“We should thank Canberra for the funding we do have but it’s frustrating to build a state-of-the-art vessel only to have it sitting in a wharf for six months of the year,” Suthers said.

The solar industry has been left fuming by a letter to the CEFC by Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann in which they direct investments in household and small-scale solar to be "excluded" from the $10 billion fund in future.

The draft investment mandate calls for "mature and established clean energy technologies … to be excluded from the corporation's activities, including extant wind technology and household and small-scale solar".

COLUMBIA, S.C — In a historic moment for South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag is set to be removed from a 30-foot pole on the grounds of the State House on Friday morning.

arseholes...!!!

Day after day, we get "in-depth" analysis by economic specialists and journalists who would not be able to make a yellow plastic duck float in a bath-tub... They are dissecting the beast while it's still alive...

Ask yourself questions: why did the US spied on most of the presidents of Europe?... Answer:

you work it out... (clue: It was not to let Europe become a power house for starters...)

fact finding of the inquiry as ordered by Turdy:

A) from now on, The ABC shall never interview anyone with a contrary view to that of the Turdy Government.

B) The ABC is Turdy's ABC

C) All journalists at the ABC shall be replaced with PR personnel from the Prime Minister's office.

Here concludes the inquiry.

The Prince of Wales and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, will visit Australia in November this year, the Prime Minister says.

It's now clear did nothing wrong, and Abbott's demand that "heads should roll"was unjust and he should apologise for it.

Providers of ethics classes in NSW primary schools have responded with outrage to a change to the school enrolment form which removes a clear choice between ethics and scripture.

Bruce Hogan, the chairman of the charity and ethics class provider Primary Ethics, was angered by the change, saying it was a "profound step back".

"We are really disappointed," he said. "This has deliberately eliminated the option for parents to tell the school they would like their child to attend ethics lessons.

In 1990, when I was in grade school, I watched a union-sponsored commercial in which a mother told her little boy that they would have to move because Dad had lost his job—too many people were buying imports.

Fifeld said Pollie Pedal was run with the assistance of and benefit of Carers Australia which is a key peak organisation in his portfolio.

“While the pedallers cycled, I used the event as a backdrop in my role as the minister for disability, ageing and carers to meet people with disability, carers and older Australians as well as with the groups that support them,” he said.

Conservative members of the Abbott Government have slammed colleagues, Labor and the media in a bid to kill off same-sex marriage.