I don't think Kath knows what a vipers nest she has gotten herself into.

Abate called her a rat.

Natalie probably says worse.

Laughing behind backs is their modus operendi.

Yes poor old Kat is going to have a hellish year in bed with Nat.

Local branch stacker Stephen Conroy, promoted to cabinet by Kevin Rudd, has already made an ass of himself without even trying.

That's what happens when you have your finger in the filthy Brimbank pie for too long, all the dirty deeds with the local branch stackers end up costing. You think the world works like Brimbank council.

Conroy's "Stalinist" internet filter has already been hacked. THis tells us how useful Conroy will be as a minister. Not very useful at all, and Telstra will run rings around him for sure.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22997280-15306,00.html

A seething Dr Roger Clarke, chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, bluntly described the proposal as "stupid and inappropriate".

He said not only was it unworkable, but it was a sinister blow to an individual's rights to use the internet without censorship.

"Not only will it not work, it is quite dangerous to let the Government censor the net and take control out of the hands of parents," Clarke said.

"It is an inappropriate thing for them to be doing. Mr Conroy is like a schoolmaster playing god with the Australian population, all because of the dominance of a moral minority."

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Stay tuned for more embarrassing Conroy Cons, the guy will make an absolute fool of himself within 12 months. Remember you read it here first.

One thing you can say about Stephen Conroy:

"He's a filthy stacking bastard for the ALP
and a filthy stacking swine is all he'll ever be."

I am surprised the ALP would let him clean their toilets - who knows what they might catch?

Well it hasn't taken long for the rotten culture within the ALP to expose itself with the whale kill monitoring sham.

The ALP has few decent values, principles or integrity these days so expect to see a lot more shams coming from national, state and local governments in the days weeks and months ahead.

The neglect of poorer more disadvantaged communities will continue unchecked while political nests are feathered.





Pledge to monitor whalers 'a sham'

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23008809-2702,00.html

Ean Higgins and Steve Creedy | January 05, 2008

THE Rudd Government's commitment to stop whaling has been condemned as a sham, following the revelation that the company that will conduct aerial surveillance of the Japanese fleet sought approval to do so only yesterday.

As the time required to win clearance from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority is uncertain, the spy operation may not be approved until after the summer whaling season has finished.

"The process has started but it's only just started and there will be a lot of issues that have got to be identified, discussed and addressed," CASA spokesman Peter Gibson said.

The Weekend Australian has also established that the company that runs the A-319 aircraft, Skytraders, does not plan to conduct independent missions to find and track the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.

Rather, Skytraders chief executive Norman Mackay said yesterday, the company's plane would run "diversions" while on once-a-week scheduled flights between Hobart and Casey Station in Antarctica.

This approach would limit the surveillance to a brief fly-over, and only if the position of the Japanese fleet were known and close enough to the Hobart-Antarctica route.

The Government was stung yesterday by reports revealing that despite Foreign Minister Stephen Smith's promise on December 19 that the ship tasked with monitoring the fleet, Oceanic Viking, would sail within "a few days", it was still in Fremantle.

Mr Smith, Environment Minister Peter Garrett and Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus yesterday issued a joint statement trying to hose down the row by saying there was plenty of time to conduct the operation.

"In previous years, the Japanese whale hunt has commenced in December and has continued until late February or early March," the ministers said.

"The Oceanic Viking will be deployed for up to 20 days, asignificant portion of the current whale-hunting season."

Critics said the reality of the operation was far less ambitious and determined than the impression provided by Mr Smith and Mr Garrett last month.

Then, Mr Smith spoke of sea and aerial surveillance "for the purposes of taking photographic and video evidence to use in an international legal case".

Greens senator Rachel Siewert said the latest disclosures proved the Government's promises were hollow rhetoric. "They wanted to come out heavy, to be seen to be doing something, and they have not followed through," she said.

Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt said the Government had broken its election promises and "also sent a message to the Japanese that we're not serious, that we're not a strong Government, and that it was all just domestic posturing".

Greenpeace spokesman Rob Nicoll said Oceanic Viking's presence in the region would probably deter Japan from targeting endangered whale species.

Mr Debus's spokesman, Alex Cramb, did not answer questions about the A-319 and Mr Smith's spokesman, Andrew Dempster, did not say whether the Government knew where the whaling fleet was.

