Q&A Fat Eqyptian Vandal, Mona Eltahawy appears on THEIR ABC

Their ABC'S,Q&A: a celebration of self-loathing and Leftist bias

Andrew Bolt – 
Tuesday, April 01, 2014 

Last night’s episode of Q&A was one of the most outrageously and offensively biased of an ABC show that has been uniformly biased.

It was also an insight into the broad Left’s loathing of free speech and the West, and into the racism that informs its anti-racist posturing.

Jewish readers should note one part in particular: the unchallenged account of one panellist telling how anti-"hate-speech" activism can be used against defenders of Israel. This is a point I’ve tried to warn Jewish leaders about again and again. Here is how the show unfolded.

FIRST, STACK THE PANEL

Host Tony Jones stacked the panel with known Leftists:  Egyptian activist and commentator Mona Eltahawy, Somalian peace and human rights advocate Ilwad Elman; The Observer’s ethics columnist Lucy Siegle; and the international head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth. Add Jones and the count was five people of the Left to a single panellist, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson, who is not.

NEXT, ATTACK THE TOKEN NON-LEFTIST

Even those odds - five to one - were still not good enough for Jones, who ambushed Wilson with a set-up. Jones devoted the second question to hostile videos from viewers attacking Wilson like no other panellist was attacked:


ROBERT MAYNARD: Tim Wilson’s comments to The Age this weekend calling it bizarre that racial terms may be used freely within communities of colour but not by white people and claiming free use of the N word would restore equality, revealed a breathtaking lack of comprehension…
ATTACK EVERY “BIGOTRY” BUT THE LEFT’S 
Everyone agreed abusing people was wrong and no one had a right to be a bigot: 

KENNETH ROTH: … the Attorney-General … should be saying “Bigotry is wrong.” That’s what a public officials should do.
MONA ELTAHAWY: Yes.

ILWAD ELMAN: I think that particular statement people have the right to become bigots is very worrisome… At what point is the right to freedom of speech crossing on hate?

But not a single panellist then protested at the bigotry of one panellist who twice vilified free speech advocates as “old, rich, white men”, who must of course be racist and sexist:

MONA ELTAHAWY:  First of all, in the United States, the people who go on the most about freedom of expression and it’s my right to say this and my right to say that are usually old, rich, white men who parade under the term libertarian. And what it ends up basically meaning is: I have the right to be a racist and sexist shit and I’m protected by the first amendment…

MONA ELTAHAWY: The reason that they said that, actually, you know, this is actually all about the free market. This is why I am bringing in the rich, old, white men.

SLANDER GADFLIES, SATIRISTS, CONSERVATIVES, ENEMIES OF JIHAD AND FRIENDS OF ISRAEL AND DEMAND THEY BE SILENCED 
Everyone bar Tim Wilson seemed to agree using the law to silence certain people they vilify as “bigots” or racists was great:

LUCY SIEGLE:  So what I would like to say is that there are a lot of contrarian columnists around. I have worked in newspapers for years… From the moment the printing press was invented there were people who worked out if you take a contrarian, shock jock point of view, you’re going to get a lot of attention and a lot of money. I don’t think we should change laws to protect their freedom of speech. We have a similar issue in the UK, where we have contrarian columnists and certain comedians who aren’t very funny but bigotry is part of their act and the whole debate is centred around how we can protect them and enable their free speech and I think we’re looking at protecting the wrong people…
But one panellist, Eltahawy, demonstrated how dangerously loose the term “bigot” now is – how it can actually be used to attack those fighting bigotry.  Eltahawy seemed to argue that to support a democracy against a fascist terrorist movement was actually racist, and the position of “hate groups”:

Many Say that this is Mona's finest hour

MONA ELTAHAWY [speaking of a subway sign she defaced]: It said: “In the war between the civilised man and the savage, always choose the civilised man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” And I thought: are you f…ing kidding me? In my subway? How can you put this up?  And the subway - the subway authorities did not want this ad, because they said it was going to incite people and so they took it to the hate group and it’s been classified as a hate group by the - it’s the Southern [Poverty] Law Centre… They have deemed it a hate group. They have deep pockets, these libertarian, you know, old rich white men. And they took it to a judge and the judge deemed it protected political speech. I am fine with protected political speech but surely it should be my right to protest racism and bigotry? … But my fight here is the kind of language used in the ad and what is acceptable now and you were saying earlier that it’s not just the law…

(NOTE: The poster was not at all the work of an “old, rich white man” but of a Jewish woman, Pamela Geller.)

