Australia's Finest Sergeant Blaine Diddams, coming home.

Sergeant Diddams farewelled from Tarin Kot

Department of Defence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Major General Smith said.

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

sacrifice.”

Australian elite SAS Soldier killed on Seventh tour of Afghanistan.

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

Law catches up with the Big Boobed Bandit

"Facing life in prison

An armed woman who distracted victims by exposing her breasts

while robbing a gas station has handed herself in."

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

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


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

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

Australian PM.Madame JuLIAR Gillard

'Faceless men' ready to challenge Prime Minister, 

says Tony Abbott

Daily Telegraph

July 07, 2012 12:44PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr Abbott said the move was telling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sydney's Panther sighted and on the move again

The Panther lives.
2012

Trail of the black panther leads to Kenthurst

By Justin Vallejo, Urban Affairs Reporter 

Daily Telegraph

December 27, 2008 12:00AM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No way was that a German Shepard Dog. Aussie.