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27/12/03 Bartlett attack kicks off Dems-Greens war EMBATTLED Australian Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett has fired the opening salvo in a do-or-die election duel with the Greens, accusing Bob Brown of leading a "Marxist-tinged" party that reserved the right to block supply in the Senate.

24/12/03 Christmas under fire, mufti warns Australia's radical Muslims are trying to sabotage Christmas, according to the nation's most senior Islamic leader, Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali.The accusation from the Islamic mufti is based on a Wahabist edict from Saudi Arabia, which he said had been circulating among Australia's fundamentalist Muslims.

23/12/03 Condi and the 9/11 Commission National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is apparently not keen on going under oath for the Kean 9/11 commission. Poised to convene its first hard-hitting hearings in January, the federal commission investigating the 9/11 attacks continues to be at odds with the White House over access to key information and witnesses. Two government sources tell TIME that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is arguing over ground rules for her appearance in part because she does not want to testify under oath or, according to one source, in public.

23/12/03 Kurds claim Saddam capture SADDAM Hussein was found by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British newspaper reported yesterday.

23/12/03 Latham's battler image not a class act Mark Latham has brought many new things to the national stage since his ascension to the Labor leadership, not least of which has been his attempt to develop a cult personality as a weapon against John Howard.

22/12/03 Christmas CD banned for mentioning Jesus In a move that many might consider ironic at the least, a charity Christmas CD has been banned from distribution because it mentions the baby Jesus.

22/12/03 Zimbabwean blacks kill white Australian by pouring acid down his throat Australia has urged Zimbabwe to ensure a prompt and thorough investigation into the death of a Perth man, killed by armed robbers in the African country.

22/12/03 New rural party upsets old mates A CONDAMINE grain farmer and former National Party western zone vice-president's attempt to set up his own political party has been challenged by his former political mates.

21/12/03 Aborigines from Stone Age, says MP FORMER One Nation director David Oldfield is under fire for saying Aborigines were from the Stone Age.Speaking in the New South Wales Legislative Council on December 4, the MP said Aborigines were ignorant, and questioned what of their culture was worth preserving.

21/12/03 Charedi Rabbis Rush To Disavow Anti-Gentile Book Leaders of the country's most prominent ultra-Orthodox yeshiva are scrambling to distance themselves from a book by one of their disciples, which argues that gentiles are "completely evil" and Jews constitute a separate, genetically superior species.

21/12/03 Millions in debt as black dole fails A string of Aboriginal work-for-the dole programs set up under the federal Government's $450million indigenous employment program, have collapsed amid allegations of financial misappropriation and mismanagement.

21/12/03 ALP seats to Aborigines THE ALP is under intense pressure to earmark safe federal seats for Aboriginal candidates.Federal Labor has come under pressure from the Victorian ALP to set aside winnable seats under an affirmative action agenda.

21/12/03 Migration link drawn in housing debate The NSW government called for a reduction in Australia's migration levels in an effort to improve housing affordability in Sydney.The move follows Prime Minster John Howard's urging of the state government to release more land on Sydney's outskirts, in response to a draft Productivity Commission report on first-home ownership.

21/12/03 Rivkin dines out in style Rene Rivkin's mysterious medical condition that has kept him from serving weekend detention isn't dulling his appetite for good food and wine.Last night Rivkin was dining with his wife, Gayle, and daughter, Tara, at Cafe Sel et Poivre in Darlinghurst, a French restaurant serving up such artery-clogging specialities as duck confit and pate.

17/12/03 Bush may yet wish Saddam had been killed At trial, the tyrant could reveal embarrassing secrets about his past warm dealings with the US, writes Amin Saikal.

17/12/03 Israel and the rise of anti-Semitism People can be against Israeli policy without being anti-Semitic just as they can be against Iranian or French policy without being xenophobic. This is recognized by the ADL when it says, "the ADL does not consider mere criticism of Israel to be anti-Semitic or illegitimate."