Additional reporting: Paul Maley

It looks like all the criminals in the Victorian Government are cutting their losses and moving to Canberra. Kevin Rudd looks set to employ all the branch stacking swine and unaccountable goonheads in his own government, which is not good news for Australia.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/victorians-cherrypicked-for-plum-jobs

A PHALANX of top bureaucrats and advisers from the Victorian Government is set to head to Canberra for plum jobs in the new Rudd Government.

Victoria appears to be providing the new administration with a disproportionately large share of its senior staff.

Isn't the Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty a sad, sad, joke?

As a political operative within the police force, his hands are tainted by the "keystone cops" Haneef episode among others, he made the AFP a laughing stock in London and around the world. Talk about undermining the criminal justice system, in collusion with bent politicians like disgraced Kevin Andrews.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/keelty-hits-out-at-media-reports

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty has launched a stinging attack on the media for its reporting of counter-terrorism operations, accusing it of misinforming the community and, in some cases, helping to undermine the criminal justice system.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/has-federal-police-boss-reached-his-useby-date

MICK Keelty, the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, protesteth too much. And embarrassingly for him, his protests are becoming more preposterous and hysterical.

The most unpalatable element of his accusation this week that journalists have misinformed the public over counter-terrorism cases and undermined the judicial system is his shameless hypocrisy.

Has federal police boss reached his use-by date?

You betcha. This embarrassment. Way, way overdue.

If you dig deep the whole corruption of suleymans and there family are linked into getting money from so called ghost community group. Can we get any information of government grants and how are they spent.

Continued rorting by these "above the law" shoehorned goons continues at an unconscionable pace.

Does anyone fail to see how the entire public administration in Australia has gone to the dogs? When in doubt - lie about it. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/warship-used-for-sponsors-function

AN AUSTRALIAN Navy frigate was handed over at taxpayers' expense for a gala corporate function on Sydney Harbour soon after defence force chiefs became investors in the company involved.

Arbib and Shorten sons of the right.

One a senator and one a feather duster.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/caught-in-the-middle-20080908-4c89.html


In Sydney, the mere words Sussex Street mean the Labor political machine. On that street, within the walls of one of the city's ugliest buildings, operate both the state ALP headquarters and Unions NSW, which runs the ALP.

A river of money runs through Sussex Street, propping up Labor not only in NSW, but in the federal sphere, too. The NSW branch rarely lets the chance of a dollar go by.

Apart from the millions raised from unions and fundraisers, last month it was reported that $600,000 a year flowed in from the taxpayers, thanks to a cosy deal that requires state ALP members to give 4% of their salaries to the party.

Their pain, according to the State Opposition, is reduced by an even cosier deal that means as many as 56 of the 71 Labor MPs have their salaries topped up through appointments to cushy positions such as parliamentary secretaries and assistant speakers.

During last year's federal election, the national ALP campaign was run from Sussex Street and the party's national secretary, Tim Gartrell, moved to an offi ce there from Canberra.

At his side was the party's most talented fund-raiser, NSW ALP general secretary Mark Arbib, a true son of the Right.

Arbib is now a senator, and Gartrell, clearly recognising the crucial importance of keeping a close federal eye on the doings of Labor in NSW (and, perhaps, that river of money), has maintained an office in Sydney ever since the election.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/i-had-no-power-laments-haneef-inquiry-chief-20090924-g2v3.html

THE chairman of the inquiry into the Haneef affair says he did not have enough power to establish whether the case involved a political conspiracy.

He said the inquiry into the botched investigation ''had no power at all'' and was unable to compel agencies to produce evidence or to demand the appearance of former ministers.

Mr Clarke's 310-page report criticised the lack of co-operation between security and police agencies and found the decision by Mr Andrews to revoke Dr Haneef's visa was ''mystifying''.

Mr Clarke, a former NSW Supreme Court judge, said the Government should ensure any future national security inquiries had sufficient powers and, where possible, be held in public.

There are just far too many footballers these days associated with organised crime.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/pair-linked-to-ports-crime-20090929-gb3n.html

The revelation that businessmen, including a former rugby league player, are the subject of police criminal intelligence and are running large wharf operations at Port Botany comes a month after a Federal Government report found the system to secure the nation's ports is failing.

