It’s all her fault!

I’ll be giving this address at the National Memorial Walk in Enoggera Barracks this morning at the Dawn Service. Good Morning – we are gathered here today to commemorate those who have gone before us – those who have paid the supreme sacrifice in service to Australia. As a nation we have been gathering on [...]

IT started like any regular auction of a Sydney house in need of an update. It ended barely 30 minutes later in chaos. A group of Aboriginal men and women turned up in a minibus and handed out documents to startled potential bidders claiming that the property could be a sacred indigenous heritage site. This [...]

THE Taliban is moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders. THE supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has indicated he and his followers may be willing to [...]

Scientists in the US have developed a flexible shirt made of the same material used in tank armour, by combining carbon in the shirt with the third-hardest material on Earth, boron. The plain white T-shirts are dipped into a boron solution, then heated in an oven at more than 1000C, which changes the cotton fibres [...]

Unprecedented hyperbole surrounds Chinese Ship grounding

Rudd and Obama looking humble, as well they should.

My pet Labrador Chloe has made a mess of Easter for those young at heart who wait in frenzied impatience for the Easter Bunny to provide the Easter eggs but they should get over the bunny like they should get over the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. Except my kids and their kids, of course! [...]

KEVIN Rudd has accused Tony Abbott of presiding over a policy dead zone when it comes to border security, saying the Opposition Leader is “100 per cent headline and zero per cent policy”. That’s as opposed to what Kevin? What policy do you have that has led to 101 illegal boats arriving on your watch? [...]