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Saturday, March 29, 2014
Australia 100 Days free of Islamic Insurgents arriving illegally by boat,Labor Green Loon's Outraged
The Hon. Tony Abbott MP
Prime Minister
The Hon. Scott Morrison MP
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
Today marks 100 days since the last successful people smuggling venture to Australia.
The last successful people smuggling venture to Australia occurred on 19 December last year. During the same 100 day period a year ago (20 December 2012 – 29 March 2013), 66 illegal boats carrying 3,879 people arrived.
This is the longest period without a successful venture since before the Howard Government’s strong border protection policies were abandoned by Labor and Kevin Rudd in August 2008.
The Coalition went to the last election with clear policies to stop the boats. We are delivering on our pledge to stop the boats.
The Government has made difficult but necessary decisions to secure our borders and restore what Labor had destroyed. These strong policies are saving lives.
Operation Sovereign Borders is working as intended. We acknowledge the work and dedication of the people and agencies across government in making this happen. They are doing a great service for our nation.
The people smugglers now understand that the way to Australia is closed. We are putting the smugglers out of business.
Under Labor over 800 boats arrived carrying more than 50,000 people, including more than 8,000 children. This catastrophic policy failure resulted in over 1,000 lives lost at sea and $11 billion in Budget blowouts.
While this milestone recognises the progress that we have made, the Government remains resolute in our determination to stop the boats.
Leftists outraged as Australian Married Couple and their Children occupy Kirribilli House
Sydney focus as Abbott comes home
Simon Benson
The Daily Telegraph
March 29,2014
TONY Abbott has become only the second prime minister to make Kirribilli House his family home after moving into the Sydney Harbour side digs this week.
The Daily Telegraph has learned that Mr Abbott, the first Sydney-based prime minister since John Howard, agreed to move with his wife Margie and daughter Bridget following pressure from security advisers to shift to an official residence.
The reluctant tenants will relocate to grounds considered to be unrivalled in their views of Sydney Harbour and designed to be a showcase to the world.
However, they will also find a 160-year-old dwelling frozen in time and in desperate need of renovation since the last work was completed in the early ’70s.
At least Julia Gillard’s boyfriend Tim Mathieson, an occasional occupant, was kind enough to leave his old bar fridge in the upstairs lounge room.
“I’m sorry to be leaving Forestville, which has been the family home for many years,” Mr Abbott told The Daily Telegraph. “It was my preference to remain at Forestville and in the community where so many friends and interests are.
“But the security advice is to relocate to an official residence.
“As the Lodge (Canberra) is under repair, this means Kirribilli. This also means Margie can continue with her work and community commitments in Sydney. It is a privilege to be in such accommodation.”
Government sources say the five-bedroom twin-gabled cottage built by German Adolphus Frederick Feez in 1854 has been allowed to run down over the past seven years since the Howards left in 2007. Mr Howard was the first and last prime minister to live there and make it his primary residence, rather than just a Sydney residence when away from The Lodge.
The wiring is so old it is now considered a potential hazard and the sea wall is apparently in danger of collapsing into the Harbour.
There are also issues with the heating and cooling.
The so-called entertainment area is also no longer considered adequate to host large state or formal dinners.
Sources revealed that when New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visited recently, a table had to be extended into the lounge room to accommodate the Kiwi entourage.
It is estimated that it would require $10 million to bring the place up to scratch.
But previous prime ministers have been reluctant to spend a cent on the place for fear of inciting a backlash and accusations of personal indulgence.
The consequence has been a slow deterioration of the 160-year-old dwelling.
Government sources said it was likely that the Governor-General’s residence next door, Admiralty House, could be opened up for use for official functions.
While the Abbotts have resisted the pressure to move to an official residence, all their three daughters will soon be either interstate or abroad.
Frances, 23, is studying in Melbourne and Louise, 25, is in Geneva working at the UN.
Bridget will move to Kirribilli but will also leave for overseas before the end of the year.
The Lodge in Canberra — which both Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd made their official primary residence during their time in office — is still undergoing an extensive refurbishment..
Simon Benson
The Daily Telegraph
March 29,2014
TONY Abbott has become only the second prime minister to make Kirribilli House his family home after moving into the Sydney Harbour side digs this week.
