A 12-year-old girl is set to become one of the State's youngest mothers after her father's pleas to DoCS were reportedly ignored.
DoCS admits failing 12yo pregnant girl
DoCS has admitted it failed to make any contact with the family of a 12-year-old girl who fell pregnant to her 15-year-old live-in boyfriend.
Police hunt two gunmen over Desmond "Tuppence" Moran murder
Police are hunting two gunmen after the brazen daylight execution-style murder of underworld figure Desmond "Tuppence" Moran in a Melbourne shopping strip.
Newspoll shows Labor's lead crumbling
The latest Newspoll shows Labor's lead over the coalition is crumbling, with the government's primary vote just one percentage point ahead of the opposition.
Muslim waitress Fata Lemes wins $6000 payout over 'prostitute' dress
A Muslim cocktail waitress has won a $A6,090 compensation payout for having to wear a figure-hugging red dress she said made her feel "like a prostitute", despite spending only eight days on the job.
Police arrest Sharks mystery benefactor
A Sharks NRL fan, who accused former Cronulla boss Tony Zappia of hiding donations he made to the club, has been arrested accused of life insurance fraud.
Three arrested over Des Moran's murder
Des Moran's sister-in-law Judy Moran is believed to be one of three people arrested over his murder.
Costello would've returned to leadership
Peter Costello says he would have made a play for the Liberal Leadership if he'd decided to remain in Parliament.
Budget a 'beacon of hope': Roozendaal
Treasurer Eric Roozendaal has described today's NSW Budget as a "beacon of hope", as the Government tries to avoid any worsening of our economy in the global downturn.
Lending for business falling
Home lending is the only game in town for the country's non-competing banks.
Paris and Ronaldo to make long-distance relationship work
Paris Hilton and Cristiano Ronaldo have vowed to make their long-distance relationship work.
=== Journalists Corner ===
Senator John McCain goes ON THE RECORD at 10pm tonight...to talk about former VP Cheney and CIA Director Leon Panetta's battle...plus Iran....North Korea....don't miss this interview.
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Road Map to Peace!
Will Netanyahu follow U.S. led directions or veer off course, causing the Israeli-Iranian situation to worsen? Beck sorts it out!
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Lesbian Prisoners Confined
You've heard of solitary confinement ? but lesbian confinement? Our legal team debates gay prisoners being put in a "butch wing".
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High Costs & No Choices!
The doctor will see you... sooner or later? Hannity reveals socialized healthcare horror stories!
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Hail Costello, the man who wouldn’t be king
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd was generous in his praise of Peter Costello yesterday, knowing that one formidable political opponent was removing himself from the field of combat.
However, in rising to mark Costello’s decision not to re-contest pre-selection for the seat of Higgins, which he has held for the past 20 years, Rudd dwelt on the various international roles Costello successfully played during his nearly 12 years as treasurer.
He omitted to mention the tremendous contribution Costello made to the nation.- There is much to suggest that the opposition has benefited from Costello’s wisdom. While Costello seemed to largely be absent, giving Dr Nelson time to consolidate and do what was necessary, the course the Opposition has taken has shown increasing wisdom. The soft acceptance of Anthropogenic Global Warming theory was not something a credible opposition could sustain, unless they wanted opposition. The Howard compromise position of promoting Nuclear power as an answer was worthwhile and the new Turnbull approach adopting Howard’s measures suggests Costello has been involved in the sensible policy. Also, Mr Hockey has apparently taken tips from Mr Costello on a regular basis. The loss of Costello to the opposition is overstated. It is a loss, but Costello’s contributions have been timeless, and he still has much that he can offer outside of government. It has been sad to note that those who were wrong about Costello throughout his time in government (like Red Kerry) will promote the myth that they had been right in some unrealized way. Costello was correct in saying that the Liberal Party, and Mr Howard, failed Australia in not providing a right of succession .. but those analysts have clearly been wrong, gleefully waiting for a fight. Peter seems a much better man than Tim. - ed.