It also comes after The Age revealed that members of an alleged cocaine importation syndicate arrested last week by the Australian Federal Police had been granted unrestricted airport security passes by the Federal Government.

Mr Panayi, who was charged over a 57-kilogram ecstasy shipment in 2004, runs about 100 trucks a day into Port Botany. Mr Panayi, whose criminal charges in connection to that shipment were dropped due to a lack of evidence, employs former Western Suburbs Magpie player Bruce "Bruiser" Clark as his sales manager.

Election 2010. The promises begin. Rudd vows to expand MySchool website. LibNats vow to no increased/new taxes to fund their climate change policy (how will they keep that deficit down?)

Is it something about interviews on the ABC that brings out the worst in Rudd? I did a late catchup of that most EXCELLENT examination on 7:30 Report on Australia's Population.

Kevin Rudd squirmed, looked uncomfortable, was obviously defensive and trying to guess the pitfalls of the next questions. When uncomfortable he most unattractive thing he does, he patronised.

But the most sriking thing, was his Sam David act. The government is not responsible, it has not power, it has no control over population growth, the figures are mere projections based on the average of 'historical' migrations records over the last 40 years.

Even when the bleeding obvious was pointed out, natural increase in Australia is at 1.9 and would deliver a contracting population he still maintained the government has no control but, by jingo, he would seize control of planning to make room for these people.

Then he used the traditional 'aging' population furphy. Then the economic growth argument. Then he said that if the world decided to increase its population we somehow had a moral responsibility to take the offspring of country's unwilling to control their fecundity even though it entrenches poverty and leads to wars. Seems to me, smart aid would be better.

Just like Sam David in Brimbank, he slimes away from taking any responsibility for the active decision his government has taken to do nothing about the trajectory of population growth.

Ah, I should I have realised.... the possible removal of the baby bonus is far too sensitive coming up to an election. Far better to say Australia prefers fully grown migrants and their extended families who have bee trained on some other country's budget!! Meantime, the socially disadvantaged can be warehoused under the flightpaths of Tullamarine.

Yes, Kerry O'Brien certainly gave us that slippery customer, Rudd in election mode without a proper policy. Surely the party minders have now realised that the PARTY should make a policy decision given the embarrassment of this performance. I still remember that Lateline interview about the budget deficit with the Prima Donna PM on speed. Ugly.

Rudd does a David wrote:
Election 2010. The promises begin. Rudd vows to expand MySchool website. LibNats vow to no increased/new taxes to fund their climate change policy (how will they keep that deficit down?)

Is it something about interviews on the ABC that brings out the worst in Rudd? I did a late catchup of that most EXCELLENT examination on 7:30 Report on Australia's Population.

Kevin Rudd squirmed, looked uncomfortable, was obviously defensive and trying to guess the pitfalls of the next questions. When uncomfortable he most unattractive thing he does, he patronised.

But the most sriking thing, was his Sam David act. The government is not responsible, it has not power, it has no control over population growth, the figures are mere projections based on the average of 'historical' migrations records over the last 40 years.

Even when the bleeding obvious was pointed out, natural increase in Australia is at 1.9 and would deliver a contracting population he still maintained the government has no control but, by jingo, he would seize control of planning to make room for these people.

Then he used the traditional 'aging' population furphy. Then the economic growth argument. Then he said that if the world decided to increase its population we somehow had a moral responsibility to take the offspring of country's unwilling to control their fecundity even though it entrenches poverty and leads to wars. Seems to me, smart aid would be better.

Just like Sam David in Brimbank, he slimes away from taking any responsibility for the active decision his government has taken to do nothing about the trajectory of population growth.

Ah, I should I have realised.... the possible removal of the baby bonus is far too sensitive coming up to an election. Far better to say Australia prefers fully grown migrants and their extended families who have bee trained on some other country's budget!! Meantime, the socially disadvantaged can be warehoused under the flightpaths of Tullamarine.

Yes, Kerry O'Brien certainly gave us that slippery customer, Rudd in election mode without a proper policy. Surely the party minders have now realised that the PARTY should make a policy decision given the embarrassment of this performance. I still remember that Lateline interview about the budget deficit with the Prima Donna PM on speed. Ugly.

