Headlines Monday 12th May

Empty words can’t fill black hole
Piers Akerman
BEFORE the casual reader even opens Commissioner Ted Mullighan’s report into the abuse of children in the Anangu, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in the central desert in South Australia’s northwest, there is a confronting caution.

It reads starkly: “WARNING: This report deals with allegations of abuse of children while in state care and in places contains graphic details which may be distressing.”

It is not wrong. It takes a great deal of strength to read about the sexual abuse of children younger than four, children who are presented to health workers with venereal diseases, children for whom nothing has been done, or will be done in the near future.

Even more distressing is the reality, the horrifying reality, that 30 years ago, before Labor’s ideological dreamers launched their social engineering experiment, such children would have been vastly better off.

As Mullighan sadly reflected in the preface to his 255-page report: “Prior to the mid-1970s life of Anangu on the Lands was generally healthy, peaceful, safe and content.

“There was an effective system of social order, law and governance and mutual responsibility. During the 1980s and 1990s, life changed drastically for the people and sadly for the children.”

Even former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission chairwoman Lowitja (formerly Lois) O’Donoghue, a constant critic of attempts by the former Howard government to work toward practical solutions for problems within dysfunctional communities of Aboriginal Australians, favouring the symbolic gestures beloved of the ALP, agrees with that view.

O’Donoghue, whose father, a white man, preferred that his five children by a Yankunytjatjara woman be educated at a missionary-run home for abandoned and sick Aboriginal children in Quorn, South Australia, rather than in the desert, has told The Australian that social problems escalated when the church-run missions gave way to “white fellas . . . going in to make money”.
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How could such men rule a country?
Andrew Bolt
Bastards:
Burma’s military regime has distributed international aid, plastering the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the cyclone relief effort into a propaganda exercise.
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Lunchbox Nazis
Andrew Bolt
Now there are even police to stop you feeding your child what you know they’d love
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Police still searching after huge peak hour car chase
Two men have been arrested and another is still at large after massive police chase, involving more than twenty police cars, through peak hour traffic in Sydney.
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Earthquake rocks southern China
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck China's Sichuan province today, less than 100km from the provincial capital of Chengdu.
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Clear the road for the L-plate budget: Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull has questioned Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's experience and his ability to stick by his promise of 'tough decisions' in tomorrow's upcoming budget.
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Ambos describe horror of Melbourne shooting spree
Paramedics who worked furiously to save the victims of a Melbourne city shooting last June say they feel a sense of relief at the murderer's guilty plea.
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Defence reveals details of fatal battle
Details of a gruesome battle between Australian and Taliban forces last year, which saw one soldier killed, have finally come to light.
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Agency demands answers over topless teens in Aussie mag
A New Zealand modelling agency says it is shocked an Auckland 16-year-old on its books appeared topless in an Australian magazine.
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Mercedes Corby denies ever smuggling drugs
Mercedes Corby has told a jury she's never smuggled drugs. Emily Smith is at the Supreme Court.
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Mass nude photo shoot falls short of target
More than 1,800 nude men and women have posed for US photographer Spencer Tunick in Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium.- some suspect a cover up
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Driver involved in 50-bicycle accident goes missing
The driver involved in the 50-cyclist accident on Southern Cross Drive in Sydney last week has gone missing.
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Lara Bingle's father dies
Five dead as tornadoes hit central US
Gillard backs national literacy test
Hayden Panettiere's lesbian fantasies
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Tell ‘em they’re dreaming
Andrew Bolt
The socially aware hand out their new passwords
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Food for thought on warming scare
Andrew Bolt
Another global warming scare busted
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Donate to the Burmese, not the UN
Andrew Bolt
Half of this announcement is good
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Why are the greens so hopeless?
Andrew Bolt
Physicist Lubos Motl notes that the global warming green believers have been thrashed in debates at TalkClimateChange, so is running this multiple-choice poll:

Why are the Greens weak in debates?
Greens are fundamentally wrong and it is not possible to coherently defend untrue theses
Greens are so obsessed with the change that they don’t bother to learn the status quo
Green advocates are less educated or less intelligent
Greens are a little reticent and less passionate
Greens have less at stake
Greens are so overwhelmed by their huge plans that they don’t bother to study the details
Skeptics are under intense pressure and intimidation that simply forces them to be very good to survive