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FROSTY THE SLOW MAN
Tim Blair
Blogger turned ABC art critic Andrew Frost thinks that he’s being attacked by conservative columnist Michael Duffy. Wrong. Frost is actually being attacked by an opponent of Duffy’s.
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PROBLEM UNDERSTOOD
Tim Blair
David Letterman apologises:
There was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah …
The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’ And I had, honestly, no idea … I had no idea she was there. So she’s now at the ball game and people think that I made the joke about her …
And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ - this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’
This process took an entire week. To his credit, Letterman concludes: “It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault … I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.”
UPDATE. What provoked Dave’s big sorry? Instapundit credits the righteous anger of AlfonZo Rachel.
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DESTROY THE PLANET TO SAVE IT
Tim Blair
Finally, a hybrid vehicle that attacks Gaia.
UPDATE. In other earth-chompin’ news, the usual feebs turned out on the weekend to cry about our holy orb:
Outside Mr Rudd’s Phillip St office, pieces of red fabric were laid on the footpath for activists to write messages to the Government.
One young child wrote: “Mr Rudd, save our world”.
Cimate Change Minister Penny Wong sounds like she’s just about had enough of these idiots:
Ms Wong says people’s expectations are unrealistic.
“What many of these people are calling for simply can’t be done. It can’t be done while supporting jobs,” she said.
Interesting.
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DOWNHILL AFTER GANDHI
Tim Blair
India’s Harpreet Bhagrath takes issue with recent claims of Australian racism:
During five years of studying and working in Australia, no one made more than a passing remark at me. Now, all of a sudden, I hear this Australian racism crap. I don’t buy it.
I mean, seriously, such amiable and courteous people cannot, all of a sudden, turn into remorseless racists. Australians are much more tolerant of other cultures than we are. We, I reckon, are so wrongly known for our tolerance. M.K. Gandhi may have contributed to this image of India being a tolerant nation but after he passed away, it’s just been all downhill.
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TWO MEN IN A UNI
Tim Blair
Speaking from underneath Bea Arthur’s hair, leading Australian intellectual Robert Manne discusses sustainability and climate change with prominent rain denialist Tim Flannery. Highlights:
Manne: Is there any other country, in the western world at least, where you would have so much media coverage of denialism or scepticism?
Flannery’s reply: “No. The Australian is unique, as far as I’ve seen. There may be some papers in the Midwest of the USA that are as bad …” Diversity of opinion about mere temperature predictions is now a bad thing. Imagine if these two were discussing something actually important. Nice sneer at the rubes in America’s flyover badlands, by the way; why, they probably have Buick-sized refrigerators. Next, from the Great Drought Feaster:
Flannery: I think that action campaigns that remain within the law but still are hard-hitting towards the offending industries is important. It’s one thing that students can do that we can’t do because I’m, you know, engaged with business and others, and, you know, I, I, I, I, I can’t do that, but young people have got time.
And they’re not engaged with business, either.
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BEELZEBUBBLES
Tim Blair
So you missed out on Obama’s Chrysler. But you can still bid for Satan’s washing machine.
UPDATE. Another must-buy: the avenging narwhal!
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FRIGHTENED OF EZRA
Tim Blair
Jennifer Lynch, chief Canadian Human Rights Commission goon, refuses to appear on a Canadian talk show with Ezra Levant. So another Human Rights Commission loser is sent in her place – but he only appears on the condition that author, journalist and free-speech advocate Levant not argue with him. Mark Steyn weighs in: “Canada’s Chief Commissar of ‘Human Rights’, Jennifer Lynch, QC, calls for ‘balance‘, so feel free to provide some in the comments section.”
UPDATE. Uh-oh:
Australia’s discrimination watchdog has criticised human rights laws as “piecemeal”, weak and insufficient in protecting human rights, and called for an overhaul …
Australian Human Rights Commission president Catherine Branson, QC, said Australia was far behind other countries.
