Alan Jones: Delingpole,Coal Seam Gas,Shut the Gate,Terry McCrann,

Australia's # 1 Talkback Radio Host, Alan Jones of Radio 2GB 873 Sydney

Terry McCrann

Carbon tax to make its mark on the economy, Alan Jones is joined by economics commentator Terry McCrann to discuss the carbon tax. 

Shut the Gate

The fight against CSG mining continues Alan Jones is joined by Brian Monk, Lawrence Springborg and Drew Hutton of the Lock The Gate Alliance. 

James Delingpole

Alan Jones speaks with British commentator James Delingpole on Prime Minister Gillard's recent visit to Rio. 

 Donna LaFramboise

Climate change: the debate continues Alan Jones speaks with visiting climate change sceptic and author Donna LaFramboise

Australian Sen. Barnaby Joyce speaks with Radio 2gb's Chris Smith.

Straight Talking Straight Shooting
Sen.Barnaby Joyce.

Sergeant Blaine Diddams:SGT Blaine Diddams returned home to his family and friends today.

SGT Blaine Diddams Repatriation Ceremonies 

The members of the Special Operations Task Group have farewelled Sergeant Blaine Diddams in a moving memorial service on Thursday, 05 July. The memorial service was held at Camp Russell in Multi-National Base – Tarin Kot, before SGT Diddams’ casket was driven to a waiting Australian C-130 Hercules aircraft. SGT Blaine Diddams returned home to his family and friends in a solemn and moving ceremony at RAAF Base Pearce, Western Australia, on 9 July 2012. SGT Blaine Diddams was killed in action in Afghanistan during a mission targeting an insurgent commander in Chorah region of Uruzgan Province.

How long before Sergeant Blaine Diddams killer arrives in Australia via the Labor / Green Loon "Independent" Minority Socialist "Co Party" Government's OPEN borders immigration policy ?
Once here he will be fed housed clothed for life,free medical,dental pharmaceutical,education,legal,transport and the list goes on and on the only thing demanded in return is that they vote for the hand that feeds them and their co Islamic colonialists.ANV

Thomas Kelly another victim of the Godless Savagery that walks Sydney’s streets

Parents of 'king hit' teen appeal for witnesses to Kings Cross attack
Carleen Frost
Daily Telegraph
July 10, 20121:47PM


UPDATE: THE family of a teenager who was killed in an unprovoked attack in Kings Cross over the weekend has issued an emotional plea for the public's help to find the man responsible for his death.

Thomas Kelly, from Bowral in the Southern Highlands, died in hospital last night after suffering a king hit from an unidentified man while walking along Victoria St on Saturday night.
The 18-year-old's father Ralph said his wife Kathy and children Madeleine, 17 and Stuart, 14 had been left devastated by his son's shock death.
"Thomas was the most unbelievable child, one of the most courageous boys I think I've ever met," he said.
"He had started a cadetship in the city with an accounting firm and was going to university at nights.
"To think that his life was just finally taking off... It was his friend's 18th birthday, they hadn't been out before, they wanted to celebrate.
"They had just arrived and within two minutes his life was taken from him.
"This is just a tragic, tragic, tragic situation and nobody would want to be in this position."
Kelly was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a critical condition with head injuries but died late yesterday after his life support was switched off.
Police have launched a homicide investigation.

Sydney's Occupied Territories Stabbing: Patrick Crowe, 22, attacked and stabbed to death..

This is the second young healthy productive industrious Australian man Murdered on the streets of Sydney since Saturday night, oh yes I know there will be the usual parade of excuse makers for their killers act of savagery, their dog died, they are from a disadvantaged socio economic group they feel marginalised through a lack of diversity and inconclusiveness in Australian society, no matter how the killers apologist spin it these two  of Australia's best are DEAD, their families destroyed for life, and spare me the crap about if they knew the damage they caused they would not have done it bull shit!!! that's exactly WHY the did it. ANV

What kind of feminism does Abu-Lughod represent?

