Wow, even people of Mediterranean descent aren’t white enough for Abbot to consider them Australian. Perhaps he could send us all a little paint chart we can compare ourselves to to see if we are pale hued enough to count as an Australian. Since the “real” Australians are aboriginal I don’t think Tony qualifies.
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Michael Carlton reflects on what a decade of Howard government has done to Australia:
Paul Keating famously said, shortly before he was tossed out in 1996, that if you change the government, you change the country. The change wrought by Howard has been profound, a tectonic shift to the populist politics of individual selfishness on one [...]
Pictured above. Rebel, and Robert! Fighting the good fight!
As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald this week. The workers who maintain the Icon of Australia. Are being screwed by hoWARd’s IR reforms. All coming from a Union Busting American firm who has taken over the contract.
This is a sign or piss off situation! Take a [...]
As a general disclaimer I’ve just come across the Russian site this extract comes from, so I can’t speak for its veracity, but I found the assertion it makes extremely interesting and I can’t help but feel that it’s exactly the sort of thing they would do - its clearly in their interests to foment [...]
Times Online - AT least one new disease is jumping the species barrier from animals to human beings every year, exposing people to emerging germs at a rate that may be unprecedented.
The first work to catalogue the range of germs capable of infecting people has disclosed that 38 new human pathogens have emerged in the [...]
If these figures are derived from US Government sources I’m tempted to say and the rest, given that they don’t count soldiers injured or made sick off the battlefield as casualties, and they can’t be bothered to count the civilian dead at all. A lot of people don’t count to the Bush regime.
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SMH - FOUR actors who play al-Qaeda suspects in an award-winning British film were detained by police at London-Luton airport on their return from the Berlin Film Festival and questioned under anti-terrorism laws. Also interviewed were two of the former terrorism suspects they play on screen.
The men were returning to Britain last Thursday after the [...]
So depressing and so very far from surprising. And the warmongers are…
SMH - IRAN offered in May 2003 to open talks with the US on everything from its nuclear program to its support for groups Washington regards as terrorist, but the Bush Administration turned it down, a former Administration official says.
The offer, from Sadegh [...]
Robert Fisk and Antony Loewenstein are the first in a series of lectures to be webcast on Fourth Estate Radio.
This is one of the corporations I hate most - evil, greedy, bastards hell bent on destroying sustainable agriculture and the planet. They destroy peoples lives. How can any human being with a soul co-operate with these entities? Everything they do is evil and co-operating with evil is evil. Shame on all the [...]
More details on China’s relationship with Iran and why they may not be too happy with the Neocon’s efforts to start WWIII. This is an interesting, if potentially lethal scenario. What will China do if the US attack Iraq? They don’t really need to resort to violence they can just stop buying the [...]
