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Blogstony grumpy and barnaby and hocky and pyny and july and nasty and porky brandy...Federal politicians who lodge ineligible expense claims will be hit in the hip pocket and can be named and shamed in parliament under new guidelines introduced by the government.
betrayed ....The NSW government has bulldozed opposition to more mines, with new rules that put economic benefits – including to the state coffers – above all else.
always backing the house ....The gambling industry has emerged from an era of failed reforms with campaigners on the payroll, politicians in its pocket, and four new casinos in the offing …
who killed cock robin ....Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse. "We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she said.
at the movies...
The seemingly unending drama of the Australian Labor party’s internal leadership battles is set to be dramatised, with actress Rachel Griffiths signed on to play Julia Gillard.
world dinosaur annual forum...Federal and state politicians have been receiving invitations to join former world leaders at the World Leadership Alliance "world annual forum" at Clive Palmer’s Palmer Coolum Resort on 7 December – billed as “a major event for Australia and indeed the world”.
incentives with no favours...An anti-coal activist says the Queensland Government's offer of incentives for mining companies in the Galilee Basin shows the projects are not economically viable.
decisions of the local idiots...Firefighters are overstretched and facing a “desperate” summer, according to New South Wales Rural Fire Service group captains who have lambasted the state government over what they see as cuts to the organisation’s salaried staff.
from the ugly side of utopia .....from john pilger ….. The Brutal Past and Present are Another Country in Secret Australia
let 'em eat cake .....from politicoz ….. The government's new media strategy – explain as little as possible – is now causing considerable disquiet among journalists.
risk management .....The financial fallout from a spate of corruption inquiries is beginning to hit crooked former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid.
JFK...IT was all over in a few seconds, but the assassination of John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 has generated five decades of "painstaking, and for some unsatisfying, analysis," the Daily Mail says.
the new (old) weather girl...London: Former Prime Minister John Howard has poured scorn on the "alarmist" scientific consensus on global warming, comparing those calling for action on climate change to religious zealots in a speech to a gathering of UK climate sceptics.
the luck of the devil
welcome to our vacuum .....from new matilda ….
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