Labor candidate Garry Parr called Queensland couple Tom and Rosemary Arthurs “warmongers” when they approached him at a Hervey Bay shopping centre two weeks ago. The couple’s 41-year-old son Julian Arthurs is currently serving with the British forces in Afghanistan. Mr Parr was forced to apologise over the statement, and issued a statement via the [...]

CONTROVERSIAL Territory cabinet minister Marion Scrymgour has backed away from her criticisms last week of the Howard Government’s intervention in Aboriginal communities following meetings with Chief Minister Clare Martin and federal Labor MP Warren Snowden. No she hasn’t “In hindsight, (it was) the emotional roller-coaster I was on, and I’m not going to blame anybody [...]

AUSTRALIA faces a “London-type bombing” if relations between Muslims and the intelligence and police authorities do not improve, an influential Islamic youth leader has warned. Then the solution is easy. If you are the leader the media claim you are then talk to Muslims and explain that for relations between them and Australia to improve [...]

It’s hard to be positive in the face of polls but being Infantry helps. What else helps is the fact that votes don’t equal being elected – seats do. And as a motivator – try this mindless comment This man deserves to be on the loosing side. # I’ve said it before, I’ll say it [...]

THE SAS soldier killed in Afghanistan yesterday was Sergeant Matthew Locke from Perth. Sergeant Locke was serving with the elite Special Air Service Regiment when he was shot and killed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, becoming the third Australian to die in combat in the country and the second this month. Governor-General Major-General Michael Jeffery, [...]

This time to Lamington National Park I don’t and can’t climb mountains anymore but I can run base camps for college excursions so I give some of my time to manage the logistics of feeding and accommodating mobs of young men (about 15yr old) for the local college that is the Alma Mater of my [...]

Reader, commenter and member of the 7RAR Vietnam Veteran brotherhood 1735099 questions the stats on my post on Work Choices where I quoted Joe Hockey’s figures of 400,000 plus jobs being created since Work Choices was implemented in March 2006.The only answer I could find was this graph at the Australian Bureau of Stats Could [...]

# It’s very important for the ALP to deny Howard and Costello any credit for the economic boom we are enjoying at the moment but Bob Hawke takes it a step too far when he involves Whitlam in the game plan The other factor driving economic growth – the China boom – was also partly [...]

Battle is joined. John Howard has called the election for 24th November giving him 6 weeks to pressure Rudd, seek out his weaknesses and home in on them. Some observations. # From a comment at Andrew Bolt’s blog; Yes, Kevin Rudd is “new”, and he’s here to capture the Easily Distracted by Shiny Objects vote. [...]

From the Australian editorial Employment Minister Joe Hockey said that since the Government’s workplace reforms were introduced in March 2006, 430,700 jobs have been created. Where the rise in job numbers is an objective fact, measured by the ABS, academic investigations into the impact of Work Choices on working conditions and employee security and sentiment [...]