The Daily Telegraph has learned that Mr Abbott, the first Sydney-based prime minister since John Howard, agreed to move with his wife Margie and daughter Bridget following pressure from security advisers to shift to an official residence.
The reluctant tenants will relocate to grounds considered to be unrivalled in their views of Sydney Harbour and designed to be a showcase to the world.
However, they will also find a 160-year-old dwelling frozen in time and in desperate need of renovation since the last work was completed in the early ’70s.
At least Julia Gillard’s boyfriend Tim Mathieson, an occasional occupant, was kind enough to leave his old bar fridge in the upstairs lounge room.
“I’m sorry to be leaving Forestville, which has been the family home for many years,” Mr Abbott told The Daily Telegraph. “It was my preference to remain at Forestville and in the community where so many friends and interests are.
“But the security advice is to relocate to an official residence.
“As the Lodge (Canberra) is under repair, this means Kirribilli. This also means Margie can continue with her work and community commitments in Sydney. It is a privilege to be in such accommodation.”
Government sources say the five-bedroom twin-gabled cottage built by German Adolphus Frederick Feez in 1854 has been allowed to run down over the past seven years since the Howards left in 2007. Mr Howard was the first and last prime minister to live there and make it his primary residence, rather than just a Sydney residence when away from The Lodge.
The wiring is so old it is now considered a potential hazard and the sea wall is apparently in danger of collapsing into the Harbour.
There are also issues with the heating and cooling.
The so-called entertainment area is also no longer considered adequate to host large state or formal dinners.
Sources revealed that when New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visited recently, a table had to be extended into the lounge room to accommodate the Kiwi entourage.
It is estimated that it would require $10 million to bring the place up to scratch.
But previous prime ministers have been reluctant to spend a cent on the place for fear of inciting a backlash and accusations of personal indulgence.
The consequence has been a slow deterioration of the 160-year-old dwelling.
Government sources said it was likely that the Governor-General’s residence next door, Admiralty House, could be opened up for use for official functions.
While the Abbotts have resisted the pressure to move to an official residence, all their three daughters will soon be either interstate or abroad.
Frances, 23, is studying in Melbourne and Louise, 25, is in Geneva working at the UN.
Bridget will move to Kirribilli but will also leave for overseas before the end of the year.
The Lodge in Canberra — which both Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd made their official primary residence during their time in office — is still undergoing an extensive refurbishment..
Friday, March 28, 2014
Labor's Misogynist Attack Dogs attack Federal Speaker Bronwyn Bishop
black knights
Piers Akerman
The Daily Telegraph
March 28,2014
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott’s quirky segue into the quaint realm of official orders caught many by surprise. But the howls of derision from the opposition benches and the usual clattering of Labor acolytes within the ABC and Fairfax media were as hypocritical as they were confected.
Leading the charge in the lower house was former Labor attorney-general Mark Dreyfus,
This would be the same Mark Dreyfus, who, according to reports from Melbourne, was “very eager” to be appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1999, before the title was dropped and changed to Senior Counsel in 2000.
BLOG WITH PIERS AKERMAN
While a spokeswoman for the shadow attorney-general told a Fairfax reporter it was wrong to suggest that Dreyfus had rushed to be appointed a Queen’s Counsel before the honour became unattainable, he did apply four times to become a QC before finally getting the nod in September, 1999.
In fact he was apparently the second-last barrister to be appointed a QC in Victoria before the guillotine fell on the Bar’s aristocratic title and they were forced to take the boringly comradely SC.
He now finds himself torn between the reality of politics and the possibility that he may one day have to return to the Bar and hang his shingle again.
As he told Sky News: “Now I’m in politics and what I might be doing would be for political reasons. For me it was a commercial decision to leave it as QC because I thought it was something people identified with.”
He is by no means the only Labor politician to have preferred to hang on to the commercially valuable QC honorific while espousing republican views.
Former foreign minister Gareth Evans still identifies as a QC, as did many distinguished Labor politicians who preached republicanism while taking silk, among them such notables as former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, former NSW premier Neville Wran and the former NSW attorney-general Jeff Shaw.
Interestingly, even such radical activists as the ABC’s favourite illegal arrivals advocate Julian Burnside did not eschew the honour of being a QC. Even the almost universal anathema displayed toward knighthoods by the media did not dissuade Ten’s left-leaning Canberra correspondent Paul Bongiorno from accepting an Italian knighthood.
