The Journal
Current Affairs
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Labor Party – John Howard To Blame
But of course. Australian treasurer Wayne Swan says that tough measures to be introduced in tomorrow’s federal budget, are the fault of John Howard’s big spending policies. When John Howard and Peter Costello’s government left office…
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DDT – From De Facto Ban To Real Ban
And more people, possibly millions, will die as a result. Every 30 seconds someone dies from Malaria. The same number as were killed in the 9/11 attacks every day and a half. Most of these deaths…
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Pakistan – Possible Good Outcomes
Possible good outcomes for everyone except the bad guys, that is. There is strong local support for the government’s attack on islamic extremists in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan. Army chief General Ashfaq Kayani…
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Federal Opposition To Offer Alternative ETS Scheme
The Australia Federal Opposition (The Liberals, which means the conservatives, or would do if they had any backbone) is planning to offer an alternative to the government’s proposed emissions trading scheme. Unless their proposed alternative is…
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Man Falls Out Of Boat Swatting Shark
This wouldn’t be funny if the guy had been hurt. But he wasn’t, so it is: When a shark began to chew on the boat’s outboard motor, the man tried to fend it off with an…
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Australian Swine Flu Victim Fine
She caught it overseas, didn’t know she had it, and was better by the time she got back to Australia. Of course the headline is ‘Health Chief Warns of More Swine Flu’ A six year old…
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Stimulus Plans As A Proportion Of GDP
This graphic from GlobeandMail shows the amount of ‘stimulus’ spending in selected G20 countries in dollars and as a proportion of GDP. I have linked to GlobeandMail, but article content is subscription or pay per view. Australia’s…
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Chuck Norris Bites The Frost
And I bet he bites global warming as well. And communism. And terrorists. Check out these Chuck Norris facts: There is no ‘ctrl’ button on Chuck Norris’s computer. Chuck Norris is always in control. Chuck Norris…
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On Foreign Aid
Know-it-all Sir Bob Geldof is the former front man of the Boomtown Rats, a one hit wonder band from the seventies, and therefore qualifies (in his eyes) as an expert on foreign policy and development. Well, Leonardo De Crapio…
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Experts: We Have No Idea If This Could Happen
And it has never happened before. But hey, you know, anything’s possible. So just be scared, OK? A ‘top flu expert’ is warning of the dangers of a mutant swine/bird flu – one that is as infectious…
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I’ve Just Been Stimulated
By Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. My wife was stimulated at the same time. Then we got a letter from the Tax Office telling us we had been stimulated, just in case we hadn’t noticed. Most Australians…
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Heaven And Earth
Ordered and on the way: I read Ian Plimer’s
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Even MSN Says Swine Flu Warnings Overdone
A longish article with lots of quotes from poeple saying the Swine Flu alarms were a perfect example of authorities crying wolf. Many blame such alarms and the breathless media coverage for creating an overreaction that…
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ETS Petition – Emissions Trading Will Cost But Achieve Nothing
I don’t know that there has ever been a successful online petition. But what is at stake is the destruction of major industries, and massive damage to an already struggling economy. So I’ll take any chance I…
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Rage And Fear In Northern Pakistan
Some of the stories coming out of the Taliban occupied parts of Nothern Pakistan are shocking: When Taliban fighters first entered Karim’s village last month, he recounted, they said they had come to bring peace and…
