=== Todays Toon ===
Contempt, thy name is KevinKevvy favours his home State of Qld. and slights NSW
The object of my attention this week is how the Feds -- ie Rudd -- is treating the states with contempt; and in particular PM Kevin Rudd's contempt for NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, as was blindingly obvious last week. Did you see the footage? It was dreadful.
=== Bible Quote ===
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”- Romans 15:13=== Headlines ===
As Americans wait for Congress to act on bill, only 35 percent support health care, Fox News poll finds.
Health Care On the Clock
With House Dems unveiling health care changes, the proposed legislation is now on a 72-hour clock for review before an expected Sunday vote
Major Glitches Plague 2010 Census
Census Bureau's failure to modernize system has caused technical difficulties in conducting decennial census
Teacher Hangs President in Effigy
Fired Rhode Island teacher upset with Obama's comments that failing school be held accountable
Scientists a Step Closer to Making Cloak of Invisibility a Reality
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were able to cloak a tiny bump in a layer of gold, preventing its detection at nearly visible infrared frequencies.
More Details Emerge in Calif. Runaway Prius Case
A California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius last week arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with emergency lights on.
Five-year-old British boy Sahil Saeed is reunited with his family in England following a 12-day kidnapping ordeal in Pakistan, as police arrest five people over the incident.
Gran's lethal recipe for revenge
A WOMAN ordered two gruesome deaths as calmly as she talked about cooking, a court hears.
Aussie trip not good for Obama's health
US President postpones his trip for the second time to focus on the "battle" for healthcare reform.
Parental call for concert classification
A PARENT who took her young daughter to Lady Gaga's concert says she was "shocked".
Rainbows seal teen's $23m property deal
FENG Shui, a tree and two "lucky" rainbows help a Gold Coast teen clinch his first property deal.
Aussie comic pours scorn on Bindi Irwin
COMEDIAN Fiona O'Loughlin has called Bindi Irwin a creep who needs a slap in the face.
Voting tide turns against Labor states
LABOR faces losing two states with close elections predicted in South Australian and Tasmania.
Cocaine king Buttrose's reign ends
AUSTRALIAN media legend Ita Buttrose's nephew Richard has begun a 16-year jail term knowing his "little black book" has implicated dozens of society's elite.
Girl's body 'found in church roof'
A BODY found hidden in the roof of an Italian church is thought to be that of a teenager missing since 1993.
NSW slugged the biggest power hike - electricity bills set to jump $918
NSW residents will be hit with the largest electricity price increases in the state's history with power bills set to soar by up to $918 over the next three years. And $300 of that rise will be directly attributable to the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme.
=== Journalists Corner ===
Passing the Senate's health care bill without even voting?
Rep. John Boehner reacts to the dems' tactic in the House!
Guest: Rod Blagojevich
What does he make of accusations that shady deals are being made to push through health care?
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A Girl Scouts Shocker!
Famous for selling cookies - you won't believe what they're accused of offering now! The "Culture Warriors" explain!
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Guest: Drew Carey
He exposes what triggered Cleveland's meltdown and how other cities could meet the same fate.
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Why the Health Care Debate Is so IntenseBy Bill O'Reilly
Not since the Iraq war have Americans been so bitterly divided over an issue.
On Wednesday, a new Wall Street Journal poll says 48 percent of Americans say Obamacare is a bad idea. Just 36 percent support the president's health care reform vision.
In addition, only 17 percent of Americans believe Congress is doing a good job right now. That incredibly low stat reflects the chaos surrounding Obamacare.
Tuesday night on "The Factor," Fox News political analyst Charles Krauthammer defined the issue clearly: This is a battle between Americans who value self-reliance above government assistance.
The anti-Obamacare mindset is that the less government intrusion, the better off an American citizen will be. The pro-Obamacare camp tends to believe the feds have an obligation to impose social justice on the country. That is, take from the rich and give to the poor. And that reflects the president's philosophy. There is no question about it.
Most Americans agree that health care reform is needed. You can't have insurance companies kicking people off the rolls when they get sick, and you can't have Americans not able to see a doctor because they don't have enough money. There have to be safety nets in a civilized society.
But the Democrats want much more. They want to even the playing field in almost every aspect of life. So if you are poorly educated and cannot earn much money, the Democrats believe the government should give you as much security as possible. And the Obama administration seems to be willing to run up a huge debt in order to make that happen.
