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DELETION DAY
Tim Blair – Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (1:57am)
I’ll be inside a locked room within Parliament House all day for budget purposes. Unless Skywhale – praise be upon her – smashes me out of there, I won’t be able to post anything or load any comments.
So let’s make this a positive thing. As a therapy exercise, readers from all sides of politics are invited to submit their most defamatory, obscene and indefensible comments during my brief imprisonment. When I’m eventually liberated, I give my word that all comments will be published.
Minus, of course, anything defamatory, obscene or indefensible. Aim high! Aim for complete deletion!
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BE GENTLE WITH THE CUDDLE PUPPIES
Tim Blair – Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (1:27am)
ABC types and their supporters are becoming anxious ahead of September’s federal election. They fear a government led by Tony Abbott will eviscerate or even entirely privatise the public broadcaster, which currently struggles by on a mere $1 billion of your taxes every year.
The Sydney Morning Herald‘s Mike Carlton stood up for the ABC in his Saturday column, mainly because the broadcaster’s network of country radio stations are “a vibrant part of their communities, especially at flood or bushfire time”. One billion dollars seems rather a lot to provide a support system for rural disaster alerts, especially given recent developments in communications technology, but there you go.
In any case, the ABC won’t – and shouldn’t – be privatised. For one thing, Tony Abbott isn’t the vicious ABC-hating rationalist the left fear and the right wishes for. He’ll likely make a few tiny incisions here and there, but, alas, nothing major.
Secondly, it would just be unfair on ABC staff to have them thrown on to the open market. How could they cope in a world where budgets are dependent on earnings, unpopularity leads to cancellation and funding involves something more complicated than simply asking the government for money? It would be like dumping a bunch of timid city-born cuddle puppies into a piranha-infested Amazonian river. They’d be skeletonised within seconds.
Instead, I propose a gradual process that will gently introduce the ABC to reality. Under the Blair Reforms, ABC staffers would have sufficient time to adapt and possibly even thrive outside of their protective tax shell.
Central to the reforms would be legislation to cut ABC funding by a set amount every year. This would encourage ABC management to very slowly excise non-essential ABC programming from the broadcaster’s central mission (which is, as Carlton points out, providing vibrancy to regional Australians whose houses are on fire or underwater).
The amount to be cut should be set at $10 million per year, every year, until ABC funding is finally at zero. Think of it as analogous to the treatment of drug users. At current funding levels, these minor cuts will give the ABC more than 100 years before it is completely free of government dependence.
By then, even the shakiest ABC tax junkie should be able to cope.
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SANITY HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Tim Blair – Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (1:23am)
Former Fairfaxer Roger Franklin laments the Age‘s switch to leftoid genuflection. “An audience reduced to an amen choir,” writes Roger, “is no part of any sane business plan.”
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Swan’s final gift: three more big deficits
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (8:27pm)
Wayne Swan’s Budget last year promised a surplus this financial year and the years after:
This Budget delivers a surplus this coming year, on time, as promised, and surpluses each year after that, strengthening over time…Instead, utter failure:
The deficit years of the global recession are behind us. The surplus years are here.
In a surprise to markets and economic commentators, even after being softened up with pre-budget warnings of a current $17 billion revenue write-down, Mr Swan has revealed a fiscal shortfall for 2012/13 of $19.4 billion in place of what was forecast to be a budget surplus of $1.1 billion…Go, Mr Swan. Just go.
Delivering what might well be his last budget, Mr Swan said next year’s balance sheet would show a similar deficit of $18 billion, shrinking to $11 billion in 2014/15, and tipping into the black by just $0.8 billion in 2015/16.
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In the name of Australia, go
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (1:14pm)
I’m off to read the
Budget - Wayne Swan’s final reckoning. And I’m in a mood to channel some
of Oliver Cromwell’s speech on the dissolution of Parliament in 1653:
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!
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Let the Liberals restore the surplus first
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (11:17am)
Cut the entitlement and
cut the tax to pay for (most) of it. When we’re in debt, this is a
luxury for later - and possibly not even then:
ANOTHER Liberal figure has cast doubt on the coalition’s proposed paid parental leave scheme.
West Australian senator Alan Eggleston agrees in principle with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s plan - which offers 26 weeks’ paid leave for women earning up to $150,000 - but has concerns about its high cost.
