from the Drum …..

Research discussed by The Drum's panel on Thursday night confirms that improvements to Australia's food supply are desperately needed if we are to reduce deaths from Australia's number one killer, heart disease.

Not only is Julia Gillard being attacked by the Opposition and the media, she is also being undermined by her own so-called supporters, says Victoria Rollison

from Crikey ….. 

Nuclear drumbeat grows as US eyes Australia

The weather and the time difference are turning the London 2012 Olympics into the doona games as Sydneysiders snuggle up in front of the TV or computer, and shun live venues offering Olympic viewing.

It’s bad enough getting beaten by Americans who just buy their gold medals by the truckload, or Russians, who can call on the exciting pharmacological resources of Vladimir Putin’s secret KGB labs, or, quelle horreur, those cheese-eating surrender monkeys who... who... who...

from Crikey ….. 

Chris Graham: Brough is back, with a record of failure

“We have a solemn duty and a moral imperative to deny Iran’s leaders the means to follow through on their malevolent intentions,” Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told an audience of about 300, including a large contingent of American donors who flew here to accompany him. “We must not delude ourselves into thinking that containment is an option.”

"What should I give up?" asks Andrew Leigh, the freshman Labor parliamentarian.

As usual with state premiers, it was all about the money. Facing debt and deficit, the Sunshine State is crying poor. Queensland, the Premier claims, "has been bankrupted - is on the way to being bankrupted - by poor and reckless financial management".

The state needs to "right size" its public finances, and if it doesn't, then it could go the way of the indebted sovereigns of the Mediterranean.

The 2012 London Olympic Games were preceded by an Opening Ceremony that controversially involved a social history of the ordinary people of England since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the 18th century.  Unfortunately the Opening Ceremony considered only the several score English subjects of the English Establishment and ignored the horrendous maltreatment of hundreds of millions of other subjects of the ruthless British Empire.  

Howard government minister Mal Brough has won Liberal National Party preselection to run for parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper’s seat of Fisher at the next election.

Mr Brough won the ballot for one of Queensland’s safest conservative federal seats on Sunday afternoon.

Entrepreneur Dick Smith has launched a stinging attack on News Corp and Kim Williams, the head of its local operations, News Ltd, branding the organisation's campaign against proposed media reforms as hypocritical.