Headlines Friday 2nd May

Unions set to claim another scalp, but for what?
The unions destroyed good legislation when they campaigned against Work Choices and they look set for a repeat performance by scuttling the NSW Premier's electricity privatisation plans, according to Alan Jones.
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Death toll from boat tragedy rises
The death toll from a horrific boat collision on Sydney Harbour has risen to six.
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Fritzl spent entire nights in cellar prison
Austrian Josef Fritzl would spend whole nights in the cellar of his home where he locked up and raped his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years, his sister-in-law has said.
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Australia's worst sexual predator admits to 86 offences
A man believed to be one of Australia's worst serial sex offenders has admitted responsibility for 86 sexual offences.
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McKellan to make magical reappearance
Sir Ian McKellen will play Gandalf in 'The Hobbit'.
The Oscar-nominated British actor is to reprise his role from the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy for the latest film adaptation of a J. R. R. Tolkien novel.
Last week, it was confirmed Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro would direct the film, which will be shot in New Zealand.
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Rudd one of Time's most influential
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been named as one of Time magazine's most influential people, alongside a host of world leaders, religious figures, celebrities and sports stars.
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Wife killed disabled husband after 'sex orgy' humiliation
An elderly woman who killed her estranged quadriplegic husband was humiliated by him visiting prostitutes and infecting her with syphilis.
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'Chair sniffing' MP faces leadership challenge
A West Australian Liberal MP is likely to call for a vote on the party leadership today following the chair-sniffing scandal involving Opposition Leader Troy Buswell.
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Clover Moore suggests Jesus wouldn't approve of Cardinal Pell
Anil Lambert-Patel
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has unloaded on the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, suggesting that Jesus would not approve of him.
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Accused war criminal says 'trial would kill me'
Perth grandfather and accused Nazi war criminal Charles Zentai says he is sick and would not survive being sent to stand trial before a Hungarian military tribunal.

Zentai, 86, is wanted in Hungary for allegedly torturing and murdering 18-year-old Jewish man Peter Balazs in Budapest during army service in World War II.

Last month, he lost a constitutional challenge in the High Court against the power of state magistrates to rule on extradition matters, and will now face the Perth Magistrates Court on May 20 for a hearing allocation date on his extradition.
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No welcome to our country Andrew Bolt
I HAD hoped that racism was dying in this country, but it’s back - in a funkier and official form.

Almost no government ceremony now starts without a new little ceremony to make clear that we really do rank each other by race.
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Confessions of the great censor Andrew Bolt
I HAD no idea that for 11 years I’d managed to drown out all debate in Australia.

Only now does senior Age writer Russell Skelton dare blow the whistle, and, boy, am I embarrassed.

Or maybe I’m red just from laughing so hard at the stupidity of the Left, once more confusing its right to speak with its demand we all agree.
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Rudd influential in saying “me, too”
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Ours earthed Andrew Bolt
More proof that man is the more rational sex
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Wounded by the “stolen generations”, too Andrew Bolt
Piers Akerman contacts journalist Paul Raffaele, wounded in a Taliban suicide bombing, and find he’s a veteran of another war, too
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Obama suddenly can’t recognise his pastor Andrew Bolt
Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama at last discovers that his preacher, mentor, friend and advisor of 20 years is actually a race-baiting maniac