Many have joined the “Wish it were so” division as the news that Maxine McKew has nominated for Bennelong hits the media. The ABC managed to extract a statement from former Liberal national president John Valder who tipped John Howard could lose his seat of Bennelong. True, he could but there’s a lot of campaigning [...]

Letter to the Australian; CONSIDERING Prime Minister Howard has been so accomodating to US Vice-President Cheney, I wonder if he would be equally as welcoming to the Iranian leadership in return? I think it would only be fair to listen to Iran’s side of the story, considering Howard and Cheney have obviously been considering the [...]

From Defence Media (no link) Today at approximately 0850 hours the International Security Force (ISF) responded to a disturbance at the Dili Airport Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp. During the incident an ADF soldier was attacked with steel arrows which are potentially lethal weapons. He defended himself by shooting the attacker, resulting in the death [...]

The Federal Treasurer is planning to make it easier for the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) to take legal action against a group calling for an international boycott of Australian wool. Peter Costello is angry that the group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has called for an international boycott of Australian wool, [...]

A NAVAL ship has intercepted a boatload of 85 Sri Lankan asylum seekers heading for Christmas Island. Border Protection Command had been monitoring the boat since it was first spotted by a plane on February 19. Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said the group have been taken on board HMAS Success, where they will remain temporarily. [...]

Jenny Brockie on SBS’s Insight holds a trial seeking to put further pressure on the Howard government to bring Hicks home and judging by the on-site poll, the pollsters, media’s version of a jury, want him home, voting 94% to 6% to do so. No mention at all as to whether he should answer the [...]

The ALP’s media division, the ABC, report Peter Tinley condemning the government for sending Trainers to Iraq. They also promote him to Deputy Commander of the Australian Forces in Iraq when he was actually Deputy Commander of the Australian Special Forces contingent in Iraq…quick route from Major to star rank via the ABC. The former [...]

Standard precedure: ram the Japanese whaling ship, produce a video and text blaming the Japanese for not getting out of the way then standby for the debate. Good cheap PR for the fools of Sea Sheppard. Can some maritime authority take away the Robin Hunter Captain’s licence before he kills someone? I’m not against stopping [...]

A Labour leader (Latham) can call the sitting US President the most dangerous man ever to hold that office; Bob Brown can insult the same man in Parliament in an extremely churlish manner but the PM can’t criticise an American Junior Senator. Yeah right. No double standards here. Rudd in the house; To accuse the [...]

A NATIONAL television advertising campaign showing a close-up of David Hicks as a freckled, nine-year-old schoolboy will try to humanise the Guantanamo Bay detainee after the weekend announcement of serious charges against him. How cute he looks Oops. Sorry! Wrong photo. This shot is one of Osama Bin laden when he was a cute teenager. [...]