ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence has urged the Rudd Government to ease restrictions on unions entering workplaces after unionists were allegedly forced to hold a meeting sandwiched between two cars in a factory loading dock. Union officials claimed the Brisbane factory meeting was held under a surveillance camera and garbage trucks drove in and out of [...]

The Church of the Latter Day Alarmists is currently in ascendancy with AGW or human caused global warming now being broadly accepted as fact by the vast majority of Australians. The religious fervour of the proponents has washed into the media with very few, if any, questioning the science. As I’ve remarked recently; Tabloid TV, [...]

Married 38 years last Friday my bride and I went to Malaney in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for some quiet time and were then in-place for a wedding on Saturday night. My daughter from Perth flew in for the wedding unannounced, affording me the pleasure of the company of my wife and three daughters. All [...]

THE Australian Defence Force has admitted that a dying Australian soldier took nearly two hours to reach hospital in Afghanistan, but sharply rejects claims that his retrieval was bungled. Having initially refused to release timings on the wounding and air evacuation of SAS signaller Sean McCarthy, who died of injuries inflicted by a road-side bomb [...]

Paul Kelly talks to General Jim Moylan about his recently released book detailing his time as chief of operations to the US commander of the multinational force in Iraq, George Casey, which included planning the second battle for Fallujah in November 2004 and the successful general election the following January. THE most highly placed Australian [...]

KEVIN Rudd has launched a stinging attack on his predecessor, branding John Howard “an absolute failure” in preparing Australia for the end of the international economic boom. Howard tried to stop you gaining power and ending the boom, or at least Australia’s part of it, but the voters didn’t see it that way – blame [...]

PETER Costello has been hailed as the “Don Bradman” of Liberal politics during a 300-strong dinner in Melbourne, at which he was urged not to quit politics. But his closest supporters believe he will walk away from parliament at the end of the year to pursue job offers overseas, after he completes a tell-all book [...]

MORE than $60 billion in planned LNG investments are likely to be shelved because the Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme is “backwards” and penalises exports of the clean gas, according to Woodside Petroleum chief Don Voelte. Asked what he intended to do about the problem, Mr Voelte said: “We have booked a lot of plane [...]

From a Defence Mailing list email. The ADF is hosting military pilgrims from around the world attending World Youth Day 08 (WYD08). The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and foreign military pilgrims will hold a ceremony including a reading of a statement of peace and singing hymns on the Sydney Opera House steps to thank their [...]

Olympia, an 11 year old girl, has become a pawn in the debate over photos of prepubescent children being publicized for arts sake, or, as might be the case, for increased magazine sales. Her parents – the flamboyant, bow-tied art critic for The Age, Robert Nelson, and his photographer wife – allowed the nude photographs [...]