18 year Old Arrested in connection with Thomas Kelly Murder

Arrest made over Thomas Kelly murder in Kings Cross


Yoni Bashan
The Daily Telegraph
July 18, 2012 9:14PM


POLICE have arrested an 18-year-old man over the death of Thomas Kelly in Kings Cross.
The teenager was arrested at an address at Glendenning near Mount Druitt at around 8:30pm tonight.
It is understood the man just turned 18-years-old this year.
He is currently at Campsie Police Station being interviewed by detectives and is expected to be charged.
He will appear before court tomorrow.
The Daily Telegraph has been made aware of the man's identity but cannot print it for legal reasons.
Mr Kelly was killed after being punched to the head as he made his way to a birthday party on July 6.

Thomas Kelly: Parents speak of their Son's Murder.

"Transformative wealth redistribution"? or are some of Labor / Green’s welfare recipients too wealthy?

Carbon tax compo being gambled away

Daily Telegraph
July 18, 2012 8:24AM
Pokie revenues surge in May and June
Increase coincides with carbon compo payments

HANDOUTS to low-income workers under the carbon tax scheme have led to a surge in pokie revenues in May and June, according to The Australian Financial Review.
Pokie revenues in Queensland rose more than 7 per cent in May and 12 per cent in June which coincided with the Federal Government’s handout of more than $15 billion in carbon tax compensation to pensioners and low-income earners.
Although other states have yet to release official gaming machine revenues for June, the AFR reports that in lower socio-economic areas of Victoria such as Bendigo they rose by 8.6 per cent, which is 7 per cent above the state average.
Other poker machine operators such as Coles and Echo Entertainment have also seen a jump in pokie revenues since the carbon cash injection was given.
The new figures have led to calls by anti-gambling campaigners for carbon compensation to be given in a different form other than cash.

Stephen Mayne, an independent candidate for the Melbourne by-election this weekend, said it would be better to give the carbon tax compensation in the form of credits at a consumer’s power company.
Nomura gaming and retail analyst Nick Berry said carbon tax payments would continue to the end of July, boosting retail sales and gaming revenue. But when the first power bills arrive at the end of September, most of the carbon compensation will have been spent.
Keith DeLacy, chairman of the compliance, audit and risk committee at the Reef Hotel casino in Cairns, told the AFR that casino revenues have always increased when cash handouts were delivered.
"All it is showing is that people have increased disposable income and that’s what they’re spending it on,” he said.
“Governments have got to accept if they give straight cash handouts to the population at large they can’t dictate how it must be spent as well. I mean, how far can you take the nanny state?”

Muslim extremists in Indonesia are regrouping despite a decade long crackdown.

 International Crisis Group's Sidney Jones on threat of terrorism

Sidney Jones Jakarta

A new report says Muslim extremists in Indonesia are regrouping despite a decade long crackdown. The deadliest networks have been weakened but Islamists are finding each other and building new cells on the run, in prison and through internet forums. Anti militant groups have divided cells like Jemaah Islamia - the group blamed for the 2002 Bali Bombings - but smaller groups have formed. The report from the International Crisis Group warns that the threat of terrorism is far from over. 

Bali 2002 The young man been assisted here, by I believe an English Girl,died sometime (weeks) later of his burns.

Some two weeks after this act of Islamic Terrorism in Bali friends of mine were Surfing the Islands near by and were met on numerous occasions during their three week stay with lighted matches been flicked at them and laughter as the locals declared 'Aussie BBQ" " Ha Ha Ha" ANV.

Thomas Kelly: Parents speak of their Son's Murder.

Andrew Bolt Conservative Australian commentator 15 7 2012

If your Gay it's OK if your a Heterosexual Married Couple there is no room at the Olympic Village Inn

Practising Heterosexual Married Couples not welcome at Australian Olympic Athletes Village

Aussie shooter furious after 'gay' discrimination


Yahoo!7
July 16, 2012, 10:54 am


Australian Olympic shooter Russell Mark is fuming after learning that gay couples will be allowed to share beds at the London Games while he will be prevented from rooming with his wife.
Russell and wife Lauryn were told by Australian chef de mission Nick Green that if they wanted to share accommodation they would have to leave the Olympic village and rent a hotel.

