Peter Slipper James Ashby and Andy Muirhead : The Great Australian Sleeeeze keeps OOOZING

Police face legal minefield in deciding on Ashby investigation


BY: SARAH ELKS AND LAUREN WILSON
The Australian
August 01, 2012 12:00AM


QUEENSLAND police are negotiating a legal minefield to assess whether to launch a full criminal investigation into a complaint by stood-aside Speaker Peter Slipper that the former staffer pursuing him for sexual harassment had sex with two underage males nine years ago.

In Queensland, sex with minors is an offence carrying a maximum of 14 years in jail, but police have received only a "third-party" complaint from Mr Slipper about his former aide James Ashby's alleged dealings.

The Liberal National Party turncoat wrote to Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson in late June to relay the claims about Mr Ashby's alleged sexual relationships with two
15-year-olds in Townsville in 2003, when Mr Ashby was 23 and well before he had met Mr
Slipper.

Police are now trying to discover whether the two young men at the centre of the allegations want to make a complaint against Mr Ashby, who filed a politically explosive sexual harassment claim against Mr Slipper in April, forcing him to step aside from his parliamentary duties as
Speaker.

ABC TV's 7.30 program reported that one of the young men had contacted Mr Slipper and
complained of feeling "used and disgusted" by his short-lived relationship with Mr Ashby. Mr Slipper reportedly urged the young man to contact police, but ended up doing so himself.

Mr Slipper did not respond to The Australian yesterday. Mr Ashby's media spokesman also
declined to comment.

Tony Abbott insisted the allegations against Mr Ashby were a "matter for police" and it was up to them to investigate and take "appropriate action".

Queensland is the only Australian jurisdiction with different ages of consent for different
sexual acts. A person must be 18 to engage in sodomy, or anal sex, but only 16 to engage in
other sexual activity.

A spokesman said Queensland Police Service was "in the process of determining whether any person authorised to do so wishes to make a complaint and if that is the case whether there is the evidence to support any prosecution". "We will advise in due course the outcome of that investigation."

The spokesman told The Australian police could pursue a matter without a formal complaint from a victim, but said it was "a grey area".

Anti-child abuse advocate Hetty Johnston said third-party referrals of sexual crimes were of "minimal use" without a complaint from the alleged victim.

The Bravehearts founder said Mr Slipper was using a serious allegation as a "political football".

"It's a political red herring and it damages the credibility for survivors everywhere that make genuine complaints," she told The Australian.

Even if a complaint is received, lawyers say prosecutors have wide discretion about whether to take the matter to court.

Top Queensland criminal lawyer Bill Potts said prosecutors would weigh up the chances of a conviction and whether such a prosecution would be in the public interest.

"The attitude of the victim, whether there's a complaint, witnesses, the degree to which
there's a differential in age and power (between the offender and the victim), and the
reasons behind promulgating the complaint would be all factors," he said.

He said prosecutors took a hard line when the alleged offender was in a position of power and influence over their victim, for example in a relationship between a teacher and student.

Wayne Swan said allegations that Mr Ashby had sex with minors were extremely serious.

"They are going to be investigated by the authorities," the Treasurer said, adding that the
criminal allegations should be dealt with separately from Mr Ashby's sexual harassment suit
against Mr Slipper.

Trade Minister Craig Emerson said Mr Ashby should be entitled to the presumption of
innocence and the probe should occur without interference.

...and down in Tasmania at THEIR ABC.....

Former ABC host Muirhead pleads guilty to child porn

Daily Telegraph
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/former-abc-host-muirhead-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn/story-fndo2j43-1226439355701
July 31, 201212:05PM

FORMER ABC presenter Andy Muirhead has pleaded guilty to three charges relating to child pornography in the Tasmanian Supreme Court.

The court has been told that Muirhead used peer-to-peer software to access more than 12,000 picture files and 24 videos.

Prosecutor Maitland Lincoln said Muirhead had changed software after reading articles about a child pornography ring busted by police in May 2010.

The ages of children depicted ranged from three to 14 and at least 60 were in the worst category, showing the explicit or sadistic treatment of children.

Muirhead looked down as graphic examples of the images and videos were played to the court.