The Feminist Politics of Islamic Misogyny


by Phyllis Chesler
American Thinker
November 13, 2010





Studying honor killings is not the same as sensationalizing them -- but Columbia University professor Lila Abu-Lughod disagrees. Moreover, she believes that indigenous Arab and Muslim behavior, including honor-related violence, is best understood as a consequence of Western colonialism -- perhaps even of "Islamophobia."


On October 25, 2010, at the American University of Beirut, Abu-Lughod admonished feminists who ostensibly sensationalize honor killings, a position which, in her opinion, represents "simplistic, civilizational thinking." She "warned that an obsessive focus on the so-called honor crime may have negative repercussions" and that "people should be wary of classifying certain acts as a distinctive form of violence against women." (Her remarks are summarized in a press release published by the university. According to the university, the article on which the speech is based will be published early next year in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.)


Abu-Lughod opposed the "concept of clear-cut divisions between cultures, which she viewed as a form of imprisoning rural and immigrant communities," and suggested that focusing on "honor crimes" allowed "scholars and activists to ignore important contexts for violence against women: social tensions; political conflicts; forms of racial, class, and ethnic discrimination; religious movements; government policing and surveillance; and military intervention."


What kind of feminism does Abu-Lughod represent? She is a post-colonial, postmodern, cultural relativist, a professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies who does not believe in universal standards of human rights. However, her allegedly feminist work primarily serves the cause of one nationalism only -- Palestinian -- and of one tradition only -- Islam/Islamism.


Abu-Lughod has long held the positions she expressed in Beirut. According to her 2002 article in The American Anthropologist, "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?," Abu-Lughod believes that wearing the Islamic veil signifies "respectability" for Muslim women. More, it can be "read as a sign of educated, urban sophistication, a sort of modernity." She writes,

Why are we surprised that Afghan women do not throw off their burqas when we know perfectly well that it would not be appropriate to wear shorts to the opera? If we think that U.S. women live in a world of choice regarding clothing, all we need to do is to remind ourselves of the expression "the tyranny of fashion."

According to the photo which accompanies the Beirut press advisory and her Columbia biography, Abu-Lughod does not wear a burqa.


In fact, Abu-Lughod herself and her professor parents are all products of an American academic establishment: Her Palestinian-American father, Ibrahim, taught at Northwestern University for 35 years; her Jewish-American mother, Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod, did so for twenty years. Their daughter was raised a Muslim -- but in America, not the Middle East. She attended Carleton College in Minnesota and received her Ph.D. from Harvard. Abu-Lughod is married to another Columbia professor of Middle East studies, Timothy Mitchell, who shares her views about Palestine, Israel, and America. They and others represent an academy which has also sacrificed most real feminist values and curriculum for a hard-left agenda which masquerades as "feminism."


Abu-Lughod suggests that there are many reasons that a woman might veil -- and, if she's talking about hijab (a headscarf), I can agree with her. However, wearing a face- and body-covering that obscures identity, peripheral vision, and all normal social interaction -- that functions, in effect, like a sensory deprivation isolation chamber -- is not an empowered "feminist" choice or even a feminist way of rejecting sexual objectification. The growing Islamist pressure to veil is enormous, and women fear being beaten, never obtaining a husband, or being divorced, jailed, or even killed for their failure to do so. Face- and body-covering is a forced choice, not a free one. Muslim girls and women are punished, and sometimes murdered, for refusing to wear a face veil.


Regarding the benefits of polygamy, Abu-Lughod and others suggest that female relatives, including co-wives, may bond, keep each other company, share isolating and repetitive tasks, and so on. Sounds good -- but neither research nor personal memoirs support this theoretical possibility. Exceptions always exist, but the bulk of what is known presents a far different picture of female-female relations. Many accounts portray Arab and Muslim women mistreating each other, their female servants, and their slaves. They are also either directly cruel or indifferent toward impoverished and racially and religiously marginalized women in their own countries and households.


