pals can call Islamic Terrorists,their acts of terrorism and the threat's to destroy Western Judeo / Christian civilization any touchy feely name they like, however, calling Muslim Terrorists and their acts of Terrorism what they are NOT will, like the Burka, only hide their identities, but I guess that is what this latest act of treachery is all about.
If Rudd and his cabal of left wing loons believe that "come the revolution" they will be getting a "get out of jail card" from their Muslim pals, in exchange for the assistance rendered to these Anti Christ's they are in for a rude shock,the useful idiots are the first against the wall or to lose their heads, after all, no one trusts a traitor.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
I love America........ BUT
Please give me a break !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The worlds most famous Paedophile is DEAD... so what?
Michael Jackson is DEAD ........ what the F**K ?
so what I don't hear of any cure for Cancer been left in his will.
Get over it!!!!
Start DRIPPING TEARS OF BLOOD over the next American serviceman or woman who gets blown into a million pieces by some Godless Muslim Savage in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Give me a F*****g break here will ya?
Yes, not everything was perfect in his life , then neither was everything perfect in MINE,or YOURS or for that matter neither was / is, it perfect in the vast overwhelming majority of Mankind.
The biggest difference between the average Human and Michael Jackson, is that the average Human has not, and will never get the breaks, ie talent, that Michael Jackson had, and if they did they would not abuse the POWER that, that talent manifests by sleeping with other peoples children.
Fuck you Jackson, no wonder the Muslims bailed you out of you financial problems and thought you qualified as such a suitable convert.. ooops "revert"
Like many members of the 'beautiful people" sect he died as a result of personal gratification, he died as a result of pleasuring HIMSELF illegally with prescription drugs.
Prescription drugs that the average American would only dream of been able to access as freely as he was able to do so, for REAL medical complaints,let alone to simply satisfy a self induced addiction to same as Jackson was pathetically serving.
There was I am sure one or two songs by Jackson that I liked and enjoyed,although I am unable to name them this minute.
The earth will continue to turn and the sun will indeed rise with or without Michael Jackson's breath.
I wish Jackson well and indeed hope he is able to find the peace,and honor in his after life that escaped him in this this life.
Hey!!! I just remembered the song I really liked, it was called "Who's Fat", by Al some one or other, yeah, that was my favorite Michael Jackson hit song for sure.
PS. to all you Fox fans wondering why Fox is donating so much air time to Jackson and the associated Circus, it's because the owner of Fox,Rupert Murdoch OWNS Sony Music.
The worlds most famous Paedophile is DEAD... so what?
Michael Jackson is DEAD ........ what the F**K ?
so what I don't hear of any cure for Cancer been left in his will.
Get over it!!!!
Start DRIPPING TEARS OF BLOOD over the next American serviceman or woman who gets blown into a million pieces by some Godless Muslim Savage in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Give me a F*****g break here will ya?
Yes, not everything was perfect in his life , then neither was everything perfect in MINE,or YOURS or for that matter neither was / is, it perfect in the vast overwhelming majority of Mankind.
The biggest difference between the average Human and Michael Jackson, is that the average Human has not, and will never get the breaks, ie talent, that Michael Jackson had, and if they did they would not abuse the POWER that, that talent manifests by sleeping with other peoples children.
Fuck you Jackson, no wonder the Muslims bailed you out of you financial problems and thought you qualified as such a suitable convert.. ooops "revert"
Like many members of the 'beautiful people" sect he died as a result of personal gratification, he died as a result of pleasuring HIMSELF illegally with prescription drugs.
Prescription drugs that the average American would only dream of been able to access as freely as he was able to do so, for REAL medical complaints,let alone to simply satisfy a self induced addiction to same as Jackson was pathetically serving.
There was I am sure one or two songs by Jackson that I liked and enjoyed,although I am unable to name them this minute.
The earth will continue to turn and the sun will indeed rise with or without Michael Jackson's breath.
I wish Jackson well and indeed hope he is able to find the peace,and honor in his after life that escaped him in this this life.
Hey!!! I just remembered the song I really liked, it was called "Who's Fat", by Al some one or other, yeah, that was my favorite Michael Jackson hit song for sure.
PS. to all you Fox fans wondering why Fox is donating so much air time to Jackson and the associated Circus, it's because the owner of Fox,Rupert Murdoch OWNS Sony Music.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Hussein Obama's Agenda 21 or how we are all going to live in peace with each other and the environment
Hussein Obama's Agenda 21
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Anthropagenic Global Warming, aka. JUNK SCIENCE
Congratulations to Jim Hawes, for taking the time to compile the following rebuttal of the Hoax of "Carbon Footprint"
Happy Fourth and THANKS for the Glory Days, USA USA USA
Hey Yanks!!! remember when the "Man" was running the show ?
Happy Fourth of July to the greatest Nation on Earth.
Thanks for been YOU!!!!!!.
Happy Fourth of July to the greatest Nation on Earth.
Thanks for been YOU!!!!!!.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Rudd $100 Million for Hamas $1.5million for Italian earthquake victims
Rudd promises to match earthquake funds
News.com.au
July 03, 2009 10:10pm
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to match funds raised by Australia's Italian community to help victims of the deadly earthquake that devastated central Italy in April.
Mr Rudd addressed the Italian-Australian Fundraising Dinner in Melbourne tonight ahead of a trip overseas next week that will include an economic forum in the devastated Italian Abruzzo region.
The Prime Minister said the Italian community in Australia had already raised substantial funds towards rebuilding, with a radio-a-thon on national Italian radio station Rete Italia attracting $300,000 in one weekend.
"Where you make such an effort, the Government should also pitch in," he said.
"That is why I have decided that we will match the Italian community's fundraising efforts dollar-for-dollar up to a level of $1.5 million."
An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude hit the city of L'Aquila on April 6 this year killing nearly 300 people, injuring 1500 and leaving 40,000 homeless.
Mr Rudd, the patron of the Australia-Abruzzo Earthquake Appeal Fund, heads off overseas on Monday for meetings in Malaysia and Germany before he meets world leaders attending the 17-nation Major Economies Forum in L'Aquila.
He said he would see firsthand the consequences of the devastation.
"I will carry with me, on your behalf, a message of solidarity, support and goodwill to the Abruzzesi and to their future," he said.
Many prominent Italian-Australians attended the dinner, including former Victorian governor and Supreme Court judge James Gobbo, current Supreme Court judges Tony Pagone and Bernard Bongiorno and building magnate Bruno Grollo.
Mr Rudd continued his habit of delivering greetings in foreign languages telling the audience in Italian that "Australia wouldn't be the country it is without Italians".
Before visiting Italy he will meet with Football Federation president Sepp Blatter in Zurich to sell Australia as a World Cup venue.
He also announced Australia and Italy had signed a science research agreement on developing radio telescopes that aim to look deeper into the universe than ever before.
