Tony Abbott's handpicked former parliamentary secretary Cory Bernardi has apparently breached strict rules by failing to declare his ties to a right-wing, pro-tobacco group fighting gun controls.

The organisation, the American Legislative Exchange Council, was involved in a High Court challenge against the Gillard government last year and has financial ties with big tobacco.

If Wikileaks teaches us anything it is that our leaders lie. And lie. And lie.

Australia Day will be no different. Bourgeois clichés about the lucky country (what irony!) and our great nation will compete with bullshit about our brave soldiers overseas and how we all in  this together. 

Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the wealthy investment bank Altium Capital, on the corner of St James's Square and Pall Mall.

Labor senator Trish Crossin has slammed Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s endorsement of Olympic athlete Nova Peris for the Senate, saying it ''totally undermines'' Labor’s pre-selection process in the Northern Territory.

From the Manly Daily... 29 November 2012

OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott has released a free e-book outlining his vision for the future of Australia.

Labor has traditionally been a party of bigotry, a party of ruling class bigotry. Its formation after the defeats of the strikes of the 1890s saw many workers and their leaders substitute Parliament for direct action as the motive force of history, as the agency of change.

The Priestley’s are due to be forced out of their farms in a few days due to unconscionable conduct by the NAB, says Assoc Prof Evan Jones, yet the courts don’t care.

Read in the Un-Australian from the Merde-och press....

From Don Aitkin

Odd, isn’t it, how our “collateral damage” is different from their “collateral damage”.

A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.

Have you heard about the trick they use in fruit shops? If they want to make money from a large load of lettuce they divide it into two. They put half in a ''bargain bin'' and charge something like $3 a kilo. They put the other half at the quality end of the store and charge $6. The well-heeled and uncertain pay $6. Those with less money and keener for value pay $3.