This Gus picture shows "the Gulf" about 100 miles from Normanton.

Caption: "He was the only one who had not been blacklisted and could speak Italian"...

The merde-och press gets it wrong again...

News Limited chief executive Kim Williams says the media reform package tailored by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is targeted at his company.

Indigenous people travelled for three days to get to Canberra to put their case to a Parliamentary committee; Tony Abbott walked in late, didn’t apologise, sat down and then fell asleep. Lavinia Projustice saw it all.

Today, Catholic Cardinals will assemble at the Sistine Chapel to elect the next Pope. But that’s not the only news out of Italy involving men closely gathered in a room. It turns out the Holy See purchased 20 shares of an apartment building housing Europe’s largest gay sauna.

Mr Murdoch tells us that the right to tell porkies is sacrosanct...

16 Quotes From Tony Abbott to Remind You Why He Shouldn’t Be Prime Minister ?

On immigration:

I find myself wondering how many of our present day leaders, President Obama in particular, are aware of what happened in Palestine on 10 March 65 years ago.

It makes my eyes water... I don't know if I should cry or laugh... Is THIS exactly what Tony said?... What does that tell you, not so much about Tonicchio Abbott's ego which we know is bigger than the Titanic, but about his inflated imbecilic minimal understanding of the way the real world works?... 

There are diplomats, academics, intellectuals and theologians. There are hardliners, conservatives, ultra-conservatives, moderates, mavericks and many who simply defy categorisation. When it comes to the conclave of 115 cardinals who will choose the next pope in the next few days, the phrase broad church is entirely appropriate.

You can feel an election coming on when Pauline Hanson sticks her addled head above the parapet. There she was in The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday, warmly endorsing the Prime Minister's sudden and impulsive war on the hordes of wicked foreigners on 457 work visas who are snatching the bread from the tables of modern Aussie families.

The ALP’s original purpose, the mass participation of working men and women in parliamentary democracy, has dissolved. Very few unionists are still active in the party. This is clear from statistics released by the former NSW assistant general secretary Luke Foley. Only 16 per cent of party members belong to a trade union affiliated to the ALP. By far the biggest category (55 per cent) is concessional membership, that is, people outside the workforce, mainly retirees.

Ten years ago, Bush made disastrous foreign policy decision that we will pay for for a long, long time.