The former Roman Catholic priest told the ABC yesterday: “You can call me Cavaliere because I am a Knight of the Italian Republic and, actually, thanks to John Howard. I won’t go into all of that but at least it is an Italian republic.”
So he’s happy to accept a knighthood so long as it from a foreign republic.
There are Australians with Papal knighthoods and others from other religious orders. France also bestows honours upon worthy Australians, not least being NSW Governor Marie Bashir, who will receive the Officier de la Légion D’honneur in Sydney on May 26.
While Liberal republican Malcolm Turnbull tried to gently mock the notion of restoring such honours by mentioning a number of South American nations which confer knighthoods, the former governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce’s ready acceptance of her new title strikes many as hypocritical.
Dame Quentin set a new standard for vice-regal clothing and logged record air miles, not least during her $700,000 African safari in search of stray UN votes.
Not so much Dame Nellie Melba, perhaps, as Dame Edna Everage.
BROCK SHOCK FAVOURS MINORITY
SOUTH Australians should beware as their government embraces the Brocky Horror Show. Not learning from the lessons of disastrous minority government from either Tasmania or Canberra, independent Geoff Brock has thrown his support behind Premier Jay Weatherill to return an incompetent Labor government to power.
With the help of federal independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, Julia Gillard’s dysfunctional Labor-independent-Green minority government introduced both the disastrous carbon tax and the worthless mining tax.
They voted with the Rudd government to give the nation the uncosted, unassessed NBN, then voted to establish the extensive marine park system foisted on the nation by multinational organisations and they supported crippling restrictions on commercial fishing. They opposed the opposition’s efforts to get Gillard to apologise for breaking her carbon tax promise. They opposed the opposition’s attempts to get some explanation of Labor’s proposed Malaysian people-swap plan.
Windsor is even now trying to revise his record by posting the false claim “that a price on carbon was a prerequisite of the formation of government”. It was not.
Brock, who represents the electorate of Frome with a large and conservative rural constituency as well as the industrial and Labor-voting community of Port Pirie, says he has the best interests of the state at heart. Premier Weatherill has rewarded him with a ministry. Whose best interests are being served?
Australian Defence League Shoots itself in the head with both barrels, No doubt Labor Green Loon Embedded Muslim Jihadi's all over Sydney will be rejoicing.
What a Fricking COCK UP !!!!
Aussie
March 27 2014
If Australian Defence League (ADL) had any credibility at all before today (Thursday March 27 2014) Nathan Abella, a "leader" / "spokesman" for the ADL ensured that it will not one grain of credibility come Friday morning March 28 2014 after his calls to Ray Hadley's morning radio show at 2GB.
Watch the video below for a first hand experience of Nathan's idiocy and Hadley's obliteration of him live on air.
Ray Hadley cannot give air time to the ADL or any other such organizations he would be unemployed within days.
The MSM would wage a war against him not seen since their war against Alan Jones.
This Nathan fellow, has done immeasurable damage to the cause of the Anti Jihad movement, Muslims in Sydney's Occupied Territories will be celebrating for weeks following Thursday's catastrophe on the Ray Hadley Show.
There are many many ways to discredit an organization and its objectives, however no Sociopathic Jihadist in his Satan / koran inspired wildest dreams, could have come up with anything better than Nathan has, with this master stroke of idiocy.
I have said it (warned you ) before Nathan, on Bare Naked Islam, and I will say it again here "..... give your self an uppercut "
Where should Nathan and the ADL go from here ? How about Planet Koozbaine ?
Australian Defence League has a warning for Muslim extremist group ‘Hizb-ut Tahrir’ supporters who plan to disrupt the ADL march tomorrow
Aussie
March 27 2014
If Australian Defence League (ADL) had any credibility at all before today (Thursday March 27 2014) Nathan Abella, a "leader" / "spokesman" for the ADL ensured that it will not one grain of credibility come Friday morning March 28 2014 after his calls to Ray Hadley's morning radio show at 2GB.
Watch the video below for a first hand experience of Nathan's idiocy and Hadley's obliteration of him live on air.
Ray Hadley cannot give air time to the ADL or any other such organizations he would be unemployed within days.
The MSM would wage a war against him not seen since their war against Alan Jones.