"And during my visit next week we will take the next step in that collaboration when Australia and Italy sign an agreement to provide for cooperation on the international Square Kilometre Array project, a cutting edge global project, to build a group of radio telescopes to help us look into the deepest history of the universe," he said.
"For us, having the home of Galileo Galilei on our side would be very important"
"That is why I have decided that we will match the Italian community's fundraising efforts dollar-for-dollar up to a level of $1.5 million."
If only Kevin 07 had of made the same commitment on behalf of Australian taxpayers that he made to Hamas / "PA" the INNOCENT Italian victims of a natural disaster would be far better off.
Kevin 07 has so far given $100 MILLION to his pals at the United Nations to re arm and re supply Hamas, so as they are able to kill more Jews,in their UN sponsored war on Jews, Christians and Infidels.
So if you are the innocent victim of a natural disaster,in this case an earthquake,and you live in Italy the home of the leader of the Catholic / CHRISTIAN/ NON Muslim world you get $1.5 million from the Kevin Rudd Marxist funded,United Nations subservient,Labor Socialist Government,however if you are committed to the elimination of Israel and ALL non Muslims,aka Infidels, Rudd and his pals will extract over $100 million of Australians taxpayers money and gleefully hand it over to MUSLIM TERRORISTS so as they are enabled to continue on their Godless murderous Satanic inspired rampage throughout the Middle East and eventually the western world.
News.com.au
July 03, 2009 10:10pm
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to match funds raised by Australia's Italian community to help victims of the deadly earthquake that devastated central Italy in April.
Mr Rudd addressed the Italian-Australian Fundraising Dinner in Melbourne tonight ahead of a trip overseas next week that will include an economic forum in the devastated Italian Abruzzo region.
The Prime Minister said the Italian community in Australia had already raised substantial funds towards rebuilding, with a radio-a-thon on national Italian radio station Rete Italia attracting $300,000 in one weekend.
"Where you make such an effort, the Government should also pitch in," he said.
"That is why I have decided that we will match the Italian community's fundraising efforts dollar-for-dollar up to a level of $1.5 million."
An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude hit the city of L'Aquila on April 6 this year killing nearly 300 people, injuring 1500 and leaving 40,000 homeless.
Mr Rudd, the patron of the Australia-Abruzzo Earthquake Appeal Fund, heads off overseas on Monday for meetings in Malaysia and Germany before he meets world leaders attending the 17-nation Major Economies Forum in L'Aquila.
He said he would see firsthand the consequences of the devastation.
"I will carry with me, on your behalf, a message of solidarity, support and goodwill to the Abruzzesi and to their future," he said.
Many prominent Italian-Australians attended the dinner, including former Victorian governor and Supreme Court judge James Gobbo, current Supreme Court judges Tony Pagone and Bernard Bongiorno and building magnate Bruno Grollo.
Mr Rudd continued his habit of delivering greetings in foreign languages telling the audience in Italian that "Australia wouldn't be the country it is without Italians".
Before visiting Italy he will meet with Football Federation president Sepp Blatter in Zurich to sell Australia as a World Cup venue.
He also announced Australia and Italy had signed a science research agreement on developing radio telescopes that aim to look deeper into the universe than ever before.
"And during my visit next week we will take the next step in that collaboration when Australia and Italy sign an agreement to provide for cooperation on the international Square Kilometre Array project, a cutting edge global project, to build a group of radio telescopes to help us look into the deepest history of the universe," he said.
"For us, having the home of Galileo Galilei on our side would be very important"
"That is why I have decided that we will match the Italian community's fundraising efforts dollar-for-dollar up to a level of $1.5 million."
If only Kevin 07 had of made the same commitment on behalf of Australian taxpayers that he made to Hamas / "PA" the INNOCENT Italian victims of a natural disaster would be far better off.
Kevin 07 has so far given $100 MILLION to his pals at the United Nations to re arm and re supply Hamas, so as they are able to kill more Jews,in their UN sponsored war on Jews, Christians and Infidels.
So if you are the innocent victim of a natural disaster,in this case an earthquake,and you live in Italy the home of the leader of the Catholic / CHRISTIAN/ NON Muslim world you get $1.5 million from the Kevin Rudd Marxist funded,United Nations subservient,Labor Socialist Government,however if you are committed to the elimination of Israel and ALL non Muslims,aka Infidels, Rudd and his pals will extract over $100 million of Australians taxpayers money and gleefully hand it over to MUSLIM TERRORISTS so as they are enabled to continue on their Godless murderous Satanic inspired rampage throughout the Middle East and eventually the western world.
Hussein Rudd, Kevin Obama, Tamato Tomarta, Potato Potarta, different name same M/O
Kevin Rudd's spin puts spell on Canberra press gallery
Imre Salusinszky
The Australian
July 03, 2009
KEVIN Rudd may have failed to emulate Bob Hawke's "love affair with the Australian people", but his honeymoon with much of the media shows no sign of losing its ardour after 18 months in office.
Rudd's triumph has been to water down a ruthless political will with a warm-and-cuddly persona that has been sold to the public on media platforms that were regarded as beneath his predecessor, John Howard.
Members of Team Howard, including the former prime minister, have been shaking their heads at Rudd's extraordinary exertions of spin and the tolerance of the Canberra press gallery towards the exercise.
Those more sympathetic to Rudd, such as former Labor pollster Rod Cameron, believe the Prime Minister's smooth ride has come courtesy of discipline and good management, plus the disarray among the Coalition.
Cameron sees Rudd's strategy of working the talk shows as a logical extension of Howardism. "Howard broke the mould by ignoring highbrow media and going to commercial talkback, and Rudd has just taken it a step further and gone to somewhat trashier radio and television," Cameron said.
The recent Rudd spin cycle involved the studied alternation between bloodthirsty displays in parliament over the OzCar affair and soft media appearances, such as last Sunday's effort on Rove, which included a photo-shoot with Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego, Austrian fashionista Bruno.
Senior Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott said yesterday it was not hard to tell who was the funnier - Rudd or Bruno - but added that it was harder to say who was the more "phoney".
While Rudd was attacking News Limited newspapers yesterday about their coverage of the OzCar affair and wastage in the government's $14.7 billion Building the Education Revolution program, he was following through on his on-air promise to TV host Rove McManus to send a Twitter with the line "It's Twitter time", which prompted McManus to reply: "You rule! (and not just because you are our elected leader)."
None of this seems to have aroused the suspicion, or even the scepticism, of much of the Canberra press gallery.
"He has had a very good run," Howard said yesterday of Rudd's treatment at the hands of the gallery over the past 18 months.
"Most working journalists will cut a centre-left government more slack than a centre-right government - that's the culture of the cohort. I certainly didn't have much of a honeymoon. There is a different culture, and I always knew that to be the case."
In stark contrast to Howard, whose medium of choice was talkback radio, Rudd has made a specialty of forums such as FM radio and Rove. His latest appearance on the Ten Network talk show was no doubt inspired by Barack Obama's Tonight Show appearance with Jay Leno in March.