11/12/03 Under Kirby's law, we are all subject to the whim of judicial adventurism It can't be long until a party appearing before the High Court of Australia asks one or more judges to disqualify themselves from the hearing on the grounds of perceived bias and prior statements of position on a relevant issue. The No.1 target for such an application is likely to be Justice Michael Kirby.

11/12/03 Art of propaganda WHEN I read the review of The Bridge, a play that opened at Trades Hall last week, I knew that only taxpayers' dollars could explain a show like this.Call me psychic, but here's the paragraph that told me this was not a work of performers who needed to sell tickets to get fed:

11/12/03 An official French commission is set to recommend whether Islamic scarves should be formally banned from schools. Former government minister Bernard Stasi has spent three months preparing Thursday's report on the issue.French President Jacques Chirac will then have to decide whether to follow the commission's recommendation. The issue has proved highly divisive, after a number of high-profile cases where children have been sent home from school for wearing scarves.

11/12/03 Second German state to ban scarf The government in Germany's biggest state, Bavaria, has prepared a draft law to ban Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves in schools. A Bavarian cabinet minister said the aim was to protect school pupils against fundamentalist influences.

11/12/03 Rage-filled leader a harbinger of lower standards It surely must be the strangest television interview ever conducted with the leader of a mainstream Australian political party. I refer, of course, to Kerry O'Brien on the ABC's The 7.30 Report last week asking newly elected federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham about his "obsession with bottoms".

10/12/03 Bartlett to do what's best for the party. Bye then ANDREW Bartlett is expected to stand down as Australian Democrat leader after a telephone conference of party MPs today.His replacement will come from the six other Democrats in the Senate, all but two of whom already have had a stint as leader.
Face value ... Senator Andrew Bartlett campaigning for a battery hens ban.

10/12/03 Gangsters muscle in on Coast Surfers Paradise is steeling itself for a violent Christmas due to an expected influx of Lebanese gang members from Sydney.One nightclub proprietor yesterday described gang members as "terrorists", while police confirmed they were investigating reports of Sydney crime syndicates trying to muscle in on the Gold Coast's lucrative entertainment industry.

10/12/03 Teacher assaulted daily A TEACHER told yesterday how she was kicked and punched as she lay helpless on the floor of a locked room at the Niland Special School in Sydney's west.The 40-year-old mother of four, now under medical treatment including anti-depressants, said she was assaulted by students at the Blackett school "numerous times on a daily basis".

10/12/03 School principals silent on Christmas PRIMARY school principals are being told not to comment on how their schools celebrate Christmas after reports about government schools that avoid traditional festivities.

10/12/03 High Court backs gay refugee claim Two gay men from Bangladesh have won the right to have their refugee claim determined on the grounds that they cannot live openly as homosexuals in their home country, after a ground-breaking High Court decision.

10/12/03 Pentagon says 911 Interceptors flew:Too Far, too slow, too late These were well-practiced routines. With more than 4,500 aircraft continuously sharing U.S. airspace, between September 2000 and June 2001 the Pentagon launched fighters on 67 occasions to escort wayward aircraft. [FAA news release Aug/9/02; AP Aug13/02]

But on Sept 11, 2001, NORAD and the FAA ignored routine procedures and strict regulations. In response to a national emergency involving hijacked airliners as dangerous as cruise missiles, interceptors launched late from distant bases flew to defend their nation at a fraction of their top speeds. [NORAD news release Sept. 18/01]

10/12/03 Another burst of gunfire A GUNMAN fired up to three shots from a high-powered weapon yesterday in the latest instalment of the gun violence which is plaguing Sydney.The shooting in Rhodes Ave, Guildford came as Premier Bob Carr insisted that police were winning the battle against gun crime.

9/12/03 Gay MPs to take partners on trips A CHANGE in the rules covering Territory politicians taking taxpayer-funded travel will allow gay MPs to go overseas with their partners.Under previous rules, only relationships between men and women were recognised.