This Nathan fellow, has done immeasurable damage to the cause of the Anti Jihad movement, Muslims in Sydney's Occupied Territories will be celebrating for weeks following Thursday's catastrophe on the Ray Hadley Show.
There are many many ways to discredit an organization and its objectives, however no Sociopathic Jihadist in his Satan / koran inspired wildest dreams, could have come up with anything better than Nathan has, with this master stroke of idiocy.
I have said it (warned you ) before Nathan, on Bare Naked Islam, and I will say it again here "..... give your self an uppercut "
Where should Nathan and the ADL go from here ? How about Planet Koozbaine ?
Australian Defence League has a warning for Muslim extremist group ‘Hizb-ut Tahrir’ supporters who plan to disrupt the ADL march tomorrow
Thursday, March 27, 2014
US Marines Land in Darwin
Ordinarily I would welcome this, but somehow I have to wonder,as I have said before,with that nut job Muslim Kenyan / Indonesian POTUS in charge of the US Military, who knows what orders he might give them, in who's interest are they here to advance ?
Hey Dad! Get your hands out of my pants !!!!!
I did not lie to save my husband, says Robyn Gardiner, wife of Hey Dad! actor Robert Hughes
Lema Semandar
The Daily Telegraph
March 26 2014
THE celebrity agent wife of Hey Dad! actor Robert Hughes was accused of “lying” in a heated exchange with the prosecution as she defended
her husband against a series of child sex offences.
Robyn Gardiner, whose clients include Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, spent five hours denying the allegations made against her partner of almost
40 years in the the District Court yesterday.
Hughes, 65, has pleaded not guilty to 11 child sex offences involving five complainants in the 1980s and 1990.
Ms Gardiner said the man who played the popular character of Martin Kelly did not expose himself while wearing a sarong, never swam in a
pool naked and did not touch a friend’s daughter inappropriately during parties at the girl’s house.
“Absolutely not,” she said repeatedly. When a neighbour ignored her on the street in 1986, she said she asked the woman what she had done
to offend her.
The court heard that the woman didn’t answer her question and she later found out it was because her daughter had drawn a penis and said
she had seen one “at Robert’s house”, the jury heard.
Under cross-examination Crown prosecutor Gina O’Rourke disputed Ms Gardiner’s version of events.
Ms O’Rourke said during the street confrontation when Ms Gardiner had asked what was wrong, the woman replied “why don’t you ask your
husband” to which Ms Gardiner allegedly said “we need to get him some help”.
But she repeatedly denied saying this.
“I’m under oath here, she did not say those words,” Ms Gardiner said.
She said her husband was shocked to find out the family had gone to police.
“I’ll never forget it, he kept saying what, what, what?,” Ms Gardiner said.
The alleged victim’s mother had told the court that Hughes was molesting her child during sleepovers at his house and the family decided to
move suburbs instead of pursuing the case with police.
Ms Gardiner also told the court that she ended a friendship with the mother of another alleged victim after the woman hit on her during a boat house holiday.
When Ms Gardiner could not remember where on her body the woman had touched her, Ms O’Rourke said: “You don’t know because you are lying.”
“I’m not lying,” Ms Gardiner said.
The alleged victim’s mother said their friendship ended because her daughter had confessed that Hughes was molesting her in her bedroom while he was at their home for parties.
Ms Gardiner has continued her successful Surry Hills-based business since the allegations against her husband were first made public in 2010.
Blanchett gave a heartfelt mention to Ms Gardiner after winning the Best Actor Oscar this month. “To my agent in Australia, Robyn Gardiner, I love you so very much,” Blanchett said.
Ms Gardiner’s business RGM Artists represents big names like comedian Chris Lilley, Tropfest founder and film director John Polson, actors Rose Byrne and Ryan Kwantena, and TV personalities Amanda Keller and Andrew Denton.
Australia's Progressive Leftists forced to look concerned about Paedophilia but could not help but throw in a Muslim Taxi Driver Joke at the end... so funny is child abuse.
Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow scandal might risk Oscar for Cate Blanchett.....boo hoo
“If there is a yardstick to measure cultural decay, the child pornography epidemic must register.”
More at stake in molester affair than a reputation
CAROLINE OVERINGTON THE AUSTRALIAN MARCH 27, 2010
Lema Semandar
The Daily Telegraph
March 26 2014
THE celebrity agent wife of Hey Dad! actor Robert Hughes was accused of “lying” in a heated exchange with the prosecution as she defended
her husband against a series of child sex offences.
