Federal Opposition Leader, and hopefully the next Australian Prime Minister,Tony Abbott escapes DEATH by Semi Trailer today on the Princes Highway at Winchelsea this morning.
A mid sized bus pulled out from behind Mr Abbott’s vehicle into the path of the semi trailer, Kudos to the Truck Driver for some really skill full driving to keep it all together and so far no reports of any injuries.
Daughter not guilty of murder
Tristan Swanwick
The Courier-Mail
February 17, 2010 10:26am
BREAKING NEWS: A JURY has found Kaihana Hussain, 20, not guilty of murdering her mother and trying to kill her father.
Hussain, 20, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Shaheda Yasmeen Hussain, 41, and attempting to murder her father, Muhammad Hussain, now 53, on October 9, 2006.
She had also pleaded not guilty to an alternate charge of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm to Muhammad Hussain.
The prosecution alleged Kaihana Hussain attacked her parents to gain more freedom so she could convert from Islam to Christianity and move to Sydney to be with her boyfriend.
"Under cross-examination by defence lawyer Dennis Lynch, Mr Hussain said he was "very angry" his daughter planned to convert from Islam to Christianity and disapproved of her relationship with university student Benjamin Miles Thomas Brady," reports AAP.
Shaheda Hussain died at the scene of the attack at the family's Gold Coast unit but Muhammad Hussain was saved after operations on a severe stomach stab wound.
Hussain sobbed in the dock as she waited for the jury to enter the court room.
During the trial, the jury heard Hussain told police she saw her father use a knife to stab his wife twice at the family's rented apartment in Southport, on the Gold Coast.
In the interview, Hussain told police she had taken her father into the bedroom and blindfolded him so she could give him a ``surprise'' gift she brought back from a trip to Bangladesh.
She said while she was looking for the present in another room she could hear her parents arguing.
Her father was talking ``quite aggressively'', she said.
``The next thing I knew, and this happened within like a split second, my dad had the knife in his hand and he stabbed my mum,'' the court heard that she'd told police.
She said when her father came after her he bore a stab wound.
But Dr Hussain denied, under defence questioning, being the one who carried out the attack.
Penalties are harsh, Muslim elders say
SMH
JACQUELINE MALEY, RICK FENELEY AND MALCOLM BROWN
February 17, 2010
SYDNEY Muslims are ''angry and frustrated'' at the severity of the sentences meted out to five men convicted of terrorism offences, say community elders who worry that the strict penalties will serve to radicalise more young Islamic men.
“Moderate Islamic Community Leader” Ikebal Patel
''The penalties, while they are warranted, they seem really harsh,'' said the president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Ikebal Patel. ''There is a real possibility that this might alienate some members of the Muslim community … there's a lot of frustration and anger.''
On Monday Justice Anthony Whealy of the Supreme Court sentenced the five men from Sydney's west to jail terms of up to to 28 years.
Justice Whealy admitted there was insufficient evidence the men intended to kill, comments seized upon by Keysar Trad, chairman of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia.
''Even if they had talked about things like this,'' Mr Trad said, ''it is very likely that there would have been a very large number of points along the way where they would have reconsidered because they didn't want to kill anybody.''
Mr Trad added: ''It seems our standard has changed from proving a crime beyond reasonable doubt to the possibility that they might have intended to commit a crime.''
But what of the stockpile of weapons, ammunition and potential explosives?
''That doesn't translate into a wilful intent to commit an act of terrorism,'' he said.
Sheikh Khalil Chami of the Islamic Welfare Centre in Lakemba regularly visited the convicted terrorist conspirators, who range in age from 25 to 44, in jail. He is certain they were radicalised in Sydney.
