Not that I like suggesting that discussion of petrol prices should not be our major concern, but perhaps this little revelation could be the subject of sustained investigation by some self-respecting journalists: Read more »
Commitment to social justice: Dorothy HoddinottSo. On this Queen's Birthday holiday, Australians who receive honours are:
* A school principal who used her own money to enable an 18 year old asylum seeker finish her education.
And
The man who dedicated his entire working life to making the lives of gay Australians and asylum seekers as miserable as he could manage.
Read more »When the meanest man in Australian history was knifed by the Australian public on that glorious Saturday in November, I was overjoyed.
I wept, I drank and I passed out.
However no matter how happy I was, I had always suspected that one day far too soon that my disillusion with the conservative Kevin07 would soon manifest itself once again in tele-temper, where I would start yelling and swearing at the TV.
On Saturday 30 May 2008, after a six month remission, I succumbed. Read more »
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed:
Retired Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, the onetime commander of US troops in Iraq, has recently released a book about his time in the country. In Wiser in Battle: A Soldier’s Story, he recalls a teleconference with US President George W. Bush soon after four contractors were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Bush said: Read more »
Courier Mail readers love this shitBy Ant Rogenous
Cross-posted at GrodsCorp
“Hold all my calls, Bernard.
“Oh, and hand me my apologetics hat — it’s going to be a long day.” Read more »
Not at all surprising - the same honour has been awarded or offered to all of the PMs from recent decades. I’d dispute some elements of the grounds for his award, particularly the notions that we should approve of his social reform and fostering Australia’s international standing: Read more »
I intend to write something more broadly about the allegations against John Howard of war crimes, but for the moment I just wanted to note the ongoing tragedy that is named Andrew Bolt. Bolt casts the ICC as , among other things, anti-democratic (why not just say “un-Australian”?), “unrepresentative”, “ineffectival” (sic), and “unaccountable”. Read more »
The ICC Action group has submitted a brief to the International Criminal Court alleging that John Howard’s deployment of Australian troops to Iraq constitutes a war crime. Read more »
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