"The reason I didn't do that kind of media is that I didn't think I would be very good at it," Howard told The Australian.
"But I also thought the prime minister oughtn't to do too much of that stuff. I took the view that my responsibility was to go on serious programs. Although I did do talkback radio, I didn't avoid the serious interviews.
"I had frequent press conferences and I would often go until they were getting agitated and wanted to file."
While there is certainly nothing wrong with a prime minister discussing his use of a hair-dryer with Rove McManus - or engaging him in exchanges via Twitter - that was not the universal judgment on Howard's talkback appearances with Neil Mitchell in Melbourne and Alan Jones in Sydney. In an essay in Stifling Dissent, a 2007 collection edited by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison, Helen Ester argued that the Howard strategy of daily talkback appearances had "diminished other democratic institutions, including the parliament itself".
Based on interviews with a dozen senior Canberra journalists, Ester said: "Their perspectives show that the last decade has seen an increased focus on strategies to block and control access to information flows from the gaze and analysis of the critical expertise of journalists in the parliamentary round."
Howard said: "I used talkback radio, and of course some of the Canberra gallery resented that, because it removed them as gatekeepers. When you do news conferences, you are in the hands of editors and journalists about what is used. If you do talkback radio, at some point your argument cannot be filtered."
One claim frequently advanced against Howard's media strategy was that he avoided "hostile" interviewers such as Kerry O'Brien on the ABC's 7.30 Report.
"That's absolute nonsense," Howard said. "In the last few years I was PM, I can't think of more than a handful of occasions where he'd ask me and I'd say no.
"I don't think anybody would say Kerry O'Brien was a friendly journalist, but it was a serious political program."
Similar criticisms have not been directed at Rudd, despite his blanket ban on appearing with Jones.
"The evidence is he won't go on the program," Howard noted. "I also regularly went on (John) Laws, including in the early years when Laws still carried a torch for (Paul) Keating."
Jones thinks Rudd is running scared. He told The Australian yesterday: "Rudd won't appear on tough forums because he doesn't like criticism and he has no comprehension of detail.
"He's simply not across the detail. It's fine if everything's written down in front of him and he can go unchallenged, which of course happens in the parliament. But on talkback radio, you're not unchallenged.
"Kevin Rudd last week was talking about fakes and frauds. I think many Australians understand to whom those epithets appropriately apply. As for the business of appearing on Rove, no one can be critical of the program but you have to question whether that's the forum in which the Prime Minister is going to be asked to answer important matters of state. It's because he knows he won't be asked, or if he is it will be in a humorous and frivolous way, that he again finds this comfortable, avoiding the detail and the criticism."
Sydney public relations consultant John Wells said Rudd's exploitation of the talk show format showed a different temperament from Howard's, but also a generational shift.
"Rudd is much younger, has grown up in a different technological age, and the people around him are much more savvy at new media and the importance of having younger people vote Labor," Wells said.
"Rudd's performance on Rove was very good. He turned up after a week of absolute mudslinging in the parliament with Turnbull.
"They would have had that programmed in advance of that previous week, and having had the outcome they did and all the shenanigans over 'Utegate', it would have reinforced their thinking that 'We've got to get out of here and soften that harsh, argy-bargy parliamentary persona into a softer positioning'."
Howard's former chief of staff Arthur Sinodinos has been impressed, in a perverse sort of way, with Rudd's forays into that region of the media where presenters go by nicknames and the most profound issues are of the "what gets your goolies" variety.
"Rudd is very good on the spin and has a good machine for doing that," said Sinodinos, who now works in the finance sector and is being touted for a federal parliamentary career.
"He also feels part of his success was picking up that younger constituency, so doing Rove or FM radio or social media stuff is all part of continuing to cultivate that constituency. Rudd is being all things to all people.
"I think there are a lot of them (in the press gallery) who fundamentally are more sympatico with Rudd in terms of his social outlook and policies, but it's not clear they are giving him an easy run. A lot of them are quite sceptical."
Labor PR consultant Bruce Hawker sees a rhetorical gulf between Rudd and Howard driving their media strategies.
"Howard was like your family solicitor - no nonsense, almost taciturn," Hawker told The Australian. "He really wouldn't have been comfortable opening up on a program like Rove. Rudd is still finding his feet."
Wells believes Rudd has received a softer ride than Howard from the media - although he adds this could easily shift with longevity. One point he does make is that if a fake email had surfaced in 1997, suggesting Howard had sought special favours for a mate, the reaction would have been "hysterical" and would have survived the unmasking of the lie.
"If you relate it to children overboard, that was hysterical," Wells said.
But it is likely there are deeper cultural reasons why a lie against Rudd evaporated in nanoseconds, whereas a lie against Howard was guaranteed to linger in the political ether indefinitely.
Journalists, after all, have limited scope to shape the historical narrative, compared with the vast ballast of the intelligentsia in universities, non-government organisations and the arts.
A quick survey by The Australian has revealed nobody in any of these institutions is planning a book called Stifling Dissent or His Master's Voice just because Rudd has doubled the number of spin doctors employed by the government, or branded the work of Australia's most celebrated photographer "disgusting".
"The 1970s saw an almost irreversible penetration of some of those institutions by the Left, and you just have to find other means of turning it around," Howard said. "It creates an automatic scepticism and tension once you have a centre-right government, or a centre-left government that doesn't behave the way it is expected to behave, like Tony Blair."
Australian Prime Minister & Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd, was successful in winning the Australian 2007 Federal Election.
Kevin Rudd and his party's success was due in no small part,to the overwhelming support of the Australian media and their hangers on in the Film,Arts,TV and "beautiful people" industries.
The 2007 Labor Party campaign was assisted by spin doctors and stratigists from American Democrats and approximately 100 foot soldiers from the Chinese Communist Party.
The same bumper sticker slogans and trendy one liners were employed by Labor,Rudd and their media groupies to convince (successfully) the Australian voters, that were later modified and used for the Hussein Obama Campaign in 2008,that there was something wrong with having the most prosperous and fastest growing western economy in the world,that there was something wrong with having pratically no unemployment, that there was something wrong with having NO illegal entrants via the Middle Eastern refugee boat people express, that there was something sinister or indeed "clever" about an Australian PM who dared say to the world and Muslim people smugglers "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come.",that there was something immoral for an Australian Government requiring that immigrants speak English and swear alligience to Australia and that the Australian culture be the paramount culture in Australia,that there was something wrong with the Howard Government having re paid the previous Hawke /Keating Labor Governments $96 billion DEBT and that it was even worse for the Howard Australian Government to have a $28 Billion IN THE BANK.
Some 2 years after Rudd's election the media spin doctors are telling Australians that an extra 100,000 Australians are now unemployed,Australians have lost 35% of their personal wealth since Rudd and his party of ex Union Officials,school teachers,affirmative action appointee's,"carers and sharers" took control of the nations purse strings, Australians are now in $300 billion DEBT and there is NO money in the bank,is, like their immigration policy,is a sign that the Rudd Governments economic policies are working.