Robyn Gardiner, whose clients include Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, spent five hours denying the allegations made against her partner of almost
40 years in the the District Court yesterday.
Hughes, 65, has pleaded not guilty to 11 child sex offences involving five complainants in the 1980s and 1990.
Ms Gardiner said the man who played the popular character of Martin Kelly did not expose himself while wearing a sarong, never swam in a
pool naked and did not touch a friend’s daughter inappropriately during parties at the girl’s house.
“Absolutely not,” she said repeatedly. When a neighbour ignored her on the street in 1986, she said she asked the woman what she had done
to offend her.
The court heard that the woman didn’t answer her question and she later found out it was because her daughter had drawn a penis and said
she had seen one “at Robert’s house”, the jury heard.
Under cross-examination Crown prosecutor Gina O’Rourke disputed Ms Gardiner’s version of events.
Ms O’Rourke said during the street confrontation when Ms Gardiner had asked what was wrong, the woman replied “why don’t you ask your
husband” to which Ms Gardiner allegedly said “we need to get him some help”.
But she repeatedly denied saying this.
“I’m under oath here, she did not say those words,” Ms Gardiner said.
She said her husband was shocked to find out the family had gone to police.
“I’ll never forget it, he kept saying what, what, what?,” Ms Gardiner said.
The alleged victim’s mother had told the court that Hughes was molesting her child during sleepovers at his house and the family decided to
move suburbs instead of pursuing the case with police.
Ms Gardiner also told the court that she ended a friendship with the mother of another alleged victim after the woman hit on her during a boat house holiday.
When Ms Gardiner could not remember where on her body the woman had touched her, Ms O’Rourke said: “You don’t know because you are lying.”
“I’m not lying,” Ms Gardiner said.
The alleged victim’s mother said their friendship ended because her daughter had confessed that Hughes was molesting her in her bedroom while he was at their home for parties.
Ms Gardiner has continued her successful Surry Hills-based business since the allegations against her husband were first made public in 2010.
Blanchett gave a heartfelt mention to Ms Gardiner after winning the Best Actor Oscar this month. “To my agent in Australia, Robyn Gardiner, I love you so very much,” Blanchett said.
Ms Gardiner’s business RGM Artists represents big names like comedian Chris Lilley, Tropfest founder and film director John Polson, actors Rose Byrne and Ryan Kwantena, and TV personalities Amanda Keller and Andrew Denton.
Australia's Progressive Leftists forced to look concerned about Paedophilia but could not help but throw in a Muslim Taxi Driver Joke at the end... so funny is child abuse.
Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow scandal might risk Oscar for Cate Blanchett.....boo hoo
“If there is a yardstick to measure cultural decay, the child pornography epidemic must register.”
More at stake in molester affair than a reputation
CAROLINE OVERINGTON THE AUSTRALIAN MARCH 27, 2010
Sydney's Occupied Territories Erupt as Harmony Day Ambassadors shoot two
Two men injured in double-shooting in Merrylands
LeighVanden Broeke
The Daily Telegraph
March 27 2014
A 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged over the incident
A FATHER of two is fighting for his life after being shot outside his western Sydney home following a bungled armed robbery which also saw a teenager shot four times the stomach.
About 10.50pm last night 19-year-old Rhynal Nand and two friends had diven to Lansdowne St for a mobile phone transaction initiated on the internet only to be ambushed by a group.
One of the offenders got into the car with the teen and allegedly shot him four times in the stomach while three other offenders remained outside.
As the teen sped away in his car to a nearby service station the offenders drove up the street and were confronted by Graeme Hunt.
The 62-year-old interstate truck driver, who has lived in Merrylands for 30 years, was then shot in the chest with neighbors rushing outside to assist him.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said he saw the wound in Mr Hunt’s chest and attempted to keep him calm while his wife called Triple-0.
“I heard arguing down the street and then I heard about four to five gun shots,” the neighbour said.
“I looked over and I saw my neighbour laying on the floor. I run over and ask if he’s hurt, he thought he had been tasered and he was in a state of confusion.
“I agreed with him that they were taser shots but I knew they were gun shots. I looked at his chest at his upper right torso and I’ve seen blood and his shirt was ripped.