What odds she’s talking about the likes of Canada?
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Fielding gets no answer
Andrew Bolt
Steve Fielding confronts Climate Minister Penny Wong with his question: why has the world not warmed these past seven eight years when we’re pumping out more carbon dioxide than ever?
AUSTRALIA’S top scientists have met Family First senator Steve Fielding to try and convince him that climate change is real… It was a case of duelling scientists at the high-level meeting in Canberra today. Senator Fielding took along a team of sceptical scientists.
In Climate Change Minister Penny Wong’s corner were Australia’s chief scientist, Penny Sackett, and eminent climate scientist Will Steffen.
“Global warming quite clearly over the last decade hasn’t been actually occurring,” Senator Fielding said before the meeting… He took charts into today’s meeting to show that global temperatures had not increased since 1998…
Prof Steffen emerged from the 90-minute meeting to say that global warming was real. While 1998 was a particularly hot year, the decade since had remained warmer than average.
“The climate’s still pretty warm,” the Australian National University academic said....
A spokesman for Senator Fielding said the evidence put forward by his team had given Senator Wong food for thought. The Senator felt his key questions had not been answered in the meeting, but he was going to spend some time thinking it over.
It sounds indeed as if Fielding got no answer to his very interesting question.
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Things fall apart
Andrew Bolt
Another tale of disintegration and despair from this Time of the Deep Sigh:
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl who was allowed to live with her 15-year-old boyfriend despite her father’s pleas to DOCS is set to become one of the state’s youngest mothers.
The girl had shared a bed with the father of the unborn child from the age of 11 after her mother allowed him to move into their home.
But although her father, who is separated from the mother, repeatedly pleaded with staff at the Department of Community Services helpline they did nothing about the situation.
Police said they were also unable to intervene because both children were under the age of consent. If the boy was 18 police would have immediately begun a criminal investigation.
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Excuse spiked
Andrew Bolt
This will surprise you, of course:
SUSPECTED victims of drink spiking are more likely to be suffering from drugs and alcohol they have willingly consumed, according to Australian research. Of 100 suspected drink-spiking cases reviewed in a West Australian study, none were found to involve being slipped a sedative or illicit drug.
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Iran’s new revolution
Andrew Bolt
Iran’s theocracy is on the brink:
Hundreds of thousands of opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied an Interior Ministry ban Monday and streamed into central Tehran to cheer their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since elections that he alleges were marred by fraud. Gunfire from a compound used by pro-government militia killed one demonstrator.
The outpouring in Azadi, or Freedom, Square for reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi - swelling as more poured from buildings and side streets - followed a decision by Iran’s most powerful figure for an investigation into the vote-rigging allegations… Hours earlier, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directed one of Iran’s most influential bodies, the Guardian Council, to examine the claims.
One of those claims is that Ahmadinejad actually came third:
(R)eports circulated of leaked interior ministry statistics showing ("reformist" presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi) as the clear victor in last Friday’s polls.
The statistics, circulated on Iranian blogs and websites, claimed Mr Mousavi had won 19.1 million votes while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won only 5.7 million. The two other candidates, reformist Mehdi Karoubi and hardliner Mohsen Rezai, won 13.4 million and 3.7 million respectively. The authenticity of the leaked figures could not be confirmed.
Less in dispute is that police are killing protesters - almost certainly goading the rest into even greater anger:
Iraq’s democracy now stands as a model and inspiration in the region. If only Barack Obama would say so.
Instead, what he’s said so far is troublingly little, and off key:
On the eve of Friday’s election in Iran, President Barack Obama told reporters: “We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran. Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact there has been a robust debate hopefully will advance our ability to engage them in new ways.” But almost immediately after the polls closed, election authorities miraculously claimed to have counted millions of paper ballots and named the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner.
