Headlines Sunday 21st December

Suspending belief in this climate of hot air
Piers Akerman
This year will go down in history as the one in which the Australian Government decided to pay people for producing hot air.
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'We got it wrong': Rees to reinstate free school travel
NSW Premier Nathan Rees will reinstate free bus travel for students after admitting he'd been wrong to force families to pay for fares when many were already doing it tough. - contrite Rees admits he didn't know it would be THAT unpopular. - ed.
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Keep it secret? No deal… Andrew O'Keefe video emerges
Video footage which allegedly shows Andrew O'Keefe during a drunken night out has finally surfaced, despite Seven reportedly forking out $25, 000 to keep it secret.
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Taiwan cabbie at work with corpse in front seat
A Taiwan taxi driver drove passengers around for a day with a corpse sitting in his front seat, a Taiwanese television report said on Saturday.
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Alan Jones discharged from hospital after brain tumour operation
Prominent Sydney radio broadcaster Alan Jones has been discharged from hospital after an operation to remove a brain tumour.
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Claims of secret coverup surgery after patient falls from operating table
Campbelltown Hospital, in southwest Sydney is being forced to answer claims a patient was left to fall from an operating table while under anaesthetic.
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Woman shot by police in Sydney's west
A female police officer has shot another woman inside a unit in Sydney's west.
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OK, OK... now online child abuse laws are getting scary
Tim Brunero got slammed last week for suggesting Simpsons porn should be considered real porn, but this time even he admits internet censorship laws are getting scary.
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Bringing sex workers into the light
Prostitution isn't going anywhere, so it's important we keep sex workers safe, according Tim Brunero.
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Govt plans to halve homeless Australians
National holiday road toll hits seven
US law suit aims to annul gay marriages
I thought I could fly: Man critical after five floor plunge
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Even Daylesford has woken up to wind
Andrew Bolt
Even in Daylesford, the Byron Bay of Victoria, the locals aren’t so stupid as to pay $3000 per household for a bit of off-and-on-again wind power to help “stop” a warming that stopped years ago:

Investment dollars have dried up as small investors keep a tight hold of their cash and large investors wait to be convinced that the project is viable.
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Creating and solving homelessness in one go
Andrew Bolt
Yet more billions in handouts is shovelled out by the guy who before the election shouted, ”This sort of reckless spending must stop!”:

The Government’s long-awaited homelessness white paper will offer $6.1 billion, over the next five years, in a bid to reduce the number of homeless people by about 52,000 within 12 years.
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Yes but
Andrew Bolt
The Age grudgingly, finally reports on the sceptics among us, but even in blurbing the story cannot draw breath before damning these heretics:

Farmers sceptical about global warming, but most Australians want urgent action.

And above the story itself:
Many farmers in central Victoria are sceptical that global warming is real, despite the scientific evidence and the world-wide push for a carbon trading scheme.

Actually, the scientific evidence for man-made warming in this recently cooling world is highly ambiguous at best, and the push for a carbon trading scheme is not world-wide or there would be one already. Moreover, that push is not evidence of global warming but of the hype around it.