$10 Million for Muslim Terrorists
The Ignoble Mr Trad
Keysar Trad “RACISM an Islamic Response"
31 7 09 Keysar Trad RACISM an Islamic Response
"Trad v Harbour Radio Pty Ltd 2009 NSWSC 750"
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“……….It has not been easy and they remember 1998 as their worst year when Trad fell in love - "became obsessed", his wife says - with another woman. In desperation, Hanifeh proposed marriage on her husband's behalf to the other woman. "We were having a terrible time. He fell in love and I wasn't thinking about myself," she says. But his obsession passed. "He became more compassionate after it," Hanifeh says. "God meant for him to go through this experience and it made him a better person and more emotionally aware. It knocked him off his perch."
Islam's Man of a Million Comments
Rudd’s Union financed Multicultural ZOO
$10 Million for Muslim Terrorists
Rudd Govt's Immigration Policy an Invitation to Chaos The Australian Labor Party is funded by the Australian Council of Trade Unions,ACTU, the CFMEU is a member of the ACTU.
The sight of Andrew Ferguson bemoaning the appalling situation shown in the Today Tonight story is a little rich even for the Union movement,the situation arose because of THEIR Governments policies.
See more golden threads of some of the worlds great cultures woven into Australia’s rich tapestry of Multiculturalism
The Occupied Territories of Australia, Melbourne, according to it’s socialist state Labor Government is the “safest city in Australia”, and it’s leader has “never seen a gang”
Maybe the Government should have some more “Harmony Days” or more Multicultural Community BBQ’s.
Mr Twentyman must feel uncomfortable playing the role of a “fireman” after so many years advocating social policies that have caused so much of the environment he now finds so unacceptable.
$10 Million for Muslim Terrorists
Check out the “Hag in a Bag” sister to one of the Muslim Sociopaths,
explaining to us all that its all a big miscarriage of justice… well of course it is.
and this from 7 network
Family members of five Sydney jailed for plotting terrorist attack criticise length of sentences
Doug Conway
Daily Telegraph
February 15, 2010
FAMILY members have criticised the sentences handed out in Sydney's terrorism trial, saying murderers get less.
"That's a very big sentence," said the sister of the youngest of five Muslim men sentenced to maximum terms of between 23 and 28 years.
"Not even murderers get sentenced that much.
"Twenty-three years, that's half of his life," she said of the sentence imposed on her 25-year-old brother.
"It's not fair to him, our community or our religion."
Relatives of some of the other men yelled out expletives as they heard the sentences via closed-circuit TV outside the court room at Parramatta.
One woman began sobbing as two men shouted "f#^<" and left the building.
The sister, who said she attended every day of the 10-month trial, said she believed her brother was innocent.
"He was not planning any mass murder or terrorist attack," she said.
"He is no extremist; the only extremists are people like ASIO, they go way deep."
She said the jail sentences would only serve to strengthen the faith of the convicted men.
They would not cause a divide between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Australian community, or incite any other Muslims to take extremist action.
She read out a poem dedicated to her brother that said in part: "They handcuffed your spirit, they stole your freedom, they locked you up for a crime you didn't commit, they locked you up because you fit the script."
She said her brother would have "the last laugh" because the truth would come out before God on judgment day.
Mothers-to-be turned away from hospital
By Sharon Labi
The Sunday Telegraph
February 14, 2010
PUBLIC hospitals are turning away pregnant women because their maternity wards are full. Some big Sydney hospitals have introduced caps, limiting the number of bookings they will take from women with low-risk pregnancies.
Changes to the Medicare safety net that will exclude private obstetrics fees are expected to exacerbate the demand for beds, driven by the baby boom of recent years.
Obstetricians have been telling patients they have no hope of getting into some facilities such as Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA), the busiest maternity unit in the State.
A Sydney South West Area Health Service spokeswoman said there had been a 40 per cent rise in the number of births at RPA between 2000 and 2005.
"To ensure the safety of all women and their babies, RPA gives priority to women with high-risk pregnancies and has introduced a cap on low-risk pregnancies," she said.
The Royal Hospital for Women, at Randwick, would take high-risk referrals from out-of-area women, but those with low-risk pregnancies who did not live in the area would be referred to their local hospital when the Royal did not have capacity, maternity services co-director Dr Daniel Challis said.