“I think it should be supported but there seems to be widespread concern that the cost is pretty high at this current time,” he told AAP on Tuesday.
“Perhaps the broad outline (of the scheme) should be reviewed.”
The long-serving senator is the fourth Liberal member to speak against Mr Abbott’s plan after colleagues Alex Hawke, Dennis Jensen and Mal Washer labelled it economically irresponsible last week.
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Praise Giles, and save victims of the “stolen generations” myth
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (9:28am)
Adam Giles doesn’t like being racially typecast as the first indigenous Chief Minister, yet his heritage gives him license to tackle the ”stolen generations” myth that has left so many Aboriginal children in danger - and led to some being raped or killed:
NORTHERN Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles says he will remove neglected Aboriginal children from their parents and place them in adopted homes if necessary.I have tried to warn of this for years, and been called a racist for it:
Mr Giles, Australia’s first indigenous state or territory leader, said governments had failed Aboriginal children because of fears they would be accused of creating a new Stolen Generation, but he would not be put off by such accusations…
Mr Giles said despite the federal intervention, only one Aboriginal child had been adopted in the past decade.
“There are situations in the Northern Territory where nobody has been prepared to support a permanent adoption of a child for fear of Stolen Generation...”
[The] theory of the “stolen generations” is actually killing children...One of the worst cases:
Here is one example. Five years ago the Victorian government was told that child abuse involving Aboriginal children had soared, and the then Community Services Minister responded: “The solution is not to continue to take disproportionately high numbers of Koori children into care...” That’s right: Don’t remove them so much.
As the then family services coordinator of the Mildura Aboriginal Co-operative angrily noted: “Things have to be a hundred times worse for Kooris before the department will become involved.”
She is right. We consciously leave Aboriginal children in dangers we would never tolerate if these children were of any other race.
Just ask the New South Wales Child Death Review Team, which investigated why Aboriginal children of drug addicts were 10 times more likely to die under the noses of welfare officers than were children of white addicts.
It blamed a fear of the “stolen generations”, pleading: “A history of inappropriate intervention with Aboriginal families should not lead now to an equally inappropriate lack of intervention for Aboriginal children at serious risk.’’
In 2001, Western Australia’s deputy coroner tried again to warn us after investigating the death of a three-year-old Aboriginal boy from malnutrition and pneumonia.
She found the boy had been admitted to hospital three times before for pneumonia, and suffered many other infections as well as scabies, anaemia and impetigo. His mother wouldn’t give him prescribed medicines or feed him properly.
A doctor testified that she’d begged the Aboriginal case worker to at least remove the boy’s even more sickly twin sister, but had been told she didn’t understand Aboriginal ways of child-rearing.
The coroner concluded: “Experience has shown that in the long term taking Aboriginal children from their communities is not an effective solution socially, although in this case it may have been medically advisable. We have a dead child . . . ‘’
We have a dead child, she said. How many others must die in our homage to the “stolen generations’’?
I quote from yesterday’s Australian:More victims of the “stolen generations"myth:
And so this girl was sent back to Aurukun, to be pack-raped again.
A senior departmental official (said) the child involved was sexually abused at age seven and, as a safety measure, was put with various foster families, eventually ending up in 2005 with a non-indigenous family . . .
“These non-indigenous people were fantastic—ensuring she went to school, and the father actually took a year off his work to personally supervise this girl,” he said.
“But two new social workers were appointed to the north and they expressed the view, which was repeated many times to the investigating committee, that putting an indigenous child with white foster parents was another stolen generation . . .”
Read for yourself:Praise Giles for saying what desperately needs saying - and saying it in a way that might finally be believed.
An Aboriginal girl taken away? Horror! Instead, the dying girl was left where she was, for reasons untold.
A 12-year-old girl who died from blood poisoning after allegedly being left in the dirt outside her Darwin home would still be alive if she had been taken to a doctor, the Darwin Magistrates’ Court heard today.
The girl’s foster carers ... are charged with manslaughter.. [They were found not guilty.]
A niece of the accused women told the court she saw the girl on the morning she died, lying outside in the dirt. She said she asked why the 12-year-old was outside on the ground and one of the women replied she had “peed herself and soiled herself so we put her outside . . .” Yesterday the court heard that on the day the girl died, she was outside covered in ants and said she could see “fairies in the trees”.
