Headlines Sunday 26th October

Mums and dads stranded by PM bungling on the run
Piers Akerman
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has advice for the White House, advice for UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, advice for NATO and advice for the G20 group of nations but, when it comes to the economic crisis he has engineered for his own nation, his advice is pathetic. -Whatever plans Rudd makes he won’t discuss them with anyone else .. they always get leaked. At least his conversations with Hu, George and Brown seem to be public very soon after they are made .. with detail as to how Rudd was notified that the world leaders were hanging for his pronouncements on some subject. I understand he even explained to George what the G20 was.
There are comic aspects to no thought planning, but thre are scary side effects too. One might guess what Rudd was thinking when he made Bryce GG. It is sad, but one would probably be right. He was probably thinking the same thing when he was watching that stripper in NY. - ed.
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Rudd loses credit
Andrew Bolt
Facing up to Kevin Rudd’s bungling:

SELF-FUNDED retiree Greg Russell is the human face of the Rudd government’s mishandling of its response to the global financial meltdown: he now has $5 in his bank account.

Because he put his money into a cash management account, Mr Russell’s assets are frozen, along with those of his wife Debbie and the savings accounts of his two children.

And, because he is in the process of selling his business, he still owes the tax man a big bill for his quarterly Business Activity Statement (BAS)…

He’s had to take out a $50,000 loan to cover his BAS commitments and to maintain his, and his family’s, living costs.
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Other people’s dreams are boring
Andrew Bolt
It’s been another week in which Sydney Morning Herald journalists prefer to write about imagined conversations rather than real ones.
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Praying to the tribe
Andrew Bolt
From worshipping a deity to a tribe:

SPEAKER Harry Jenkins has called for debate about whether the Lord’s Prayer should be replaced by an Aboriginal acknowledgement at federal Parliament.
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Cabbages are kings
Andrew Bolt
The Sunday Age is underestimating the pantheistic threat:

Then just last year, a parliamentary panel of philosophers, lawyers, geneticists and theologians in Switzerland, charged with devising new rules for genetic testing, published a treatise on preserving the “dignity of plants”. Its edicts included that it was “morally impermissible” to decapitate a wildflower by the roadside without rational reason.
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Some things aren’t black or white
Andrew Bolt
Farcical. If you need court cases to prove your ethnicity - and hence suitability for appointments to race-based positions - then you are clearly insisting on distinctions that are so trivial as to be utterly irrelevant:

TASMANIA’S peak Aboriginal body faces a racial discrimination complaint from a former ATSIC commissioner, in a case set to reopen divisions about Aboriginality in the island state.

Alan Wolf, who was an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander commissioner for seven years, told The Australian yesterday that he had lodged a complaint against the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission.

In the complaint, Mr Wolf claims the centre has discriminated against him by refusing to recognise his Aboriginality despite several federal court rulings that he is of Aboriginal descent.

What a waste of our money. What an insight on the insulting absurdities of government-sponsored race-based politics and political preferment.
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Now Bryce lectures Rudd, too
Andrew Bolt
Quentin Bryce just can’t help playing politics. Now even Kevin Rudd must be getting worried about having appointed this professional activist as Governor Activist General, given that she’s abusing her position to not just promote his policies, but lecture him, too:

Quentin Bryce said farming communities were crying out for national leadership on climate change and drought…
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Coslovich on ignorance
Andrew Bolt
Leftist arts poppet Gabriella Coslovich burbles about our ignorance and racism - well, yours, actually:

Baldwin Spencer, a scientist, at the turn of the 20th century recorded in film and words the ways of the Arrernte people, with the help of Gillen. This was at a time when indigenous culture was, in the words of Gillen, being “trampled” by white men. Spencer and Gillen’s book, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, became internationally renowned, yet in Australian cultural history, Gillen and Spencer are ignored.

Actually, Gabriella, there’s a statue of Spencer in your Melbourne Museum, placed there by another fashionable Leftist, anthropologist John Morton, as a reminder of this same racism which you deplore. Only this time Spencer is not hailed as a challenge to our cultural arrogance but a manifestation of it. The statue is inside a glass case with Aboriginal artifacts, and has this up-yours caption (quoting the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre):

We do not choose to be enshrined in a glass case, with our story told by an alien institution which has appointed itself as an ambassador of our culture.

The museum even screens a video in a nearby room of an actor dressed as Spencer being harrangued by another actor, dressed as the Aboriginal “King Charley” of Alice Springs, who attacks him for trampling so boorishly on a wonderful, even superior, black culture.