As you may know, the Treasury Department recently announced the Obama administration has added $2 trillion to the federal debt in just one year. Of course, some of that is understandable. When the president took office, the economy was in dire shape. The feds had to act to stop some of the bleeding. But now the country is on a wild spending spree in order to impose social justice.
The governor of New Jersey announced drastic spending cuts because that state is on the verge of bankruptcy. Predictably, the Democrats screamed. They don't want spending cuts.
So the battle lines are drawn, and it seems most Americans are siding with less government, less spending.
But remember: 53 percent of Americans voted for Barack Obama, who is a committed liberal. But now with Obamacare and the huge federal debt, Americans are seeing exactly what the left-wing philosophy entails.
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TAXPAYERS PEELED
Tim Blair
You haven’t been properly denounced until you’ve been denounced by an airborne Canadian banana:
An Argentinian artist name Caesar Saëz who lived in Quebec applied to the Canada Arts Council and to the Quebec counterpart (le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec) to create a 300-metre long flying banana made of bamboo and a type of synthetic paper (resembling Tyvex?) in order to denounce George Bush. The banana was to fly over the state of Texas.Key word: “was”. Click to learn of the banana’s fate, and click here for an interview featuring the repeated demand: “Where is the banana?”
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OUR PLANET IS DOOMED
Tim Blair
Behold the awesome destructive power of global warming:
Researchers have found that because of a rise in temperature, caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions by humans, the common brown butterfly now emerges from its cocoon 10 days earlier than it did 65 years ago.If only we’d listened to Al Gore, this tragedy may have been averted.
(Via Mark Steyn, who demands: “Stop the presses!")
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Never mind the trees, hear the Forrest
Andrew Bolt
What an inspirational speaker Andrew Forrest is - and in such a great cause. My own doubts about the work-readiness of so many Aboriginal youths while their culture out bush is so dysfunctional seem petty and almost sinful, after hearing him launch Generation One - a project to help more Aborigines into jobs:
ANDREW FORREST: My first mates really ‘til I was nine were Aboriginal kids and then I got sent off to an Aboriginal hostel. You know so in all that experience of childhood they taught me how to track, how to hunt, how to fight, how to just communicate with all different walks of life.
And I remember, you know, this bloke made me feel about 10 feet tall. He’s this fella called Scotty Blake. He was like a member of our family. He was an old fella. And he was really my first non-family mentor.
And he just put his hand on my head and he encouraged me. And he just said, actually mate I believe in you. You can bloody do this. And I was only three feet tall, I felt 10 feet tall. He just made me think how important mentoring is.
And as I grew up I saw the disparity between blackfellas and whitefellas, for all the money whitefellas were throwing at it the disparity was increasing and increasing and increasing and they were my people.
And the only difference between those kids and me, they had bright stars in their eyes. They were smarter than me, they ran faster than me, they acted better, they sang better. But they didn’t get the opportunity. They didn’t have a continuous stream of people who could mentor, people who cared, people who picked them up.
I’ve gone backwards in my life plenty of times but there was someone there, my buddy, my mentor who could stand up for me, who could say listen, have another crack son....
But the other part of it is that I was expected to move on. I was expected to pick myself up out of the dust.
It’s that lack of expectation. It’s that lack of self will where opportunity is replaced by a flow of money, where education doesn’t lead to relevant training, where training if it does exist, where it exists and in Australia hell, we fund billions of dollars of it, but is it matched to the job?
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Mal: Maybe Mossad stole my trousers
Andrew Bolt
The scary thing is that Malcolm Fraser is now so far to the Left that he probably actually believes it:
Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs (is) jointly written by Fraser and Margaret Simons. According to Simons, Fraser wanted to expose himself to critical questioning. So the co-authored book attempts to be both biography and autobiography which, of course, is impossible.Paul Toohey goes on to give some gossip of the kind that suggests Mossad may not have sent secret agents across the world to snatch Mal’s daks.
As is the attempt to finally make go away what happened in Memphis, in 1986, when Fraser lost his pants…
“So what happened in Memphis?” asks the book. “Fraser gave some brief comments to the media at the time but has never expanded on them. He does not intend to do so now.”