Please get help mate!! it is enought!! what Sam David has to do with all this get help mate!
i don't know him but it seems that you need professioal help!! why you don't mention the other crooks in that shire in Australia you have mention telma languiilar who is a real croock. God bless you

It's the slippery style - not me, sir, I didn't do it, I'm not responsible, I'm just a pawn - that reminded me of our many times erstwhile Mayor. That's why he became teflon coated, you could never pin him down, he'd just smile and agree with you and then be part of/lead a vote that delivered your worst nightmare. I take it you haven't had any dealings with the man or you'd see the analogy instantly.

Nah, I think I'll avoid the professional help for now, couldn't risk becoming disenfranchised if I were to be committed!

Can't wait for the banality of the next federal election which will come before the VicState election if all the double dissolution triggers are neatly lined up as promised in the next few weeks. Allowing the government to call the election at its chosen time.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/tony-abbott-keeps-pulling-back-labors-lead-newspoll/story-e6frgczf-1225825707527

TONY Abbott's opposition to the Rudd government's emissions trading scheme appears to have lifted the Coalition to its best position since the 2007 election loss, and Kevin Rudd's personal support is at its lowest since he became Prime Minister.

The electoral turnaround has occurred since the collapse of the Copenhagen climate change conference, and Mr Rudd yesterday warned his parliamentary colleagues that Labor "could lose the next election".

Mr Rudd's personal standing has continued to fall, with his satisfaction rating dropping two points to 50 per cent last weekend - a decline of nine percentage points since the start of November; dissatisfaction jumped four points to 38 per cent, his highest level as Prime Minister.

Does everyone recall how the LibNat deniers spent all of last year condemning the climate change action as a 'religion'? Well, it appears the ever pragmatic Abbott has decided to recruit his own environmental action lobby. Direct action is a key feature of the LibNat Climate policy released this afternoon.

Repeatedly, Abbott, Hunt and Truss urged people to contact their special numbers to join in their direct action environmental camapaign. Similar in concept to the Greening Australia movement. Urban forests to sequester carbon a huge feature of this plan. Now, planting trees in appropriate places is laudable but surely this is little more than the establishment of a people power network which will be called in to distribute LibNat election material and handout at the booths.

Labor had a golden opportunity to do the same with all its handouts and failed miserably. It could have sent its branch stackers out to recruit these people as they attended ceremonies to mark the allocation of grants and the start and completion of projects.

If nothing else, this is Abbott's political masterstroke - neutralise the climate debate with a seductive plan and recruit supporters.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/union-gifts-complicate-funding-cap/story-e6frg6nf-1225827628324

Union gifts complicate funding cap
Nicola Berkovic From: The Australian February 08, 2010 12:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these?
MAJOR reform of political financing is expected to be discussed by federal cabinet this week, including caps on individual donations and limits on campaign expenditure in exchange for greater taxpayer funding of political campaigns.

However, it is understood cabinet ministers with close links to the union movement have been urged to resist changes that would curb affiliation fees and donations by unions to the Labor Party.

There is speculation that donations from individuals or third parties could be lowered to as little as $1000.

Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig promised last year to bring forward the government's response to a green paper on electoral reform, but despite strong support from the Coalition and the Greens for a major overhaul of the system, the process stalled following resistance from the union movement.

It is understood moves to limit expenditure by political parties on election campaigns have been complicated by the fact the Liberals and Nationals want to be treated as separate parties.

http://www.theage.com.au/national/abbott-leads-poll-revival-20100207-nksn.html

TONY Abbott's ascension to leadership has boosted the Coalition vote, and backing for the government's emissions trading scheme has taken a knock, in an Age/Nielsen poll showing people are confused on the climate change alternatives.

The first Nielsen poll since Mr Abbott became opposition leader in December has him off to a good start, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd losing ground on both personal approval and as preferred prime minister since November, when Malcolm Turnbull was his opponent.

The Coalition is 4 points up since November, to a primary vote of 41 per cent, 1 point behind Labor's 42 per cent (steady).

I wish the Labor party weren't using up the gift of Barnaby Joyce, Shadow finance minister, all at once! While Labor federally have been a disappointment, another term of Liberal populist leadership is a terrifying prospect.