He had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges.
His plea hearing is set to continue this afternoon.

Australia's Labor Green Loon Co Party Government sets new Olympic Record for Islamic Colonization of Australia

Gillard sets new record with biggest year of illegal boat arrivals

30/07/12

Julia Gillard has eclipsed the previous record she shared with Kevin Rudd for the highest number of people arriving on illegal boats in a year, with the latest arrival of another 49 people, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Scott Morrison and Shadow Minister for Justice, Customs and Border Protection, Michael Keenan said today.

“In an unprecedented year of policy failure on our borders, 6,899 people have arrived on illegal boats just seven months into this year, compared with 6,889 who arrived under Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard as Prime Minister in 2010,” Mr Morrison said.

“When Julia Gillard knifed Kevin Rudd she claimed his government had lost its way and nominated border protection as his worst crime and yet over 15,000 people have now arrived on boats on her watch,” he said.

Shadow Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on the latest arrivals, which have contributed to 2012 being a record year -- and it's only July.

 “Since Julia Gillard took office she has given us the East Timor farce, the failed and immoral Malaysian people swap, unwound the last bricks in the wall of the Howard Government's strong measures by giving boat arrivals bridging visas, works rights and access to endless appeals in the courts and all the while has refused to reinstate the Coalition’s proven policies to stop the boats.

Alan Jones and Tony Abbott discuss asylum seekers,foreign ownership and funding for Australian athletes.

“Only stubborn pride has stood in the way of the Prime Minister’s refusal to reinstate those policies and Australians are paying the price.
“Julia Gillard has the worst record in our history on border protection, which combined with her other failures makes her a strong candidate for our worst Prime Minister on record,” Mr Morrison said.

Mr Keenan said: “This latest boat arrival has made 2012 the biggest year for people arriving illegally by boat ever – and it is only July.

“We have another shameful record broken by this incompetent Labor Government who have now allowed over 1,600 people to cross our borders illegally this month alone.

“These unprecedented numbers have exposed the gaping holes that Labor have created in our border protection system and have made the job of our Border Protection Command all the more difficult.

“Until there is a change in Canberra and an end to the Labor-Greens governing alliance, the boats will keep coming and the records will keep breaking,” Mr Keenan said.

Andrew Bolt and Scott Morrison and a warning that Australian's refused to heed in 2010

How it's done ...............It's so easy 

Malek Fahd Islamic School, Ordered to repay $9 Million to Australian Tax Payers

Sydney Islamic school Malek Fahd Islamic School in Greenacre must repay $9 million


Daily Telegraph
July 31, 2012 11:48AM


AN Islamic school in Sydney's southwest has been ordered to pay back $9 million in public funds after it was found to be operating for profit, the NSW government says.

Education Minister Adrian Piccoli says he has written to the Malek Fahd Islamic School in Greenacre ordering it to repay the funds following a random audit.


"Any school found to have operated for profit will have been deemed to have used their funds inappropriately and in that case I have an obligation as minister to recover those funds," Mr Piccoli told reporters in Sydney in Tuesday.


"For any period that it operated for profit ... any taxpayer funds given to it will be recovered by the NSW government."


The school owed $9 million, he said.

Islam / Muslims can only exist as a DISRUPTIVE Minority or as an OPPRESSIVE Majority

Thankfully in NSW  Leftist Labor Government of Keneally was thrown out of office March 2010 and its unlikely the present Liberal Government would do any deals like the Hussein Obama Regime in the USA to ensure the continued financing of these thieving swine.

The Obama Regime made sure CAIR would regain its lost tax-exempt status in record time

Father of Anders Breivik My Son The Monster

What does Jens Breivik,the Father of Anders Breivik think of his son ?

"One year ago, almost to the day, 33-year-old Anders Breivik went on a bloody rampage that became the deadliest massacre in the history of peacetime Europe.

77 people were killed - most of them teenagers on a camping holiday.

You have to wonder how a seemingly ordinary man could do something so utterly evil.

If anyone can answer that question it's Breivik's father.