Mark told the Herald Sun that he felt discriminated against for being in a heterosexual relationship.


"The stupid part of this, which I have argued to them, is that there are tons of gay couples on the Olympic team who will be rooming together so we are being discriminated against because we are heterosexual." Mark said.


"Every couple, whether they are married or de facto should have the AOC trying to bend over backwards to accommodate their needs.


"They are pissed with my stance on sleeping tablets and what pissed them more than anything else is the photo shoot.


Mark recently spoke out against the ban on athletes using sleeping pills at the London Games, claiming that such a ban would negatively affect Australia's medal tally. Lauryn Mark appears in a photo shoot for Zoo magazine shouldering her shot-gun while wearing a skimpy green and gold bikini.


Lauryn Mark backed up her husband's claims of unfair treatment by the AOC, stating that, "There are a lot of same sex couples and its OK to be partners with someone of the same sex but if you are heterosexual you are penalised."

Cruel and Unusual Punishment inflicted upon Australian Olympian by the Australian Olympic Committee

Can you imagine the outrage if a Homosexual Couple were told they could not cohabit at the Olympic Games Athletes Village.
It's unbelievable that Heterosexual couples are told that only Homosexual couples living arrangements are catered for.

Sharia Law : Child Sex Slaves all the Rage in Liberated Progress "Arabed Springed "Egypt

‘Summer Brides’: Under-age daughters sold as ‘sex-slaves’ in Egypt, report claims


By AL ARABIYA
Sunday, 15 July 2012 

Wealthy Arab tourists from Gulf countries are paying money to purchase under-age Egyptian girls as “summer-brides”, claims a new report on human trafficking released by the U.S. State Department.

The marriages are not legally binding and end when the men return to their home countries.


According to the report “Trafficking in Persons”, often times these temporary marriages are facilitated by the girls’ parents who profit from the transaction.
According to Britain’s The Daily Mail, the wealthy tourists pay an amount to poor families through intermediaries, ranging from anywhere between $495 and $4,950.The young victims, some under the age of 18, are then forced to serve as sex slaves as well as servants to their “husbands.” 


Egypt has laws in place that aim to combat human trafficking which prevent foreigners from marrying an Egyptian woman if there is more than ten years age difference, but marriage brokers have found a way around that by forging birth certificates to make the girls appear older and the men younger. 


These contracts also eliminate any potential problems with hotels and land lords who may demand to see proof of marriage before allowing a couple to stay in a room together, since pre-marital sex is prohibited in Islam.


In many cases, the family agrees to marry their daughter without her consent, but often the girls are willing participants as they see it as the only way to help provide for their families.


In some cases the men take the Egyptian girls back to their home country to work as maids for their first wives. But even the girls who stay in Egypt do not fare much better since they often become ostracized by society and find it difficult to re-marry in the traditional way, particularly if the “summer marriage” resulted in a child. 


Many of the young women end up in a cycle of temporary marriages with Gulf tourists, and others are targeted by Egyptian men who marry them in order to force them into prostitution.


Many abandon the child out of shame, either to orphanages or leaving them to join the hundreds of thousands of street children that already exist in Egypt.


Arab Spring :Egyptian Sex Slave Marriage,the woman said "I enslave myself to you,"

Dr. Hoda Badran, who chairs the NGO Alliance for Arab Women, explained to the Sunday Independent that poverty is the main factor behind this phenomenon.


“If those families are in such a need to sell their daughters you can imagine how poor they are. Many times, the girl does not know she is marrying the husband just for the short term. She is young, she accepts what her family tells her, she knows the man is going to help them. If the girl is very poor, sometimes it is the only way out to help the family survive,” she told the newspaper.


The report by the State department said Egypt is making significant efforts to eliminate human trafficking, but due to the political unrest in the country over the past year, the government is unable to provide law enforcement and prosecution data on those efforts.