Australian Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott
Westmead Hospital has also introduced caps for women who live outside the area.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists president Ted Weaver said public hospitals would have to cope with an extra 26,000 births this year as a result of the Medicare changes.
Obstetricians report a five to 10 per cent drop in demand since the changes took effect on January 1, but say the full impact will be felt in six months.
They fear that excluding private obstetrics from the safety net and limiting rebates to $463 a year will result in poorer outcomes for women.
"If hospitals are on bypass, the women will have to go somewhere else," Dr Weaver said last week.
"Every part of the system will be under strain."
Australian Medical Association president and gynaecologist Dr Andrew Pesce said women needed to book in early.
"Unless you book really early, you get fewer choices of the hospitals you can go to in the public system," Dr Pesce said.
"Eventually, if you leave it too late, there's only one you can go to - and that's in the area where you live."
Health Minister Nicola Roxon's spokeswoman said women concerned about fees should question their specialists.
"Where there was evidence that some specialists were taking advantage of the taxpayer-funded Medicare safety net to massively increase their fees, the Government moved to cap those costs," she said.
Until December 31 last year, women could claim 80 per cent of out-of-pocket obstetrics fees after reaching the safety- net threshold.
Debora Feijo, 36 weeks pregnant, plans to give birth at Royal North Shore because of the cost of a private obstetrician.
"We'd like to have a third child, but these Medicare changes will make it even more expensive," Ms Feijo said.
Have you been turned away from a public hospital?
COSTLY CHANGE
Until December 31, 2009: Able to claim 80 per cent of fees after reaching $1126 in out-of-pocket medical expenses
From January 1, 2010: Medicare rebates for obstetrics capped at $463
Private obstetricians report 5-10 per cent drop in business so far this year
Predictions an extra 26,000 babies will be born in public hospitals this year
Hey this Muslim immigration and Multiculturalism is simply fantastic ay?
No further evidence is needed to prove the treachery of the Australian lefts “Multiculturalism” and now the Rudd Labor Government’s “open borders” come one come all, substitute for border security.
A military strategy developed by the left fifth column in Australia some 30 years ago during the radical left wing Labor Government of E.G. Whitlam, Gough Whitlam, under this lunatic and his Communist Deputy PM Jim Cairns Australia was brought to the brink of economic and national security destruction.
The Australian Labor Party and their financiers the Australian Council of Trade Union’s (ACTU) mantra of all Cultures,Religions,beliefs are equal, now enters it 30th plus year of refutation and abject failure in Australia.
Australia has never been more divided and has never been a more dangerous place to live in, than it is these last 15 or 20 years,
Thanks Australian Labor Party,thanks ACTU.
Hands up any Australians who would like more illegal immigrants or more Muslim immigrants ? or more third world African immigrants setting up their own territories on Australian soil?
Toxic batts claim ups pressure on Garrett
ABC
13 2 2010
The Opposition has ramped up calls for Peter Garrett to resign as Environment Minister, after he said he was warned imported insulation batts may contain dangerous levels of toxic chemicals.
Mr Garrett has been under fire in Parliament all week over the safety of the Federal Government's insulation program, with the Opposition saying he repeatedly ignored safety warnings about problems that led to the deaths of four insulation installers.
Now Mr Garrett has confirmed that an industry leader warned him cheap imported insulation reeked of formaldehyde and could generate toxic fumes when heated.
Warrick Batt says says he has had several meetings with Mr Garrett over the last six months and also raised concerns about whether the batts were being installed to Australian standards.
Mr Garrett says he has not seen any proof to back up claims that dangerous levels of chemicals were present in the insulation batts.
"We know that formaldehyde is used as a binding agent, but all batts have to conform to Australian standards and if products that conform to those standards and have the appropriate warnings then they're acceptable to go into ceilings," he said.
Opposition Environment spokesman Greg Hunt says he should be sacked.
"It's about standing up for the Australian people on the basis of safety," he said.
Mr Hunt says it should not be left to the insulation industry to produce the proof.