In a world exclusive interview, Jens Breivik talks about what drove his son to kill and how an intelligent, church-going teen turned into Norway's worst mass murderer." Full Transcript at 60 Minutes Australia

Australia a Flag of Convenience ? British Immigration into Australia.

Ping Pong Poms

They come here in their thousands from wet and windy Britain, but every year several thousand people who emigrate to Australia from England make the return journey home.

They're known as 'ping pong Poms' and among their number are the Parkinson family and music legend Leo Sayer. Sunday Night

Western Australia :The Artesian Range, The Land that Time Forgot

The land that time forgot


Sunday Night
29 July, 2012
Reporter: Alex Cullen
Producer: Mick O'Donnell


The Artesian Range in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has been dubbed a ‘land that time forgot’. Its hidden valleys and canyons have remained virtually untouched by modern civilisation, leaving a haven for some of the most fragile of our country’s small mammals.


It’s perhaps the only place in Australia where not one species of mammal has gone extinct since European settlement.


There’s been a catastrophic decline in small mammals across northern Australia in recent decades.


According to independent studies, even in the showcase Kakadu National Park small mammal populations have declined by more than 75% in the last 15 years. Now, the same threat faces the Artesian Range, until now a last-stand refuge for rare creatures like the Golden Bandicoot and Northern Quoll, which have disappeared from Kakadu.


Reporter Alex Cullen travelled to the remote Range with the small, passionate band of conservationists from the Australian Wildlife Conservancy who are helping these animals stave off extinction. Controlled burns, wildlife tagging and monitoring of feral cats are all part of the strategy to keep these vulnerable populations thriving.

AWC chief scientist Dr Sarah Legge showed Cullen the contents of one feral cat’s stomach - seven native animals from one night’s catch. With an approximate two million feral cats loose in Northern Australia, this equates to 14 million native animals killed by feral cats every single night.

The cats often use wildfires as a hunting tool, stalking the outskirts of a fire and pouncing upon native animals as they emerge from the flames. But Legge, AWC chief executive Atticus Fleming and their team are outsmarting the feral animals, using a painstaking system of controlled burns early in the dry season. The small, scattered fires they create leave plenty of cover for the native creatures to evade marauding cats.

The Australian Wildlife Conservancy manages the lost world of the Artesian Range. Click to help or visit AWC’s extraordinary refuges.

Into Oblivion: The key report on the shocking decline of our native mammals in Northern Australia

Where to see the threatened small mammals of the north

Andrew Bolt:The Bolt Report July 29 2012

More from Bolt on the appalling state of Australia's Labor / Green Loon, Socialist, Union GetUp funded minority "Co Party" Government.

2

Previous interview with former Fairfax Radio 2ue host Michael Smith who was dismissed by the network for  speaking on air about Julia Gillard's former paramour and Australian Workers Union official Bruce Wilson.

I Come From a Land Down Under

The famous Men At Work classic hit song that was the anthem for Alan Bonds Australia 2 successful bid for the 1983 America's Cup, now adopted in this really good Telstra sponsored  commercial supporting the Australian Olympic Team London 2012.

Well Done Telstra.

Give me this any day over that stupid bloody
 "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi,Oi "

Russell Mark refutes Eddie McGuire's "soft porn" smear against wife Lauryn Mark

Controversy becoming too much for Olympic shooter Lauryn Mark

Paul Kent in London
The Daily Telegraph
July 24, 201212:00AM

LAURYN Mark, frustrated and running out of time, broke down after her first practice shoot in London.

It came just hours after she read Eddie McGuire's column accusing her of indulging in "soft porn".

McGuire also criticised husband Russell Mark over his fight with Shooting Australia after he was denied permission to room with his wife during the Games.

Then too many missed shots on the range to top it off, and it all unravelled.

"I'm sorry," a weeping Lauryn said. "Can we do this in 10 minutes?"

She barely got the words out.

Russell Mark refutes McGuire's "soft porn" allegation.

Ten minutes later she was back, apologising, and saying her frustration was the result of the looming Olympic deadline and poor form.

"You can do all the hard work and when things don't go according to plan you start panicking a bit," she said.

She was also dealing with McGuire's comments after she appeared in a bikini spread in this month's Zoo Magazine.