HATE THE WEST 
Eltahawy painted the West as the home of bigots and sell-outs. No speakers protested, and some added further condemnation of Australia:


MONA ELTAHAWY:  I now live in Egypt but I was in the US for 13 years, Muslims are fair game.
MONA ELTAHAWY: I would like to know, one, the name of at least one western country that has this so-called ethical foreign policy that we often hear about. I think most western countries have disgraceful records … I think your main concern is to sell our regimes and our dictators weapons. You turn a blind eye to torture…

MONA ELTAHAWY: … none of you do absolutely anything to help us. You’ve always sold us out, so what’s new?…

MONA ELTAHAWY: I think sometimes it helps in these discussions to get really down to the bare bones and just say it as it is and that is people are scared of brown and black people coming into your country. And that’s essentially what it is.

(Note:  Eltahawy protested for the removal of the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt. Now she protests against the military regime that inevitably replaced it.)

ABUSE AUSTRALIA, AND ESPECIALLY ITS LIBERAL GOVERNMENT:

All but Tim Wilson agreed the Government was hopeless and anachronistic, even the host:


TONY JONES: Yeah. Are you surprised, though, that we would go for such an anachronistic form or return to such an anachronistic form of honours?
KENNETH ROTH: Well, it’s sadly characteristic of this Government now…

ILWAD ELMAN: …it seems like Australia is regressing a little bit …

MONA ELTAHAWY:  …I think, you know, your Prime Minister is a walking anachronistic - I don’t know what else to call him - Prime Minister …

ILWAD ELMAN: I think Australia is taking a lot of very horrific positions and putting itself in very difficult situations. They’re cuddling up with Sri Lanka, cutting off the boats and celebrating they haven’t had - they have had 100 days of no boats coming in, talking about how Australians should be bigots…

LUCY SIEGLE: Just, as Ilwad said, some of the positions that the Australian Government is taking on behalf of the nation, they sound toxic to outsiders.

USE ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, THE LANGUAGE OF BARBARIANS

One panelist had no trouble with using offensive language after all, and no one dared protest her lack of courtesy and civility:

MONA ELTAHAWY: ...  they asked us if we wanted to join the Commonwealth, we said “F… no"…. And I thought: are you f…ing kidding me?....  we’re truly well and truly f…ed… So you can see why I say we are well and truly f…ed

DEMONISE OUR ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL OUR BORDERS
Everyone seemed critical of the Abbott Government’s boat people policy, and when one audience member put a contrary view a panellist and the host badgered him and misled and misinformed him with a grossly offensive analogies and what a judge would call factual inaccuracies:


ANDREW WILSON [audience member]: The death at Manus Island was a tragedy. People are obviously desperate when they have paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers and have no hope of coming here. Yet, why did the ABC show no similar outrage for the thousands of deaths caused by the dismantling of the Pacific Solution?
TONY JONES: I will go to Ken Roth on this and this is the justification for stopping the boats, that thousands of people died at sea. Before we do, I will just quickly take issue with your point there, because I reject the characterisation of the ABC’s role in this. In fact, some of the most graphic reporting on this was done by ABC reporters, including finding ships that nobody even knew had been lost at sea and finding the detail on those. So I just discount what you are saying.

ANDREW WILSON: Well, I take issue with that. You never once opposed the previous Government’s policy in my reading of the ABC…

(NOTE: Wilson is right. I do not recall the ABC covering any of the first drownings. I recall the ABC instead running for years with the Labor Government’s deceitful claim that boat people weren’t actually being lured to their deaths by the policies made too soft. I recall the ABC mocking Abbott’s promise to turn back the boats, a promise he’s actually fulfilled. And note, seconds earlier Jones was still attacking as too harsh the measures the Government took to stop the boats – and the drownings.)

TONY JONES: OK. Alright. Ken Roth?
KENNETH ROTH: Well, first, if I could, just let me address the 100 days without a boat because, you know, the question really is how did that happen. You know, if I said we’re going to execute everybody who shows up in a boat, the boats would stop. Is that a fair way to do it? No.

(NOTE: What an utterly bizarre analogy. Nothing remotely so cruel is being proposed and never would be. Fact: the harm averted outweights the harm caused. Fewer people are drowning, fewer people are in detention, and fewer boat people are taking the places of genuine refugees.)