So much for the critical questioning…
The book explains (Fraser) ... went to town “hoping to find some of the famous live blues venues”. He went for a drink at the flash Peabody Hotel but “awoke in a very different place: the Admiral Benbow Hotel, a notoriously seedy dive”.
It goes on: “Today, both (wife) Tamie and (personal assistant) Heather Barwick are convinced Fraser was telling the truth, that he was drugged.”
Well, yes. The book proposes he may have been the victim of a simple crime, but hints that darker forces were at work.
Who? It doesn’t say. The likely suspects were the CIA, because the US was at the time standing in the way of the sanctions, or maybe Mossad, because Israel was apparently selling arms to South Africa and didn’t want Fraser wrecking the deal.
“However,” says the book, “he prefers not to entertain conspiracy theories.”
I once went to Memphis looking for Fraser’s pants. I did not find them but I did find other things…(Thanks to reader David.)
Fraser had checked into the Benbow after midnight, signing in with a scrawl that appeared to read “Joan Jones” from Victoria, and paid for the room with a $100 bill. Fraser later told the Memphis Commercial Appeal he had not called the police about his missing $10,000 Rolex, passport, wallet, $600 cash and, let’s not forget, his trousers because “I had a busy schedule to keep and chances of getting my stuff back seemed pretty remote”.
Fraser was most likely drugged at the classy Peabody by an attractive woman. After the story broke, Janine Perrett, a New York correspondent for The Australian, wrote how “poor old Malcolm was suffering memory losses”.
But she could jog his memory a short time later in New York, where Fraser promised her “an exclusive interview on the merits of floating exchange rates”. The interview never happened. Instead, Fraser wanted to go with Perrett to a “dark, smoky, smoochy bar”.
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Overheating detected in Arctic
Andrew Bolt
Not everyone writing for Nature is a warming alarmist. Take Johannes Oerlemans, professor of meteorology at Utrecht University’s Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, who takes a stick to Henry Pollack, author of the latest scare-book:
A World Without Ice opens with a strong foreword from Al Gore: the science has been done — now we must act. .... Pollack’s patchwork assessment of the science of ice and climate ... gets off to a bad start by adding drama. Writing in his preface that “Throughout most of Earth’s history, ice has been an indomitable force of nature”, Pollack sidesteps the consensus view that for the majority of Earth’s past there was little or no ice…(Thanks to reader Michael.)
Similarly, he cites mountain glaciers as the direct source of water for almost a quarter of the world’s population, when in reality the bulk comes from rain and seasonal snow…
In his investigation of the regional effects of global warming on ice, snow and permafrost, Pollack adopts a fearful tone, suggesting that any change in the environment should be interpreted as a local disaster. He lists the many locations where glaciers are retreating, sea-ice coverage is shrinking, permafrost thawing and ski areas declining. And he cautions
that “in only a few decades the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free in the summer, for the first time in 55 million years”.
Yet he forgets that, during the Holocene climatic optimum about 9,000 to 6,000 years ago when summer temperatures in the subarctic regions were 2–5 °C higher than today, the Arctic Ocean in summer was probably ice-free on a regular basis…
Again, his discussion of the ice sheets and sea-level rise is too dramatic: for example, it has not been established that the Greenland ice sheet will melt away in a few centuries once we pass the ‘tipping point’....
For example, it is clear that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is currently losing mass, but there is abundant evidence that the shrinkage has been happening for the past 15,000 years, mainly in response to rising sea levels initiated by deglaciation in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Can’t they just follow our laws?
Andrew Bolt
Margaret Kelly is rightly alarmed by the Brennan committee’s recommendation that public servants become activists:
Chairman Frank Brennan wants to amend the Judicial Review Act to make it a legal error if public servants’ decisions fail to take into account Australia’s international and human rights obligations as a relevant factor.
This list is to include some rights from the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as economic rights to an adequate standard of living including food, housing and clothing, to the highest attainable standard of health, and to education ...
How is this to work?
Take a decision by a public servant that a person is entitled to a pension. Ordinarily, this will not occur if the applicant has not met the criteria set down in the statute and the regulations. But under Brennan’s system the public servant will have to consider not just the criteria set down by parliament but the list of rights.
