POLICE in NSW’s top robbery hotspot, Redfern, have demanded 20 more frontline officers be posted to the area or they will consider industrial action. Robbery rates in Redfern are spiralling, a Police Association branch meeting was told yesterday. Redfern local area command last year experienced a massive 7.4 per cent of all robberies across the [...]

Landline down Thursday…ADSL down…can’t fix until Monday…Monday…landline fixed….ADSL coding has to be reprogrammed…will take another four to five days.  On the seventh tele call to Optus had a win and spoke to someone whose first language was English. Dialup is so slow I forget what I was looking for by the time I get there [...]

Judge Ian Wylie in the news again A JUDGE who restructured a jail sentence for a Samoan man after he molested an eight-year-old girl has had his decision overturned by the Attorney-General. In sentencing the man last month, Brisbane Supreme Court judge Ian Wylie, QC, said if the man, 35, was jailed for 12 months [...]

The US continue to interrogate inmates in their fight against terrorism and discover a link to the London bombings. While human rights lawyers and activists argue for their release the US gains good intelligence that helps prevent repeats of WTC, London and Bali. “We have passed the information they have provided about the London bombings [...]

John Burtis in the Canadian Free Press puts the ‘Dick Cheney shooting a lawyer mate’ press frenzy in perspective. In their Herculean efforts to lend further “gravitas” to the beleaguered story, the media trundled out grizzled hunting experts, college-trained weather men and women, experts on color recognition and the reasons for the use of international [...]

I am involved with a boys college in Brisbane that offer a Cattle Club for extra carricula activities for country and city borders and day boys. The club has an arrangement with ‘Chudley’ a red Brahman cattle stud just north of Gympie, Queensland. I am a member of the club as an adult volunteer and [...]

Let’s sumarise the debate. Beasely, ‘Tricky’ Rudd and their co-travellers have raised the Cole enquiry to international prominence by politicising the process in their mindless pursuit of a government. Eager for a Ministerial scalp they have pre-empted the enquiry results and given succour to our enemies. The US wheat board, also hoping for a scalp [...]

ILLUSTRATOR Michael Leunig has been accused of playing the martyr in expressing outrage over his work being included in a distasteful Iranian cartoon competition because the images were anti-Semitic. Leunig, whose cartoons appear in the Fairfax newspapers, was the subject of a bizarre hoax when someone fraudulently entered one of his works in an Iranian [...]

PETER Benchley, author of the bestseller Jaws that was the basis for the blockbuster movie that terrified beachgoers and kept many out of the water for years, died at his home at age 65, his family said overnight.but I empathise with the Benchly family but one of my daughters is still traumatised by the movie [...]

In todays Australian Michael McKinnon and Cameron Stewart co edit a piece lambasting the government on the equipment issued to soldiers and kicks off with this startling statement. BLOOD-filled boots and sodden jackets infested with maggots force thousands of Australian soldiers a year to buy their own military equipment. What can they mean…..blood…..maggots? The article [...]