The NEXT coming Oz election thread!

elsewhere people were talking (well actually Thomas from Germany) about correct use of English

Notice you say Labor = American English.


even for the Labour Party.

yet I'm sure someone else may have been rabbit

commented that Australian Spelling = English spelling

(if not of course pronunciation. G'day)

Hmmm, not so early.



Listening to Lateline, and the attack has begun.

The line is "evil Labor don't love America and electing them would jeopardise the alliance"

Dishing the dirt, and the dirt is, "a reasonably high percentage of Labor people do not believe America would honour the alliance if Australia were attacked."

That's DIRT?


Chris Pyne leading the attack.

..... And I heard Vaile (sp?) yesterday carry on about Labor's need to clarify it's position on the US Alliance, post Latham. Would it be such a dreadful thing for ANY party to say that we have our OWN interests, which at times might be totally at odds with the current US government? It disgust me to hear the likes of Howard & Vaile talk as if they have done the right thing by the ordinary people of this country. They haven't. They've abandoned them. At least Latham CARED, flawed as he was. They don't.

God I love Bob Brown (and I'm not religious or gay)

I'm so glad this one hasn't been swept away yet - it stinks. However, there's no way there is going to be a senate inquiry now that the bad guys control the senate.....

Charges should be laid over Parkin leak, Brown says

[http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1467224.htm]

Greens Senator Bob Brown is calling for police to charge those he says were responsible for leaking intelligence information about US peace activist Scott Parkin to a national newspaper.

Mr Parkin denied being a threat to national security and rejected suggestions that he had promoted violent protest methods during his time in Australia.

Senator Brown says he was refused details about Mr Parkin's arrest before the activist was deported as a threat to national security.

Senator Brown says allegations that Mr Parkin planned to throw marbles under police horses later emerged in a newspaper.

"The leaking of the information to the Australian newspaper is illegal," he said.

"It requires police action and charges to be laid."

Senator Brown is demanding to know why he was denied a briefing on the reasons for Mr Parkin's arrest and says the Government should be made accountable.

"I'll be moving in the Senate, when we return in a week's time, for an inquiry into how the Government and ASIO got it so wrong with Scott Parkin, who was under false allegations, gossip from somewhere, arrested and deported from this country on charges that are simply untrue," he said.

Senator Brown says Mr Parkin should be compensated, his visa returned, and the Prime Minister should apologise for what Senator Brown says was a grave miscarriage of justice.

The Greens leader is also writing to the inspector-general of Intelligence and Security.

"I want to know why I wasn't briefed on it when I asked," he said.

"It's patently obvious now because I'd have analysed this and without going into details put a very different, come to a very different [conclusion] to the Labor leaders who failed in their duty to analyse the information they were getting and make an independent judgement on it."

Hmmm, there was a report the Brits are pulling out of Iraq, too.

But, isn't the Afghanistan news old?