And now it’s Biden whose sent out to mumble:
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. cast doubt Sunday on the legitimacy of the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, but reaffirmed the administration’s intent to try to engage the Iranian government…
Last week, a senior administration official explained that Mr. Obama’s plan to give engagement until the end of the year to show success would stand no matter who won… On Sunday, Mr. Obama received intelligence updates on the situation in Iran and conferred with Mr. Biden before the television appearance, but he did not convene any high-level White House meetings or conference calls on Sunday, a senior White House official said.
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Free cash has no value
Andrew Bolt
Exactly the waste you get with spend-spend, rush-rush “free money”:
HOLLAND Park State School in Kevin Rudd’s suburban Brisbane electorate just finished building a brand new multi-purpose hall for $1.3 million, but under the federal government’s school infrastructure program they will receive $1.5m to build another. The school also received $1.5m to build a resource centre - the modern word for library - even though it already has a perfectly good library.
Under the $14.7 billion Building the Education Revolution, as interpreted by the Queensland Education Department, schools must give priority to building a library before considering any other project.
P&C president Craig Mayne said the school had no choice but to check the boxes for the $3m it is entitled to under the Primary Schools for the 21st Century program, even though it would rather reconfigure its classrooms to accommodate some big classes.
Mayne, a structural engineer, says the spending rules are nuts:
Effectively it means, if the school is granted $3m, it will cost $3m. There’s no competitive tender process at all.
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Do as I say, not as I preach
Andrew Bolt
To save the planet, Tim Flannery wants you to cut the kind of gases that he won’t, being so keen to fly.
To save the planet, Tim Flannery wants you to be as “hard-hitting” against business as he isn’t, being so keen for their dollars:
Flannery: I think that action campaigns that remain within the law but still are hard-hitting towards the offending industries is important. It’s one thing that students can do that we can’t do because I’m, you know, engaged with business and others, and, you know, I, I, I, I, I can’t do that, but young people have got time.
Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty likewise demonstrates that what’s demanded from a modern eco-preacher is not any real sacrifice but noble guilt:
LAST Thursday in Belfast: I’m off soon for a flight to Heathrow, then the 22:25 Qantas flight to Melbourne via Singapore.... That’s our expectation, tourist, scientist, business executive or whatever, that we can fly anywhere any time with no cost beyond the price of the ticket. But we know that’s not true. There’s a carbon cost. My personal carbon signature is awful!
As I board the Boeing 747 at Heathrow, I might think: “What an extraordinary machine, how ingenious we are!” Perhaps, though, I could pause for an instant and consider: “This thing burns fossil fuel, are we so smart?"… What will happen to Australia’s tourism industry if only a very few can afford to fly long distances, or choose not to because of the greenhouse gas issue?
Will we take more time and go by boat?
Doherty wrote this back in Australia. He didn’t get back by boat.
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If we’re all great, none of us are
Andrew Bolt
Lloyd Marcus on why he’s against affirmative action:
I still remember the knot in my stomach upon seeing the sea of white faces from the window of our school bus. It was the first day of school 1961. We came from a neighboring black community, about a hundred or so of us, to the newly integrated white Jr/Sr high school with thousands of students. Everything intimidated me, the massive school building, being around whites for the first time, feeling small, seventh grade school work (would I measure up) and my stutter.
The night before, I shared my fears with my preacher dad. Dad gave his typical answer, “Trust God"…
However, things did get better. Mr. Gomer, my art teacher and Ms Hornet, my English/creative writing teacher recognized my talents and nurtured them. Still, I felt pretty invisible at Brooklyn Park Jr/Sr High in Maryland. The popular black students in the mostly white school were athletically and/or academically gifted. I was neither.
Then something wonderful happened. Every month, the best four art pieces from the entire school art classes were displayed in the lobby. My paintings were selected numerous times. This was not Affirmative Action. My paintings were displayed solely based on merit.