Even Abu-Lughod notes that pioneer Iranian feminist Siddiqeh Dawlatabadi "imposed on the nine-year-old daughter of her father's secretary a marriage to her seventy-year-old father when he was widowed. She later ignored the girl's cries when she went into labor and thereafter, when Dawlatabadi's father died, married off the girl to someone else, taking her daughters."


In addition, research on honor killing demonstrates that mothers, sisters, aunts, and second wives conspire in the murder of one of their own female relatives and often have a hands-on relationship to the actual murder.


To be fair, Abu-Lughod has also published some interesting work about Muslim women in the Middle East, and about Bedouin women in particular, including Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. However, Abu-Lughod, like her Columbia University colleague Gayatri Spivak, views a Western-style fight for women's rights in the Muslim world as a dangerous diversion. In Remaking Women. Feminism and Modernity In The Middle East, Abu-Lughod criticizes Western "colonial feminism" as attempting to undermine local cultures and recommends that we continue to focus mainly on the "colonial enterprise." Why? Perhaps as a way of reminding Western thinkers -- heirs to the colonial adventure -- that, given their ancestors' past crimes, they dare not feel "superior" to the Islamic world, and above all, they dare not intervene to free Muslim prisoners from Muslim tyrants, jailers, and murderers. Indeed, Abu-Lughod is quoted in Beirut as saying that: "the easily sensationalized category [of honor killing] has the political effect of stigmatizing Muslim societies."


I am among a handful of both Muslim and non-Muslim feminists who humbly but adamantly question this approach. The politicization of the feminist academic world, especially in terms of its "Palestinianization" and its anti-Americanism -- has become the universal point of view for feminist academics. Abu-Lughod, Leila Ahmed, Suha Sabbagh, and Gayatri Spivak all share a profoundly negative view of the West and its values. This is their real passion. They may study women for complex reasons, but they use their work to condemn the West again and again. Sadly, they are all speaking the same politically correct "feminist" language from which a universal concept of human rights for women has been utterly banished.

Phyllis Chesler is Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies and the author of fourteen books, including the 1972 classic Women and Madness. She has published two studies about honor killings in the Middle East Quarterly. She wrote this article for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. She would like to acknowledge the assistance of Nathan Bloom.

Sydney Burns Foundation growing Synthetic Skin

Sydney Burns Foundation researchers are growing synthetic skin


Jane Hansen 
The Sunday Telegraph
July 08, 2012 12:00AM


BURNS victims will be able to grow back their own skin within five years following groundbreaking advancements in skin reproduction.


Researchers from the Sydney Burns Foundation are growing a human-based substance "recombinant elastin" which associate professor Peter Haertsch believes will provide victims a better quality of life.


"We can save more patients now, but their quality of life hasn't improved and this technology will change all that.


It is a living skin equivalent," said Concord Hospital's Prof Haertsch.


"It will be a pliable, durable sheet like a thin piece of sponge full of holes and you put that on the excised burn and then the body will repopulate the sponge with cells that produce collagen and elastin, so the skin will regenerate, not scar."


Large animal trials are scheduled before human trials of the product can begin within five years. The Sydney Burns Foundation, of which Prof Haertsch is the chair, needs to raise $1.5 million to continue the research.


Prof Haertsch, who received an Order of Australia for his work on the Bali bombing victims ten years ago, said he felt he was letting current patients down 
with the existing treatment of skin grafting which does not stretch, sweat or oil itself like normal skin.

These Girls are just  two of the thousands needing help from the Sydney Burns Foundation every year. Please assist financially if you can

Turia Pitt, the 25-year-old runner who suffered burns to 64 per cent of her body when trapped in a bushfire during an ultra-marathon in the Kimberley last year, acknowledges the difficulties of skin grafting but is very grateful to have survived and is planning to run in the upcoming City to Surf.


"Your skin is really stiff and it's really hard to move," she said.

Sydney's Occupied Territories Stabbing: Patrick Crowe, 22, attacked and stabbed to death..

