[Editor’s Note: Thousands of refugees have fled from Syria to the towns over the border in Lebanon – villages like Qaa and Ras Baalbek.… Go to Article
Month: August 2012
Games people play
Olympic Rant #11 Games reputation on the chopping block
WHEN I heard the IOC had booted out a referee and the coppers had lumbered an Olympic tweeter, I thought it best to turn my attention to an alternative spectacular, the annual Pine Rivers Show.
… Go to Article Foco Nuevo in August: Reminder
FOCO NUEVO in AUGUST
Friday, 3 August 2012, 8.00 p.m.
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary Street West End
$10 / $7 BYO
As always Maggie’s delicious cakes tea and coffee will be on sale.… Go to Article
Badminton should be good mittens one of my favourite things
Illympic Rant #10 Do those Commie bastards!!!
IN an earlier rant I portrayed the efficiently murderous missiles being developed by a Russian-Indian partnership as shuttlecocks for the impending Illympic sport of water badminton.
… Go to Article Indigenous Land Corporation Review – Online Survey
The Indigenous Land Fund was established in 1994 as part of the package offered by the Keating Government.
The fund was created to address to the realization, post “Mabo”, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people held ownership over Australia before British ‘settlement’ and that the denial of land rights from 1788 to 1994 was an action taken in ignorance of the law and facts.… Go to Article
NT MP speaks out against the Intervention
I am proud to have been an Indigenous member of the NT Parliament since
2006.
My electorate of Stuart covers some of the most remote communities in the
country and I’m passionate about making sure our people have a strong voice
at the highest levels of decision making.… Go to Article
Minister liquidates low cost housing
The Queensland government says that it should not be in the business of running low cost accommodation like caravan parks. Yet the Monte Carlo Caravan Park is more affordable housing than any other, more affordable than units nearby or privately run caravan parks — or it was until the public trustee outsourced the management of the park to Australian Tourist Park Management a private firm that runs and owns many such parks in Australia.… Go to Article
Pay a wet tribute to Phelps
Olympic Rant #9 Give the pool cleaner a medal
ONE important thing which sets sporting champions apart from the rest of us is they hat3e to lose.
… Go to Article The Mexican Olympics
… Go to Article“It is not enough that some succeed,
others must fail” — Gore Vidal ( who passed away yesterday).When you walk through a storm hold your head up high And don’t be afraid of the dark.