Furthermore, it said Egypt is continuing to develop strategies to implement a comprehensive action plan to address all aspects on trafficking.


In 2009, a court in Egypt’s second largest city Alexandria jailed two registrars for conducting temporary marriages of hundreds of underage girls, however NGOs say that this is only the tip of the iceberg, and that more needs to be done to implement existing laws.


The Muslim "Prophet", Mass Murderer, Slave Trader and Paedophile, Mohammed excelled at Paedophilia and Sex Slave Trading the Anti Christ Anti God if you like.
No wonder his modern day followers replicate with immunity his vile filthy base lifestyle and values and the constant never ending support and apologetics they receive from the Left / Green Progressive Beautiful People Industry.

Alan Jones and Professor Ross Fitzgerald discuss the Australian Welfare state

The Labor Green Loon Welfare State Collapsing


Alan Jones and Professor Ross Fitzgerald.

Australia Whales, Hugh Jackman and no shortage of Great White Sharks

And the not so lucky,I have seen many many Sharks in the surf over the years and on one particular occasion I cam as close as you would ever want to be to one, I cannot imagine a more horrible way to die than been ripped apart by a Shark, I hope this poor Guy did not suffer too much.

Australian Surfer snatched from Surfboard by monster Great White

HMAS Anzac Departs for the Middle East.

Australia's Finest doing their best

HMAS Anzac

HMAS Anzac is the first of her class and a modern warship, capable of operating in a multi-threat environment. Anzac's design is based on the German Meko 200 Class that uses modular construction methods. A feature of this method was the ability to share the construction of the 8 Australian and 2 New Zealand vessels throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Anzac is fitted with an advanced package of air surveillance radars; hull mounted sonar and electronic support systems that interface with state-of-the-art weapons systems. Anzac's armament comprises a five-inch (127-mm) gun, Harpoon missiles, Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles and Ship Launched Torpedoes.

The ship can embark a multi-role Sikorsky S-70B-2 Seahawk helicopter to enhance anti-submarine, anti-surface warfare and Search and Rescue capabilities. Embarkation of a helicopter also provides the ship with the capability to deliver air-launched torpedoes.

Anzac is the third Royal Australian Navy ship to carry the name of an Australian legend. Named after the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the First World War, the ANZAC's landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula as part of a larger Allied Force on the 25th of April 1915, meeting fierce resistance from the Turkish defenders. The campaign dragged on for a further eight months of hellish trench warfare, giving berth to a legend of endurance, selflessness, dedication to duty and mateship in the most demanding of environments. It is a shared memory of common sacrifice for the nations involved, regardless of nationality or religion, providing an enduring example for the men and women of the Australian Defence Force and Australian's as a whole. ANZAC Day is annually commemorated in Australia on the 25th of April. As such, Anzac proudly bears her name underpinned by the motto - "United We Stand".

In maintaining a close link with the rich traditions of the ANZAC spirit, during the Northern Trident 05 deployment, HMAS Anzac visited ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli for the 90th Anniversary of the landings. In company with warships of Britain, France and Turkey, Anzac provided a stunning backdrop to the official dawn service ceremony whilst some members of her crew participated in the services ashore. Anzac has been granted freedom of entry to the City of Albany, Western Australia, the departure port for the ANZAC's of old and also has a close association with the City of Rockingham. The Warnbro High School, near her homeport, has established the HMAS Anzac Learning Centre that promotes the education of our Navy and the history of Australia 's most costly war.

Other notable events Anzac participated in have included deployments to the Arabian Gulf, culminating in Naval Gunfire Support of British Royal Marines landings on Al Faw Peninsula, Iraq in 2003. During Northern Trident, Anzac celebrated the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in the UK as part of the International Fleet Review. Anzac has also successfully contributed to Fisheries Protection, Border Protection and Maritime Rescue Operations through her over ten years in service.