"Mr Garrett's program created the problem, created the need for importing Chinese batts and we know that there are potentially deadly Chinese batts," he said.
"Of course the Government should oversee its program.
"To blame the industry, to blame the installers and not to take responsibility is simple negligence and the Minister now, surely, must go."
Opposition leader Tony Abbott says the matter calls into question Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's competency.
"Someone has to take responsibility for the very, very serious maladministration of this program," he said.
"But every day Mr Rudd protects this incompetent Minister, his own Prime Ministership is called more into question."
Mr Garrett says he has Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's full support.
$10m of taxpayers money to try terrorists
By Alison Rehn, Political Reporter
The Daily Telegraph
February 09, 2010 12:00AM
TAXPAYERS paid out more than $10 million on legal aid for a group of nine Sydney terrorists, the Government revealed yesterday.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland pointed to the extraordinary circumstances of the case: it took 11 months, with more than 3000 exhibits tendered and 300 witnesses.
But the Opposition condemned the spending, and said "thousands" of Australians were denied any legal assistance - let alone one million dollars. At a parliamentary committee hearing, the Government revealed the accused terrorists were given $10.1 million in legal aid.
Five of the accused were found guilty of conspiring to commit an act in preparation for a terrorist attack, while four pleaded guilty to lesser terrorism-related charges before the trial. Liberal Senator Guy Barnett, who uncovered the legal bill, questioned the Government's priorities.
"Most Australians would be shocked to realise that over $10 million in taxpayers' funds has been spent defending the rights of those convicted of terrorist offences," he said. "That's over $1 million defending the rights of each terrorist.
"What about the thousands of Australians around the country who [are refused] legal aid to assist in a family law matter, for example ... I wonder how they feel?"
Mr McClelland's department said the expenses had been met from the Expensive Commonwealth Criminal Cases Fund. The department described the fund as dedicated to Commonwealth criminal law cases and said it did "not impact on the level of Commonwealth funding available for other Commonwealth law matters".
A spokesman for Mr McClelland defended the $10 million legal aid bill.
Trials could be at risk "and justice could not be done" if an accused in a serious criminal trial had no proper legal representation.
Any decisions regarding individual grants of aid were matters for each legal aid commission and Mr McClelland did not intervene in the process, the spokesman added. Legal Aid NSW chief executive of Alan Kirkland said confidentiality provisions meant he could not detail why the case required so much legal aid funding. But he said the cost in any trial was based on the "length and complexity of the matter".
The terror arrests followed a series of raids in Sydney's southwest on November 8, 2005.
Always plenty of Money hanging about in Australia so long as you are committed to the destruction of it’s people or working against them and the nation you are a preferred recipient
".....So we have got to have a tax system that’s adaptable to recognizing,WE have to be adaptable,if WE are to be attractive to this market"
Simon Crean, Rudd Labor Government Finance Minister
Fresh Thinking
My Name is Lu Kewen aka. Kevin, I’m from Queensland, and I’m here to help….. introduce Islamic Sharia Terrorist Financing into Australia,and remember what Simon said, start learning to ADAPT ………….that is, if you know what’s good for you.
It must be remembered,even if I forgot,that 2010 is an election year in Australia, and just as Lu Kewen’s Labor Union Funded Labor Party and it’s like minded International Socialist committed foreign governments and special interest groups aka. freedom fighters etc. around the world out spent the previous Howard government’s re election spending, I am sure Lu Kewen sees the facilitation of Sharia Banking in Australia as a prudent concession so close to an election campaign.
When the “Adult Children” are elected to Government at any level, the following is just one example of the consequences of having the LOONS with their hands on the levers of civilization.
Beijings man on the ground in Australia, Australian PM Lu Kewan aka Kevin 07 Rudd’s Environment Minister Peter Garrett was warned of DEATHS from the use of Foil Insulation.
Beijing’s / UN appointed UN,IPCC,Copenhagen,Gaia worshipping “Dear Leader”,Australian PM Lu Kewan, aka. Kevin 07.
