A lot of Labor supporters and assorted Howard haters are depending on the Cole Commission to bring about the decline of the Howard Government. I’m sure Caroline Overington fantasizes about basking under the warm glow of public ovation as she steps up to centre stage to receive a Walkley Award while ‘Tricky” Rudd, in his [...]

History Under the Hammer. I have been busy with the Brisbane Legacy Auction that we run every year to raise funds to support the widows and children of deceased Australian war veterans. Following is an extract from Brisbane Legacy’s E-news. Imagine owning your own piece of military history – a 400-year-old Samurai sword, rare uniforms, [...]

I’ve been waiting for someone to have sufficient bad manners to compare Larry with Katrina – didn’t take too long. Over at LP Kate raises the issue thus giving readers a platform to vent their spleen against Bush. It’s all about Aid to the Civil Power. In a national disaster the authorities from the local [...]

Just in from the ADF Media Centre.  Brisbane media report Queensland requested Federal aid at 1400 hrs yesterday. As everyone knows, including the media rabble involved in Katrina in New Orleans, Federal governments cannot react to emercencies until officially requested to do so by State authorities. Thus; Defence has reacted swiftly to requests for support [...]

Go to Cyclone Larry: The Aftermath for on-the-spot reporting.

State elections over the weekend in South Australia and Tasmania have resulted in the expected Labor returns. Rann in SA has picked up a 9.2% swing but the Democrats look like dropping out of the Upper House. The good news in Tasmania is that the Greens have been further damaged…the voters are onto them. Lennon [...]

Marvellous how busy one gets post-retirement. Legacy takes up much of my days at this time of the year as we work to set up another auction of militaria. The proceeds go to help support widows and children of veterans and we will most probably field over 550 lots. This year it is scheduled for [...]

The leader actually says “Charles may not be King: PM” but as he didn’t say anything of the sort I must attribute the opinion to the journalist Maria Hawthorne. “I do not believe this country would become a republic while the Queen is on the throne, beyond that I don’t know,” Mr Howard told the [...]

Leunig’s childhood “Linus” blanket, the duck, gets top billing at the opening of the Commonwealth Games.  To pay back the nations conservatives and Jews for rediculing Michael and his anti-Jewish/Bush/Howard cartoons Brack has awarded him an audience of three billion or so people. I witnessed the duck and paused to see what they were on [...]

Hugh White, visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute, professor of strategic studies at ANU and anti-Bush/Howard/War advocate attacks the management of the War on Terror from his chair at ANU. WHEN he sent our forces to help invade Iraq, John Howard was sure they would not be there long: months, not years, he said. Last [...]