As well as civil and political rights, Brennan would have the decision-maker take into account the rights to an adequate standard of living including food, housing and clothing. Of course the government and parliament have already considered these matters in framing the legislation. But the public servant has to address their mind to these rights as super-added relevant factors. How can they do this? How much time should they take? What would be reasonable in the circumstances? Does the public servant need to tell the applicant what they are doing or not doing, to avoid any complaint of breach of natural justice? Should they make further inquiries?…
This recommendation is an invitation to administrative hell.
But there is more. If the decision goes to the courts for judicial review, how are they to determine whether the rights were taken into account?…
This is an inducement to judicial adventurism, with nothing to guide the courts except their own perceptions.
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I was wrong: Dawkins is still a barbarian
Andrew Bolt
Like many journalists and, I’d guess, many of the audience, I assumed from Richard Dawkins’ slur that he was referring to the German Pope Benedict when he sneered at “Pope Nazi”.
Dawkins now insists he was vilifying another Pope (and also with monstrous unfairness) - and isn’t sorry at all, either, for his playground insult of Senator Steve Fielding:
The context was a question about new candidates for sainthood. The pope that is currently up for canonization is Pius XII, and it was him to whom I was referring as ‘Pope Nazi’. I think they are still ratifying his ‘miracles’, but I’m up the Murray River with a paddle (steamer) and not in a position to look up the Monty Python-style details.(Thanks to reader TQS.)
It would be unfair to call Ratzinger a nazi, since he was young when he joined the Hitler Youth, and boys of his age didn’t have much choice.
My remark about Senator Fielding was not public, but I made it in a private conversation to Robyn Williams, one of Australia’s Living National Treasures. Robyn subsequently made it public in his speech at the conference, which I don’t mind, but I wouldn’t like it to be thought that I had publicly insulted any earthworm.
I made the comparison, not because Fielding is religious (as Melanie Phillips implies) but because he thinks the question of whether the Earth is billions of years old, or only thousands, is a matter of personal opinion rather than objective evidence.
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Holding the president to account
Andrew Bolt
Fox News’ Bret Baier gives Barack Obama the toughest interview of his career. No to any filibustering. No bowing. And tough questions on all the bribes Obama is passing to get support for his monster bill - questions Obama dodges.
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al Qaida screams
Andrew Bolt
Good, if true:
AL-QA’IDA is on the run and leaders, including Osama bin Laden, have been driven deeper underground, the CIA chief has declared as the US claimed the scalp of another top terrorist.
CIA director Leon Panetta credited the spy agency’s “most aggressive operation” for the global terror group’s vastly reduced ability to attack the West.
He said strikes on hideouts in Pakistan’s tribal areas had shattered morale in al-Qa’ida, citing an intercepted message in which a lieutenant apparently pleaded for bin Laden to rescue the group....
Mr Panetta said more than half of al-Qa’ida’s top 20 commanders, and hundreds of militants, had been killed in Pakistan military operations and targeted attacks on the region over recent months.
US officials yesterday claimed to have once again struck al-Qa’ida’s top ranks, with the death of explosives expert and planner Hussein al-Yemeni. Yemeni, believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in southern Afghanistan last December, was killed in a missile strike on Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan....
Last month’s arrest of the Afghan TalibanNo 2 commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar - and subsequent CIA access to Baradar - also pointed to improving ties with Pakistan’s intelligence service, Mr Panetta added.
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If they vote green, I vote we don’t later bail them out
Andrew Bolt
Bad news for Tasmania - it really is mad enough to give the Greens a big say:
A Newspoll conducted exclusively for The Australian shows no party will have the numbers to govern in its own right, with the Greens set to secure a remarkable quarter of primary votes....If the Greens now help to kill jobs, does the rest of the country really have to stump up the cash later to bail Tasmania out?
Instead, the poll, conducted this week, shows Labor’s primary support across all electorates is 35 per cent to the Liberals’ 36.5 per cent and the Greens’ 25.5 per cent.
A review of first preferences at the electorate level suggests Labor could lose up to five seats, crashing from 14 in the 25-seat assembly to just nine.
Under this “worst case” scenario for Labor, the Liberals would gain three seats to move to 10 and the Greens would gain two to move to six.
UPDATE
No, if Tasmanians want to vote against pulp mills and other job creators banned by the Greens, then there’s no obligation on the rest of us to bail them out of their folly with make-work handouts like these:
Assistant Treasurer and Labor Senator for Tasmania, Senator Nick Sherry ... today announced Australian Government funding to support jobs and traineeships in the local region.You want the money? Then earn it.
