from the ABC …..

Santoro voices his deep regret

Former Howard Government minister Santo Santoro has told his Liberal and National colleagues that he deeply regrets that he is leaving federal Parliament.

I have recieved on my other blog, from Shelley Kovco, this reply to my last post , and reprint it here so that everyone can see the hurt that I have caused.

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from News Ltd …..

PM's right hand man asks: what's email?

By Nicolette Burke

Article from Daily Terror

This September the US Air Force, with NASA providing back up, plans to begin testing their new HiFire jets at Woomera. Described as the "jewel in the crown" of scramjet technology, (HiFire is an acronym for Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation) their anticipated short-term application is much faster cruise missiles.

from the pauper ABC …..

PM denies IR laws hurt NSW Liberals

Lord Mayo of Adelaide (aka Downer the “Clowner” or “Fishnets” to his friends) has been a member of the federal Parliament for 23 years & is Australia’s longest serving Foreign Minister, having held that portfolio in the rattus government for the past 11 years.

This time last year, in my blog the missing “bonesman” (see http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/2839), I introduced bushit’s Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary to Australia, Robert D. McCallum.

from the ABC …..

Costello continues attack on Labor's broadband plan

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello is continuing his attack on the Opposition's $4.7 billion high-speed Internet plan.

‘Yep, you did it, George - mission impossible accomplished.

Unbelievably, four years of a bungled occupation have managed to make Saddam Hussein's tyranny look good in comparison with "liberated Iraq."

from the ABC …..

Labor to again press PM on Iraq withdrawal

Debate about an exit strategy for Australian troops in Iraq is expected to continue in Federal Parliament today.

from the underfunded ABC …..

Kelly lashes out at states over housing affordability