ANDREW WILSON: Look, we can take a lot - immigration has been great for the country and we can take a lot more immigrants but you can’t take people to put them onto the dole....
KENNETH ROTH: Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So what is the assumption here: that because somebody seeks asylum they go on the dole?

ANDREW WILSON: No. But…

KENNETH ROTH: I mean, please… My father was an asylum seeker....  He fled Nazi Germany. He went to New York… Do you think he was ever, for one minute of his life, on the dole? And I think that is the norm for asylum seekers.

(NOTE: Completely false. A Department of Immigration survey in 2011 confirmed that 85 per cent of refugees were on social security payments even after five years here – including 94 per cent of all Afghan refugees. Wilson was right, Roth very wrong.)
AND ADD GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM

And what’s a Q&A episode without some global warming alarmism? 

LUCY SIEGLE:  If you saw the intergovernmental panel on climate change issuing today the 300 scientists who have come to the consensus on what’s happening with climate change, it is not good news. And one of the things that it will mean is that more and more people will have to migrate. So we are looking at increasingly large numbers of people who need somewhere else to be, need somewhere else to live for environmental reasons …
Look at Q&A and despair. A culture of savage nihilism is engulfing us, and our right to even protest is being stripped away.

UPDATE

More from Tim Blair.

ABC managing director Mark Scott is about to deliver a big lecture tonight on the media. He will say that claims the ABC is biased are exaggerated.

Oh Sam !!!! Say it ain't so Sam, he has always been such a Good Good Boy !!!!!

Sam Ibrahim, Rose Tattoo drummer arrested over alleged gun running

Mark Morrie 
The Daily Telegraph
April 1 2014

 FORMER bikie boss Sam Ibrahim and drummer for rock band Rose Tattoo, Paul De Marco, have been charged after being arrested as part of investigations into an alleged gun running syndicate.

The pair were swept up in a series of early morning raids today along with Sam’s sister Maha Sayour. Police also seized 13 weapons resulting from the six-month undercover operation in western Sydney.

De Marco, 55, has been charged with 27 counts including supplying a pistol to an unauthorised person, supplying ammunition, supplying a prohibited firearm and supplying a prohibited weapon.

Ibrahim, 45, was charged with four counts related to the supply of a pistol to an unauthorised person, conspiracy to commit an offence – supplying a firearm to an unauthorised person and supplying a prohibited firearm which is subject to a prohibition order.

They have been refused bail and are due to appear at Blacktown Local Court via audio visual link today.
Sayour, 43, was charged with conspiracy to commit offence – supply firearm to person unauthorised to possess.

She has been refused bail and is due to appear at Wollongong Local Court today.

Investigations are continuing and further arrests are expected.

Ibrahim’s solicitor, Brett Galloway, said his client was unlikely to make a bail application.

”I’ve not yet seen the facts ... these are serious charges and these things need to be given great consideration,’’ Mr Galloway told Fairfax.

Following extensive inquiries, police from North West Metropolitan Region, assisted by specialist units, executed six simultaneous search warrants at Windsor, Greystanes, Londonderry, Castlereagh, St Marys and Warilla, about 6.15am today.

Police allege that during today’s search warrants, investigators located and seized five firearms, various calibres of ammunition, illicit drugs and steroids.

Investigations are continuing and further arrests are expected.

Police say a total of 18 illegal weapons have been seized during the investigation.

The 18 seized weapons - which included an M1 military assault rifle, shotguns, semi-automatic pistols and bullets - are being examined to see if they were used in any shootings in Sydney over the past three years.

”When you look at some of the guns, you shake your head and wonder what that firepower would do if it got into the wrong hands,’’ Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford told a press conference.

”This will no doubt put a significant dent in the organised sale of illegal firearms in western Sydney, but we’re sure there’s a lot more out there.’’

He expects more arrests over the alleged syndicate.

The 13 guns bought in October were all purchased in western Sydney, though police believe the sales syndicate also operated in the Illawarra region.

The M1 assault rifle is a military-issued gun and cannot be legally bought by licensed gun owners.

Strike Force Bootle was established by detectives from Penrith Local Area Command in October 2013 to investigate the sale of illegal firearms in Sydney’s west

Finally Justice for Mohammed Issai Issaka following Islamic Insurgency Riots September 2012

Sydney rioter to serve six months in jail

AAP
April 1, 2014.

A Sydney man will serve six months in jail for his role in a violent Muslim protest after a court rejected his appeal.

Mohammed Issai Issaka, 44, was sentenced to a minimum of six months' jail in November but launched an appeal an hour later and was granted bail.