NSW Police seek witnesses after man who died after being stabbed in Argyle Street Parramatta identified as Patrick Crowe


Clementine Cuneo, 
Police Reporter 
The Daily Telegraph 
July 08, 2012 4:22PM

A YOUNG man fatally stabbed after an altercation near a Parramatta rail and bus terminal early today has been identified.


Patrick Crowe, 22, and his mates were heading towards a bus stop in Argyle St, Parramatta, about 2am, when they were approached by three to four other men.

Shocked friends of Patrick today flooded Facebook with tributes to their "larrikin mate”.

"Life won’t be the same without you...you were the best fun,” one friend wrote.

Another said "It was impossible to be sad or cranky around you".

Police said the offending group started verbally abusing Mr Crowe and his friends, before one of the offenders pulled out a knife.

"The victim has received a stab wound to his left side, which unfortunately has been fatal,” Inspector Frank Gilroy said.

Mr Crowe was rushed to Westmead Hospital where he underwent emergency surgery, but he died just before 7am.

Insp Gilroy said police were keen to speak to any witnesses to the fatal altercation.

The group of offenders was described as possibly being of pacific islander appearance.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Sydney's Occupied Territories Celebrates it's 70th Shooting this year God Bless Multiculturalism and the ALP.

Labor's Multicultural Zoo claims another young innocent Australian 22 years of age, stabbed to death by by gutless evil swine with nothing better to do than unleash their unbridled Neanderthal savagery upon anyone unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Somewhere in Sydney these Godless Monsters are lurking,probably smirking about their act of cowardice and someone knows who they are, the killers biggest problem is that his accomplices know who he is,and that factor alone has doubled his chances of been apprehended sooner than later.


Thomas Kelly another victim of the Godless Savagery that walks Sydney’s streets

Sydney's Occupied Territories Celebrates it's 70th Shooting this year God Bless Multiculturalism and the ALP.

A man shot on Station Road in Auburn is 70th gun crime in Sydney this year, says Opposition Leader John Robertson

Sydney's Occupied Territories, a rich and divers Multicultural  no go zone where every day is a "Harmony Day"


John Robertson former Union hack and now leader of the NSW Labor opposition, the party that has ruled NSW for the previous 15 years, the same party that is responsible for the implementation at the state level of the insanity of Multiculturalism and Islamic Colonization of Australia, is surprised? disappointed ? at the number of shootings in what passes for the Labor "Heartland" 


Create the problem when in government then pretend outrage when in opposition at the manifestations of Labor Green Loon policies.


Flood the nation with loons Muslims and thugs that ought to reduce the living standards of Australians the same way Labour did it in the UK back in the sixties.


Multiculturalism = Chaos and Mayhem a nation populated by warring tribes each seeking supremacy with nothing but contempt for the host culture.
Thanks Labor .

Islamic Sociopaths Inc. Moves under way to dig up dead Arafat ... GOOD LUCK !!!

Someone planted the polonium much later, but anyhow: its time to bring him back!

by SHEIKYERMAMI on JULY 7, 2012He was a saint!Any idea why neither Suha nor the PA agreed to release the French hospital’s medical file?Al Reuters photo-essay whitewashes terrorist ArafatbastardNow that the syphilitic terrorist Arafat is in the news again, Reuters put out a photo essay with 32 pictures going over his life.The photos seem really, really selective, though….They include photos of Arafat with the Pope, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela and others.

So much more on this sack of Islamic Shit can be found here 

If they are going to dig this piece of vile putrid filth up they will have to dig deep, you see someone else has claimed his filthy porcine carcass 

Pious Muslim “Justice Fighter” Charged with bashing his estranged wife "black and blue" at her Yagoona home.

Youth leader ACCUSED of bashing his estranged wife

Fadi Abdul-Rahman seen here in happier times,plotting the demise of Australia with then Australian Prime Minister, Lu Kewen / Kevin 07 “I have never been a Socialist” Rudd, at the Grand Socialist Elites and Celebrity 2020 Summit / Gab fest in 2008.

