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Children Overboard Part 984

As ready as ever to reinforce failure the Left are into what must be their 984th attempt to prove Howard lied over the bloody Children Overboard saga. Even when confronted with the official reports on the behaviour of the Illegals people like Chris Shiel can only say
A stirling bid to deflect the issue Currency, excuse the pun. It fails, but congrats on all the effort.
What on earth does that mean? Currency Lad has done his homework and summarised the Defence reports. Go read it there and marvel at the ineptitude and Howard Lied mantra of the Left. Be sure to check the comments – they are illuminating.

Where I’ve been

I have just spent six days at Carnarvon Gorge helping the staff of a local Boys college run an environment studies bush week. I am often caught criticizing the education system including the input of teachers and output of young Australians but must give credit where credit is due and in this case do it gladly. The teachers worked very hard, sometimes up to 20 hours a day, leading the boys up ravines, along cliffs and high ridges. The entire exercise is one of learning about the environment, aborigines and their culture and the boys own self worth. Time spent around the campfire at night was devoted to assessing each boy and approaching his personal and academic advancement in a positive light. If you read boys college and think ‘privileged’ don’t. A lot of parents work two or more jobs to have their sons attend this college and whereas one boy might be the son of a wealthy businessman, the boy along side is not. The boys are only privileged insofar as their parents strongly believe in education Another pleasing aspect was the presence of fathers and others who had once had an association with the college who gave a up a week of their busy live to travel on a 1600 km round trip at their own expense to help guide and provide role models for the boys. Company Directors, Tradesman, a 79 year old ex Luftwaffe technician, a publican who has recently divested himself of his hotel and a brace of young ‘old boy’ uni students. Such is the committment of those who believe in education. I contributed by helping to run the Base Camp. My legs, and more recently, my right arm, are beyond their use-by date so leading boys up ravines onto high ridges is beyond me. But hey, I can now enjoy the life of a base soldier. I was thanked for my help but the abiding bottom line is that I am a better person for having witnessed this dedication to our youth and I congratulate all who attended- particularly the leaders. While there I met an old mate from Army Days who, with his wife, had spent some days on bush walks. When I told them I was with the schoolboys they were generous with their praise of these 15 year olds, who, to a boy, had looked up on their weary climb up the gorge and exchanged pleasantries, said Hullo, how are you? Great place isn’t it? Did you see the echidna down the track? Best praise of all – unsolicited. My background leads me to be critical and demanding but I have no criticisms and would only demand you consider sending your boys to Nudgee College, Brisbane They would be in good hands.

Grog Running

I received this email from reader Dan. Grog runnning is a huge problem and needs putting under the microscope, not pushing under the carpet. The grog problem is bad enough without unprincipled whites making money out of tragedy.
Today, a group of white people were busted for running grog into an Aboriginal community. (I have the community name and the names of the people involved). The Liquor Commission tipped off the police, who followed the truck and caught two of the people red-handed. One of them took off and was chased down by the police. There were two large trunks on the truck, full of booze. Among those involved are the local headmaster’s wife, the nurse in charge of the local clinic and the Essential Services Officer. (he’s the one who attempted a runner) I just heard that the white town clerk intends to sweep the whole affair under the rug, on the pretext that it’s the first time the people involved have brought booze into the community. Untrue–there’s a long paper -trail proving that these people have been doing this for a very long time. Local Aborigines get their cars confiscated and are sometimes jailed for the same offence. Do you have any idea of who I can contact to make sure that this is brought out into the open?
Dan doesn’t name the locality but I suggest he has a chat with the local police and if that doesn’t work, just keep on stepping up the chain of command until it does. Sic ’em Dan. Other readers with a sense of justice may like to leave advise in comments.