"I wasn't exactly impressed with the article," she said.

"I consider him a person that I have always thought a lot of and I respect his opinion and, probably, most of the Australian public feels the same.

"To have him write and article that didn't depict us in a positive light is a little bit hurtful. I just hope he understands that we do dedicate ourselves a lot to our sport and because we have an opinion or talk about our sport we're not bad people."

Russell Mark is keen to distance himself from the controversy - "I lost that battle, didn't I," he quipped - but also expressed his disappointment with McGuire's comments.

"I'm a bit disappointed in Eddie," he said.

"I really feel sorry for Lauryn. He called her a soft actress or something, that's bit of a low blow."

McGuire wrote: "(Russell Mark's) American-born Olympian wife, Lauryn, posed for the Zoo Magazine in what sounds like a soft-porn photo shoot."

Mark said he was disappointed his argument pointing out gay couples were not prevented from rooming together, yet married couple were, was portrayed as an attack on gay people.

Diver Matthew Mitcham, reigning gold medallist in the 10m platform dive, is Australia's only openly gay Olympic athlete.

"I was very sad that whole issue got thrown up as an anti-gay comment," he said.

"I spoke to Matty Mitcham. I like Matty, because I didn't want him to get the wrong idea.

"It was a gender-based argument, it's not so much that there's many couples here who are gay athletes.

"I didn't mean to offend."

Mark tried to overturn the Australian Olympic Committee's refusal to allow him to room with his wife after they were told rooms were being divided along gender lines.

It also emerged yesterday that after so much damaging debate, Mark's roommate Michael Diamond is yet to arrive in the village, due in next week.

Asked if that allowed Lauryn to stay in his room, Mark laughed and replied: "Michael gets here on the 31st."

Which, it was pointed out, left plenty of nights for Lauryn to stay in his room.

"Michael gets here on the 31st," he laughed again.

I like McGuire but what a low stupid thing to say about Lauryn Mark, I hope she can sue the Arse Clown from here to breakfast time.

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

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

An apparent lack of Love in these Loveridges

No emotion as Kieran Loveridge, accused of killing Thomas Kelly, faces court


Peter Bodkin 
The Daily Telegraph 
July 25, 2012 10:31AM


THERE were no tears this morning from the man accused of killing 18-year-old Thomas Kelly as a court was told he could expect to spend at least the next two months in custody.


Kieran Loveridge, 18, of Seven Hills, was arrested and charged with murder last week following the bashing death of the 18-year-old accounting cadet early this month.


During his brief second appearance in Burwood Court this morning, there was no sign of the emotion the teen showed during his visit to the courtroom last week - when he appeared to cry as he sat in the dock for the first time.

Loveridge rocked from side to side in his chair and looked straight into the camera as he appeared in court on a video screen from Silverwater prison, where he has been held since his last court visit.


His lawyer previously flagged a bail application for the 18-year-old, but the bid was withdrawn this morning.
Loveridge will now remain in custody until at least his next scheduled appearance in Central Local Court on September 20.


He was arrested and charged last week with the murder of Mr Kelly, who suffered critical head injuries and later died in hospital after he was taken off life support.


Mr Kelly had been on his first night out in the Kings Cross nightclub district when he was allegedly attacked just after 10pm.

The Kieran Loveridge support crew exposed by 2GB's Ray Hadley

Police claim Loveridge also attacked three other males in just over an hour in various spots around the entertainment precinct.


He was identified as the person who allegedly "king hit"  Mr Kelly after CCTV footage taken from the area was analysed and an anonymous caller tipped off police with his name.

Thomas Kelly: Funeral and Court Round up

Thomas Kelly Murder accused Kieran Loveridge faces Court

Thomas Kelly accused Killer appears in Court supporter knocks Cameraman unconscious outside court

Accused Murderer of Thomas Kelly appears in Court as supporters knock Ch9 cameraman unconscious outside.

Not to be outdone, Cousin Corey also spreading the love... .......... 

Loveridge CousinAccused of Murder

By Vincent Morello, 

Police Reporter, AAP

Updated July 24, 

2012, 3:52 pm

Corey Loveridge and a mate murdered a 17-year-old boy in a random street attack hours after he said he wanted "to stab and kill someone tonight", court documents allege.