District Court Chief Judge Reg Blanch dismissed Issaka's appeal against the sentence's severity, despite the man saying he was now "very, very sorry" for his actions and would avoid attending protests.

He will be eligible for parole on September 30.

The father of eight claims he suffered a fractured jaw, a chipped tooth and injuries from police batons in the riot, but has forgiven police.
He had pleaded not guilty to rioting and resisting arrest in the September 2012 protest in Sydney's city centre.

About 500 people took to the CBD on that day to rally against a controversial anti-Islam film produced in the US.

The rally turned violent with police arresting a number of protesters and calling in the riot squad.

Issaka told the court he had reflected on his actions since pleading not guilty and was now sorry.

He asked for leniency given he was his family's sole breadwinner.

"I pondered on what I have done and I changed my mind," he said.

"I am very, very sorry and remorseful for what I have done.

"Since that day in the protest, I haven't attended any protests and I am not thinking of attending any."

Justice Blanch said he accepted that Issaka, who was involved in charity work in his community, was "otherwise a decent person" and a good 

father and husband.

But he warned that people involved in rioting must understand there would be "serious consequences" to their actions.

He said Issaka was entitled to feel strongly about the film.

"But joining a protest is one thing and participating in a riot is something entirely different," the judge said.

Justice Blanch also noted that Issaka assaulted a police officer as he was being arrested.

"Police are entitled to go about their business without fear of being assaulted in the course of their normal duties," he told the court.

Muslim RAT Mohammed Issai Issaka says he forgives NSW Police (Rat Catchers?)

Islamic Sociopath's Inc: Mohammed Issai Issaka freed on bail pending appeal of 12 month sentence

Sydney September 15 2012 CBD Muslim Insurgency rioter,Mohammed Issai Issaka pleads not guilty

Kentucky Fried Chicken Muslims ONLY

Somewhere in Sydney's Occupied Territories

UK: KFC customer told: “You can’t have bacon here, we’re ‘halal’-compliant”

Partners in Perversion, THEIR ABC ,The Left / Progressives and Paedophilia

Hey Dad! Get your hands out of my pants !!!!!

Pro-pederasty past deserves an ABC apology

Gerard Henderson

The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/propederasty-past-deserves-an-abc-apology/story-fnkqo7i5-1226855190831

March 15 2014

THE line in last Monday’s Four Corners program on ABC television, The Boy with the Henna Tattoo, was unequivocal. Reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna condemned the practice once commonly called pederasty — homosexual relations between a male adult and a boy.

The program dealt with the shocking case of two men, the Australian Peter Truong and the American Mark Newton, whose adopted baby boy was both personally abused and trafficked for sex. Meldrum-Hanna referred to the “depraved world inhabited by ... a small group of hardcore pedophiles who call themselves Boylovers”.

The Boy with the Henna Tattoo serves as an important reminder of how attitudes have changed at the public broadcaster and elsewhere with respect to pedophilia. Only four decades ago, pedophilia was a radical but fashionable endeavour within certain circles.

The then ABC radio program Lateline was established by the left-wing radical ABC operative Allan Ashbolt (1921-2005). It was Ashbolt who commenced the left-wing stack of the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster and his influence is still felt today. In his sympathetic history This is the ABC (MUP, 1983), Ken Inglis refers to “Ashbolt’s (ABC) kindergarten”.

It was in Ashbolt’s time that the ABC phenomenon emerged where debates were held in which everyone agrees with everyone else, including the presenter — all in a leftist way. And so it came to pass on July 14, 1975, when Richard Neville presented a Lateline program on pederasty where three adult men proclaimed what a great idea it was to have sex with boys. No other view was heard on the program.

Not surprisingly, the Lateline program on pederasty was subjected to considerable criticism by, among others, the Reverend Fred Nile (then of the morally conservative Festival of Light) and The Sydney Morning Herald. Needless to say, Nile and his fellow critics were dismissed and ridiculed. In his 1979 book Outside Interference: The Politics of Australian Broadcasting, ABC friend and one-time board member Richard Harding declared that the pederasty program “was too much for the susceptibilities of some worthy citizens”.

However, the most extraordinary intervention in the debate came from the then ABC chairman, Richard Downing. He said that “in general, men will sleep with young boys and that’s the sort of thing the community ought to know about”.

In a letter to The Sydney Morning Herald, published on July 19, 1975, Downing argued that “the phenomenon of pederasty” was “appropriate for public discussion in a society which, if it is to be open, democratic and responsible, needs also to understand the diverse natures of the people who compose that society”.