“I looked up the shirt and I saw a bullet hole.”
Neigbours today described Mr Hunt as “a gentleman who kept to himself”.
Another neighbour said Mr Hunt, an interstate truck driver who has lived in Merrylands for 30 years, was more concerned about not scaring her as he lay on the roadway after being shot. She said he was worried about making sure she was all right instead of being concerned about his own wounds.
“The gunshots were very loud,” the woman, who did not want to be named, said. “We were pinned down inside and stayed down until we heard the car speed off, it was very scary.
“I came out and I called Triple-0 and gave the phone to my husband and I said to Graeme ‘Are you ok?’ and he said ‘I’m okay, don’t worry’.
“He was speaking but he was in a state of confusion.
“He didn’t exactly know what was happening. He didn’t want us to worry about him.”
Police said the two injured men were rushed to Westmead Hospital.
Mr Hunt suffered a gunshot wound to the side of his chest and underwent surgery overnight. he is listed as being in a critical but unstable condition.
The 19-year-old suffered four gunshot wounds to his abdomen and arm and is in a stable condition.
Detective Superintendent Scott Whyte said the offenders made away with goods valued at only a small value.
“They’ve planned an armed robbery,” he said. “I’d act with extreme caution if I was asked to conduct a transaction in a residential street in the middle of the night.”
Det-Supt Whyte labelled the double-shooting a disgrace.
“I can tell you now we will be throwing every resource we possibly can to get these three outstanding - for want of a better term - grubs,’’ he said.
Police arrested a 27-year-old man and raided his home on Lansdowne St this morning. He is currently assisting police with their enquiries.
The arrested man’s father said he was asleep during the shooting and that police had taken his son’s clothes as part of their investigation.
“They took his clothes. I was sleeping (during the shooting),” he said.
Detectives from Rosehill Local Area Command and officers attached to Operation Talon have been tasked with investigating the shootings.
Operation Talon was formed in August last year to combat public place shootings in Sydney.
LeighVanden Broeke
The Daily Telegraph
March 27 2014
Watch the Filthy Pig dump his cigarette and coffee at the door of the before he enters the Court
- Teenager Rhynal shot four times in stomach after being ambushed while attempting to purchase a mobile phone
- Graeme Hunt, 62, was then shot in the chest after coming outside his home to investigate the commotion
- Mr Hunt is currently in a critical condition in hospital
A 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged over the incident
A FATHER of two is fighting for his life after being shot outside his western Sydney home following a bungled armed robbery which also saw a teenager shot four times the stomach.
About 10.50pm last night 19-year-old Rhynal Nand and two friends had diven to Lansdowne St for a mobile phone transaction initiated on the internet only to be ambushed by a group.
One of the offenders got into the car with the teen and allegedly shot him four times in the stomach while three other offenders remained outside.
As the teen sped away in his car to a nearby service station the offenders drove up the street and were confronted by Graeme Hunt.
The 62-year-old interstate truck driver, who has lived in Merrylands for 30 years, was then shot in the chest with neighbors rushing outside to assist him.
A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said he saw the wound in Mr Hunt’s chest and attempted to keep him calm while his wife called Triple-0.
“I heard arguing down the street and then I heard about four to five gun shots,” the neighbour said.
“I looked over and I saw my neighbour laying on the floor. I run over and ask if he’s hurt, he thought he had been tasered and he was in a state of confusion.
“I agreed with him that they were taser shots but I knew they were gun shots. I looked at his chest at his upper right torso and I’ve seen blood and his shirt was ripped.
“I looked up the shirt and I saw a bullet hole.”
Neigbours today described Mr Hunt as “a gentleman who kept to himself”.
Another neighbour said Mr Hunt, an interstate truck driver who has lived in Merrylands for 30 years, was more concerned about not scaring her as he lay on the roadway after being shot. She said he was worried about making sure she was all right instead of being concerned about his own wounds.
“The gunshots were very loud,” the woman, who did not want to be named, said. “We were pinned down inside and stayed down until we heard the car speed off, it was very scary.
“I came out and I called Triple-0 and gave the phone to my husband and I said to Graeme ‘Are you ok?’ and he said ‘I’m okay, don’t worry’.
“He was speaking but he was in a state of confusion.
“He didn’t exactly know what was happening. He didn’t want us to worry about him.”
