Retired infantry officer. Conservative by nature and politics; Happily married and father and grandfather of eight. Loves V8 powered Range Rovers, Golden Retrievers, good books and technology and think there should be open season on Greenies.
Born in the mid forties and overdue for servicing but most parts still work.
The only
woman who could love a terrorist and traitor, a human rights advocate, stands by her man.
“David Hicks is someone’s brother, son and father,” Aloysia wrote. “He gets scared, bleeds and feels pain just like you or I … He is someone who deserves to be treated with dignity, respect and compassion no matter what he has done.”
Aloysia, you treat him with dignity, respect and compassion, the majority of us will treat him with contempt.
The romance blossomed after Hicks moved from his home town of Adelaide to Sydney six months ago, where he found it easier to access rehabilitation services and settle back into the community.
He most probably found it easier to ‘get some’ as well. I trust Australian women otherwise wouldn’t go near him.
Barely a
month ago Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon decides to abrogate defence responsibility and stand the navy down for two months over summer as a means of retaining sailors and already Debbie Guest, a journalist with
The Australian cites it as ‘traditional’
In an article about the Navy
rescuing a yachtsman south west of Albany, WA the stand down becomes traditional with the Government approved rider indicating the public shouldn’t be alarmed – national security is OK.
The naval operation came during the defence force’s traditional two-month stand-down over the Christmas period, although this does not have any affect on national security or the force’s ability to respond to emergencies.
In my time traditions took decades or generational change to be formed and accepted – now it just takes government spin.
As an aside we irreverent Infantrymen used to say; the Navy had traditions, the Army customs and the RAAF, habits.
QUEENSLAND workers have been told to take one for the faltering economy and forgo the luxury of an Anzac Day long weekend next year.
The edict has come from
Premier Anna Bligh, who has insisted she was not prepared to impose the extra cost of an unnecessary day off on small businesses.
I’ve got a better idea Anna, why not ask the citizens to forgo the May Day long weekend.
THE Federal Government denies Australia is becoming a bigger target for illegal boat people, despite six boats making it into Australian waters in recent months.
A boat carrying 37 asylum seekers of unknown nationality was intercepted by the navy yesterday about 110 nautical miles north-east of Darwin.
Immigration Minister Chris Evans admitted a number of boat people had arrived in Australia’s waters recently.
“That’s partly due to the season, but partly due to the fact there has been some new tactics deployed,” Senator Evans said.
He’s right of course. We are currently undergoing an ALP season and the new tactics reflect that as well.
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Richmond supporters have flocked to Punt Road to see star recruit
Ben Cousins take his first steps with the Tigers.
Nearly 3000 fans packed into the Punt Road oval to watch what normally would have been a routine pre-season training session, but turned into an impromptu rally of club faithful.
His problems are not over yet as police in Victoria name him in court
Cousins has flown back into a storm of controversy amid court claims of links to an accused gangland killer.
As Cousins today begins a new life as a Richmond footballer, police yesterday named the fallen champ in court as being connected to alleged underworld figure Angelo Venditti.
Why do the AFL bother?
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A
JOURNALIST fanatical, biased scribbler hurled two shoes at US President
George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq yesterday.
Clown! Like David Letterman who seemingly has dozens of clerks searching film archives for Bush’s most inarticulate moments, the journalist misses one of hs trades rules – criticize but don’t ridicule the man – it detracts from the appointment of President and says more about Letterman and unprofessional journalists than about Bush.
Still, the media will be all over it as if, some how or other, it makes Bush look bad.
CONTINGENCY plans are being prepared for an abrupt end to Australia’s military presence in Iraq within a fortnight unless a new legal accord can be hammered out by December 3.
I think the article is a bit of a beat-up as Staff Officers will prevail and it’s odds on that a new legal accord will be hammered out by 31 December but this line caught my eye
“The expiration of the UN mandate means that we need to find an alternative legal basis to be in Iraq and to continue in our efforts to provide a long-term future for the Iraqi people,” Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon told The Australian last night.
Joel…Joel, how can you say that. The ALP has had a stated aim of not supporting any sort of effort to provide a long-term future for the Iraqi people. Remember? Iraq was your idea of a “bad war” as different, for some inexplicable reason, from the “good war” in Afghanistan.