Funeral Service for one of Australia's finest,Sergeant Blaine Diddams

Farewell to Sergeant Blaine Diddams, Special Air Service Regiment


Hundreds of family, friends and fellow soldiers have commemorated the life of Sergeant Blaine Diddams, in a moving military funeral service held at Karrakatta, Perth. 

Forty year-old Sergeant Diddams was killed during an engagement with insurgents on operations in southern Afghanistan on 2 July, 2012.


Local residents, dignitaries and Defence Force members stood shoulder to shoulder to pay respects to Sergeant Diddams as his coffin was marched into the cemetery by his Regimental mates.


Commanding Officer of the Special Air Service Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel J paid homage to Sergeant Blaine Diddams.

“Didds was at the top of his game in terms of command, leadership and tactical acumen, yet he was humble, loyal to the end and respectful of all who contributed to the delivery of operational capability,” Lieutenant Colonel J said.


“His pursuit of professional excellence, his devotion to his family, his dedication to his mates and to his country will always be remembered by an eternally grateful Regiment, Defence Force and nation.”


Sergeant Diddams is survived by his wife Toni-Ann, his two children, Elle-Lou and Henry, his parents Peter and Cate, and four brothers and sisters.

The family of Sergeant Diddams receive his 'Sandy' Beret during the service at Karrakatta Cemetery. Special Operations Commander Australia Major General 'Gus' Gilmore looks on. Mid Caption: SGT Blaine Diddams of the Special Air Service Regiment was farewelled by his family and friends in a sombre ceremony at Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia, on 14 July 2012. SGT Blaine Diddams was killed in action in Afghanistan during a mission targeting an insurgent commander in Chorah region of Uruzgan Province on 2 July 2012. Dignitaries in attendance included the Prime Minister of Australia, the Honourable Julia Gillard, the Minister for Defence, the Honourable Steven Smith, Honourable Warren Truss MP, the Chief of Defence Force, General David Hurley AC, DSC, Chief of Army, Lieutenant General David Morrison AO and Special Operations Commander Australia, Major General "Gus" Gilmore, DSC, AM. Photo By CPL Chris Moore

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

Australia's Finest Sergeant Blaine Diddams, coming home.

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

Australian elite SAS Soldier killed on Seventh tour of Afghanistan.

Australian Surfer snatched from Surfboard by monster Great White

Surfer killed by shark north of Perth

Emily Moulton 

PerthNow

July 14, 2012 1:00PM

A MALE surfer has been killed by a shark off Wedge Island, about 180km north of Perth.

The surfer was attacked while out with a mate about 4km east of the the island, north of the coastal fishing town of Lancelin, at about 9am.

Surf Life Saving WA said Water Police had confirmed the attack was fatal.

In April, WA Fisheries senior shark research scientist Rory McAuley said the state was the deadliest place in the world for shark attacks, after the death of 33-year-old diver Peter

Kurmann off the southwest coast, the fourth death in seven months.

Mr McAuley said there had been an "unprecedented'' number of fatal shark attacks off WA in the past two years.

Last month, 62-year-old surf life saver Martin Kane was rescued by one of his fellow paddlers when a shark attacked his surf ski at Mullaloo beach.

A world-first acoustic tagging program introduced last year has shown sharks are lingering off the metropolitan coast for months at a time.

WA Fisheries Minister Norman Moore recently said the state had pre-emptively banned shark tourism.A WA police spokesman said the extent of the man's injuries was not clear but there are unconfirmed the attack was fatal.

QSociety Sergio Redegalli, Kirralie Smith public information night "Creeping Sharia"

From the QSociety



GDay and Hello;


I hope this email finds you well. 


We are holding our next public information night in Melbourne on Wednesday 18 July and
I am hoping this will not only interest you; but that you are kind enough to pass on this email 
and the attached information to your connections in Victoria.


Our two presenters for the night are:

Sergio Redegalli: How Free is Freedom of Expression under Multiculturalism?
Is criticism of discriminatory and divisive religious practices racist?
How the “Say No To Burqas” mural brings out the true colours of divisive
multiculturalism and cultural Marxism.