Yes!!!! the Rudd Marxist Funded International Socialist Labor Governments policies ARE working, Australia is descending BACK into the economic and social dark ages that the Conservative Liberal Howard Government dragged Australia out of.
The Rudd Governments media cheer squads are reluctant to spruik the following on their tonight shows and ABC Kevin 07 infomercials,aka Hard hitting current affairs and investigative journalism.
Our pork pie PM revels in butchering the truth
Piers Akerman
News.com.au
Monday, June 29, 2009
THE Federal Police are investigating a fake email _ why not also investigate Kevin Rudd’s fake 2007 election policies?
There were the big promises and there were the little promises and all of them were dodgy. Remember that pledge to bring Iran’s rulers before the International Criminal Court at the Hague? That was a biggie. Out of left field but phoney.
Two years later and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now brazenly facing down an uprising with barely a word from Rudd or Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.
Then there was the promise to save the Murray-Darling River system and the Great Barrier Reef. This was patently false. Nothing the Rudd Government can possibly do will increase rainfall to or alter the Reef’s fate.
Migrating whales off the NSW Coast are a reminder of the fake promise to send the Royal Australian Navy to protect whales from the Japanese whaling fleet.
Then there is the $21 million wasted on the false FuelWatch promise. The last bowser I passed showed unleaded was still close to $1.30 a litre and the last
news item I read indicated that the fuel companies were still intent on squeezing profits no matter what the Government was telling them.
Which brings us to GroceryWatch. Despite spending more than $13 million on a promise that was dead on arrival, the Rudd Government maintained this promise was still viable until it was put down last Friday when media attention was diverted by Michael Jackson’s prescription drug death.
GroceryWatch was an extension of the phoney war Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan waged against the former Howard government over inflation while the global economy was melting down.
Treasury’s modelling and Treasury’s experts failed to spot the trend as did Swan and Rudd. They were too focussed on the phantom Inflation Genie to notice what was happening in the real world.
Fortunately they had the Howard-Costello surplus to use as a cushion but that has not prevented them wasting the legacy of future generations on a reckless spending spree.
Remember Rudd’s promise to be a fiscal conservative? False.
Just look at the cost blow-out for his national broadband network _ from $4 billion to $7 billion to $43 billion _ to cover fewer households than the cheaper model promised by the former government.
Then there were the promises to give a boost to the alternative energy industry _ and the slashing of the solar energy rebate scheme before it was due to end, the phasing out of the LPG conversion scheme, the promise of flood relief to the NSW North Coast, the dental scheme that delivers less than the old plan and the cuts to rebates for those needing life-changing cataract surgery.
Still to come are the job losses which will flow from the flawed industrial relations changes and any sign of the government stemming the flow of unlawful arrivals on the north west coast.
Whatever happened to the promised openness and transparency that the Rudd Government promised to deliver? For that matter, whatever happened to Rudd’s oath: The buck stops with me?
If the AFP want to get to the Mr Bigs of fakes and phonies, it should go straight to the top and get a warrant to search the Lodge.
Liberal Party, (Conservative) opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has recently shot himself in the foot, he fell hook line and sinker for an opportunity he and his dumb arsed advisers thought was too good to miss, the"Rudd / Grant email" was it seems, something Turnbull was prepared to caste aside all his legal brilliance and caution for,in exchange for the opportunity to deal Rudd a death blow, getting Rudd out of the way before the next federal election,as we all now know the email was a fake, yaddah yadda yadda blah blah blah.
If only Australia's media was as vigilant in telling Australian's before the 2007 election of Rudd's BIG LIE concerning the circumstances of the death of his Father and Rudd's slandering of the Docteors and Nurses who attended him in hospital for six weeks before he died,after he filled himself with booze all day,and then attempted to drive his car home,thankfully only wrapping his own car around a telegraph pole and no one else.
Personally I have great sympathy for Rudd's childhood circumstances and admiration for his Fathers attempts to provide for his family,they are similar to my own,what disgusts me is Rudd's manipulation of the facts of same for the benifit of some Labor / Communist Party "Dream Time Mythology"
Rudd's deliberate missrepresentation of the facts concerning his Fathers death,are, like his orchestration of the destruction of evidence concerning the gang rape of an Aboriginal child,what is now known as the "Heiner Affair",are but two of many insights that exposed his smirking creepy dishonest character, hey no wonder Australia's Hollywood Wannabees love him so much.
What of Treasurer Wayne Swan,Rudd's hapless bumbling treasurer ? Turnbull is surely not going to allow Swan off the hook just because he got it wrong on the Rudd / Grant email , even if the Labor media apolgists are prepared to do so, for Swan the email Turnbull was hoping was going to slit Rudd's throat,was indeed a TEMPORARY God send.
I am sure Rudd is more than glad he is not Wayne Swan.... btw. Wayne when does Federal Parliament resume again ?
Imre Salusinszky
The Australian
July 03, 2009
KEVIN Rudd may have failed to emulate Bob Hawke's "love affair with the Australian people", but his honeymoon with much of the media shows no sign of losing its ardour after 18 months in office.
Rudd's triumph has been to water down a ruthless political will with a warm-and-cuddly persona that has been sold to the public on media platforms that were regarded as beneath his predecessor, John Howard.
Members of Team Howard, including the former prime minister, have been shaking their heads at Rudd's extraordinary exertions of spin and the tolerance of the Canberra press gallery towards the exercise.
Those more sympathetic to Rudd, such as former Labor pollster Rod Cameron, believe the Prime Minister's smooth ride has come courtesy of discipline and good management, plus the disarray among the Coalition.
Cameron sees Rudd's strategy of working the talk shows as a logical extension of Howardism. "Howard broke the mould by ignoring highbrow media and going to commercial talkback, and Rudd has just taken it a step further and gone to somewhat trashier radio and television," Cameron said.
The recent Rudd spin cycle involved the studied alternation between bloodthirsty displays in parliament over the OzCar affair and soft media appearances, such as last Sunday's effort on Rove, which included a photo-shoot with Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego, Austrian fashionista Bruno.
See Kevin 07 endure the hard hitting and relentless questioning of none other than Rove,caution xxx it's not for the feint hearted.
Senior Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott said yesterday it was not hard to tell who was the funnier - Rudd or Bruno - but added that it was harder to say who was the more "phoney".
While Rudd was attacking News Limited newspapers yesterday about their coverage of the OzCar affair and wastage in the government's $14.7 billion Building the Education Revolution program, he was following through on his on-air promise to TV host Rove McManus to send a Twitter with the line "It's Twitter time", which prompted McManus to reply: "You rule! (and not just because you are our elected leader)."
None of this seems to have aroused the suspicion, or even the scepticism, of much of the Canberra press gallery.