In other words, Downing stated that pederasty or “boylove” was an acceptable form of sexual behaviour which needed to be understood.

ABC staff today are invariably calling on others to apologise for the inappropriate and/or criminal behaviour in the past of individuals or organisations. Perhaps the current ABC board might consider a mea culpa for the position taken by the ABC chairman just four decades ago in favour of adult men having sex with boys.

In an article in the September 1984 issue of Quadrant magazine entitled “Paedophile Liberation and the Radical Homosexuals”, writer Andrew Lansdown documented how pederasty had become fashionable within sections of the Australian Left in the 1970s and 80s. He quoted an article in OutRage magazine which declared its “defence of the civil liberties of paedophiles”.

Of course, it was not only underage boys who were regarded as suitable sexual partners at the time. In his 1970 book Play Power, Neville (who was born in 1941) boasted of having a “hurricane f . . k” with a “moderately attractive, intelligent, cherubic fourteen-year-old girl from a nearby London comprehensive school”. In the early 70s, the author of Play Power had no trouble in getting an ABC gig when he returned to Australia and in receiving support from the highest echelons in the ABC for inviting three pederasts on to his program.

In his Quadrant article, Lansdown documented the existence in Australia at the time of a Paedophile Support Group. In recent weeks there has been controversy (in The Mail and elsewhere) over the Paedophile Information Exchange which existed in Britain in the 70s and 80s. The PIE was affiliated with the National Council for Civil Liberties.

Prominent members of the NCCL at the time included Patricia Hewitt (the Australian-born Labour MP who became a member of Tony Blair’s cabinet), Harriet Harman (currently the deputy leader of the British Labour Party) and Jack Dromey (the Labour spokesman on policing). As Toby Young has revealed in Britain’s The Daily Telegraph, in 1976 Hewitt, as the NCCL’s general secretary, issued a press release advocating that the age of consent should be lowered to 10 years of age. Hewitt has since apologised.

At the time, the PIE advocated that the age of consent should be lowered to four years of age. As Rod Liddle commented in The Sunday Times, the NCCL was “perfectly happy for its affiliate” to advocate sex between adult men and four-year-olds. Liddle quoted the NCCL at the time saying that “childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in with an adult, result in no identifiable damage”.

In November 2012, the British historian Dominic Sandbrook reviewed Ben Thompson’s edited collection Ban this filth!: Mary Whitehouse and the Battle to Keep Britain Innocent.

Whitehouse (1910-2001) was a morals campaigner and much mocked by self-declared progressive libertarians. In late 2012, Sandbrook reflected that when “reading this book during the fallout of the (BBC’s) Jimmy Savile scandal” he wondered if Whitehouse was “quite as cranky as she looked” at the time.

Sandbrook quoted from a letter Whitehouse wrote to the BBC in 1973 objecting to the words of a song on the show Crackerjack in which the male singer suggested that “Every growin’ boy/ Needs a little joy/ Do you want to touch me there?” The song was titled Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!) and the singer-songwriter was none other than Gary Glitter — who, in time, became a convicted pedophile.

For all her oddities, Whitehouse spoke a truth denied by such pedophiles as Savile, Glitter and those, like Downing, who rationalised what was once termed “inter-generational sex”.

This might make for a revealing Four Corners story one day.

Gerard Henderson is executive director of The Sydney Institute.

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Labor Green Loon's / Multiculturalists and professional "Ethnics" in Sydney's Occupied Territories protest freedom of speech.... as they do.

Freedom From Free Speech advocates above.

Surprise !!!!!!!!!! Racial Discrimination Act Outrages Labor Green Loons , Multiculturalists and professional Ethnics. 

ALP's Bill Shorten and the "Strikingly Handsome" Tanya Plibersek reach out to Comrade Lu Kewen's "Folks"

Australian Labor Green Loons Leader and Deputy Leader,Comrade Bill Shorten and Comrade (* "the strikingly handsome") Saint, Tanya Plibersek.

Australia's Finest, Sapper Curtis McGrath

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.

The progress we are making in strengthening our borders is restoring confidence in our migration programme. We are an immigrant country and a successful immigration programme requires that it operate with integrity.
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..

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,

QC, who looked more like an agitated articled clerk as he indignantly bobbed up and down.

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.

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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?

Left outraged as Welfare Management to be expanded in Australia

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

Rugby League Tragedy New Castle Knights Alex McKinnon

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