‘The Howard Government will be remembered for progressive gun control in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, helping to liberate East Timor from Indonesia, drawing Australia into the Iraq morass, the expansion of Federal control (particularly in the area of WorkChoices), balaclavas on the wharves, attacks on the welfare state (particularly its crackdown on single parents, disability support pensioners and unemployed people), repressive treatment of asylum seekers arriving without visas, paternal intervention in Indigenous affairs, neg

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Turnbull blasts 'irresponsible' whaling protesters

from the new York Times …..

Novak Says Libby Didn't Leak Agent's Name to Him

By David Stout

from our ABC …..

Downer defends Howard's Obama attack

Downer raises Hicks case with US

The same old story ….

A bodybuilder loses 200 lbs through use of "age-defying" televangelist-sponsored diet shake.

from the ABC …..

Howard, Rudd attack Greens' coal policy

Mr Dick Cheney,
Vice-President of the United States of America,
The White House, Washington DC

As the likelihood of a Federalised Murray-Darling river system increases,A previously abandoned water saving plan has been revived.

Rejected by the SA Rann Government for "political reasons" a $5 million feasibility study for a Twin Lakes water system now looks likely to go ahead under Federal Government stewardship.

KBR, written up in today's Advertiser as a "natural resources management group" have been conferring with Federal Water Minister Turnbull about the project.

from the Commander of the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, Rear Admiral Harry Harris …..

HARRIS:

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No anti-siphoning breach in AFL deal, says Howard