9/12/03 The Intelligence Of Nations Nations whose people have high IQ levels also have high educational attainment and large numbers of individuals who make significant contributions to national life. On the flipside, nations with low levels of intelligence have low levels of educational attainment and few individuals who make significant contributions. Low intelligence leads to unfavorable social outcomes like crime, unemployment, welfare dependency, and single motherhood.

9/12/03 Media bias on racist attacks Though most people in Britain would not be aware that this case was even happening.That's because the BBC, and the other anti-white Liberal Fascists that run the media in this country have decided to impose a ban on reporting the case. It seems that when a murder involves whites it isn't even news anymore.

9/12/03 Nine dead so far as feud flares, putting bystanders in line of fire He said the Hurstville shooting, in which two unidentified gunmen fired on three men leaving the tavern, was linked to the murders in Bankstown of Ali Abdulrazak, 34, his nephew Ziad Razzak, 24, and friends Melissa Nemra, 22, and Ahmed Fahda, 25. All were killed since September 29.

8/12/03 Don't mention the C word IN Melbourne's City Square is a big "Christmas" tree, if I may still use that word without being sued under the Bracks Government's religious vilification laws.

8/12/03 Race attacks hidden by media Over the last few months a series of racist attacks have hit the back pages of a local papers in Solihull, West Midlands.White school girls at the local college in Solihull were told that due to attacks upon them, including several sexual assaults in the school corridors by male Asian gangs, including one with Asian gang with the self given title ' Lethal Paki Crew ( as in Pakistani ) ' , that they are not allowed to walk in the college grounds on their own for their own safety.

8/12/03 Robinson called to explain $2m loss FOUR taxpayer-funded Aboriginal corporations formerly chaired by ATSIC Commissioner Ray Robinson have been asked to explain almost $2 million in allegedly unauthorised expenditure, much of which has apparently gone to pay his personal accounts in the last two years.

8/12/03 Pakistanis, Afro-Caribbeans clashes rising in UK LONDON : Three decades ago, racial clashes in Britain meant Afro-Caribbeans fighting white skinhead thugs. Now, street battles are frequently reported between British Pakistanis and the Afro-Caribbeans.

8/12/03 Judge: 'Gay'-diversity week violated rights of Christian A federal judge in Detroit has upheld the constitutional right of a Christian student to express her religious beliefs in opposition to homosexuality during her high school's 2002 "Diversity Week" program.

8/12/03 Free speech proves costly Columnist Andrew Bolt complained about judges and magistrates being soft on criminals. A distressed magistrate sued. A jury found that, whatever his faults, Bolt had been "reasonable". Bolt claimed a victory for free speech.

8/12/03 Aussie politician in 'drunken fracas' The leader of Australia's minority Democrats party is considering his future after an alleged drunken scuffle with a woman senator.

8/12/03 Globalisation: a sceptic's view Until very recently the terms "civilisation" and "culture" played a very modest role in the discussion of international politics. They were sometimes resorted to rhetorically, of course, and culture has been a standard minor tool in the foreign policy kits of states - using the British Council or the Bolshoi Ballet to burnish one's image, that sort of thing.

8/12/03 Horowitz Exposes Leftists' Racism Matthews whines that whites fill most of the best seats at an NBA game, even though most of the players are black. Horowitz points out the absence of whites in other venues. But if he had looked at the far more expensive front row seats for a Mike Tyson fight in a Las Vegas resort, he would have seen Jesse Jackson, Don King, the late Tupac Shakur, the record mogul Suge Knight, and other Armani-suited fans of a darker hue.·

8/12/03 Time to ditch lessons in hate LOOKING through the mail of Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone makes me wonder what hatred some teachers preach in class.The Australian Education Union this year campaigned against the Howard Government's wickedness, boasting of "the critical role that public education plays in achieving a harmonious, tolerant and peaceful society".