" ....the Government here is better than our Sharia Law for women"

From Sydney's Occupied Territories :Divorce the Sharia Law way

Brenden Hills Court Reporter
The Sunday Telegraph
July 08, 2012 12:00AM


ANTI-CRIME crusader Fadi Abdul-Rahman has been accused of bashing his estranged wife "black and blue" at her Yagoona home.
Muslim leader Abdul-Rahman, who featured at Kevin Rudd's 2020 Summit in 2008 and has been a fighter for justice in western Sydney, was charged with assaulting his wife on February 6.
Despite being the alleged victim, Abdul-Rahman's wife is now wedged between her religion, her husband and the NSW legal system after a Sydney court threatened to arrest her if she refused to give evidence when her husband's case next appears in court.
The ex-boxer screamed "f ... ... let me in", ripped a door security screen, forced his way into the house, and bashed his wife of 16 years, leaving her with two black eyes, court documents said.
Abdul-Rahman is charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, aggravated break and enter and home invasion, and will face a committal hearing next month.
Lawyer Brett Galloway said Abdul-Rahman will defend the matter and has no case to answer
Abdul-Rahman, 35, became a prominent figure for his work in steering Lebanese youth away from a life of crime, and was the subject of SBS and ABC TV documentaries.
Court documents said on the night of the alleged assault, Mrs Abdul-Rahman spoke to police. An officer asked her "who did this to you?" and she replied: "My husband."
The officer then told her: "I cannot help you without the truth in what happened".
Mrs Abdul-Rahman has refused to make a formal statement after speaking to her mosque's sheik and to family members, court documents said. Police have made several further unsuccessful approaches to Mrs Abdul-Rahman.
In Burwood Local Court on June 28, magistrate Michael Connell ordered that if Mrs Abdul-Rahman does not appear in court on July 8 he "may consider" issuing an arrest warrant.
Court documents said police, called to the house by neighbours, found Mrs Abdul-Rahman with bruised eyes.
Police allege Abdul-Rahman went into a "rage" when his wife told him to "go away", court documents said.
An officer at the house viewed a mobile phone which received a text message that said: "It's OK to answer your phone. Make sure (Mrs Abdul-Rahman) is not talking", court documents said.
The matter will return to court on August 6.

But he's such a GOOOD Boy,is our Fadi, he neva dun nuffen to no body,You tell em Fadi, you tell em Fadi, say it ain't so Fadi, say it ain't so.
_______________________________



Egyptian Cleric Sa'd Arafat: Islam Permits Wife Beating Only When She Refuses to Have Sex with Her Husband
Al-Rahma TV (Egypt) - February 4, 2010 - 03:32

What's to prevent this when the Qur'an tells men to beat their wives? 

"Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them" (Sura 4:34). At least this guy is in danger of prosecution (we'll see about that), but how many other cases like this have gone unreported and unnoticed?"  Full story  here 

      Saudi TV Presenter Rania -al- Baz

"Rania Al Baz might be a prominent Saudi but is far from liked by Saudis. She used to work as a presenter on the Saudi national channel. In April 2004 she was seriously beaten up by her husband. After a photo of the aftermath was published in local media, sympathy came pouring in. Her hospital bill was taken care of by a member of the royal family. Her husband was duly punished and she was granted custody of her two sons. She also has a daughter from a previous marriage. There were people who raised doubts about why her husband got that angry in the first place. There were even rumors that she was on the phone flirting with another man when her husband came in. Lucky for Rania, the husband lost a lot of his credibility when he shot at his sister in Egypt and then kidnapped her in Lebanon for singing."  More 

According to the Egyptian cleric /holy man the Koran says to beat your wife if need be

What does a Muslim man do, obey the Koran or behave like a civilized human being?

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Australia's Finest Sergeant Blaine Diddams, coming home.

Sergeant Diddams farewelled from Tarin Kot

Department of Defence

The members of the Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) have farewelled Sergeant Blaine Diddams in a moving Memorial Service at Camp Russell.

