ONE of Australia’s major banks is planning to introduce “Muslim-friendly” loans that do not charge interest, to comply with Sharia law. Instead, the National Australia Bank will structure an Islam-approved line of finance to make money from alternative methods. For example, to get round the Islamic ban on usury – or unfair lending – a
Greenpeace idiots stuff up society
ENVIRONMETAL activists have shut down a coal digger at an Australian power station that provides eight per cent of the country’s coal-reliant electricity market, to protest against government climate policies. Greenpeace said today’s dawn protest by around 14 activists at the Hazelwood Power Stationin Victoria was the latest part of an ongoing campaign to reduce Australia’s
Kangaroo culls
Pat O’Brien, the leader of the anti Kangaroo cull in Canberra claims kangaroos are already being culled and that it would only cost $750,000 to move the roos elsewhere. There are a bout 400 roos in the area so they are suggesting the country spend $1875 per roo to fix the problem. Yeah right! I
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China watch
While the Olympic torch was being run through Canberra I was otherwise involved in ANZAC Day prep and planning so had little chance to blog on the issue. I thought, given a couple of days the media would be investigating how come so many pro-Chinese Chinese arrived at Canberra in such an organized fashion. It
Tax ‘em into sobriety
FEDERAL Health Minister Nicola Roxon has blamed the former Howard Government for the rise in teenage binge drinking. Nicola uses some pretty inventive logic to suggest the Howard government is solely to blame for the rate of teenager girls drinking rising from 14% to 60%. Not a mention of state liquor laws, lax club administration
Kangaroos get reprieve so they can starve to death
THE planned cull of kangaroos on defence land in Canberra has been put on hold after the department asked the ACT Government to approve a trial of moving them. Read ‘The Department has been told by the government, who have been told by the Left/Greens, to ask the ACT government to approve a trial of
State’s sky to get heritage status
THE sky above New South Wales is to be given heritage status by the National Trust. The National Trust of NSW is set to classify both the day and night sky above the state as worthy of preservation. National Trust NSW president Zeny Edwards said the sky viewed from NSW had extraordinary aesthetic, historic, social
More symbols
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
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Whaling
The Australian now agrees with me on whaling After a clumsy three-week delay, the Oceanic Viking finally left port on its mission of official government activism, apparently to collect more evidence for what is already well-documented activity, for some future but unspecified legal action against the Japanese Government. International law has to date offered little
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He has his mother’s eyes
Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research denied the whales were mother and calf and accused the Government of misleading the public. ICR director-general Minoru Morimoto said the variance in size was simply “random sampling”. However, a spokesperson for Mr Garrett said he had received independent scientific advice that the whales were, in fact, related. Oh well,
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