5/12/03 Ettridge names Beattie in One Nation scandal One Nation co-founder David Ettridge says Queensland premier Peter Beattie may have politically pressured a Supreme Court judge into deregistering the party.

4/12/03 9/11 MEDIA ALERT: Press Ignores 9/11 Widow's Bush Treason Suit Grieving New Hampshire widow who lost her man on 9/11 refuses the government's million dollar hush money payoff, studies the facts of the day for nearly two years, and comes to believe the White House "intentionally allowed 9/11 to happen" to launch a so-called "War on Terrorism" for personal and political gain. Imagine the world-churning implications of these charges. Imagine the furor if just one was proved true. Imagine the courage of this bribe-shunning widow and an eminent attorney with his rep on the line. Then imagine a press conference to which nobody came.

4/12/03 Immigration continues to divide As the nation's population reaches 20 million, the issue of immigration is more relevant than ever, writes Mark Coultan.

4/12/03 Teen smashed teacher's jaw in Brisbane playground A teenager kicked a teacher in the face with steel capped boots, breaking his jaw, when the teacher tried to break up a fight in a school playground, a Brisbane court was told today.

4/12/03 A vote for hatred THERE'S a reason why Labor's best politicians tried - in vain - to stop Mark Latham from becoming their leader yesterday, and I got a nasty sniff of it myself in a Canberra pub.

4/12/03 British prison officer fired for bin Laden snipe: A British prison officer with more than 20 years service was sacked for making an insulting remark while on duty about terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, a London newspaper said today.

4/12/03 More mediocrity than madness We ask three people who have closely followed Mark Latham's career whether he can make the transition from political bomb thrower to fulfilling his destiny to become Labor's next Prime Minister. PIERS AKERMAN writes.

3/12/03 Schools warned on festive ban THE Federal Government has warned three WA schools that have curtailed Christmas celebrations that they risked causing resentment against minority groups.

2/12/03 Primary schools do away with manger FORGET the baby in a manger - many WA schools have become so politically correct that Christmas is nothing more than another date on the calendar.

2/12/03 Canada prepares to enforce Islamic law Canadian judges soon will be enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, in disputes between Muslims, possibly paving the way to one day administering criminal sentences, such as stoning women caught in adultery.

2/12/03 After call centres ... India targets financial sector jobs INDIA has warned that it is intent on winning thousands more Scottish financial sector jobs in its bid to become “the back office to the world”.

2/12/03 Immigrants add to rise of HIV THERE has been a huge increase in cases of HIV infection among people coming to Scotland from Africa, according to figures published by the National Health Service.

30/11/03 Labor bus on wrong route THE problem wasn't really Simon Crean. The problem was - and is - Labor itself.Who cares whether Huffy, Puffy or Stuffy wins the leadership on Tuesday? If angry Mark Latham, windy Kim Beazley and prissy Kevin Rudd offer only a change of style, not substance, then all Labor can hope for after Crean's dumping is that its corpse gets a change of clothes.But while it might end up looking prettier, it will still be dead, minus a brain and much of its heart.

29/11/03 Brothers raped girls "just for fun" The second time, on July 28 last year, she and her best friend were raped at knifepoint in the brothers' Ashfield home.The girls were 16 and 17. They had befriended the four – sons of a western suburbs doctor – a fortnight earlier.The court heard the brothers raped them "just for fun".

29/11/03 A Nation of Tribes IT'S bad enough taxpayers must pay ethnic groups not to be as Australian as their neighbours. Even sillier is that the Victorian Multicultural Commission now subsidises religions, too – and the most political and exclusionary above all. But Christians? Not even enough to pay for a wafer.

27/11/03 McDonald's sued over gay abuse A GAY man who is taking legal action against McDonald's over comments made about him by a female staff member claims he was offered a meal voucher as an apology...

