Headlines Saturday 24th May

Malcolm Turnbull, National Press Club 21/5/08 - part 1


Malcolm Turnbull, National Press Club 21/5/08 - part 2


Malcolm Turnbull, National Press Club 21/5/08 - part 3

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Bastard barrista
Andrew Bolt
A 21st Century headline:

Olsens coffee ‘spiked’ with full fat milk
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Artists rage: let us undress 13-year-olds
Andrew Bolt
Many Australians would agree:

THE art world has denounced a ”dark day in Australian culture” after police seized up to 21 photographs of naked child models and said they would lay charges over an exhibition by the renowned artist Bill Henson.

But the difference here, of course, is that the “art world” thinks the darkness in our culture isn’t the stripping and photographing of 13-year-old girls, but the seizing of the soft-porn shots by police.
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A spell of water bans
Andrew Bolt
But of course. I mean, isn’t this the department that also opposes dams because of New Age religious reasons?
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Once were workers
Andrew Bolt
John Lyons stays for a week at the urban Aboriginal ghetto of La Perouse and discovers the biggest problem is not white racism, but an Aboriginal culture of family breakdown
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In theory, Margaret is for. In fact, she’s ignorant
Andrew Bolt
ABC film critic Margaret Pomeranz is outraged that NSW police have seized pictures from an art gallery of a naked 13-year-old girl in sexually suggestive poses
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Court’s dignity down the toilet
Andrew Bolt
We rely on our children’s courts to awe, scare or at least inspire delinquent children into behaving well. So this might indicate that they don’t quite have that clout any more
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A name we should know
Andrew Bolt
WE learned this week of the release from jail of two men—only one of whom I can name.
He is Glenn Wheatley of South Yarra, the former showbiz manager who was this week freed after serving a sentence for tax evasion.
No court has suppressed the publication of Wheatley’s name, picture, date of release or even address, so he got the hounding you’d suspect of such a criminal.
Four TV helicopters followed the cars that took him from Beechworth jail to the gates of his home. Some 30 journalists picketed his house. And a neighbour even wandered by to heckle, declaring: ``A common criminal. You all know very well that’s all he is.’’
The other criminal released suffered none of that, thanks to a County Court order banning us from publishing anything that identifies him or his whereabouts the way we may identify Wheatley and his. Yet the reason he is spared Wheatley’s hounding is not that he’s less deserving of such treatment, but more.
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The critic now makes excuses
Andrew Bolt
February 13:

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has told parliament the former Coalition government did nothing to relieve upward pressure on food and petrol prices…

“In the period of the previous government, which had more than 11 years to act on both these matters, they did nothing and nothing,’’ Mr Rudd said.

May 22:

PETROL prices have been forecast to soon hit $1.70 a litre, putting further pressure on the Federal Government to act…

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Government had done “as much as we physically can” to help.
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A licence to boss
Andrew Bolt
George Will:

WHAT Friedrich Hayek called the “fatal conceit” - the idea that government can know the future’s possibilities and can and should control the future’s unfolding - is the Left’s agenda. The Left exists to enlarge the state’s supervision of life, narrowing individual choices in the name of collective goods. Hence the Left’s hostility to markets. And to automobiles: people going wherever they want whenever they want.
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Hear that silence? It’s victory
Andrew Bolt
Former Kim Beazley chief of staff and DFAT boss Michael Costello:

HOW do you know when things are going well for the US and its coalition allies in Iraq? When you see virtually nothing about it on your television screen or in the papers.
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Banned for stupidity
Andrew Bolt
That he’s Rudd’s nephew is neither here nor there. More surprising is just how dated is his political outlook, which was astonishingly crude even at the time. I mean, which superpower is now most likely to be killing Buddhist monks?

Hint: it’s not Ronald McDonald’s.
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You voted for higher energy prices, so applaud
Andrew Bolt
What’s the fuss? This is exactly what a carbon tax would do to petrol prices, and that’s good, isn’t it?

MOTORISTS face more financial pain at the bowser in the weeks ahead after world oil prices set records yesterday, topping $US135 a barrel.