Loveridge, 18, and his 17-year-old mate repeatedly kicked and stabbed the boy until he fell to the ground in a Sydney street, the documents say.

The two teenagers allegedly committed the murder on the same night they allegedly bashed an 87-year-old woman in a violent home invasion.

The court documents say the pair broke the woman's own walking stick over her head and kicked and punched her after she fell to the ground.

In Penrith Local Court on Tuesday, magistrate Annette Sinclair committed Loveridge to stand trial in the Supreme Court on September 14 in Sydney.

Corey Loveridge and his co-accused allegedly attacked the boy, his brother and stepbrother in Maple Road, North St Marys, in Sydney's west, about 3.20am (AEDT) on December 1, 2010.

The victim's brothers assumed he had escaped with them but returned to find him bleeding in the gutter.

He died on the way to hospital.

Less than two hours earlier, police say Elena Parrelli, 87, awoke to find the pair at the rear of her house before she was beaten so badly she could not walk..

During her attack, she activated her "VitalCall" necklace, which recorded yelling and threats of "We'll f***ing kill you" and "Where's the money, motherf****r?"

Corey Loveridge was arrested a day later at Parramatta railway station while buying a bus ticket to South Australia where his father lives.

He is also charged with telling a family member during a phone conversation from Silverwater jail to recruit someone to "bash the f**k out of Billy".

"Billy" is an associate of the accused and is a crown witness.

Loveridge also sent a letter from custody to two cousins telling them to "shut there (sic) mouths", court documents allege.

He is the cousin of Kieran Loveridge, 18, who was charged last week with the bashing murder of Thomas Kelly, 18, and the assault of three other young males in Kings Cross in just over an hour on the night of July 7.

Kieran Loveridge is expected to apply for bail in Burwood Local Court on Wednesday.

His 17-year-old friend remains in custody for bashing a Channel Nine cameraman outside the same court where Kieran appeared last week.

Dampier Western Australia: Boom Town,Intercourse Islands

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Warning America from American Thinker :Australia's Green Ideological Disaster

Australia's Green Ideological Disaster

By Sam Fielding
American Thinker
July 19, 2012

Australia is providing a case study in the self-destructive politics of green ideology, when believers of the religion of global warming gain political leverage.

Between 1996 and 2007, John Howard became Australia's second-longest-serving prime minister, with his center-right administration being regarded as the epitome of responsible economic management, overseeing the "good years for Australia."  In 2007, Kevin Rudd's left-wing Labor Party gained office, and by 2009, a six-year run of budget surpluses gave way to the largest deficits in modern politics.

A slew of ideologically charged policies followed, including a nationally subsidised home insulation scheme which was unregulated, resulting in millions of wasted funds and even a death due to unqualified installation, and a public education "revolution" to renovate school buildings where the government happily paid exorbitant over-inflated tenders for unnecessary and, in some cases, unwanted refurbishments, blowing over $1 billion.  This "revolution" was overseen by Rudd's deputy, Julia Gillard.

With plummeting polls leading into the 2010 election, having been bestowed with the mantle of the worst prime minister in Australia's history, Rudd's leadership was successfully challenged by Gillard.  However, Gillard was no shoe-in for prime m,inister, and to counter an effective campaign by the conservatives who warned that another Labor government would mean an unpopular carbon emissions tax, Gillard declared that "there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead."

The election was even tighter than predicted and resulted in the first hung parliament since 1940.  To secure power, Gillard chose to cut a deal with three independents and a lone Greens member of parliament.  Despite her declaration to the contrary, Gillard was now over a (green) barrel and was forced to renege on her commitment not to introduce a carbon tax in order to honor her agreement with the Greens, whose agenda not surprisingly included a carbon tax.
It's taken Gillard two years to implement the controversial tax, during which time she has been irreverently referred to as "Ju-liar."  Thoughts of staying in power have no doubt helped her withstand such criticism, along with the support of a sympathetic Obama. 