27/11/03 Gay senator in travel row THE partner of gay Democrats senator Brian Greig is refusing to fly to Canberra because the Federal Government will not allow him to travel business class.Keith McKenzie, who works two days a week in Senator Greig's Perth electorate office, is outraged at being forced to sit at the back of the plane while his partner of 18 years rides up front.

27/11/03 Final Judgment: the Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy Since November 22, 1963 many have spent vast amounts of time researching the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, putting forth a wide variety of theories.Most of the research has been devoted to what one more perceptive critic described as "a consuming preoccupation [with] the microanalytic searching for facts of how the assassination was accomplished," while at the same time, he points out "there has been almost no systematic thinking on why President Kennedy was killed."

25/11/03 Students' Ramadan-fast assignment protested Hundreds of Christians who fled Egypt to the United States claiming persecution under Islam showed up outside a Southern California middle school yesterday to protest an extra-credit assignment urging students to participate in the Muslim Ramadan fast.

25/11/03 $40m legal bill to fight asylum seekers BIG city law firms have reaped more than $40 million from taxpayers by cashing in on the asylum seeker row.

25/11/03 Greens really are on the nose I WOULD like to think the Greens flopped in last week's poll because voters were finally told about their mad policies. I mean, how about a "non-violent" civil defence force?How about helping people to take more drugs for "personal fulfilment"? Or paying loafers who refuse to work?

24/11/03 Red faces as NZ leader gets frisked New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark was frisked at Sydney Airport for explosives in an incident that has embarrassed the Australian Government.

24/11/03 SMASH AND GRAB At the same time as Pauline Hanson was being pursued for electoral fraud, another One Nation MP was feeling the long arm of the law. But the police raid on Senator Len Harris' electoral office has sparked another Queensland political-judicial brouhaha. Tony Wright writes.

23/11/03 Long fight in equal rights war If a bill tabled in the ACT Assembly last week is passed in the new year, same-sex couples such as Chris and "Andrew" will be able to adopt children.They also will be recognised on the same level as other spouses in the event of a partner being injured or killed.

23/11/03 Support puts Hanson in line for the Senate Pauline Hanson's plans for a political comeback have been boosted by a poll today showing One Nation's vote in Queensland has quadrupled since her release from jail.Currently relaxing on Magnetic Island off the Queensland coast, Mrs Hanson is comfortably placed to become a senator at next year's federal election.

23/11/03 Chemical plot foiled, claims newspaper report A terror attack in Britain was foiled after a company financed by "the Islamic community" tried to buy a large quantity of toxic chemicals, arousing the supplier's suspicions, the Financial Times newspaper reported yesterday.

23/11/03 Tommy Franks: Martial Law Will Replace Constitution After Next Terror Attack Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

18/11/03 Abbott sorry Hanson was jailed Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott said he was sorry that Pauline Hanson went to jail, but stood by his efforts to expose the "shenanigans" within One Nation. (Sure Tony, Sure!!!!!!)

17/11/03 BORN AGAIN Released from prison, her conviction quashed, Pauline Hanson is back, claiming to be wiser. Could she resurrect her political career as champion of the alienated and dispossessed - including those she once despised? National Affairs Editor Tony Wright reports.

17/11/03 Covering up truth in a city of gangs One day in Auburn in 2001, two uniformed police officers stopped a car with three occupants of Middle-Eastern background. The police had been told the men, well-known offenders, had been involved in a series of robberies.

16/11/03 Hanson case reveals glaring flaws in political laws The Court of Appeal decision to quash the convictions of One Nation co-founders Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge has thrown the spotlight on laws governing political parties in Australia. ABC political analyst Antony Green says it is time legislators went back and looked at the loose rules currently defining the membership of political parties.

16/11/03 What makes a political party? Pauline Hanson's acquittal has thrown a spanner into the works of attempts to regulate political parties in Australia.