"He has had a very good run," Howard said yesterday of Rudd's treatment at the hands of the gallery over the past 18 months.
"Most working journalists will cut a centre-left government more slack than a centre-right government - that's the culture of the cohort. I certainly didn't have much of a honeymoon. There is a different culture, and I always knew that to be the case."
In stark contrast to Howard, whose medium of choice was talkback radio, Rudd has made a specialty of forums such as FM radio and Rove. His latest appearance on the Ten Network talk show was no doubt inspired by Barack Obama's Tonight Show appearance with Jay Leno in March.
"The reason I didn't do that kind of media is that I didn't think I would be very good at it," Howard told The Australian.
"But I also thought the prime minister oughtn't to do too much of that stuff. I took the view that my responsibility was to go on serious programs. Although I did do talkback radio, I didn't avoid the serious interviews.
"I had frequent press conferences and I would often go until they were getting agitated and wanted to file."
While there is certainly nothing wrong with a prime minister discussing his use of a hair-dryer with Rove McManus - or engaging him in exchanges via Twitter - that was not the universal judgment on Howard's talkback appearances with Neil Mitchell in Melbourne and Alan Jones in Sydney. In an essay in Stifling Dissent, a 2007 collection edited by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison, Helen Ester argued that the Howard strategy of daily talkback appearances had "diminished other democratic institutions, including the parliament itself".
Based on interviews with a dozen senior Canberra journalists, Ester said: "Their perspectives show that the last decade has seen an increased focus on strategies to block and control access to information flows from the gaze and analysis of the critical expertise of journalists in the parliamentary round."
Howard said: "I used talkback radio, and of course some of the Canberra gallery resented that, because it removed them as gatekeepers. When you do news conferences, you are in the hands of editors and journalists about what is used. If you do talkback radio, at some point your argument cannot be filtered."
One claim frequently advanced against Howard's media strategy was that he avoided "hostile" interviewers such as Kerry O'Brien on the ABC's 7.30 Report.
"That's absolute nonsense," Howard said. "In the last few years I was PM, I can't think of more than a handful of occasions where he'd ask me and I'd say no.
"I don't think anybody would say Kerry O'Brien was a friendly journalist, but it was a serious political program."
Similar criticisms have not been directed at Rudd, despite his blanket ban on appearing with Jones.
"The evidence is he won't go on the program," Howard noted. "I also regularly went on (John) Laws, including in the early years when Laws still carried a torch for (Paul) Keating."
Jones thinks Rudd is running scared. He told The Australian yesterday: "Rudd won't appear on tough forums because he doesn't like criticism and he has no comprehension of detail.
"He's simply not across the detail. It's fine if everything's written down in front of him and he can go unchallenged, which of course happens in the parliament. But on talkback radio, you're not unchallenged.
"Kevin Rudd last week was talking about fakes and frauds. I think many Australians understand to whom those epithets appropriately apply. As for the business of appearing on Rove, no one can be critical of the program but you have to question whether that's the forum in which the Prime Minister is going to be asked to answer important matters of state. It's because he knows he won't be asked, or if he is it will be in a humorous and frivolous way, that he again finds this comfortable, avoiding the detail and the criticism."
Sydney public relations consultant John Wells said Rudd's exploitation of the talk show format showed a different temperament from Howard's, but also a generational shift.
"Rudd is much younger, has grown up in a different technological age, and the people around him are much more savvy at new media and the importance of having younger people vote Labor," Wells said.
"Rudd's performance on Rove was very good. He turned up after a week of absolute mudslinging in the parliament with Turnbull.
"They would have had that programmed in advance of that previous week, and having had the outcome they did and all the shenanigans over 'Utegate', it would have reinforced their thinking that 'We've got to get out of here and soften that harsh, argy-bargy parliamentary persona into a softer positioning'."
Howard's former chief of staff Arthur Sinodinos has been impressed, in a perverse sort of way, with Rudd's forays into that region of the media where presenters go by nicknames and the most profound issues are of the "what gets your goolies" variety.
"Rudd is very good on the spin and has a good machine for doing that," said Sinodinos, who now works in the finance sector and is being touted for a federal parliamentary career.
"He also feels part of his success was picking up that younger constituency, so doing Rove or FM radio or social media stuff is all part of continuing to cultivate that constituency. Rudd is being all things to all people.
"I think there are a lot of them (in the press gallery) who fundamentally are more sympatico with Rudd in terms of his social outlook and policies, but it's not clear they are giving him an easy run. A lot of them are quite sceptical."
Labor PR consultant Bruce Hawker sees a rhetorical gulf between Rudd and Howard driving their media strategies.
"Howard was like your family solicitor - no nonsense, almost taciturn," Hawker told The Australian. "He really wouldn't have been comfortable opening up on a program like Rove. Rudd is still finding his feet."
Wells believes Rudd has received a softer ride than Howard from the media - although he adds this could easily shift with longevity. One point he does make is that if a fake email had surfaced in 1997, suggesting Howard had sought special favours for a mate, the reaction would have been "hysterical" and would have survived the unmasking of the lie.
"If you relate it to children overboard, that was hysterical," Wells said.
But it is likely there are deeper cultural reasons why a lie against Rudd evaporated in nanoseconds, whereas a lie against Howard was guaranteed to linger in the political ether indefinitely.
Journalists, after all, have limited scope to shape the historical narrative, compared with the vast ballast of the intelligentsia in universities, non-government organisations and the arts.
A quick survey by The Australian has revealed nobody in any of these institutions is planning a book called Stifling Dissent or His Master's Voice just because Rudd has doubled the number of spin doctors employed by the government, or branded the work of Australia's most celebrated photographer "disgusting".
"The 1970s saw an almost irreversible penetration of some of those institutions by the Left, and you just have to find other means of turning it around," Howard said. "It creates an automatic scepticism and tension once you have a centre-right government, or a centre-left government that doesn't behave the way it is expected to behave, like Tony Blair."
Australian Prime Minister & Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd, was successful in winning the Australian 2007 Federal Election.
Kevin Rudd and his party's success was due in no small part,to the overwhelming support of the Australian media and their hangers on in the Film,Arts,TV and "beautiful people" industries.
The 2007 Labor Party campaign was assisted by spin doctors and stratigists from American Democrats and approximately 100 foot soldiers from the Chinese Communist Party.
The same bumper sticker slogans and trendy one liners were employed by Labor,Rudd and their media groupies to convince (successfully) the Australian voters, that were later modified and used for the Hussein Obama Campaign in 2008,that there was something wrong with having the most prosperous and fastest growing western economy in the world,that there was something wrong with having pratically no unemployment, that there was something wrong with having NO illegal entrants via the Middle Eastern refugee boat people express, that there was something sinister or indeed "clever" about an Australian PM who dared say to the world and Muslim people smugglers "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come.",that there was something immoral for an Australian Government requiring that immigrants speak English and swear alligience to Australia and that the Australian culture be the paramount culture in Australia,that there was something wrong with the Howard Government having re paid the previous Hawke /Keating Labor Governments $96 billion DEBT and that it was even worse for the Howard Australian Government to have a $28 Billion IN THE BANK.
