Month: July 2005

Kim Beasley tries to make political mileage from the police shooting in London.

Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says there is no need to give Australian police shoot to kill powers as part of a counter-terrorism strategy.

The London incident was most unfortunate but shouldn’t cloud our perspective. If the police have a terrorist in sight with a clear intention of exploding himself I would expect them to shoot to kill. Only fools brought up on Hollywood movies where the police shoot to wound a perpetrator believe this would stop a terrorist. The suicidal terrorist, if left conscience, will still detonate his explosive message.

I guess, if Kim is ever in the situation close to a terrorist about to detonate himself, he will demand the police read him his rights, consult with the UN and the ALP before doing anything aggressive.

This article from News.com highlights another group of terrorists severely damaging Australia’s interests

POLICE are negotiating with a group of environmental activists who have blocked Newcastle’s coal port with their flagship in a bid to highlight Australia’s role in global warming.

Negotiating!!!

At what stage are the Navy allowed to force free access to a major port?

I am now located at the beautiful seaside town of Albany, WA. Home of my fathers and currently home of my Mother and two sisters. I finished my high school here before enlisting in the Army and I am back here do my bit in settling the family home. Weeks of sorting out the life of my 85 year old mother as she is now resident in a retirement home. It is typical of her that she postpones retirement until her 86th year as her days still include lessons in the Hebrew language, writing stories and poems (she is published) and doing Grandmother things like writing to her many descendents.

Like many of her age, she has had a fall and took some hours to get to the phone and she locks the house up like Fort Knox…a very dangerous combination making the retirement home move very welcome to her family.

A lifetime of memories. A receipt for the rates paid for the family farm in 1946…a letter from Mum’s youngest bother from Borneo dated 1944 where he was helping to sort out the Japs at the tender age of 19. He asks…is that Navy chap still visiting? He was and stayed for more than 50 years before the ravages of WW2 service took our father from us. A report card from Pemberton primary dated 1953 pointing out that Kevin James had more potential than substance and a telegram I sent in 1978 saying twins born, all well, innings closed. As the twins were our 4th and 5th and the eldest was yet to turn six I clearly found substance somewhere along the track.

The trip over in the Discovery was not new to me. I have travelled Sydney/Perth and Brisbane/Perth more times than I care to remember but each time I do the trip I find something to break the monotony. New nickel mines at Ravenswood….petrol at $1.52 per litre…that’s enough

I am now setting up in my BIL’s computer shop. Poor bastard can’t refuse me – he’s married to my youngest sister.

Later today I’ll start posting again.

I’m reseiving strange comments and although they are, on the whole complimentary, I suspect the motives of the writers.

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Not the sort of comment one leaves at a blog. Can anyone help….what are they trying to do.

Unlike online casino poker spams, they don’t leave links so what do they hope to achieve?

After settling down post Cape York a phone call from my younger sister remined me that the escapism offered by four-wheel-driving to the Cape has a use-by-date and it has expired.

My 85 year old Mother has recently moved into an aged hostel and she is now stressing about her home. My younger sister, still with family at home, is trying to do all the organization herself and my Mother’s pleas to come over and help can’t be ignored.

Who amongst us can ignore maternal plea’s?

Ait tickest are reasonably priced but I would need a car for mobility during the “sell the house” period and therein lies the difficulty. About $4,000 to hire a car for a month.

I have decided to drive.

The problem is my mother lives in Albany, WA and I live in Brisbane. To put that in perspective for foreign readers, I am driving the equivalent of London to Newfoundland, London to hundreds of kilometers east of Moscow or New York to San Francisco and then back again.

I could almost rename my blog ‘On the Road Again’ permanently.

What’s wrong with these people, Age readers all of them?

Don’t they understand what’s going on in the world?