From todays Strewth column in the Australian Clueless Viking THE voyage of the Australian Customs Service ship Oceanic Viking ends when it docks in Fremantle this morning after a seven-week, 5000-nautical-mile voyage to monitor Japanese whaling activity in the Southern Ocean. About the only useful thing the ship did was to help transfer two anti-whaling [...]

Women, well OK, some a few women are complaining about the lack of gender balance at Rudd’s 2020 talk fest. They should be more concerned that the only person representing their gender in Rudd’s major Distraction of the First Quarter is an actress. OK, so she’s a good actress but she cites Gore as her [...]

HERE’S a hot tip. (from Greg Sheridan) There is not the slightest chance Australia will buy any F-22 Raptor aircraft, and there is almost no chance that we will ditch the F/A-18 Super Hornets that the previous government was going to buy. If the Raptor is not built for export why would anyone think the [...]

Australia’s Chief Clerk, Kevin Rudd has decreed that all pollies should spend 5 days a week in the house. For a long time the house has closed on Fridays to allow our elected reps to work their electorates which I see as reasonable. On the first friday of sitting the house erupts as Rudd doesn’t [...]

Recently a pit bull that was ‘loved by everyone’ attacked two women, one of whom is the dog owner’s 11 year old sister who presumably doesn’t love the dog anymore. The young girl is recovering from re constructive surgery to her leg. People are actually having a debate as to whether the tradie who dropped [...]

Rudd must be happy with his 70% approval rating as PM but he will also be holding his breath as Australians’ absorb the fact that he tells lies as well. KEVIN Rudd yesterday described how he purposely misled disgraced former West Australian premier Brian Burke to avoid attending a dinner being organised by the influence-peddler. [...]

LABOR MPs have just voted in caucus for a 12-month wage freeze for all MPs, to signal that “restraint needs to be shared” to fight inflation. But it remains unclear whether it will happen if Coalition MPs do not back the plan. MPs’ and senators’ pay is determined by the independent Remuneration Tribunal and is [...]

QUEENSLAND PREMIER Anna Bligh has labelled the National Party racist after the state opposition refused to support an apology to the stolen generations made by state parliament nine years ago. As the nation stopped for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s speech, Queensland Parliament descended into furious debate when Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said the state government [...]

Whenever someone had an occasion to apologise to me for some error I would always say” Don’t go on about being sorry for what you did, just tell me what you are going to do to ensure we don’t arrive at this set of circumstances again. When I had to apologise to Army superiors I [...]

THE Pentagon today said it would charge six Guantanamo inmates with 2,973 counts of murder over their role in the September 11 attacks. The suspects include the self-confessed mastermind of the terror attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. “The defendants will face the possibility of being sentenced to death,” said Brigidier General Thomas Hartmann, a Pentagon legal [...]