Some 2 years after Rudd's election the media spin doctors are telling Australians that an extra 100,000 Australians are now unemployed,Australians have lost 35% of their personal wealth since Rudd and his party of ex Union Officials,school teachers,affirmative action appointee's,"carers and sharers" took control of the nations purse strings, Australians are now in $300 billion DEBT and there is NO money in the bank,is, like their immigration policy,is a sign that the Rudd Governments economic policies are working.
Yes!!!! the Rudd Marxist Funded International Socialist Labor Governments policies ARE working, Australia is descending BACK into the economic and social dark ages that the Conservative Liberal Howard Government dragged Australia out of.
The Rudd Governments media cheer squads are reluctant to spruik the following on their tonight shows and ABC Kevin 07 infomercials,aka Hard hitting current affairs and investigative journalism.
Our pork pie PM revels in butchering the truth
Piers Akerman
News.com.au
Monday, June 29, 2009
THE Federal Police are investigating a fake email _ why not also investigate Kevin Rudd’s fake 2007 election policies?
There were the big promises and there were the little promises and all of them were dodgy. Remember that pledge to bring Iran’s rulers before the International Criminal Court at the Hague? That was a biggie. Out of left field but phoney.
Two years later and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is now brazenly facing down an uprising with barely a word from Rudd or Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.
Then there was the promise to save the Murray-Darling River system and the Great Barrier Reef. This was patently false. Nothing the Rudd Government can possibly do will increase rainfall to or alter the Reef’s fate.
Migrating whales off the NSW Coast are a reminder of the fake promise to send the Royal Australian Navy to protect whales from the Japanese whaling fleet.
Then there is the $21 million wasted on the false FuelWatch promise. The last bowser I passed showed unleaded was still close to $1.30 a litre and the last
news item I read indicated that the fuel companies were still intent on squeezing profits no matter what the Government was telling them.
Which brings us to GroceryWatch. Despite spending more than $13 million on a promise that was dead on arrival, the Rudd Government maintained this promise was still viable until it was put down last Friday when media attention was diverted by Michael Jackson’s prescription drug death.
GroceryWatch was an extension of the phoney war Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan waged against the former Howard government over inflation while the global economy was melting down.
Treasury’s modelling and Treasury’s experts failed to spot the trend as did Swan and Rudd. They were too focussed on the phantom Inflation Genie to notice what was happening in the real world.
Fortunately they had the Howard-Costello surplus to use as a cushion but that has not prevented them wasting the legacy of future generations on a reckless spending spree.
Remember Rudd’s promise to be a fiscal conservative? False.
Just look at the cost blow-out for his national broadband network _ from $4 billion to $7 billion to $43 billion _ to cover fewer households than the cheaper model promised by the former government.
Then there were the promises to give a boost to the alternative energy industry _ and the slashing of the solar energy rebate scheme before it was due to end, the phasing out of the LPG conversion scheme, the promise of flood relief to the NSW North Coast, the dental scheme that delivers less than the old plan and the cuts to rebates for those needing life-changing cataract surgery.
Still to come are the job losses which will flow from the flawed industrial relations changes and any sign of the government stemming the flow of unlawful arrivals on the north west coast.
Whatever happened to the promised openness and transparency that the Rudd Government promised to deliver? For that matter, whatever happened to Rudd’s oath: The buck stops with me?
If the AFP want to get to the Mr Bigs of fakes and phonies, it should go straight to the top and get a warrant to search the Lodge.
Liberal Party, (Conservative) opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has recently shot himself in the foot, he fell hook line and sinker for an opportunity he and his dumb arsed advisers thought was too good to miss, the"Rudd / Grant email" was it seems, something Turnbull was prepared to caste aside all his legal brilliance and caution for,in exchange for the opportunity to deal Rudd a death blow, getting Rudd out of the way before the next federal election,as we all now know the email was a fake, yaddah yadda yadda blah blah blah.
If only Australia's media was as vigilant in telling Australian's before the 2007 election of Rudd's BIG LIE concerning the circumstances of the death of his Father and Rudd's slandering of the Docteors and Nurses who attended him in hospital for six weeks before he died,after he filled himself with booze all day,and then attempted to drive his car home,thankfully only wrapping his own car around a telegraph pole and no one else.
Personally I have great sympathy for Rudd's childhood circumstances and admiration for his Fathers attempts to provide for his family,they are similar to my own,what disgusts me is Rudd's manipulation of the facts of same for the benifit of some Labor / Communist Party "Dream Time Mythology"
Rudd's deliberate missrepresentation of the facts concerning his Fathers death,are, like his orchestration of the destruction of evidence concerning the gang rape of an Aboriginal child,what is now known as the "Heiner Affair",are but two of many insights that exposed his smirking creepy dishonest character, hey no wonder Australia's Hollywood Wannabees love him so much.
What of Treasurer Wayne Swan,Rudd's hapless bumbling treasurer ? Turnbull is surely not going to allow Swan off the hook just because he got it wrong on the Rudd / Grant email , even if the Labor media apolgists are prepared to do so, for Swan the email Turnbull was hoping was going to slit Rudd's throat,was indeed a TEMPORARY God send.
I am sure Rudd is more than glad he is not Wayne Swan.... btw. Wayne when does Federal Parliament resume again ?
Australia: Ban unAustralian burka "I abhor the burka, and the niqab. I hate what it does to women" Virginia Haussegger.
Ban unAustralian burka
By Virginia Haussegger
27 June 2009
This article first appeared in The Canberra Times, 27th June 2009
I’ve seen it elsewhere around the world, but I didn’t expect to see it here. Certainly not on a hot summer’s afternoon at the Canberra Centre. But there it was. A ghostly figure walking towards me, clad from head to toe in a heavy black niqab, black gloves and dark shoes. She was trailing along behind her husband and four little children.
The sight of this hideously shrouded figure in an Australian shopping mall is confronting and offensive. And it makes me angry, very angry.
I wanted to stop and ask why she had such disrespect for herself and our culture that she would hide her face and body under all that black cloth, designed to render her shapeless and inhuman. But her husband shot me a glance, and I was silenced. Dumbfounded.
I abhor the burka, and the niqab. I hate what it does to women. I am appalled that women are separated from the world in this way. And I am furious that some women will continue to choose to wear it. But then, throughout history, feeble women who are afraid of modernity, have always been complicit in their own oppression.
The burka, with its tiny window of mesh over the eyes, and the niqab, with its letter-slit opening, is a tool of patriarchy used to subjugate women. This shroud of cloth thrown over women defies freedom. It is a symbol of control. Wearing it signifies an acceptance of segregation of the sexes. The cultures which demand such segregation are societies in which men are considered the natural superiors to women.