Kirralie Smith: Halal Certification Schemes
Are Australian shoppers forced to fund Islamic supremacist and terrorism? 

The founders of Halalchoices.com.au share insights into the Islamisation of 
Australian supply chains.

Brave woman stands against Halal Creeping Sharia

We would like to reach out and network across all concerned citizens; no matter which ethnicity, political view or religious belief -- we all have nothing to gain from further impositions by Islamic supremacists and the introduction of sharia by stealth in Australia. 


Admission is free, we only ask those who wish to attend to email their name(s) to vic@qsocaus.org or to the fax number listed below, and we shall send the venue details in Caulfield South late Monday or Tuesday. There is a tram stop right in front of the venue.


Best Regards


Ralf Schumann
Secretary


Q Society of Australia Inc  
Telephone 1300 361 200
Intl callers dial +61 2 8006 1525 
Facsimile 02 8008 1529
www.qsociety.org.au 


Letters to: PO Box 1228
Altona Gate - VIC - 3025
Australia 

Australian Aboriginal Boxer and 9/11 apologist enters and CONS Americans

  ".............it's not about terrorism. It's about fighting for God's law, and

 America's brought it upon themselves."

Anthony Mundine apologises for comments about 9/11 

Only under a Hope N Change Hussein Obama regime would a 9/11 Aboriginal Muslim apologist and denier be permitted to enter the USA .
No way should this BUM have been permitted to enter the USA even to apologise for his racist hate America remarks following 9/11 let alone be given the opportunity to earn money there.


He is a very wealthy man along with the rest of his fellow travellers in the Aboriginal Industry here in Australia,let him donate his fight fee to the victims families of 9/11 who according to him deserved what happened to them and as he has said he does not want THEIR money, good, fight for free then, like you said you don't "want their money".


I cannot believe that the American Boxing fraternity fell for this Muslim Arse Clowns crocodile tears and went back on what they said at the time Mundine made his disgraceful DOG remarks following his Co Religionists acts of Godless Savagery on 9/11

"They call it an act of terrorism, but if you can understand religion, and our way of life, it's not about terrorism. It's about fighting for God's law, and

 America's brought it upon themselves."

Eleven Australians,were slaughtered in the name of the Islamic Religion on Septembet 11 2001 and I have never ever heard a single word of apology from this arse clown and his entourage on behalf of his co religionists acts of mass murder either on 9/11 or any of the nearly 20,000 Muslim acts of mass murder world wide since then.

"Mundine ""I don't want their money, I just want to fight the best. Just line them up. I am ready to take on all comers in the super welterweight division. I believe I am the best."

 "The International Boxing Federation was deeply upset by Mundine's remarks. A spokesman said: "Mundine can forget about ever fighting in America. We understand that he's an extremely colourful fighter but saying something like that is deeply offensive to the American people and to the IBF who know people who were murdered by those madmen." 

22 June 2012
McKart: Mundine 9/11 comments will motivate me
Phil D. Jay 
WBN Editor 


‘Superman’ to make Aussie pay for remarks


Bronco McKart is using upcoming opponent Anthony Mundine’s comments in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks as motivation for his fight against the Australian on July 14th at the Palms Resort Casino in Las Vegas.


The 41 year-old, who has won his last three contests since losing to Roman Karmazin in 2008, is angry at the remarks made by Mundine just one month after the attacks where ‘The Man’ stated that the American citizens had ‘brought it upon themselves.’


"For you to say that about this country, and (then) you to want to come here for an opportunity to better your career?" McKart told FoxSports in a recent video interview.


"You want to come here on the soil that you said deserved 3000 lives in one day being lost and countless others after that?


"If that doesn’t motivate (me), nothing will."


Mundine, 37, converted to Islam two years prior to the statement made in 2001 and is now looking to crack the US market after fighting almost exclusively in his home country over a twelve-year career.