On the Road III

After Jabiru and Ubir rock we cross the Alligator River and head to Gurig National Park on the Coburg Peninsular. Located NNE of Darwin and accessible via Arnhem Land the trip covers 560 km of mostly gravel roads and some great land. Shane Stone told me that Arnhem Land never had any leases operating and I wonder why. Seemingly great cattle country with ample feed and water I can only surmise that it was to remote to settle. Permits are required for Australians to drive through Australia when there are Aborigines present and access to the park is also dependant on a $220.00 fee. But hey, who’s complaining. Continue reading »

Fahrenheit 9/11

Yeah. I know. The subject has been around for awhile but I’ve decided to include this link to 59 deceits by Dave Kopel to help readers gain access to a critical assessment of the politdoco produced by Michael Moore. I haven’t seen Fahrenheit 9/11 and have no intentions of doing so. To me it would be like taking time out of my busy life to spend an evening with Phillip Adams. I just have better ways of spending my time than watching a 122 minute anti-Bush/US political add peppered with lies, lies of omission and half truths. It amazes me that people in Brisbane Australia will pay good money to watch a Democrat Political ad and accept it in blind faith. What?s more upsetting is that Moore is making buckets of money out of the exercise and no-one is calling him to order other than in the blogworld. Great money if you can get it. I bet John Singleton never made anywhere as much money out of any of his ALP TV adverts. But then John is not as unprincipled as Moore. I’m surprised Phillip Adams hasn’t thought of this and produced a politdoco making Howard look like a liar and a fool using the same formulae as Moore. Get an unflattering film clip of Howard, season with lies, lies of omission and half truths and sell it to the world. Then again, maybe Phil has thought of it. As an aside. Can you imagine the uproar if someone produced a similar piece on John Kerry. We would never hear about it. The press would block it and no actor would even look at a script and yet with Kerry’s background it would be a great expose. Ah, the dream. Level playing field – unbiased media. Stupid of me, I know.

Howard rejects war lies petition

JOHN Howard yesterday rejected a statement by 43 former service chiefs and diplomats who accused him of committing Australia to the Iraq war on the basis of lies. The Prime Minister vowed to continue to reject the “misrepresentation” that his Government joined the war in Iraq based on false assumptions and deception. The letter was signed by former defence force chiefs Alan Beaumont and Peter Gration, former defence department secretary Paul Barratt, former prime minister’s department secretaries Alan Renouf and Richard Woolcott and former ambassadors including Rawdon Dalrymple, Stephen Fitzgerald and Ross Garnaut. There are no surprises there. They did the same in 2002 as reported here and look at the signatories then: Bill Hayden, governor-general, 1989-1996; E.G. Whitlam, prime minister 1972-1975; J.M. Fraser, prime minister 1975-1983; R.J. Hawke, prime minister 1983-1991; John Hewson, opposition leader 1990-1994; General Peter Gration, chief of the Defence Force 1987-1993; Admiral Alan Beaumont, chief of the Defence Force 1993-1995; Admiral Mike Hudson, chief of the naval staff 1985-1991; Major-General Peter Phillips, national president, RSL. No surprises there either. The Evatt foundation also talk about the 2002 petition. Go there and see what company they keep. Margo Kingston, Al Gore, Gareth (Biggles) Evans, Phillip Knightly and Tom Uren to name a few. I hope Howard had the wit to roll his eyes on receiving the petition.

Top aides quit Government House

From Brisbanes Courier Mail.
Three top aides to Governor Richard Butler have indicated they will conclude their duties and not return. Official secretary John Chilcott, senior adviser Anne Parker and aide-de-camp Chris Beattie will leave Government House today. Mr Chilcott, a respected public servant, and Mrs Parker, a lawyer who previously worked in private practice in Hobart, are expected to hand in their resignations shortly. Mr Beattie has already resigned. The walkout comes after months of conflict between staff and Mr Butler and his wife Jennifer over the role of governor.
Even the Aide de camp has voted with his feet
Another Government House figure, police aide-de-camp Commander Syd McClymont, also handed in his notice this week after 17 years in the honorary role.
Only Butler, so anti establishment, would force senior public servants to leave. Must be a great story there but I doubt if we will ever here it all. If any Tassie readers know more please leave a comment. UPDATE Reader Harry Tuttle has done some googling and come up with these links that add more detail to the saga. Read his comments and then follow up the links here and here Thanks Harry. UPDATE II Premier orders Butler to crisis talks.
RICHARD Butler has 24 hours to prepare a convincing argument that he should remain the Tasmanian Governor after a frustrated Premier Paul Lennon yesterday ordered the irascible former diplomat to a crisis meeting about his handling of the vice-regal post.
Love it. What goes around comes around Richard old chap.
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