The fact that western, democratic governments allow this garb to be worn in secular societies is evidence that ‘gender equality’ and the ‘liberation of women’ are still just vague aspirations, mouthed with weak intent. Unless of course you’re French.
In an historic address on Monday the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, called for an outright ban on this hideous instrument of control. “The burka is not a sign of religion” he said, “It is a sign of enslavement. It is a sign of subservience”.
His rally cry has been brewing for years, as the French parliament has watched with alarm the growing number of burkas and niqab’s appearing in French cities. The Urban Affairs Minister, Fadela Amara, who is also a passionate advocate for Muslim women’s rights, says the ugly shroud is akin to putting a woman in a “tomb”. She’s called on France to “stop burkas from spreading”.
It’s a tough call, given there are around 5 million Muslims in France. The 2004 ban on wearing hijabs at school, or in public offices, was met with furious protests around the country. A ban on the burka has the potential to ignite riots. Sarkozy knows that. And yet he is still determined to push ahead. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd must do the same.
The burka is not yet common here, but it’s only a matter of time. Australia is positioned in a region being transformed by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Radical Islam’s plan for domination is utterly incompatible with women’s equality. Put bluntly, Islamic fundamentalists view Australia, and all western democracies, as immoral and decadent - because the women are free.
Australia must not allow that radical and overt tool of fundamentalism, the burka, to be worn here. It defies our cherished values of equality and freedom.
Wearing the burka - or niqab -in Australia is an aggressive way of saying 'I will not integrate into your society, and I care nothing for the cultural mores and social traditions of this country'. Instead, the woman wearing it is demonstrating that she would rather submit to gender apartheid, than embrace the social norms of this place. The burka is an arrogant display of disrespect to Australia and the Australian way of life.
Covering women like this, and rendering them sexless and shapeless, is apparently to stop men looking at them. It is to ensure the sexual urges of men are not stirred or tempted. It is also a fierce display of proving a man’s power over his woman, and ownership of her.
The Koran calls on both men and women to display modesty. Why then don’t men wear burqas? Women too are sexual beings, who may also have their urges stirred and tempted by the sight of a man. But of course that doesn’t register in societies that view females only as sexual objects and temptresses.
By covering herself in a burka, a woman is relinquishing the right to express herself as a female. She is agreeing to suppress her own sexuality.
For a woman to argue she feels more comfortable hidden beneath her burka, away from the gaze of men, is unacceptable in modern society. Such a claim represents total submission to sexual subordination. That sort of thing might have been understandable - perhaps even forgivable - when women were uneducated and utterly dependent on men for food, shelter and protection. But women must no longer agree to such secondary status. And most certainly, not when they are in Australia.
There is no place here for the burka. Australians must rally to have the burka banned.
This Australian woman has balls, she is an employee of the Australian Labor party's information and publicity bureau the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC.
I fear she will either be polishing Kevin 07's shoes or will be added to Kevin 07's rapidly growing "stimulus" generated unemployment line.
Late Mail from Susan USA:
Burka-Wearing Prompts The Return Of In Rickets In Birmingham
NSS
A new health awareness campaign has been launched among Muslim women by health officials in the Midlands after a rise in the number of cases of rickets.
It is thought that pregnant women who regularly wear a burka are depriving themselves of exposure to sunlight, which results in Vitamin D deficiency.
Sixty-five children in Birmingham have needed hospital treatment in the past three years for rickets, a disease which was thought to have died out in Victorian times. And health bosses fear this may be the tip of the iceberg with more cases of the illness, which affects bone development, not being formally diagnosed. Now they have invested £150,000 to fight the rise of rickets among infants in inner city Birmingham.
The wearing of burkas by Muslim women is thought to have contributed to its recent resurgence. A spokesman for the Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust, which is heading the campaign, said: “Anecdotal evidence suggests that mothers and babies from some minority ethnic communities may be more affected. This is because women traditionally do not expose their skin to sunlight. However, Vitamin D deficiency can also be due to confinement in the home, diet, mal-absorption syndromes and liver or kidney disease. Deficiency is easily counteracted with Vitamin D supplements.
Dr Jacky Chambers, director of public health at Heart of Birmingham primary care trust, added: “Women who cover up for cultural reasons may be at higher risk of Vitamin D deficiency. In addition to taking Vitamin D supplements, we are urging mothers to help themselves to get some sunlight. They should make sure they are exposed to the sun, without burning, for a short time each day.”
By Virginia Haussegger
27 June 2009
This article first appeared in The Canberra Times, 27th June 2009
I’ve seen it elsewhere around the world, but I didn’t expect to see it here. Certainly not on a hot summer’s afternoon at the Canberra Centre. But there it was. A ghostly figure walking towards me, clad from head to toe in a heavy black niqab, black gloves and dark shoes. She was trailing along behind her husband and four little children.
The sight of this hideously shrouded figure in an Australian shopping mall is confronting and offensive. And it makes me angry, very angry.
I wanted to stop and ask why she had such disrespect for herself and our culture that she would hide her face and body under all that black cloth, designed to render her shapeless and inhuman. But her husband shot me a glance, and I was silenced. Dumbfounded.
I abhor the burka, and the niqab. I hate what it does to women. I am appalled that women are separated from the world in this way. And I am furious that some women will continue to choose to wear it. But then, throughout history, feeble women who are afraid of modernity, have always been complicit in their own oppression.
The burka, with its tiny window of mesh over the eyes, and the niqab, with its letter-slit opening, is a tool of patriarchy used to subjugate women. This shroud of cloth thrown over women defies freedom. It is a symbol of control. Wearing it signifies an acceptance of segregation of the sexes. The cultures which demand such segregation are societies in which men are considered the natural superiors to women.
The fact that western, democratic governments allow this garb to be worn in secular societies is evidence that ‘gender equality’ and the ‘liberation of women’ are still just vague aspirations, mouthed with weak intent. Unless of course you’re French.
In an historic address on Monday the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, called for an outright ban on this hideous instrument of control. “The burka is not a sign of religion” he said, “It is a sign of enslavement. It is a sign of subservience”.
His rally cry has been brewing for years, as the French parliament has watched with alarm the growing number of burkas and niqab’s appearing in French cities. The Urban Affairs Minister, Fadela Amara, who is also a passionate advocate for Muslim women’s rights, says the ugly shroud is akin to putting a woman in a “tomb”. She’s called on France to “stop burkas from spreading”.
It’s a tough call, given there are around 5 million Muslims in France. The 2004 ban on wearing hijabs at school, or in public offices, was met with furious protests around the country. A ban on the burka has the potential to ignite riots. Sarkozy knows that. And yet he is still determined to push ahead. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd must do the same.
The burka is not yet common here, but it’s only a matter of time. Australia is positioned in a region being transformed by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Radical Islam’s plan for domination is utterly incompatible with women’s equality. Put bluntly, Islamic fundamentalists view Australia, and all western democracies, as immoral and decadent - because the women are free.
