Headlines Friday 30th May

Real question being asked about Rudd's leadership
It's been a horror week for the PM and it's set to get a whole lot worse, according to Alan Jones.
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Gore dared
Andrew Bolt
I’d drive a long way, and bugger the emissions, to see this:

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. “I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he’s not too much willing to make such a conversation,” Klaus said. “So I’m ready to do it.”

Klaus was speaking a the National Press Building in Washington to present his new book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, before meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday.

“My answer is it is our freedom and, I might add, and our prosperity,” he said…

Klaus, an economist, said he opposed the “climate alarmism” perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.

“Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality,” he said.
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Speaking of demons
Andrew Bolt
What a nasty crack Labor’s Belinda Neal made against the Liberals’ heavily pregnant Sophie Mirabella in Parliament:
Evil thoughts will turn your child into a demon.
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Marxism means murder
Andrew Bolt
Mass-murder is embedded in the Marxist ideology. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, authors of the suberb Mao, discuss communism and death with Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of two works on Stalin
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Not so hollow laughs
Andrew Bolt
Most unusual for the ABC, and most promising:

THE team responsible for the hit 90s TV satire Frontline is set to start work on a new political comedy for the ABC.

The public broadcaster today announced it has commissioned a new six-part political drama called The Hollowmen, which will start production in the next few weeks.

Filmed in Melbourne and Canberra, the show is based around a think tank set up by the prime minister to look at long-term policy vision.
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Binge drinkers undeterred
Andrew Bolt
Two steps forward, two steps back:

SALES of alcopops plummeted by almost 40 per cent in the fortnight after last month’s lightning tax hike on the drinks but any health gains have been offset by a 20 per cent jump in stronger, straight spirit sales…

(T)he Distilled Spirits Industry Council of Australia ... said the switch had effectively increased the amount of standard drinks consumed by a quarter.
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Myth claims more victims
Andrew Bolt
More evidence of the “stolen generations” myth ruining young lives:

A ONE-YEAR-OLD Aboriginal girl was shunted between 16 different homes under state care in WA, depriving her of any chance to bond. A four-year-old racked up 17 different homes and was still in temporary care.

In a damning indictment of the state’s ‘stolen generation” mantra child protection system, the Carpenter Government yesterday admitted that almost a third of the 501 Aboriginal babies and toddlers in state care had been moved at least four times in their short lives, and often much more frequently.

Opposition child protection spokeswoman Robyn McSweeney, who uncovered the situation, said children were “passed like parcels” from one home to the next with potentially devastating impacts on their development…

Child Protection Minister Sue Ellery agreed it was unacceptable and said a review was under way… The minister admitted the desire for culturally sensitive foster homes could be a factor, leading to children being placed in unworkable situations to maintain cultural links. She signalled that more indigenous children might have to be fostered to non-Aboriginal families.
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Dress down those teachers
Andrew Bolt
Victorian Principals Association president Fred Ackerman protests against a dress code for state school teachers:

Why should we prescribe such a rigid standard across Victoria when it’s only a small number of teachers wearing things like singlets and thongs?

Why? Precisely because there are indeed teachers, as Ackerman admits, who turn up to class wearing singlets and thongs.
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Did only Rudd think this turkey would fly?
Andrew Bolt
A complete disaster for Kevin Rudd, caught out spinning once too often:

THE RUDD Government has been humiliated over revelations that it ignored warnings from its own public service experts in four key departments that a National FuelWatch Scheme could increase petrol prices rather than reduce them.
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Girl now covered
Andrew Bolt
If there is nothing shameful about the pictures, why not tell police who she is?

THE police investigation into Bill Henson’s photography has stalled because the artist has refused to reveal the identity of the 13-year-old girl he photographed naked for his exhibition at Paddington.
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Mercedes Corby wins defamation case against Channel 7
A NSW Supreme Court jury has found Mercedes Corby was defamed by the Seven Network in a series of interviews with her former best friend. LIVENEWS.com.au court reporter Emily Smith has been following the case.
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Massive security procedure as accused terrorist enters hospital
A terror suspect in one of the country's biggest trials is fuming after being given just 20 minutes to visit his dying mother in hospital - despite sparking a full scale security operation.
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Possible leads in filmed Canberra shopping centre bashing
ACT police say they may be able to identify the people involved in a bashing incident filmed on a video and posted on a video-sharing website.
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The essence of spin
Andrew Bolt
Gee, that alcopops tax slug really fixed binge drinking, right?
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Rudd’s ministers gas on
Andrew Bolt
Emissions cuts are things other people make
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Attention deficit lies in the parents
Andrew Bolt
I cannot believe that putting toddlers on speed is sane
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Henson goes from zero to hero
Andrew Bolt
Age critic Robert Nelson on Bill Henson’s pictures in 2005, before the public got involved and the heat went on
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Rudd fuels fire
Andrew Bolt
Kevin Rudd is at war with senior bureaucrats, and reacts in a way that’s just likely to make the war worse
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Gore, not just soap but opera
Andrew Bolt
The plot is absurdly unlikely. The villains are cartoonish. The good people die. A noble hero rises in the West. Melodrama everywhere. Yes, I can see why the world’s most famous opera house this this is a story that should be set to music
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Man charged for abusing infant girl in the Thursday Islands
A man has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl on an island in the Thursday Island group.
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Scientists may have discovered Stonehenge’s secret
Researchers in England have traced the roots of Stonehenge and have concluded it was an ancient burial site for a royal family.