This achievement helped me to realize I had talent. It dramatically impacted my self esteem and life. I won scholarships to art college and enjoyed an award winning career as a television Graphic Designer.
But what if my school had embraced a liberal mindset so prevalent today? “EVERY child should experience the feeling of having their artwork displayed in the lobby. It’s only fair”. If every student’s artwork was displayed, it would have robbed me of the knowledge that I possessed above average artistic talent.
UPDATE
Meanwhile in Britain, more proof that when everyone is great, no one is:
The senior official who ran the country’s schools until last year has condemned the comprehensive system, saying academic standards have suffered because of an obsession with fairness. In a startling indictment of Government policy, Ralph Tabberer, the former director-general of schools, said not enough emphasis had been put on “scholarship, genuinely high quality study and its importance”.
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Major Defeat for Far Left
By Bill O'Reilly
As we reported Thursday night, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and some other far-left members of the House were fighting hard for the option of releasing graphic pictures of prisoner abuse by U.S. service people. Those pictures were taken as part of criminal investigations against the abusers.
Now President Obama made it clear the release of the pictures would incite violence against Americans abroad and put our service people in even more danger. And the Senate agreed, voting overwhelmingly to keep the pictures locked down. But Pelosi and her gang continued the madness.
Well, Thursday night, the president sent Rahm Emanuel to the Hill to once again tell Congress the pictures would not be released, and a federal court backed Mr. Obama. So, for now, the pictures will remain secure.
And we once again advise any media organization that gets leaked pictures to think long and hard about publishing them.
So this is a huge victory for clear-thinking Americans, and I want to personally thank all of you who wrote to Nancy Pelosi. You are patriots. I also want you to remember what the speaker and her far-left companions did.
Now, it's beyond belief, but some of those agitating for the release of the pictures are behind the campaign smearing me and others over the murder of late-term abortionist Dr. Tiller. One of the biggest haters working in the newspaper industry today, far-left guy Paul Krugman, actually had the audacity to write a column entitled "The Big Hate," where he branded me, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and other commentators as dangerous to society. Since Krugman's hatred towards President Bush and conservatives in general is just about unmatched, that is a stunning piece of hypocrisy.
The far left is keeping the Tiller controversy going because it is failing almost everywhere, and this red herring is pretty much all they have. The editor of Salon encapsulated the far-left view.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM EDITOR: When Bill O'Reilly goes on TV every night and calls Dr. Tiller a baby killer and a Nazi, a Mengele, and shows where he works. Why do we put up with that?
O'REILLY: And in Kansas, hundreds, perhaps thousands of babies have been aborted by Dr. Tiller. The price, $5,000 each. Is this what we want in America? Is it? This is the kind of stuff that happens to Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
So you can see my words have context and they are true. Don't believe me? Listen to Kelly, who at age 13 went to Tiller for a late-term abortion.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KELLY: Dr. Tiller came in and injected into the amniotic sack saline solution, which suffocated and burned my baby to death. And they told me to sit on the toilet, lean on the nurse and push, push my baby into a toilet. And after that, they wheel you into another room to remove all the, you know, afterbirth. And really that's the only two times I ever saw the doctor, was when he injected the saline solution and when he finished the process by removing the afterbirth.
O'REILLY: But Tiller himself, when he injected the fetus with the killing agent and then when he took the after birth, he never said anything to you at all?
KELLY: "This will all be over soon."
O'REILLY: "This will all be over soon." What happened to the body?
KELLY: I have no idea. I left my baby dead in the toilet.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Now, I held back replaying that harrowing account because of the murder of Dr. Tiller by a domestic terrorist. As we've stated, this country cannot tolerate vigilantism. What Tiller did was legal in Kansas; illegal in 37 other states. But what Tiller did on many occasions was absolutely wrong.
For my opinion, the far left has branded me an accomplice to the murder. You make the call.
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