Time for a joke

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By-elections and political virginity

A good result in the Victorian by elections at both the state and federal level;
In Gippsland…

An emotional Mr Chester, whom party leader Warren Truss described as part of the next generation of National politicians, told supporters in Traralgon that it was an “an absolute humbling privilege and honour” to win the seat.
“It’s something that I [...]

Dead men walking

The executions of Hansen Anthony Nwaolisa and Samuel Iwuchukwu Okoye near their prison in Central Java were a grim reminder of the urgency of the convicted Australians’ plight, Mr McDonald said. The Nigerians are the first drug offenders to be executed in Indonesia in four years, following a call from Attorney-General Hendarman Supandji and [...]

Tick tick tick…..

The fate of the Aussie drug smugglers known as the “Bali Nine” has largely fallen of the radar for all but their families and friends but I expect a flurry of opinion pieces denouncing capital punishment in general and capital punishment for drug offences in particular.

INDONESIA says it will speed up the execution process of [...]

We must all learn the new catechism of the green religion…

As an atheist who is reasonably tolerant of the faith positions of others I would never dream of trying to impose any aspect of my religious beliefs upon others (beyond the raves about them here ) but it is clear that for the bishop of the green faith (Australian branch) we [...]

Leftard terrorist facing a long jail term

Caught by chance: Martyn Gilleard was convicted of being a terrorist at Leeds Crown Court today

A Nazi fanatic who stockpiled nail bombs under his son’s bed was caught by chance while preparing to wage a race war.
Martyn Gilleard, 31, idolised Adolf Hitler and urged sympathisers to act to preserve the ‘purity of the white race’.
When [...]

Fat Australia

But yesterday, AIHW director Penny Allbon said the methods by which those estimates were derived could not be supported by existing evidence.
The Australia’s Health report showed that 19 per cent of males and 17 per cent of females qualified as obese, equivalent to 2.5million people, Dr Allbon said. If the much larger category of overweight [...]

Justice seen to be done

TWO years after they gang-raped a 10-year-old girl – and eight months after a judge decided their crime was not worth a jail sentence, noting the child “probably agreed to have sex with all of you” – five of the victim’s nine attackers were finally behind bars last night.
Three males convicted over the May [...]

Belinda Neal: Digging an ever deeper hole…

She made me lie

`Belinda Neal (left)….Threatened … a tearful Melissa Batten (right) on television last night.

THE Australian Federal Police have been drawn into the Iguana affair after a former staff member of Belinda Neal said the federal Labor MP pressured her to sign and lodge a false statutory declaration.
The Federal Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, yesterday wrote [...]

Labor loses it’s shine with the voters

An exclusive The Courier-Mail/Galaxy opinion poll found 75 per cent of voters in the state were dissatisfied with the federal government’s response to rocketing fuel costs, while seven in 10 thought last month’s federal Budget should have done more to ease pressure on family budgets.
Full Galaxy poll results
And in a nasty twist for the government, [...]

an unemployed chap’s swansong or, Vale the Democrats

“Past Government policies of removing children from their homes, families and country has had a devastating effect not only on those directly removed, but on their families through generations and on whole communities both Indigenous and non-Indigenous,” Senator Bartlett said.
“My aim in getting this legislation examined by a Senate Committee was to put the issue [...]

to be removed , with extreme prejudice!

If ever a change to the road rules was going to make car drivers hate cyclists more this one is it.

New laws hit drivers with tough three-demerit-point penalties and fines of $342 if their cars drift into special bicycle waiting zones to be installed at many intersections across the metropolitan area.
The zone, [...]

a”mercy killing” botched

AN elderly father has been ordered to stand trial over the attempted murder of his disabled son – an incident he says he “deeply regrets”.
Frank Harton allegedly tried to kill his 47-year-old son Chris – who has the mental age of a 10-year-old – to spare others “the burden” of his care.
The 75-year-old made a [...]

Vale Bruce Trevorrow

For the past 20 years he lived in country Victoria, holding a range of positions and working within the local Koori community.
A strong advocate for the Stolen Generation, he was in Canberra for Kevin Rudd’s historic apology earlier this year.
Mr Trevorrow died in East Gippsland today and is survived by his wife Victoria, four children [...]

The price of passage

Shirley Justins and Caren Jenning, who had allegedly refused an earlier prosecution deal to plead guilty to assisting a suicide, may face prison terms when they are sentenced later in the year.
The verdict, a blow to the euthanasia movement, came after a six-week trial which did not cover the concept of a possible “mercy killing”, [...]