Category: Federal
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Arbib’s mysterious exit
Julia Gillard’s easy victory over Kevin Rudd was predictable, the resignation of Mark Arbib wasn’t. The NSW ALP right has an unwritten set of rules and one of them is that members must gain any and every bureaucratic position they can in the labour and trade union movement, no matter now menial.Once they’ve gained those…
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Press junket to Israel
Greg Sheridan, the pro-American and pro-Zionist appropriately named foreign editor of The Australian, is just back from Israel on a privately sponsored trip.Sheridan writes in the second column of his article: “I have been spending a week in Israel, and visiting some of the Palestinian territories, under the auspices of the Australia Israel United Kingdom…
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What’s that smell of dead fish?
Welcome to Gambaro’s restaurant and seafood emporium in Brisbane. One of the beneficiaries of the fortune made by the seafood giant is Teresa Gambaro, the federal Liberal MP, Tony Abbott’s spokeswoman on citizenship and a vicious Howardite.She has told The Australian’s Patricia Karvelas (who else) that new immigrants should be taught the Australian custom of…
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Murdoch’s conga-line spewing over lost ABC contract
IF you needed confirmation that the Gillard Government did the right thing in awarding the Australian Network contract to the ABC, pick up a copy of today’s Australian, the local flagship of the Murdoch empire. (December 7, 2011). The decision to leave the $223 million contract with the ABC and to resist the temptation to…