During his visit here in November last year, he expressed his support for the tax, saying, "I think that's good for the world ... I actually think, over the long term, it's good for our economies, as well, because it's my strong belief that industries, utilities, individual consumers -- we're all going to have to adapt how we use energy and how we think about carbon."

The tax came into effect at the start of the 2013 financial year, yet after only a few weeks, the vociferous reaction from the Australian public can't be ignored.  They are smarting not only from a new controversial tax, but also from a prime minister who expressly said she would not implement it.  The foundation of the Labor Party, working-class families, are feverishly adjusting their weekly grocery budgets to account for a policy that many would have never thought possible.  Long-term voters of the left are shell-shocked, feeling cheated and abandoned.

Far from serving the working class, a carbon tax is the Trojan Horse of what many view as eco-terrorist environmentalism designed at saving trees -- or worse, generating a warm fuzzy feeling inside -- rather than jobs and a sustainable future.

One would hope that deliberate untruths would be uncommon in Western politics, but outright lying should never be tolerated.  There has been much philosophical deliberation about why people lie, but ultimately in politics the issue is whether the electorate is prepared to tolerate such conduct.  The polls here suggest a distinct lack of mercy.  In the past weeks, reports indicate that the Labor-Greens coalition is under immense pressure, with Labor Party members labeling the Greens as "extremists" and the Greens, ironically honestly, describing Labor as lacking values and standing for nothing.

The relevance of Australia's experience for the U.S. is that it highlights the degree of ideological blindness the left can be prone to.  In Australia's 150-seat House of Representatives (the equivalent of Congress), the Greens secured one seat.  Notwithstanding the vagaries of the Australian electoral system, that equates to roughly 0.6% of the vote.  Simplistically put, by making a deal with the Greens, the incumbent administration has implemented a policy that less than 1% of the electorate voted for.

The Appalling, Union / GetUp funded, Labor  / Green Loon, "Independent" Minority Socialist  "Co Party " Australian Government

The concern to a modern liberal democracy like Australia is not that minority political parties such as the Greens exist, but that they are offered a place at the table without the consent of the public at large.  Obama, as far as I can tell from here, was forced to shelve his plans for a carbon tax because even the Democrats could see the negative economic consequences.  Yet Gillard has chosen to somehow live in denial of its affects on the long-term health of the Australian economy, which is beyond me -- but then there are so many truths extreme liberals fail to acknowledge that it's not entirely surprising.
Bush had his critics, but at least one knew where he stood.  John Howard certainly held his ground on an issue, no matter the reaction of the chattering masses.  The danger of the left's liberalism is that it is so focused on popularity that its policies are often extremely short-sighted.  Gillard must be struggling to reconcile her short-term desire for power with her integrity.
Reports suggest that Obama is doing his best to "bankrupt" the coal power industry.  What should be of concern to U.S. voters is that Obama's energy policy could well be the thin edge of the wedge of increasingly-left-of-center ideology crystalizing into policy.  I trust that the events Down Under serve as a timely reminder of what the left is prepared to deny in order to maintain a false ideology.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/australias_green_ideological_disaster.html#ixzz21MnZ9YTD

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LOOK out Sally Pearson !! 19 year old Michelle Jenneke has arrived

Aussie Michelle Jenneke the world's favourite new hurdler


Nick Smart 
News Limited 
July 20, 2012 11:23AM


LOOK out Sally Pearson - there is another Aussie hurdler stealing your spotlight and she likes to flaunt it.

Emerging 19-year-old Michelle Jenneke, who hails from Sydney, has become worldwide internet sensation after some very interesting dance moves at last weekend's Barcelona World Junior Championships.


While she completely dominated her women's 100-metre hurdle event, it's Jenneke's sexy warm-up dance - which included wiggling her hips and shimmying - that's made her famous around the Web.


The footage has gone viral and has become a YouTube sensation - with the most popular video one of her moving to a catchy dance tune.


It has gone everywhere, even USA Today - which described the footage as "unique way of stretching."


And before she can be accused of self promotion, it should be noted it appears she does not have a Facebook or Twitter account.


Sadly, Jenneke - who comes from Kenthurst in Sydney's northwest and attended The Hills Grammar School - failed to qualify for the London Games.