16/11/03 Airports sell for $211m BANKSTOWN, Camden and Hoxton Park airports, known as the Sydney Basin Airports, would be sold for $211 million to the BaCH Airports Consortium, Finance Minister Nick Minchin said today. MORESenator Minchin said the sale had followed a competitive sale process and the government had received high-quality bids.

16/11/03 Judges bicker over asylum-seekers High Court Justice Ian Callinan has questioned why the Federal Government should not be able to lock up failed asylum seekers to stop them taking the jobs of Australians.

16/11/03 Quality, not quota THREE women hired under affirmative action did more than most to jail Pauline Hanson for a crime she didn't commit.

9/11/03 Poll shows support for Hanson ONE Nation founder Pauline Hanson could win a seat in the Senate at the next election if she chose to run, a Brisbane newspaper poll has found.The survey, by NFO Australia and organised by the Sunday Mail, found Ms Hanson would get more than twice the support she needed to win a Senate seat.

8/11/03 SBS: tyrant's voice NIGEL Milan, head of "our" SBS, doesn't get why people have a problem with him pumping out the communist propaganda of a police state.Worse, he refuses to believe Vietnamese Australians really, really don't like him showing them the latest braggings of the dictators who turned their country into a jail.

8/11/03 Jessica: I was raped..POW claims military manipulated her story Advance press of former POW Jessica Lynch's biography includes the shocking revelation the 19-year-old Army supply clerk was raped and sodomized by her Iraqi captors.

8/11/03 Council denies support for Taliban The Islamic Council of Victoria funded Afghan fundamentalists in the 1990s, the tribunal hearing Victoria's first religious hate case was told yesterday.Council president Yasser Soliman said the council gave no support to the mujahideen after September 11 (2001) and never had contact with the Taliban.

8/11/03 'Slander' crushes political ambition FREED former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson looks set to dash the hopes of her supporters by rejecting pleas that she stand again for Federal Parliament.

8/11/03 MP happy with Hanson release Western Australian One Nation MP John Fischer says the the acquittal of party founders David Ettridge and Pauline Hanson is a reflection of public sentiment surrounding the original sentencing.

7/11/03 Greens want sex changes on Medicare THE Australian Greens have demanded taxpayers fund sex change operations under Medicare.In the latest round of stirring by the country's most popular( Like Hell!!!) fringe political party, activist Senator Kerry Nettle is pushing for sex change surgery to be included in the Federal Government's $917 million Medicare package.

7/11/03 Hanson urged to rejoin the fray AS Pauline Hanson refused to speculate on a future in politics following her release from jail yesterday, two former political confidantes said she was now more electable than ever

7/11/03 How to seek asylum TAPES of official interviews with asylum seekers in Australia were being hawked around markets in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said.

4/11/03 Whites are the first race to ever "voluntarily" self-destruct. In the past ten days, the biggest racial headline has been the comments made by the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. To summarize his words he vaguely stated:

Jews Control the World by Proxy
They get others to fight and die for them
They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy
so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong.

So far, no one has even attempted to disprove his statements. Nor, has the media been successful at slandering him. Mahathir isn't an Arab or a white man and this really threw the Jews for a loop. Whites that go against Jews are immediately smeared with the old "Nazi" or "white supremacist" labels. When this happens, the weak masses turn their backs and no longer listen. Similarly, Arabs that don't succumb to Jewish power are called, "terrorists." This conjures up images of a crazy towelhead that wants to fly a plane into the World Trade Center. How does one find a category for some Mongolian looking guy though?

4/11/03 Immigration enthusiasts.`Say" Japan Needs Immigrants". The Japanese Politely Disagree Japan’s post-World War II forty-year economic growth surge without immigration has always been an embarrassment to the immigration enthusiasts. In 1990, the then-Designated Enthusiast Economist Julian Simon was reduced to admitting: "How Japan gets along I don't know. But we may have to recognize that some countries are sui generis."
( I love the Nationalist thinking of the Japanese! They do what`s best for THIER country, Not someone else`s...)