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Some 10,500 E3 visas will be issued annually to Australians with tertiary qualifications who have job offers from American employers, including universities, government departments and businesses. There is no age limit.The bill found no opposition in the Senate.
There was no debate on the provision, which was passed unanimously by the Senate, but it is believed that there was widespread support for the new visas, given Australia’s close relationship with the US.Another flow-on from the Free Trade Agreement and rightly supporting the US in it’s fight against terrorism. It’s funny, but I notice the Left have stopped carping about how the agreement was going to be the ruin of Australia’s industry.
Trade Minister Mark Vaile hailed the new visa as “a significant breakthrough” that would allow Australian business to capitalise on the opportunities created by the free-trade agreement with the US.Bloody Howard, just keeps on winning. Wonder if the Kiwis got any extra visas?
LONDON: Archaeologists said Tuesday they believed they had dug up Britain’s oldest shoe, dating from the early Iron Age about 2,000 years ago.The article says the shoes might be for a man, but if not, I bet the poor husband had to walk all the way to Italy to get them for his wife.
Labor has blundered strategically and tactically and many of its members know it. The decision of Kim Beazley’s leadership team to oppose all the tax cuts and the abolition of the superannuation surcharge has suddenly made Labor the issue.It’s raining in Brisbane but there is always some sunshine creeping through.
The prosecution did have a hard time convicting Abu Baka Ba’asyir that the 30 month sentence was in actuality given simply to placate both Australia and the United States.Elsewhere in Indonesia a Councillor forges his high school diploma and gets three years Better not be true. Still, knowing Indonesia it most probably is true.
Good News from Iraq is not published on the highly respected Wall Street Journal website — it’s a blog published by a sister site.Chrenkoff has mentioned the Media Watch attack as has Tim Blair. Go there and be sure to read the comments. They are illuminating. If Media Watch feel obliged to attack bloggers, then our pressure on the MSM is being felt. It is, in effect, a compliment to Arthur for all the hard yards he does in trying to balance the MSM bias and will give him a hits boost. Liz’s bias is plain to see for all those that care and her prattling on about minor details only tends to reinforce this bias. To prove she isn’t biased, Liz finds a suitable quote about the Iraq War.
Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest… I leave when I have a very good reason to and a scheduled interview. I avoid going to people’s homes and never walk in the streets … I … can’t strike up a conversation with strangers, can’t look for stories, can’t drive in anything but a full armoured car, can’t go to the scenes of breaking stories, … can’t take a road trip, can’t say I’m American, can’t linger at check points, can’t be curious about what people are saying, doing, feeling. — Farnaz Fassihi, 29 Sept 2004Ah, that’s better, it’s negative. Good show, Arthur. Keep up your ‘Good News’ series and publish it where you will. People will seek you out for what you say that the MSM doesn’t and will not give a fig about you’re being paid or not. Nor will they care if they have to click once to follow the link. Update: This is getting serious and for the record I think the word Chrenkhoffgate needs to be mentioned. At Tim Blairs place he has follow up pieces at Media Watch II and Media Watch III
BBC editor Nick Fraser called the claim a “pack of lies” and has refused to air the documentary, which attracted a record audience of more than 4 million when it screened on French TV.Must be flakey if the BBC won’t run it. I bet the Australian SBS network will grab it though. Just wait a bit and we’ll be able to view it in Australia on ‘The Cutting Edge’.
… if 50 years down the track some creative author will write a book of speculative fiction about a wise, peace-loving president who is elected to lead the US instead of George W. Bush in 2000.Who knows, Jim, maybe someone will and if they do the story-line is already available Let’s say John Kerry was elected as President. Surely he would fit your ‘wise, peace loving’ definition, wouldn’t he? I mean he was peace-loving enough to roll over to the communists during the Vietnam War so I guess he’d definitely fit the bill. Well, on hearing Kerry had been elected, El Quaeda and the Taliban would have celebrated a victory and started planning more battles in the fight against the Infidels. The WTC and Bali obscenities would have been repeated in other cities as the US military withdrew under Kerry’s orders to defend Stateside only. (a left wing mantra). The UN, now emboldened, would continue their Iraq embargo with Koffi Annan, his son and a host of minions taking bribes while Saddam would have maintained his WMD programme with money that was supposed to be for health and education. He would have used some of that money to slaughter more of those annoying Kurds and anyone else who even mouthed the word Democracy. In Afghanistan the Taliban, now aware that no-one cared about small people, woman and kids, would be applying Sharia law where woman would be, and had been previously, stoned to death for adultry; where girls are forbidden an education and all education resolves around the time-honoured formula that guarantees society stays in the 12th century. Sounds better all the time, Jim. Recruiting for the El Quaeda would’ve skyrocketed with psycopaths from all over the Middle East queing up to punch Uncle Sam and her allies in the nose. The front would have opened up to include all US bases in the Middle East as the terrorists forced the US back to the mainland. There would be no dream of democracy in Iraq; Syria would not have withdrawn from Lebanon; the Mullahs in Iran would not be worried about the creep of democracy and their people would not be demanding it. The Saudi princes would still be looking forward to a lifetime in power and would not even be considering giving their people the vote. Even with Arafat dead, Palestine extremists would still be blowing up Israeli woman and kids and you, Jim, would be happy with the status quo. Thank God Phillip Roth’s novel was only fiction and you have no power to force your foolish dreams on the populace.
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