In an old interview, the teenager - who has a hurdling PB of 13.39 - describes her hobbies as soccer, AFL and handball.


She also loves hanging out with her friends, tree climbing and taking care of her several pet dogs and cats.


As far back as she can remember, she has had a passion for hurdling, even lining up teddy bears for jumping practice at her parent’s home when she was very young.

Bolt Report Piers Akerman Maj Gen Jim Molan Australia up for grabs

Piers Akerman: Defence cuts are blowing apart our nation's credibility


Piers Akerman
The Sunday Telegraph
July 22, 2012 12:00AM


You know the advertisement - "even his closest friends won't tell him" - about the deeply personal problem of body odour?


Well, Australia's closest friend, the United States, is publicly telling us that we stink.


In an unprecedented display of candour, the US is saying bluntly that Australia is not pulling its weight on Defence and that the implications of letting down the side in this manner are enormous and long-ranging.


Department of Defence secretary Duncan Lewis was formally told of official US concerns at a painful meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday.

In this weeks Bolt Report, Andrew Bolt speaks with Maj.Gen.Ret.Jim Molan, who makes clear Australia's perilous position when it comes to defence of the Nation under the Union / Getup funded Rudd/Gillard Labor / Green Loon "Independent" Minority Socialist

 "Co Party" Federal government.

He assured the Americans that the Gillard government was committed to building major defence capabilities, such as air warfare destroyers, joint strike fighters and amphibious ships but the US is voicing its doubts.


It believes the Gillard government has a serious credibility problem. It has a history of making worthy promises _ and breaking them _ and the US is just as aware of this history as the Australian voters who consistently reject Gillard Labor.


The former US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage _ a great friend of Australia who was made a Companion of Australia, our highest honour, just two years ago _ issued the same warning earlier last week but there is no indication the Gillard government is listening.


The human face of the deceitful slashing of the defence budget is to be seen in the Gillard government's withdrawal in the last federal budget of the program under which single servicemen were provided with free flights home at Christmas.


In budgetary terms it's a small saving of $15 million in a budget of approximately $24 billion but 22,000 single men and women will no longer be given the opportunity to be with their loved ones during the holidays.

What is the Australian Labor Government spending OUR money on if not on the defence of our Nation ? listen to above interview between Alan Jones and opposition spokesman Greg Hunt.I am sure our declared enemies are grateful for the assistance of the Labor Green Loon Co Party Government in facilitating the disarmament of Australia

In its usual shift-the-blame manner, Labor argues that the cut was suggested by the secretary of Defence and that the benefit was no longer relevant. But Labor must take responsibility for the travel ban as it was Labor that slashed $5.5 billion from Defence spending in its vain attempt to produce Treasurer Wayne Swan's mythical budget surplus.


Liberal MP Stuart Robert, the Opposition shadow minister for Defence science, technology and personnel and Liberal Senator David Johnson, the shadow minister for Defence, have been dogged in their fight to have this benefit restored.


On Tuesday, June 26,  Robert tabled a disallowance motion in the House of Representatives which seeks to disallow or block Labor's policy.


Under the house rules, Labor has 15 sitting days from the date of tabling to respond. Four sitting days have passed with no movement from the government side.


Labor has a choice: do nothing and effectively permit the disallowance motion or stand up and defend its policy of cutting recreation leave travel.


So Labor has failed to address an issue that has created uncertainty and a loss of morale in the ranks.


The bigger picture demonstrates a problem of a far greater magnitude. Put simply, crucial forward spending has been postponed. The machine that produces the equipment and technology used by our fighting men and women has been mothballed.


There is no money to buy fuel for our ships and sailors need to be at sea.


There is no money for ammunition, and troops need ordnance to train to survive.


There is no money to develop the systems needed to combat the next generation of IEDs, the roadside bombs that smash our forward troops.


There is no none to replace barracks.


Then there is the impact on industry.


There is only one customer for the sort of sophisticated weaponry that has given our troops a critical edge in their work and the Labor government presented a big shopping list in its 2009 White Paper.


Companies were told to tool up and ramp up production to meet the needs of the armed forces.


