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families face $28,600 fines under the new IR laws Dear friend, 107 Western Australian building workers face jail and
personal fines of up to $28,600. Their crime? Participating in a stoppage in
support of a sacked workmate and refusing to accept persistent safety breaches
in their workplace.
on the path to penury .....
keeping us safe .....
The Editor, Surely it’s a simple matter for airlines to resolve the dilemma of competing rights & interests of paranoid air crews, fearful members of the flying public & those unfortunate individuals not blessed with an anglo-celtic heritage (‘Police arrest 12 passengers after jet turns back’, Herald, August 25)?
clueless .....
‘In the long run, we're not safer because we're still operating on the assumption that we're hated because of our freedoms, when in fact we're hated because of our actions in the Islamic world. There's our military presence in Islamic countries, the perception that we
control the Muslim world’s oil production, our support for Israel and for
countries that oppress Muslims such as China, Russia, and India, and our own
support for Arab tyrannies.
Downer Gives Chief Of Staff AWB Kickback, Makes Him Consul General Of Los Angeles Downer must be beginning to panic that his chief of staff might be implicated in the kickback scam... he's getting him out of the country pronto! From the office of Lord Alex Of Australia- I have today announced the appointment of Innes Willox as Consul-General of Australia in Los Angeles. He will succeed John Olsen. Mr Willox is expected to take up his appointment in September 2006. The Los Angeles Consulate-General takes in southern California and the adjoining south-western states of the United States, an area that is equivalent to the world’s fifth largest economy and a major centre for the global entertainment and technology industries.
boosting the fear meme .....
‘Don’t ever suggest that federal bureaucrats are not smart. Take, for instance, the DEA, the federal agency that has the responsibility of waging the war on drugs, a war that has obviously failed to achieve its objective after 30 years of warfare, not to mention all the collateral violence that the drug war has spawned. Amidst growing discussion and debate in the mainstream media on the libertarian idea of ending the war on drugs by legalizing drugs, guess what the DEA is using as a way to distract people’s attention away from that solution.
the toy boy .....
from Buzzflash ….. ‘When he was young, caretakers picked up his toys. When he was a dissolute adult, protectors covered up for his seedy, irresponsible behaviour and dereliction of duty. When he was old, his father's friends cleaned up after his business failures. Someone has always cleaned up Bush's messes for him. He's never had to or been able to do it himself. Now, through the power of Rove packaging, right wing mastery of the media, and a silent Supreme Court coup in 2000, he is playing with weapons of war and lives. And there is no one who can clean up his messes anymore.
faux diplomacy .....
The Editor, Perhaps the assertion by US President, George Bush, that there “must be consequences if people thumb their nose at the United Nations Security Council”, might be taken more seriously if it wasn’t so blatantly hypocritical (‘Nuclear inspectors barred from Iran plant’, Herald, August 23)?
NASA restarts Woomera Spaceport for International Space Station
I've just seen the main story in today's Advertiser, of the commercial spaceport trials to be conducted by NASA at Woomera/.
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mythmaking .....
‘It should be small comfort that the
security establishments of the UK and the USA - and the "terrorism
experts" who inform them and wheedle billions of dollars out of them for
bomb puffers and face recognition gizmos and remote gait analyzers and similar
hi-tech phrenology gear - have bought the Hollywood binary liquid explosive
myth, and have even acted upon it. We've given extraordinary credit to a collection of
jihadist wannabes with an exceptionally poor grasp of the mechanics of attacking
a plane, whose only hope of success would have been a pure accident. They would
have had to succeed in spite of their own ignorance and incompetence, and in
spite of being under police surveillance for a year.
and so sayeth the abbott .....
Abbott remains unconvinced of stem cell benefits …. Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says there is no convincing evidence that therapeutic cloning will lead to a medical breakthrough in the treatment of diseases. Liberal Senator Kay Patterson is developing a Bill to overturn a ban on therapeutic cloning, and the Prime Minister says he will allow a free vote on the issue. Mr Abbott has told the ABC's Insiders program that despite the findings of the Lockhart review on stem cell research, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1719247.htm|hedoes not think changes should be made].
bushit sacrifice .....
‘Iraq has the third largest oil reserves in the world but yesterday drivers were forming mile-long queues outside petrol stations, knowing that they would spend the night in their cars before they could fill up. Only six weeks ago, Baghdad's streets were jammed with traffic. Now they are nearly empty because pumps have all but run dry. The official explanation is attacks on infrastructure. A pipeline from the northern oilfields around Kirkuk was targeted last month while the Beiji power station, one of the country's largest, was partially closed after workers fled following death threats.
not so free trade .....
From the ABC ….. Manufacturing tariffs to stay in China FTA The Federal Industry Minister has ruled out abolishing import tariffs in the automotive and clothing industries as part of a free trade agreement with China. It is expected Chinese negotiators will push for import tariffs to be cut to allow China to sell more products in the Australian market.
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