Sergeant Diddams was shot during an engagement with insurgents on 3 July, while on a mission targeting an insurgent commander who was known to be in the Chorah region at the time.

SOTG Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel J, paid tribute to a well-respected and highly experienced Special Forces soldier during the service in Tarin Kot, Afghanistan.

“Today we farewelled a husband and father, a mate and brother who will be forever missed but never forgotten,” Lieutenant Colonel J said.

“He died doing what he loved in the only way he knew how - to lead his men from the front. Blaine was the relaxed professional whose quick wit and sense of humour could turn a smile in even the worst of situations.

“Blaine endeared himself to everyone who knew him due to his quirky sense of humour and love of a joke.

“He was a devoted father and husband who lived life to the fullest. He thrived on adventure and time with his mates and he was the type of person that if you were in trouble or on a winning streak, you wanted to share the experience with,” he said.

The Memorial Service was held in Camp Russell at Multi-National Base – Tarin Kot, before his casket was moved to a waiting Australian C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Soldiers from SOTG along with Australian, Afghan and coalition forces personnel lined the route to salute their comrade.

The Commander of Australian Defence Forces in the Middle East, Major General Stuart Smith, said the loss of Sergeant Diddams was deeply felt by all ranks.

“Sergeant Diddams was an elite soldier, working with a professional team, on a vital mission to support security and safety for the people of Uruzgan,” 

Major General Smith said.

“As a military family we mourn his loss, but we put aside our grief to continue on important work in Afghanistan as our tribute to his dedication and 

sacrifice.”

Australian elite SAS Soldier killed on Seventh tour of Afghanistan.

Sergeant Blaine Diddams,Aussie Warrior coming home, God Bless.

Law catches up with the Big Boobed Bandit

"Facing life in prison

An armed woman who distracted victims by exposing her breasts

while robbing a gas station has handed herself in."

Oh please gimme a break "life in prison" for this ?
Could the author of this idiot headline from Yahoo tell me the name of ANYone convicted of a similar offense that has been sentenced to "Life in Prison" in Australia?

This is "Progressive"Australia, we dont send anyone to prison until they have had at least a dozen bashings / knifings GBH or the umteenth DUI or a kill or two.


The offender / accused  is Female, thats a Plus, she is also a recent immigrant that's a double Plus, however she appears to be a "non tinted person" that would almost cancel out the pluses stop press the above pic has just arrived and I would have to say there appears to be some "tinted person" in her genes,if true she has nothing to worry about University Law departments would be full of Lawyers scripting her hard luck story and excuse for her behaviour as you read this.

Madame Rein hints at partner Lu Kewen (Kevin 07) leadership challange

Australian PM.Madame JuLIAR Gillard

'Faceless men' ready to challenge Prime Minister, 

says Tony Abbott

Daily Telegraph

July 07, 2012 12:44PM

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says the Labor's party's "faceless men" are considering another leadership challenge against the prime minister.

Mr Abbott said he wasn't surprised at reports on Saturday that former prime minister Kevin Rudd still has leadership ambitions. He also said a push for Labor to preference the Australian Greens last at the next election shows who really runs the ALP.

Madame Rein (c) and Partner former Australian PM Lu Kewen aka. Kevin 07 / Rudd.

Mr Rudd's wife Therese Rein told Fairfax newspapers her husband could still return to the federal Labor leadership, but only if he was invited.

Mr Abbott said the party's "faceless men" would have the final say on who was leader.

"I'm not at all surprised that there are lots of people inside the Labor party who'd think they'd do a better job than Prime Minister Gillard, but in the end we know who calls the shots," he told reporters at Yatala, south of Brisbane, on Saturday.

"It's the faceless men. And what the faceless men are doing right now is weighing up whether it is time for change."

The push for Labor to preference the Australian Greens last at the next election shows who really runs the ALP, Mr Abbott said.