Anthony Mundine's 9/11 rant after win


Herald Sun
October 20, 2011 8:22AM


ANTHONY Mundine has claimed his decade-old comment that the US brought the 9/11 attacks "upon themselves" is still being held against him.


Mundine took the WBA interim world light middleweight title in a unanimous points decision over Rigoberto Alvarez in Newcastle last night, paving the way for a potential fight with undefeated American Austin Trout in Australia.


Often accused of dodging the big names, Mundine said the reason why he hadn't had a major US fight was because of his 2001 comment on Channel Nine which was widely reported and condemned.


"Get on to the American people. They're blacklisting me. I'm telling you they're blacklisting me because of the September 11 (comment)," Mundine said.


"I know it. I can feel it in my heart. They don't want me to go over there and kick their butts and make money.


"I don't want their money, I just want to fight the best. Just line them up. I am ready to take on all comers in the super welterweight division. I believe I am the best.


"I'm charismatic, I'm flashy, I'm pretty, I'm a former three-time world champion ... You tell me why they don't want me.


"There's only one reason why and you all know what it is."


Mundine, 36, at least made sure he got the chance to fight another day, a loss last night likely to have scuppered any hopes of bigger fights in the near future. 


In a fight that could have ended his career had he lost, Mundine was far too hungry, coming out strongly before using his quick left jab to take control of the fight in Newcastle and win in a unanimous points decision.


Two judges had 'The Man' winning comfortably 117-111 while the third scored a tighter fight, 114-113.


But what was clear was with a host of NRL stars in his corner, Mundine's influence on the fight increased as the rounds ticked over and his Mexican opponent tired.


The former rugby league star soon got on top in the bout using the power of his right hand to attack a wound above Alvarez's left eye which opened up during a barrage of blows in the fourth round.


From the beginning it was Mundine who came out firing, claiming honours in the first round before Alvarez awoke and fired back with a series of body blows to take the second.


It only served to spur Mundine on with the cocky Australian mixing speed and power to earn the judges' respect in rounds three, four and five.


Alvarez momentarily wrested back momentum in the sixth but it was Mundine who came home the more powerful.


"I produced something a lot of people didn't think I could," Mundine said after the fight.


"Sorry there wasn't a knockout. I was going for it."


Next on the agenda for Mundine will be a potential world title fight with Austin Trout.


"Bring on that sucker. He was talking crap about me, saying this, saying that ... so bring it on Austin," Mundine said.


Among those in Mundine's camp were Australian Test star Greg Inglis, Newcastle signings Timana Tahu and Kade Snowden, and Manly's George Rose.


BOXING CHAMP'S CHEAP SHOTS


posted by George Kelly


RISING boxing star Anthony Mundine was taking a battering from all sides last night for stating the US had brought the September 11 terror attacks upon itself.


His remarks to Channel 9 yesterday spread across the world after he was condemned by both sides of politics, Muslim leaders and a world boxing organization. Last night Mundine's view of the attacks which killed 5206 people - including 23 Australians - was at the top of America's biggest news website, the Drudge Report.


Earlier, Mundine, who stopped Guy Waters on Saturday night, told the Today show he opposed the war on terrorism and Australia's involvement. But it was a comment by Mundine - who converted to Islam in 1998 - about the September 11 attacks, which saw more than 100 angry viewers jam Nine's switchboard. ." It's not about terrorism, it's about fighting for God's laws," he said. "And it's been brought upon . . . America's brought it upon themselves, you know, in what they've done in the history of time." Opposition Leader Kim Beazley led a chorus of condemnation over that view.


"The US did not bring this on itself, those poor people who died did not bring this upon themselves, they died because they were victims of international criminals," Mr Beazley said. The International Boxing Federation was also deeply upset by Mundine's remarks. Last night, however, Mundine tried to fight himself out of a corner. "I'm sorry if I offended anybody," he said on The Ray Martin Show on Channel 9. "I condemn killings on both sides."


"I am a person that fights for peace and harmony." The International Boxing Federation was deeply upset by Mundine's remarks. A spokesman said: "Mundine can forget about ever fighting in America. We understand that he's an extremely colourful fighter but saying something like that is deeply offensive to the American people and to the IBF who know people who were murdered by those madmen."