The two new local projects will receive a total of almost $2.8 million dollars…
The new projects are:
The restoration of the Tasmanian tall ship - the Julie Burgess.
The establishment of four community infrastructure construction and maintenance teams.
These local projects will receive funding under the Australian Government’s Job Fund…
The Devonport City Council will receive $1.87 million under the first round of the Get Communities Working and the Local Jobs Streams of the Australian Government’s $650 million Jobs Fund…
The Assistant Treasurer said these latest announcements add to the $1.5 in funds for the Burnie City Council’s Waterfront Boardwalk Project and the Mersey Natural Resource Management Group for feral tree removal.
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More barbarian TV on your ABC
Andrew Bolt
There’s a strong culture of f-you hate in comedians of the Left, and, no, I’m not writing again about Catherine Deveny but another ABC guest:
ALCOHOLIC comedian Fiona O’Loughlin has sunk to a new low, calling Bindi Irwin (above) a creep who needs a slap in the face.
Viewers branded O’Loughlin spiteful and hateful after her performance on Wednesday’s episode of ABC music quiz Spicks and Specks.
O’Loughlin described 11-year-old Bindi as a “bit creepy” before doing an over-the-top impersonation of the child star’s voice.
She then made a gesture indicating Bindi was crazy, before miming a slap across the child star’s face.
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Not worth Obama’s time
Andrew Bolt
Barack Obama has now scrapped his trip to Australia completely, after already slashing it to one day of ceremonial chit chat.
A bit embarrassing for Kevin Rudd, who’d have loved a visit in this election year, but - like him - Obama is battling to get through his health reforms, and needs to stay to twist arms.
(Thanks to readers Wotchathink, Merilyn and Sally.)
UPDATE
Mr Obama will now make the trip in June.UPDATE 2
“The president greatly regrets the delay,” Mr Gibbs said. “Our international alliances are critical to America’s security and economic progress, but passage of health-insurance reform is of paramount importance, and the president is determined to see this battle through.”
According to some media reports, Mr Obama has told wavering Democrats that his Presidency is on the lines over the healthcare debate.UPDATE 3
Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, makes the announcement of just where Rudd stands:
As a result, the President telephoned the leader of Indonesia and will call the leader of Australia later this afternoon, and told them that he must postpone his planned visits for a later date so that he can remain in Washington for this critical vote. The President now expects to visit Indonesia in June.So Obama warned the Indonesian president beforehand, but left it to the media to first tell Rudd. And the public commitment to come in June is made to Indonesia, not necessarily to Australia.
UPDATE 4
Has Australia just joined the list of American allies Obama takes for granted?
As Abe Greenwald describes the phenomenon:
If you’re an enemy we’re sorry; if you’re a friend you’re sorry.Or as Paul Mirengoff explains it:
Perhaps there is a side of him that harbors contempt for nations that find large amounts of common ground with the U.S., a country for which Obama himself feels the need constantly to apologize. Or perhaps, Obama sees himself as a philosopher king, a “neutral” who stands above the usual politics of favoring particular nations. From this lofty, ahistorical perch, it may be possible to view Britain as “the same as the other 190 countries in the world.”UPDATE 5
Reader Ian C notes what I missed - that later in the press conference Gibbs indeed indicated we’d be visited in June, too:
....the best course of business was to reschedule Indonesia and Australia for June...
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How not to give a press conference
Andrew Bolt
Victorian Planning Minister Justin Madden says he’s carefully studied the controversial 91m tower in the Windsor development before giving it his approval. Let’s go to the video:
Reporter: You don’t know how many floors it is?And then this exchange:
Madden: ....this is a trick question…
Reporter: You said 37 before…And then his new media adviser learns she’s out of a job.
Madden: It’s, it’s, it’s....
Media adviser: 26.
Madden: 27…
Media adviser: 26.
Madden: It is 26.
Madden: I don’t take advice from my media adviser.
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Our too secret police
Andrew Bolt
WE didn’t need our police chief to finally admit this week he’s hiding the truth about our ethnic crime.
That deceit was already obvious when police last month published a bizarre appeal on their Crime Stoppers website.
They wanted your help to find a man who’d grabbed a 14-year-old schoolgirl walking on an East Brighton street and tried to drag her into a van.