Now Gillard and Swan have told the same firms to forget it.


 The procurement plan has been slashed by 34 per cent.


The companies which invested can write off 34 per cent of their money, lose 34 per cent of their operations, staff and plant, or close.


As the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Defence budget brief tells it, the Defence budget will fall in real terms by 10.5 per cent next year, the largest year-on-year reductions since the end of the Korean conflict in 1953.


As a result, Defence spending as a share of GDP will fall to 1.56 per cent, the smallest figure recorded since the eve of World War II in 1938.


Stop and think of the lack of preparedness for conflict then and the nations that took advantage of that wilful negligence.


To date, $10.6 billion worth of promised funding from the first five years of white paper has been deferred, $10 billion in savings has been cut from funding promised between 2011 and 2021 and another $2.5 billion of initiatives over the decade have been imposed upon Defence without funding or offsets.


No wonder the US is worried. The nation cannot turn on the Defence machine when its motor is rusted through lack of use.


Our men and women don't get the gear or the equipment they need and they don't get home.


There is always a price for these cuts but Labor is blindly slashing to protect a phony budget surplus for now meaningless political ends.

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Islamic Sociopaths Inc. London on Terror alert ahead of Olympic Games.

London on alert for terror attack ahead of Olympic Games


Lucy Carne in London
News Limited newspapers
July 22, 20125:05PM


ISRAEL fears an Iranian terror squad in Europe are planning to attack their athletes during the London Olympics, according to reports.

Agents from Israel’s elite intelligence organisation, Mossad, are hunting Iranian-backed terrorists in Europe, who are allegedly planning an “anniversary” attack 40 years after the Munich massacre, Britain's The Sunday Times reports.


The fears come as tensions rise over the International Olympic Committee refusal to commemorate the killing of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian terrorists on September 5, 1972.


In preparation for an Olympic terror assault, panic rooms for VIPs and spectators have been set up beneath London’s Olympic Stadium to protect them from being taken hostage or killed, according to The Sunday Times.


The paper also claims that if an attack occurred on the stadium, security forces would “invacuate” key people, rushing them to safety inside the attack zone.


An estimated 50,000 VIPs will attend the Games, including a reported 140 heads of state, 200 government ministers, 100 royals and 150 members of the International Olympic Committee.


A ring of steel has been set up to protect the Games, including snipers on the stadium roof and lighting towers and airborne radiation detecting equipment.


While M15 and Scotland Yard have reportedly raised the threat level against Israelis at the Games, Israel’s security squad Shin Bet has also been sent to protect the country’s 38 athletes living at the Athletes Village.


Concerns of an attack on Israel were heightened by the suicide bombing of a bus in Bulgaria last week, killing five Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver.


A man – carrying American travel documents – exploded a bomb on board the tourist coach just hours before an Israeli cargo plane carrying elite security teams landed nearby.


The blast was reportedly revenge for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, which Iran blames on Israel.
It confirmed intelligence Mossad had received that the Quds Force - Iran’s overseas hit squad – would use a suicide bomber disguised as a westerner.


The Israelis are now convinced the attack was a precursor to a bigger hit — with London’s Olympic Games as the suspected target, the paper claimed.


They allegedly believe Iran and Hezbollah, the militant Shi’ite Muslim group it arms and funds in Lebanon, plan to repeat the bloodshed of Black September.


The world watched in horror in 1972 when Palestinian terrorists scaled the fences of the Athletes Village in Munich and killed two Israeli athletes and took another nine hostage.


After German forces bungled an ambush at the military airport, the terrorists shot the athletes and threw a grenade into their helicopter to ensure they were dead.


A global campaign – backed by US president Barack Obama – has pushed for a minute of silence during London’s Opening Ceremony to honour the victims.


But IOC president Jacques Rogge rejected the proposals, saying that it was inappropriate to commemorate the deaths at the Olympics.


“We feel that the Opening Ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident,” he told a press conference.


He added that some IOC delegates would attend a memorial on September 5 at the German military airport of Furstenfeldbruck where the killing took place.


“We are going to pay a homage to the athletes, of course, as we always have done in the past and will do in the future,” he said.

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