Police said the two injured men were rushed to Westmead Hospital.
Mr Hunt suffered a gunshot wound to the side of his chest and underwent surgery overnight. he is listed as being in a critical but unstable condition.
The 19-year-old suffered four gunshot wounds to his abdomen and arm and is in a stable condition.
Detective Superintendent Scott Whyte said the offenders made away with goods valued at only a small value.
“They’ve planned an armed robbery,” he said. “I’d act with extreme caution if I was asked to conduct a transaction in a residential street in the middle of the night.”
Det-Supt Whyte labelled the double-shooting a disgrace.
“I can tell you now we will be throwing every resource we possibly can to get these three outstanding - for want of a better term - grubs,’’ he said.
Police arrested a 27-year-old man and raided his home on Lansdowne St this morning. He is currently assisting police with their enquiries.
The arrested man’s father said he was asleep during the shooting and that police had taken his son’s clothes as part of their investigation.
“They took his clothes. I was sleeping (during the shooting),” he said.
Detectives from Rosehill Local Area Command and officers attached to Operation Talon have been tasked with investigating the shootings.
Operation Talon was formed in August last year to combat public place shootings in Sydney.
Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire,Lachlan and James return.
Murdoch moves signal vision for the future
Terry McCrann
Herald Sun
March 26 2014
THE return of the Murdoch siblings to the very top of Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire is a truly stunning move.
It signals in the most clear-cut and public fashion the nomination of a direct successor to Murdoch, for the first time in his 60-plus years as absolute master of his News Corp - and now also 21st Century Fox - domains.
That successor is his eldest son Lachlan; but critically, in partnership with his brother James.
Lachlan takes the senior role, but as a non-executive.
LACHLAN TO JOIN HIS DAD AT TOP OF NEWS
McCRANN: MURDOCH MOVES SIGNAL VISION FOR THE FUTURE
He becomes co-chairman with his father of both companies in the empire - the main one, Fox, centred in New York, which covers the US TV and entertainment operations; and the separate News Corp, which holds all the print media businesses in Australia, the United Kingdom and the US.
Murdoch senior remains the clear CEO of Fox.
He is executive co-chairman, Lachlan is non-executive co-chairman.
And the same applies at News Corp. This is the first time since he assumed the role and title of chairman more than 20 years ago that Murdoch has shared it.
The signal is unambiguous.
The second part of the appointments was that of Murdoch’s younger son, James, to the role of co-chief operating officer (one down from CEO) with the top non-Murdoch in the empire, Chase Carey, of the main Fox company.
Unlike Lachlan’s roles, this is a hands-on executive position.
Also unlike Lachlan’s appointments, that of James is only to Fox.
Robert Thomson remains sole CEO of the print company, News Corp.
The clear signal is of a succession built on a partnership between Lachlan and James, with Lachlan as non-executive chairman and James as the future CEO.
Although clearly driven by Murdoch senior, the signal is also of this being agreed to by the boards of both companies. And by Carey, who has become critically important in Fox’s success.
Lachlan’s move also has major implications for media in Australia. It immediately opens up the question of the future of Network Ten; and of other companies more widely.
He steps down as non-executive - actually close to being a de facto executive - chairman of Ten and as a director. But for the moment, remains one of its major shareholders.
There has been speculation that when the media ownership rules are relaxed - if they are - News Corp might move to buy Ten.
A key reason would be to give the partly News Corp-owned Foxtel direct access to key sports programming.
But the exact opposite remains possible: the Murdochs quitting Ten.
The media business has just suddenly got very, very interesting.
INK IN HIS VEINS, JUST LIKE HIS FATHER Damon Kitney
LACHLAN Murdoch, like his father, has ink in his veins.
After years of investing in television, radio and even Indian cricket teams, Murdoch is back at the helm of something he loves — a newspaper company.
Not since his time at the New York Post, where he was publisher from 2002 to 2005 and increased its circulation by more than 40 per cent, has he has been at the pointy end of the board table of a company with significant print media assets.
Now, as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp, he wants to drive the company’s transition to a digital future. Many credit him for News Corp’s 60 per cent investment in digital real estate portal REA more than a decade ago, which has delivered big profits.
As non-executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox, he will oversee key assets he ran in the mid-2000s, such as the Fox network of television stations in the US.