Here’s the official police description of him: “The man is described as about 30 years old, 190cm, dark complexion, very white teeth, and short, curly black hair.”
Hmm. Dark complexion? That could mean we must all look out for some deeply tanned Australian. Or perhaps an Italian. Or are police after an Indian, an Aboriginal or a Maori?
Answer: none of the above. In fact, the wanted man is an African, but the police were too polite to tell you for fear you might get the wrong idea, which in this case is that the man they want you to help find is actually, er, African. And that he’s not “dark complexioned” but black.
All of which means the police would rather let a potential rapist escape than trust you with his description.
But let Chief Commissioner Simon Overland justify this bizarre policy. Asked on 3AW this week if he’d tell the public a wanted man was “black”, he waffled: “No, not necessarily. Nor would we say ‘white’.”
Yet police will say “dark complexioned”. Go figure. But I’m interrupting ...
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Rudd helps builders to your open wallet
Andrew Bolt
Just one more example of the extraordinary cost blowout and rorting of the Rudd Government’s $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution spendathon:
WHEN builder Robert Gribble heard the federal government was paying almost $1 million for a new covered outdoor learning area to be built at a school on the NSW north coast, he allowed himself a wry chuckle.Read on, and know this is just one of thousands of projects sucking up your taxes.
“Gee, I wouldn’t mind having a piece of that,” he said.
And it’s no wonder. Because while the project’s managing contractor, the Reed Group, is overseeing the $954,269 contract to build the COLA at Hastings Public School in Port Macquarie, Mr Gribble, who works nearby, reckons he could do the same job for a tick over $123,000....
A breakdown of the Hastings project’s costs reveals that the COLA structure itself will cost $471,156. The remainder of the budget is largely made up of site management costs, “preliminaries” and miscellaneous services. But Mr Gribble estimates that the COLA itself, and the concrete slab on which it is built, should only cost about $100,000.
UPDATE
The sums being hoovered out your wallet by the big builders are amazing:
A HANDFUL of the nation’s major construction companies will share in profits of more than $130 million in NSW alone under the federal government’s school building stimulus scheme.
The first comprehensive analysis of fees charged to the scheme, conducted by The Australian, shows managing contractors in NSW will earn $134m in profits and be paid an estimated further $80m in “project management” fees to oversee the work.
On top of those charges, the contractors - which include Brookfield Multiplex, Laing O’Rourke and Abigroup - will be paid $200m to fund site management costs, which cover organising tradespeople and ensuring the safety of children at the schools.
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Who let them in?
Andrew Bolt
Our guests makes themselves right at home:
GANGS of youth prowled a shopping centre, hurled chairs and terrified customers in a violent confrontation in Melbourne’s east.UPDATE
One man was armed with a hammer and another with a wooden stake during the incident which resulted in peak hour train commuters scurrying to safety and customers hiding in stores at Box Hill’s central shopping precinct…
A witness who did not want to be identified described how at least 10 young men, of Sudanese appearance, stalked the streets for more than 20 minutes apparently hunting members of a Maori gang.
The police media release:
Friday, 19 March 2010 02:57
Police have charged six men following a fight at the Centro Whitehorse Plaza in Box Hill yesterday afternoon.
Police arrested nine men and three were released without charge.
The other six, ranging in ages from 18 - 23 years and from the eastern and south eastern suburbs were charged with affray.
They were bailed by police to appear in the Ringwood Magistrate’s Court at a later date.
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CSIRO shames itself
Andrew Bolt
THE CSIRO, once our top scientific institution, this week showed how shoddy and politicised it’s become.
It’s issued State of the Climate, a pamphlet it drew up with the Bureau of Meteorology, to silence the sceptics of catastrophic man-made warming.
“Climate change is real,” it announced. The proof was that Australia’s mean temperature went up 0.7 degrees since 1960, seas were rising in some places by 3mm a year, and less rain now fell on our most settled areas.
Phew. That’s put me in my place. Or so you’d think from the uncritical coverage this propaganda got from the ABC, The Age and even the Herald Sun.
But the document, barely even six pages, despite its big graphs, is a testament not to the truth of man-made warming, but to the CSIRO’s decline.
First, no one doubts “climate change is real”. Climate changes all the time. For the CSIRO to suggest this is the debate is dishonest.
We’re also talking about global warming, so why does the CSIRO give only Australian temperatures?
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