The court also heard evidence two Family and Children’s Services officers came to the home the day before the girl died and saw her lying on the floor crying.
When they knelt down beside her and asked what was wrong, the accused women allegedly said she was just scared she would be taken away.
And there’s this, from Sydney:
The day before five-month-old Mundine Orcher died, officers from the Department of Community Services went to the home of his carers and delivered a fridge and a washing machine, but did not look at the boy.Explained another report:
The Aboriginal boy died the next day, after enduring attacks over the previous four weeks . . .
DoCS said the “indigenous community needs to be treated, in child protection terms, with constant sensitivity to the historical impact of . . . the stolen generations”.Here is the ghastly irony. I can name more dead children, betrayed by the “stolen generations” myth, than Manne can name children truly stolen.
However, the Ombudsman warned that the needs of children were easily overshadowed when such concerns are considered. In the case of Mundine and another member of his family, the Ombudsman found “evidence that the focus of intervention was other than their needs”.
But that Giles’ sane, obvious and tempered proposal should be tagged “controversial” tells us much that’s tragic.
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Had he just butchered the babies in the womb instead…
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (9:20am)
The difference between an abortionist killing a baby in the womb, or soon after birth is a charge of murder:
A PHILADELPHIA abortion doctor has been found guilty of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over abortion.This case has received little publicity in the mainstream media not just because the details are so horrific. It is also uncomfortable because it challenges so many comfortable assumptions about abortion just being about a woman’s right to choose, and not about a baby’s right to live.
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Death knell of the NBN?
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (9:17am)
Many readers today are
rightly wondering what this means for the Gillard Government’s
fixed-wire NBN, which will cost up to $90 billion to build:
Samsung on Sunday announced that it had developed a core component of its 5G network by solving a problem that has stymied the wireless industry, Yonhap News reported. Using the 28GHz waveband, Samsung says it has achieved download and upload speeds of tens of gigabits per second (Gbps). Current 4G LTE networks top out at around 75 megabits (Mbps).
In practice, that speed would allow wireless users to download a full HD movie in seconds. Samsung executives see the technology enabling a wide range of rich applications.
Samsung used 64 antenna elements in order to accomplish the high-speed data transfer, and said the company expects that it can commercialize the technology by 2020.
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Problem identified: McTernan thinks Labor is an army at war with other Australians
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (8:55am)
Julia Gillard’s fatal flaw is that she has tried to survive by dividing Australians and destroying her critics, rather than by simply governing well and for all.
That problem is illustrated perfectly by this anecdote:
On Monday, the eve of the federal budget, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s communications director John McTernan called Labor’s media advisor platoons together in Canberra’s parliament house for a motivational session.(Thanks to reader watty.)
He chose as his backdrop a large powerpoint screen featuring the opening scene from the 1970 Hollywood movie, Patton… And so blared out the immortal lines of tough-guy Patton addressing the US 6th Armored Division of the Third Army, revving them up in preparation for the bloody D-Day landings in France, in 1944.
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country,” Scott channels Patton. ”You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."…
Explaining his decision to harden-up government staffers in the style of a US general’s roughnecks preparing for one of World War II’s most famous battles, Mr McTernan later told Fairfax Media: “We fight and we fight to win.”
But Patton demanding that his soldiers make “the other poor dumb bastard die”?
“They’re good words,” Mr McTernan said.
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A space oddity is an astronaut who just does his job
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (8:40am)
I didn’t realise billions were spent for the purpose of making music videos in space, but at least the astronaut can sing:
In an online video, astronaut Chris Hadfield sings the David Bowie song “Space Oddity” while floating around in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.Might actually boost recruiting for astronaut school, too. But it’s odd that an astronaut singing now gets infinitely more publicity than an astronaut doing their real job.
The video features shots of a floating guitar that would look like a Hollywood special effect anywhere else. It also shows arresting images of the space station orbiting over Earth.
Once an astronaut was famous for going to the moon. Now they’re famous for singing about it.
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Big Government rounds up its critics
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (8:20am)
Astonishing. The US
Internal Revenue Service singled out conservative political groups for
treatment, demonstrating how easily Big Government can be turned against
critics of the politicians who promote it:
Coincidence?
