Bardon Latrobe soccer team escaped the floods created in the Gap region of Brissie only to experience a Big Wet staged by Sydneyrella. The guys and gals of Georges Cold River Dragon fame pinched a premier vessel from Bob Carr in order to show off the harbour city. As the Commando speed boat approached Kirribilli House yesterday morning, the Prime Minister, John Howard, stopped reading the newspapers because the great cheer coming from the boat would disturb just about anyone ... Even more cheer followed after John Howard waved at the excited soccer hooligans ;-) on the boat Loud Tigers
Forget the Matildas calendar! (sic) Across Australia, a growing number of women are devoting their weekends to soccer Quite Tigress
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million ... That is why the servants of communist tyranny get sympathetic obits, and modern British girls wear CCCP T-shirts, and that is why a Labour Government can enact a series of authoritarian measures that a Conservative government could not contemplate. Tales of hammer and sickle T-shirts laden with badges of the foremost commie creeps of history. I cannot explain this injustice: Boris Johnson merely points it out: The stuff of Kafka-esque nightmare
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Game, set and match: a loner but not a loser
Mark Latham ended his political career by resigning on January 18. The journalist Bernie Lagan emailed Latham 17 days later:
"Dear Mark, I guess you've seen the letter I sent via Jody [Latham's sister]. It's a great shame things have ended this way, but I reckon you could make only one call for Janine and those boys, given your future health. The rubber will soon hit the road with our book. It's coming out around late May. Deadline for the words is the end of next month. At least we should set down your legacy to the Labor Party
• End of tennis match [ The problem identified - deafness ; Another field, another grasshopper Latham: my part in his downfall ]
• · Conservative Catholic leader Cardinal George Pell's concerns about the Government's workplace changes reflect widespread community concern about their impact. Pell urges caution over Senate power Pell comments reflect wider IR concerns: Labor ; Unions promise fast, loud action
• · · A memo to managers of the world: you are not paranoid. Your staff really are out to get you Bullied bosses: look out below ; A workforce revolution is on its way, as many new employees are about to find out What do we want … and does it matter? ; GST is a difficult child Businesses still adjusting to GST
• · · · The number of new homes and flats approved in Sydney has fallen to levels not seen since the last recession Property plunge exposes weak state ; The State Government has racked up $23 million of insurance claims from government vehicles since the 2003 election, according to the Opposition's latest waste watch report Money frittered away, says Coalition ; No matter what good fortune comes their way a history of conflict haunts Redfern's children Black and blue ; Since over a week has elapsed since the High Court handed down its decision, much of the initial fervour has lapsed The Fingleton result
• · · · · Why is it an American or an Australian can go and fight in the Israeli army and will not be called a terrorist when he comes back, but a Muslim who goes and fights is called a terrorist? Raided men defend their part in jihad ; Police who conduct their activity in secret, who by law force all involved to keep it a secret and don't allow journalists to talk about said secret are indeed "secret police" Second terrorism charge for handler ; On February 27th 1933, the immense Reichstag building, the focal point of Berlin’s imperial district, was set on fire and destroyed. Only the shell remained. It was a shocking act of terrorism Be alarmed, not just alert, on ASIO power extension ; Derek Maul, CS Monitor The real meaning of July 4: Power belongs to the people Are We Moving Away From The Meaning of July 4th?; Robert Pape, Chicago Tribune When death is an option The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
• · · · · · No self-respecting politician would miss the chance these days to big-note themselves at a major extension of a beleaguered railway system, but when the western line reached Rydal in 1870, there was no pageantry All is in train, now where is the transport minister? ; Scoop: An interesting twist from the San Francisco Chronicle: Todd Wallack used state records to show that despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s talk of reducing state spending the Schwarzenegger administration proposes creating 6,288 jobs California State Employees - and More