Australian PM Lu Kewan’s idiot (sevant?) Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts,Gaia worshipping and token “Green Loon” in residence,The Hon Peter Garrett AM.
This from the PRO Labor / Socialist / UN Sydney Morning Herald.(maybe Garrett forgot to pay his Union fees this week)
Garrett knew of foil risks: electricians
SMH
February 11, 2010
Electricians formally warned the federal government in October 2009 that metal roof insulation could cause electrocutions.
But it took two deaths - and more than three months - for Environment Minister Peter Garrett to ban it.
The government has ordered an urgent safety review of almost 50,000 homes under its bungled $3.7 billion roof insulation scheme.
Mr Garrett, who is facing calls for his resignation, has revealed to Parliament that he knew of the risks.
He met the Master Electricians Australia in October 2009, after one installer had died fitting the metal insulation.
"Master Electricians were very concerned in general terms that metal fasteners and foil insulation posed an unacceptable safety electrocution risk," Mr Garrett said in a ministerial statement today.
Master Electricians told him that "electrical problems could emerge at the time of installation or even up to several months after the work was done".
Mr Garrett decided then not to ban the foil insulation.
Two more installers died while fitting the foil insulation after that decision.
This week Mr Garrett banned the foil insulation.
It has also become apparent that the government began to roll out its rebate scheme without training requirements in place for installers.
As well as the risk of electrocution, some homes have caught fire after being poorly fitted with insulation under the program.
The first homes were insulated under the program in February 2009. But mandatory training for installers comes into effect on Friday, almost one year later.
Mr Garrett said there was a proposal, put forward in February 2009, for mandatory training of installers.
In a meeting in April 2009, experts told the government at a meeting "that insulation work could result in a high level of hazard in existing buildings ... with a likelihood of death or injury if risks were not managed".
Mr Garrett defended his handling of the insulation rebate program.
"Providing timely and comprehensive responses to the issues that are raised by the industry has been a feature of the delivery of this program," he said.
Radio 2GB Sydney,Ray Hadley talks to one victims Mother then RIPS Garrett a new Arse HOLE
And this from the Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Liberal Party Tony Abbott.
Garrett’s home insulation failings prove deadly
Tony Abbott
Daily Telegraph
Thursday, February 11, 2010
It’s all very well for the Rudd Government to subsidise home insulation but it shouldn’t do so in ways which put lives at risk. Blog live with Tony on Friday
Four people have died while installing insulation under the Government’s stimulus package. Nearly 40,000 houses with foil insulation are now being audited with experts saying that up to 1000 homes could have electrified roofs. Although Environment Minister Peter Garrett can’t say how quickly these checks can be carried out, it seems that the Prime Minister is defending his competence and his administration of the portfolio.
Industry experts warned Mr Garrett last March about the “inherent dangers” in the execution of the Government’s programme but it seems that he took no serious action until after the first death in November.
The ABC has reported that a meeting of Commonwealth and state officials last April warned of the risk to property and life from the massive expansion of an unregulated industry. A succession of public warnings from May last year should have alerted the minister and the government to the safety issues associated with untrained people installing insulation in hundreds of thousands of houses.
The Government does not appear to have taken these warnings seriously. Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner even seemed to make light of these risks under questioning when he said that spending the stimulus money was too important for people to expect all the “i"s to be dotted and the “t"s crossed.
People should not have to die before the responsible minister takes action to ensure safe systems of work are in place. If Government ministers were company directors, I suspect that there would be calls for them to be prosecuted for industrial manslaughter.
The Coalition has called on Mr Garrett to give a full account to the parliament of the warnings he received and what he did about them.
His failure to do so suggests that no satisfactory response is possible. Prime Minister Rudd needs to ensure that his minister’s actions were appropriate under the circumstances or become complicit in a programme which has not just been incompetent but deadly.
Abbott went on to say in Parliament today that any Company Director responsible for the deaths of Four people would be charged with manslaughter