On gaining the keys to the treasury bench you immediately withdrew those in the ADF helping Iraqis in their long-term future ideals leaving a few HQ guys and a security detachment at the Embassy.
I could be wrong though, maybe the ALP has changed its policy – I just haven’t seen it written anywhere and in light of that I can only assume Joel is bullshitting.
Frank Devine on the Movie Australia
Australia’s official movie agency has backed 1049 projects. Only seven became movies that attracted enough ticket-buyers to turn a profit. In short, Screen Australia (its new name) has picked 1042 losers, but still hasn’t gone broke.
However, no movie company can expect to flourish here if shackled by the not-sufficiently-Australian standards that recently saw George Miller and Warner Bros abandon filming in Australia of the super-hero flick Justice League Mortal, after being refused film production tax concessions, which Australia got, reportedly after surrendering to government pressure to tack on a Stolen Generations theme.
Now I’d like to know if there is any truth to that story and if there is then we need to haul in the blatant propaganda and expose the film industry in Australia for what it is – a platform for left wing causes.
It is encouraging however that the Australian public are generally ignoring the industry even though they are paying out billions for the privilege of not watching.
I guess it keeps the lefties quiet and contained where they can’t do any damage.
Missed the ‘pay me or your website is dead’ email and it all happened while I was enroute to Perth and then tied up in Albany totally involved with my Mother’s 89th birthday and three daughters, three sisters and a wife all talking at me.
Its a wonder I could get my head together sufficiently to resolve the problem particularly as I didn’t bring passwords for domain name hosting with me.
Something is wrong with Qantas. Due to depart Brisbane airport at 1320 – got on board and buckled up to then be fed a line by the Captain…Skid brakes faulty..safety hazard and fair enough…then 20 minutes later…hand brake faulty….new problem or extension of original never said…then…you’ll have to disembark.
An hour goes by waiting in the terminal to be told engineers are now stripping wire looking for problem….another hour and …we’ve given up and are waiting for a replacement aircraft coming in from…wait for it…DARWIN!
Adjusted departure time now 1800. During the course of this debacle another Qantas plane at Brisbane goes off line.
I’ll admit its the first time it has happened to me but then I seldom fly these days so I’m less than impressed and glad I’m flying back home with Virgin.
I say that now but I bet I’ll find something to complain about on that trip with cabin staff acting like they’re being paid commission for selling Home brand muffins and John Wayne coffee.
Bloody airlines…I’m driving next time. (my wife says I’ll be doing it by myself….hard decision that one!)
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FIRST there was the cool personal reception — now Kevin Rudd has been left out of the official White House
photograph album.
Well Kevin, call a bloke an idiot and that’s what you get
The treatment received by Australia is very different to that received by former PM John Howard, whom Mr Bush dubbed his “man of steel”.
But Mr Rudd denied any diplomatic hitches. “Those other matters were not canvassed by anybody,” he said while in the US.
Of course the matters were not canvassed by anybody – the G20 leaders, Bush included, have better manners. Rudd can not possibly believe that his comments went unnoticed and he now has to deal with the fact that world leaders will now be viewing him with a jaundiced eye.
The ALP are trying to spin the “What’s G20” item as something-nothing and have actually had some success in turning the debate back to the Libs.
Both Malcom Turnbull and Julie Bishop are
being pressured by the Australian and Laurie Oaks over Howard saying al-Qa’ida would prefer Obama to win.
Two points here. The first is al-Qa’da
is on record as saying they would prefer Obama to win, and secondly, the fact that Howard said this has absolutely no bearing on what Rudd said. Howard’s comments were about a hitherto nondescript US Senator whose status at the time was Presidential Nominee.
Rudd’s statement was about the current US President, our major ally and was clearly defamatory. Rudd further exacerbated the diplomatic gaffe by ignoring it long enough for the impression to be created that Rudd was erudite and clearly more intelligent and worldly than the US President who didn’t even know who G20 were.
As Rudd simply ignores questions in the house on the matter his ignorance will fade as the media follow the next big story; President Bush will retire and go back to Texas and Rudd will dine out for years on how he got away with calling the President of the US an idiot.
Not here though; the incident will go into the overflowing basket of Rudd stuff-ups and enough will remember for it to matter later.
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