Sydney Arabic community spokesman Jamal Rifi said Mundine's comments "weren't useful". "The killing of innocent people is unjust no matter what," he said. "It (the comments) only inflame the situation . . . we need positive comments that bring the community into harmony."

Labor Green Loon Deputy PM takes Ray Hadley to Governments broadcasting Star Chamber

Ray Hadley won't apologise for calling Swan a liar and a boofhead
Andrew Clennell 
The Daily Telegraph
July 13, 2012 12:00AM

DEPUTY Prime Minister Wayne Swan has taken 2GB's Ray Hadley to the broadcasting watchdog over a tirade in which Mr Hadley accused him of being a "boofhead" and a liar.


Hadley last night said it was the first time he had been referred to the Australian Communications and Media Authority by a politician, and vowed he would not say sorry.


The furore erupted after a Hadley interview with shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey on June 25, following a Daily Telegraph report on a proposal to cut free bottled water and fruit to school groups visiting parliament. On June 26 The Daily Telegraph acknowledged its report was incorrect, as it was a draft proposal which had been rejected.


Hadley and Mr Hockey both laid into Mr Swan, after Mr Swan emailed media criticising the initial report and saying the cuts were not going ahead.

Labor's manic obsession with media control continues unabated. 

Mr Hockey called Mr Swan a liar and Hadley said: "I don't think he's lying, I just think he's a complete boofhead that didn't know what was happening." He also accused Mr Swan of lying before the election by saying claims there would be a carbon tax were "hysterically inaccurate".


Mr Swan's office contacted Hadley's program and demanded a retraction concerning the bottled water and snacks. Hadley says he did go to air with a correction the next day when he confirmed a decision had been made before the story was published not to proceed with the cuts.

Listen to it all.

Mr Swan's complaint to ACMA claims Hadley should have issued a correction and his program should have telephoned Mr Swan's office before the Hockey interview.


Hadley said last night: "They are trying to stifle debate in print (through proposals for media regulation), now he's trying to hop into the electronic media. I have been doing this for nearly 20 years . . . and to my knowledge no politician has gone to ACMA or the governing body looking for a remedy."


A spokesman for Mr Swan said the report was acknowledged as inaccurate by The Daily Telegraph and "it's important for its listeners that 2GB does the same".



News Ltd CEO Kim Williams vows to fight media censorship in the High Court if necessary


Jessica Leo
AdelaideNow
July 13, 20123:12PM


News Ltd CEO promises to fight proposed reforms
"Should be governed by the consumer, not governments"
Read the full speech here 




NEWS Limited CEO Kim Williams today said he would go to the High Court to protect Australia's freedom of speech.

Speaking at an SA Press Club luncheon in Adelaide, Mr Williams said the Australian media landscape should be governed by the consumer, not governments.


Taking aim at the Finkelstein and Convergence reviews that are currently before the Federal Government, Mr Williams stressed the importance of free speech - and said he would go to great lengths to protect that right.


He said he is prepared to take the matter to the High Court if the recommendations in the reviews are implemented.


In his first public exchange with media since being appointed late late last year, Mr Williams also pointed to a consumer-first model of journalism where the public should govern the news of the day.


"Consumers anoint the winners, not governments or regulators," he said.


Mr Williams also spoke about the increasing diversity of the Australian media landscape and defended the quality of the country's journalism.


The Convergence Review, released in April, outlined recommendations for the new Australian media landscape drawn from more than 340 written submissions and 28,000 comments from a consultation programme across the country.


Its goal was to address "shortcomings" in regulatory frameworks developed in the 1990s.


The Finkelstein Report, the end product of a Greens-led independent inquiry into media standards and ownership in Australia, called for the establishment of a News Media Council.


The proposed council would be a government-funded statutory body with power across all media to set standards for all journalists, including bloggers and owners of websites drawing more than 15,000 visitors a