NSW Labor secretary Sam Dastyari, convenor of the Centre Unity faction, on the NSW Right, has described the Greens as "extremists not unlike One Nation".

Mr Dastyari said the ALP must stop treating the Greens "like they are part of our family".

"Where it is in the Labor Party's interest to do so, we should consider placing (the Greens) last - just like we did with One Nation," he told News Ltd.

Mr Dastyari is preparing to move a motion at the state party conference next weekend calling for Labor to "no longer provide the Greens party automatic preferential treatment in any future preference negotiations".

Mr Abbott said the move was telling.

"The faceless men are ultimately calling the shots," he said.

Mr Dastyari leads the faction which counted former senator Mark Arbib among its numbers.

Mr Arbib was known as one of the so-called faceless men, alongside Victorian Labor MP and minister Bill Shorten, who helped depose Kevin Rudd in 2010 and replace him with Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Mr Dastyari is hoping other ALP state branches will follow the NSW move.

Australian Greens leader Christine Milne is reported to be seething after Victorian Labor put Family First ahead of the Greens in the seat of Melbourne, held by deputy Greens leader Adam Bandt.

Ms Gillard brokered a deal with the Greens to form minority government after the 2010 election resulted in a hung parliament.

Sydney's Panther sighted and on the move again

The Panther lives.
2012

Trail of the black panther leads to Kenthurst

By Justin Vallejo, Urban Affairs Reporter 

Daily Telegraph

December 27, 2008 12:00AM

MYSTERIOUS panther-like creatures, long reported to be stalking the outskirts of Sydney, could be moving towards homes.

With at least 19 sightings reported this year, big cat hunters believe they're becoming bolder as they search for food and mates.

Cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy said the elusive creatures - usually reported as fleeting sightings at night, often on lonely country roads - have been reported as far afield as Kenthurst, Lithgow, Penrith and Appin as they find migratory routes around Warragamba dam, linking breeding populations from the northwest to southwest via the Blue Mountains.

Have you seen a big cat? Send photos to webphoto@dailytelegraph.com.au or MMS 0432 752 459

"They've become more active, males and females, in the past few weeks and months as they look to breed," Mr Gilroy said.

Although there is no hard evidence the creatures exist, residents have become so frightened that the Department of Primary Industries has commissioned a report on the cats, due early next year.

"The DPI is currently putting together a report following recent concerns from residents living in the Grose Vale area," a spokeswoman said. "The report will look at a range of options, as well as a review of the existing evidence."

Grose Vale resident Chris Coffey, who operates a database that has recorded 330 sightings in the past decade, said she has seen a big cat the size of her 63kg rottweiler at least five times in her own backyard.

While the DPI received 19 formal reports of a "large black cat" in 2008, there had been an increasing flood of informal reports.

Mr Gilroy recently visited Burragorang Valley, where bushman Gavin Noakes found large paw prints bigger than a man's fist at 12cm to 15cm wide.

The depth of the paw print suggested a heavy creature, in line with a number of recent sightings of a panther-like creature of about 30kg with a black-to-dark brown coat.

"There's a migratory pattern in which they seem to come out of Grose Vale and penetrate out into the back of the Kenthurst scrub, moving back and forth," he said.

"Two breeding populations of about half a dozen each have developed there."

He believes they are distant relations of the extinct Thylacoleo carnifex owen, a marsupial lion that survived the Ice Age.

I was hunting wild pigs at Nyngan NSW some years ago and saw some 200 yards away what I believed to be a German Shepard dog running through  knee high grasslands, it was bounding through the grass and scrub without any difficulty, I watched as it moved away then was stunned as it leapt and climbed up a large tree.

No way was that a German Shepard Dog. Aussie.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Madame Gillard.

The President of The Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, walks all over Australian PM Madame Julia Gillard, during recent visit to Australia.

Radio 2GB's Alan Jones talks with the Australian Newspapers, Greg Sheridan, on the ramifications of the Labor /Green Loon Governments foreign policy failures in dealing with Indonesia.