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......"After the damage that you have done, the best you can now do to help our chances is to leave," Dr Hewson wrote in Fairfax newspapers.
"If your few remaining mates won't tell you, I will. You've had a fair go. If you now won't give others a chance and pull your weight as a member of the team, you should move on.
"It is most unlikely that you will ever be drafted as leader of the Liberal Party and even less likely that you will ever be prime minister.
"You can't go on ignoring the facts. You have only ever had a minimal support base and that base has been further and terminally eroded by your disloyalty, antics and shenanigans of the last year or so.
Dr Hewson also doubted Mr Costello's competence as treasurer.
"I also doubt you have the skills, experience or self-confidence to have accepted the obvious job after losing the last election, namely shadow treasurer," he wrote.
"You'd be lost without Treasury. You may have delivered 11 budgets but ask yourself honestly how many of them were actually yours, rather than Treasury's.
"I am told Treasury is now drawing a sharp contrast between your little interest and involvement and that of Wayne Swan."....
:Sea Shepherd evidence 'could be sent to Japan'
Andrew Darby
February 22, 2009/Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Federal Police have raided anti-whaling flagship the Steve Irwin, seizing records and videos that could help Japan to prosecute the activist Sea Shepherd group.
Quote:An armed squad seized 157 of Discovery Channel's raw videos, and navigational records from the ship in Hobart. The videos show the Sea Shepherd's clashes with Japanese whalers and may be given to the Japanese Government. A federal agent said yesterday's raid resulted from a formal referral from Japanese authorities and that police were undertaking preliminary inquiries into this summer's Southern Ocean confrontation.
Australian National University law professor Don Rothwell said international legal obligations meant evidence of alleged maritime offences could be forwarded to Japan... <cont>
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/sea-shepherd-evidence-could-be-sent-to-japan-20090221-8e61.html
Oh so he's a fibber, too! And I always thought he was "honest Joe"! I'm shocked! 
