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preaching to the converted...
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parliamentary privilege .....A prominent state Liberal MP has been accused of misusing his position while campaigning against a wind farm that is to be built next to his property in western Victoria.
ringside .....Kevin Rudd’s advisers were all smiles as they arrived at the Rudd family home this morning. It was a marked difference from yesterday when there was still uncertainty as to whether Mr Rudd would be challenging Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s leadership
another distorted media beat up...
beating around another bush...
back in 2010...
The decision to depose Rudd without destroying him showed decent restraint in the bloody context of those days.
crimes of convenience .....from Crikey ...... Crikey Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane writes: MASTERCARD, NEWS CORP, NEWS INTERNATIONAL, RUPERT MURDOCH, VISA, WIKILEAKS
therese to the breach...
Kevin Rudd's wife Therese Rein joined the Labor leadership war today, urging "ordinary people" to back her husband in the campaign against Julia Gillard. Mr Rudd consistently outpolls Ms Gillard as preferred Labor leader but has been savagely criticised by Labor ministers who worked closely with him as prime minister for having a chaotic and dysfunctional leadership style.
jewish crackers...As if noting a change of seasons, many Israelis are talking about a possible war come summer, or later this year, with an air of inevitability born of years of festering conflict that has periodically flared up into full-blown hostilities. The prospect of devastating counter-strikes and possible mass casualties seems to be taken in stride, seen as a lesser evil than facing a nuclear-armed Iran.
not on cloud nine...
picture by Gus Leonisky (2011)
deadly concoctions .....In a major victory for public health and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French court decided today that GMO crops monster Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer. The grain grower, Paul Francois, says he developed neurological problems such as memory loss and headaches after being exposed to Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller back in 2004. The monumental case paves the way for legal action against Monsanto’s Roundup and other harmful herbicides and pesticides made by other manufacturers.
political parables .....What is loyalty in politics? Whatever you want it to be, if you're in the Labor Party. Ministers and other MPs working to keep Julia Gillard as Prime Minister have this week launched a sustained attack on Kevin Rudd for what they say is his disloyalty. Minister and former leader Simon Crean is making a habit of castigating Rudd in public. His mini blitz of the media on Monday morning, in which he urged Gillard to sack Rudd, was a remarkable intervention. Here is one member of the cabinet publicly denigrating a fellow cabinet member comprehensively and with purpose - repeatedly. It is the public nature of it that is so breathtaking.
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