That was before his famous decision to flee New York in 2005, when he resigned from executive roles in the company to return to Australia to set up his private investment vehicle, Illyria. He has continued to serve on the News Corp and 21st Century Fox boards.
Back in Sydney, he bought a 9 per cent stake in regional free-to-air TV station Prime Media in 2009, selling it for a profit in 2012. The same year he spent $110 million buying half of DMG Radio Australia, operator of the Nova radio network, taking full ownership three years later. Nova has become Australia’s number one national FM network.
In 2006, Rupert Murdoch said he wanted one of his children to succeed him. “I think that’s a natural desire,” he said. “They’ve got to prove themselves too.”
Today his wish is one step closer.
Terry McCrann
Herald Sun
March 26 2014
THE return of the Murdoch siblings to the very top of Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire is a truly stunning move.
Lachlan Rupert and James Murdoch (l/r)
It signals in the most clear-cut and public fashion the nomination of a direct successor to Murdoch, for the first time in his 60-plus years as absolute master of his News Corp - and now also 21st Century Fox - domains.
That successor is his eldest son Lachlan; but critically, in partnership with his brother James.
Lachlan takes the senior role, but as a non-executive.
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He becomes co-chairman with his father of both companies in the empire - the main one, Fox, centred in New York, which covers the US TV and entertainment operations; and the separate News Corp, which holds all the print media businesses in Australia, the United Kingdom and the US.
Murdoch senior remains the clear CEO of Fox.
He is executive co-chairman, Lachlan is non-executive co-chairman.
And the same applies at News Corp. This is the first time since he assumed the role and title of chairman more than 20 years ago that Murdoch has shared it.
The signal is unambiguous.
The second part of the appointments was that of Murdoch’s younger son, James, to the role of co-chief operating officer (one down from CEO) with the top non-Murdoch in the empire, Chase Carey, of the main Fox company.
Unlike Lachlan’s roles, this is a hands-on executive position.
Also unlike Lachlan’s appointments, that of James is only to Fox.
Robert Thomson remains sole CEO of the print company, News Corp.
The clear signal is of a succession built on a partnership between Lachlan and James, with Lachlan as non-executive chairman and James as the future CEO.
Although clearly driven by Murdoch senior, the signal is also of this being agreed to by the boards of both companies. And by Carey, who has become critically important in Fox’s success.
Lachlan’s move also has major implications for media in Australia. It immediately opens up the question of the future of Network Ten; and of other companies more widely.
He steps down as non-executive - actually close to being a de facto executive - chairman of Ten and as a director. But for the moment, remains one of its major shareholders.
There has been speculation that when the media ownership rules are relaxed - if they are - News Corp might move to buy Ten.
A key reason would be to give the partly News Corp-owned Foxtel direct access to key sports programming.
But the exact opposite remains possible: the Murdochs quitting Ten.
The media business has just suddenly got very, very interesting.
INK IN HIS VEINS, JUST LIKE HIS FATHER Damon Kitney
LACHLAN Murdoch, like his father, has ink in his veins.
After years of investing in television, radio and even Indian cricket teams, Murdoch is back at the helm of something he loves — a newspaper company.
Not since his time at the New York Post, where he was publisher from 2002 to 2005 and increased its circulation by more than 40 per cent, has he has been at the pointy end of the board table of a company with significant print media assets.
Now, as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp, he wants to drive the company’s transition to a digital future. Many credit him for News Corp’s 60 per cent investment in digital real estate portal REA more than a decade ago, which has delivered big profits.
As non-executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox, he will oversee key assets he ran in the mid-2000s, such as the Fox network of television stations in the US.
That was before his famous decision to flee New York in 2005, when he resigned from executive roles in the company to return to Australia to set up his private investment vehicle, Illyria. He has continued to serve on the News Corp and 21st Century Fox boards.
Back in Sydney, he bought a 9 per cent stake in regional free-to-air TV station Prime Media in 2009, selling it for a profit in 2012. The same year he spent $110 million buying half of DMG Radio Australia, operator of the Nova radio network, taking full ownership three years later. Nova has become Australia’s number one national FM network.
In 2006, Rupert Murdoch said he wanted one of his children to succeed him. “I think that’s a natural desire,” he said. “They’ve got to prove themselves too.”
Today his wish is one step closer.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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