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“Some people even stripped some of the body parts, that was callous,” the newspaper quoted Ogun State police chief Tunji Alapinni as saying.What the hell were they going to do with the body parts?
Look, it took the army two decades to rid themselves of the embarrassment that was Adrian D’Hage. I wonder why a decorated Vietnam veteran only made Brigadier? Refer to him as a publicity hungry would be political commentator but not an ex army officer. He peaked at Lieutenant.
Gary Morgan says: “Despite the mass of publicity, debate, and advertising by the Federal Government and the Unions, the opinions of Australians have barely changed since the last Morgan Poll on the Industrial Relations reforms in July of this year. In fact, a slightly higher proportion of Australians now disagree with the Industrial Relations reforms (49%) than disagreed in July (47%). The percentage of Australians who agree with the reforms (17%) remains unchanged since the previous survey.â€?The voters don’t know enough about the reforms yet to have any firm opinion. Ads like the current government releases take time to be absorbed. Lets face it – they’re pretty boring. Surfing over at Ranting and Rambling, Hamish quotes a piece from Crikey that I can’t find so I’ve quoted it in part here. Truth in advertising would go a long way to giving Howard a postive poll for Christmas.
Much has been said about the fact that the Government is spending around $100 million advertising its planned changes to the Workplace Relations Act. But not much has been said about the pathetic advertisements that have so far been produced. The Government would be better off sacking their grossly overpaid advertising agency and media buyers and running ads like this: Advertisement One: Cameras focuses on an employee rifling through the handbag of a fellow employee and removing money from her purse. Midway through the act the thieving employee is caught by a manager and summonsed to the manager’s office. The manager tells the employee he can no longer trust him and that he will need to find another job, and offers the employee a generous one month payout. The employee swears at his manager and says he’s going to call the union. The next scene is a hearing at the Industrial Relations Commission in which the Commissioner announces that the dismissal was harsh, unjust or unreasonable and that the manager must re-employ the thief in his previous position as he was not given a proper warning before being dismissed. The Commissioner also announces that the thief is to receive pay in lieu for the time he was away from work. The advertisement then concludes with white writing on a black screen which reads:“The New Workplace Laws – Allowing thieves to be sacked.”The people know this type of thing goes on and will eventually accept the need for new IR regulations. Just wait and see.
(Jim) Coetzee said the South African police “could do what they wanted because there was no real recourse against them because special provisions of the legislation indemnified them in advance”.So? Interesting statement on South African laws as they applied at the time but they have no relevance in any debate about our proposed anti-terror laws. Still, Matt Price gets paid for the piece, Coetzee sells more books and some people will add the piece to their store of irrelevant information to be used to base their irrelevant opinions.
The Melbourne Traffic Nazis have booked a guy for parking in a clearway even though he had the perfect excuse – he was dead at the time! The Traffic Nazi, From Sonnington Council, reportedly approached the car, looked inside and then went around the other side of the vehicle, peered inside again and then started writing out the ticket. Didn’t it occur to the ticket writer that something was amiss. I mean how many times do these people book cars with comatose bodies inside? How about a rap on the window and “Excuse me, are you OK? No. I’m paid to write tickets! I’ve seen some dead bodies in my time and they never look like their just having a nap. There is something different in the way they repose that generally poses the thought – there is something wrong here.Well. they are at it again….at Melbourne again. This time a guy gets a ticket for overstaying his parking limit at a local shopping center. He was dead and had been for nine days. The Traffic Nazi claims the man wasn’t visible through the cars tinted windows when the parking fine was slapped on the windscreen but the guy that sounded the alarm had no such difficulties.
Although the vehicle had tinted windows, the man clearly saw the body and went to knock on the window. Approaching the car, he detected an odour and realised the driver’s decaying body had been in the car for some time.There’s something rotten in the state of Victoria.
Hi Kev, Just wondering if you had heard anything of a rumour that “Hanoi” Jane Fonda has been invited to host a luncheon at the Brisbane Convention Centre on November 11th? Rumour started on a military forum I belong to, but I can’t find anything online about it.Well I did and she is coming to Brisvegas and is hosting a lunch for the Courier Mail Book Club Armed with this info I penned an email to the Courier Mail team and wait for their reply
Tammy Concannon The Courier-Mail BAM Bookclub Dear Tammy, I note Jane Fonda is booked to appear at the Convention Centre via the auspices of the CM Book Club on 11 November, 2005 – the day when the sacrifice of Veterans is commemorated. As I’m sure you are aware, Jane is a very contentious lady amongst the Veteran community and I have already received emails and tele calls re the timing of her appearance. The editor of the CM printed a letter from Bernie McGurgan in today’s CM on the subject and I will be posting on the subject in due course in my blog, http://www.kevgillett.net. I would like to think that the timing is due to factors other than it being aimed at the Veteran community although I recall last year on 11 November the CM carried an anti-defence piece by Luke McIlveen. I posted an article on that occasion and would like to think that the Courier Mail doesn’t have a bias against veterans and that the timing of this event is not part of a programme to denigrate Veterans. The article I wrote last years is here Few Veterans would argue that Jane Fonda has the right to be heard. I have no problem with that but I do have a problem with the timing. Could you please reassure me and my readers that the timing is coincidental and neither scheduled to maximize controversy nor aimed at denigrating Veterans. Yours truly, Kevin J Gillett,Should you want to email the Editors of the Courier Mail, the list is here. Tammy Concannon’s email address is theconcs@optusnet.com.au. Be polite now…you hear!
EATING in the University of Queensland refectory, surrounded by communist posters and anti-IR reform propaganda and having just finished listening to a lecturer’s anti-Howard/Bush diatribe over global warming, I nearly choked when I read Professor Jan Pakulski’s call for universities to resist ideological takeovers from either side of politics (Letters, 20/10). The closest analogy I can think of is the Vichy government calling for the French to resist foreign occupation in 1944. Left-wing bias is not a conspiracy theory, it is an unchallengeable reality for anyone who has ever set foot on our campuses, or ever attended a lecture given by the sociology/political science faculty, as I have. Does Prof Pakulski care to detail how many Liberal Party voters work in the Arts department at the University of Tasmania? In the US, among registered university faculty members, 90 per cent vote Democrat and 10 per cent Republican, and they offer the same wild warnings of resurgent fascism if conservatives dare to tackle the progressives’ stranglehold on the higher education system. Joshua Avenell (BSc student) University of QueenslandWelcome to the world, Josh.
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