Australia must not allow that radical and overt tool of fundamentalism, the burka, to be worn here. It defies our cherished values of equality and freedom.
Wearing the burka - or niqab -in Australia is an aggressive way of saying 'I will not integrate into your society, and I care nothing for the cultural mores and social traditions of this country'. Instead, the woman wearing it is demonstrating that she would rather submit to gender apartheid, than embrace the social norms of this place. The burka is an arrogant display of disrespect to Australia and the Australian way of life.
Covering women like this, and rendering them sexless and shapeless, is apparently to stop men looking at them. It is to ensure the sexual urges of men are not stirred or tempted. It is also a fierce display of proving a man’s power over his woman, and ownership of her.
The Koran calls on both men and women to display modesty. Why then don’t men wear burqas? Women too are sexual beings, who may also have their urges stirred and tempted by the sight of a man. But of course that doesn’t register in societies that view females only as sexual objects and temptresses.
By covering herself in a burka, a woman is relinquishing the right to express herself as a female. She is agreeing to suppress her own sexuality.
For a woman to argue she feels more comfortable hidden beneath her burka, away from the gaze of men, is unacceptable in modern society. Such a claim represents total submission to sexual subordination. That sort of thing might have been understandable - perhaps even forgivable - when women were uneducated and utterly dependent on men for food, shelter and protection. But women must no longer agree to such secondary status. And most certainly, not when they are in Australia.
There is no place here for the burka. Australians must rally to have the burka banned.
This Australian woman has balls, she is an employee of the Australian Labor party's information and publicity bureau the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC.
I fear she will either be polishing Kevin 07's shoes or will be added to Kevin 07's rapidly growing "stimulus" generated unemployment line.
Late Mail from Susan USA:
Burka-Wearing Prompts The Return Of In Rickets In Birmingham
NSS
A new health awareness campaign has been launched among Muslim women by health officials in the Midlands after a rise in the number of cases of rickets.
It is thought that pregnant women who regularly wear a burka are depriving themselves of exposure to sunlight, which results in Vitamin D deficiency.
Sixty-five children in Birmingham have needed hospital treatment in the past three years for rickets, a disease which was thought to have died out in Victorian times. And health bosses fear this may be the tip of the iceberg with more cases of the illness, which affects bone development, not being formally diagnosed. Now they have invested £150,000 to fight the rise of rickets among infants in inner city Birmingham.
The wearing of burkas by Muslim women is thought to have contributed to its recent resurgence. A spokesman for the Heart of Birmingham Primary Care Trust, which is heading the campaign, said: “Anecdotal evidence suggests that mothers and babies from some minority ethnic communities may be more affected. This is because women traditionally do not expose their skin to sunlight. However, Vitamin D deficiency can also be due to confinement in the home, diet, mal-absorption syndromes and liver or kidney disease. Deficiency is easily counteracted with Vitamin D supplements.
Dr Jacky Chambers, director of public health at Heart of Birmingham primary care trust, added: “Women who cover up for cultural reasons may be at higher risk of Vitamin D deficiency. In addition to taking Vitamin D supplements, we are urging mothers to help themselves to get some sunlight. They should make sure they are exposed to the sun, without burning, for a short time each day.”
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Hoxton Park Residents vow to fight
Islamic school in court win, at Hoxton Park
By Vikki Campion, Urban Affairs Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
July 01, 2009 12:00am
AN 800-student Islamic school to be built in the middle of a housing estate has been given the final go-ahead as a raft of other rejected Islamic schools take their fight to the courts.
The new campus for one of NSW's top 10 schools, Malek Fahd Islamic, has been given a final nod to build in Sydney's southwest while at least three other Muslim schools struggle to set up amid thousands of objections.
Residents of Hoxton Park led a nine-month campaign of rallies, protests, petitions and letter-drops against the school but it was given approval by Liverpool Council on Monday night.
Residents believe another school will worsen daily commutes as narrow cul-de-sacs become major thoroughfares but Islamic groups fear there are racist undertones to the objections.
A 1200-strong Al Amanah College will be built in Bass Hill after it was twice knocked back by Bankstown Council - a decision later overturned by the Land and Environment Court.
And the 600 student Qaadiri school at Austral, which was knocked back by Liverpool Council, is due to go before the court this week.
Camden Council's rejection of the Quranic Society's 1200-student school at Camden was upheld last month.
Independent school development is slow, with only three in greater Sydney hitting planning tables each year.
NSW Association of Independent Schools executive director Geoff Newcombe said "traffic" had become code for "prejudice".
"It seems more than a coincidence that each time an Islamic school applies to set up, there are objections about traffic congestion," he said.
Most Islamic students go to public schools rather than try to squeeze in on a waiting list to one of only 14 Islamic institutions in Sydney. In the same area, there are 74 Anglican schools, 80 Christian, and 625 Catholic schools.
"There is a huge demand or we would not be doing this," said school spokesman Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Ikebal Patel.
"It is better that we teach Muslim students in a controlled environment, with our vision vetted by the NSW Education Department, than have them educated in backyard garages."
Liverpool mayor Wendy Waller said roads would be widened to cope with extra traffic.
By Vikki Campion, Urban Affairs Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
July 01, 2009 12:00am
AN 800-student Islamic school to be built in the middle of a housing estate has been given the final go-ahead as a raft of other rejected Islamic schools take their fight to the courts.
The new campus for one of NSW's top 10 schools, Malek Fahd Islamic, has been given a final nod to build in Sydney's southwest while at least three other Muslim schools struggle to set up amid thousands of objections.
Residents of Hoxton Park led a nine-month campaign of rallies, protests, petitions and letter-drops against the school but it was given approval by Liverpool Council on Monday night.
Residents believe another school will worsen daily commutes as narrow cul-de-sacs become major thoroughfares but Islamic groups fear there are racist undertones to the objections.
A 1200-strong Al Amanah College will be built in Bass Hill after it was twice knocked back by Bankstown Council - a decision later overturned by the Land and Environment Court.
And the 600 student Qaadiri school at Austral, which was knocked back by Liverpool Council, is due to go before the court this week.
Camden Council's rejection of the Quranic Society's 1200-student school at Camden was upheld last month.
Independent school development is slow, with only three in greater Sydney hitting planning tables each year.
NSW Association of Independent Schools executive director Geoff Newcombe said "traffic" had become code for "prejudice".
"It seems more than a coincidence that each time an Islamic school applies to set up, there are objections about traffic congestion," he said.
Most Islamic students go to public schools rather than try to squeeze in on a waiting list to one of only 14 Islamic institutions in Sydney. In the same area, there are 74 Anglican schools, 80 Christian, and 625 Catholic schools.
"There is a huge demand or we would not be doing this," said school spokesman Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Ikebal Patel.
"It is better that we teach Muslim students in a controlled environment, with our vision vetted by the NSW Education Department, than have them educated in backyard garages."
Liverpool mayor Wendy Waller said roads would be widened to cope with extra traffic.
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