...the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010. That was when the Cincinnati-based IRS unit responsible for overseeing the applications for tax exempt status starting using the phrases “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12? to search for applications warranting greater scrutiny.The Richmond Tea Party was one of the groups who received an intrusive and onerous demand for details of all who’d backed it:
During this first phase, 10 Tea Party cases were identified. By April of 2010, 18 Tea Party organizations were targeted, including three that had already been approved for tax-exempt status.
By June 2011, the unit had flagged over 100 Tea Party-related applications and the criteria used to scrutinize organizations had grown considerably, flagging not just “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in group names, but also groups that were working on issues like “government debt,” “taxes” and even organizations making statements that “criticize how the country is being run.”
The report, done by the Inspector General for the IRS, also shows that senior IRS officials in Washington was aware of what was going on as early as August 4, 2011 when, according to the report, the IRS chief counsel held a meeting with the IRS’s Rulings and Agreements unit “so that everyone would have the latest information on the issue.”
Hand over the names. You do trust Big Government with them, don’t you?
Coincidence?
In April 2012, VanderSloot, who served as the national co-chair of Mitt Romney’s presidential finance committee, was one of eight Romney backers to be defamed as “wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records” in a post on the Obama campaign’s website. The post… singled out VanderSloot for being a “litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”
Two months later, the IRS informed VanderSloot he and his wife were going to be audited… Two weeks after that, VanderSloot was notified by the Labor Department that it was going to “audit workers he employs on his Idaho-based cattle ranch under the federal visa program for temporary agriculture workers...”
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Referendum: giving Gillard and co. the power to run your council, too
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (8:06am)
One very prominent
Liberal tells me he and a former Ministerial colleague are likely to
campaign against Labor’s referendum proposal, which the Opposition has
unaccountably failed to oppose.
Tim Wilson explains the issue:
Tim Wilson explains the issue:
Last week Julia Gillard announced a referendum to amend the Constitution allowing the federal government to fund local government directly…
It will say no to local communities, and yes to a Canberra takeover…
Canberra freely will be able to direct local government by attaching policy strings to funding…
Part of the reason Labor and some Coalition MPs support the referendum is because it enables them to become kingmakers in their communities by tying federal government largesse to their preferred local outcomes.
If the referendum is successful the worst, sleazy NSW Labor Party behaviour will go national.
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If Palmer can’t even manage his own party …
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (7:58am)
The clown show continues:
Mining magnate Clive Palmer ... was given the news that the Australian Electoral Commission has rejected his party’s registration on a technicality as he appeared on ABC TV’s Q&A program on Monday night…
‘’The party submitted a list greater than 700 members and the AEC then advised they would only accept the application with 550 members,’’ he said in a media release…
On Sunday, he changed the party’s name from the United Australia Party to the Palmer United Party to avoid a legal battle with the AEC…
The party has resubmitted an application with 550 members in a bid to meet the Monday registration deadline before the election on September 14.
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Who’s the wombat now, Richard?
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (7:48am)
Former ABC Media Watch host Richard Ackland demonstrates my argument
perfectly - that a Leftist bias may indeed influence how you see the
world, and the ABC should not maintain a monoculture of the Left:
Richard Ackland rewrites history, minus some inconvenient facts. The Sydney Morning Herald, May 10:
(THE federal Coalition’s George) Brandis likes to wrap himself in his free speech virtue by proclaiming his support for journalists’ shield laws. His proposed amendments to the Evidence Act sought to give journalists some limited right to protect their confidential sources of information against courtroom discovery. “I’m a supporter of shield laws. In fact, I’m the author of the commonwealth’s shield laws,” he told Lateline host Emma Alberici on Tuesday night. Er, not quite. He put up one set of amendments ... allowing enough room for several stagecoaches and fours of horses to drive through.Chris Merritt, The Australian, September 28, 2010:BY shifting position and embracing the need for strong shield laws for journalists’ sources, Labor has turned a looming parliamentary defeat into a victory. But the price of this victory is high: in essence, it has adopted a policy of the Coalition - and independent senator Nick Xenophon - that it had rejected during its first term. Labor’s turnaround started before the election but the pressure for change intensified once it was obvious the Coalition and independents had the numbers to make their scheme law ... The push for this form of shield law can be traced to May last year when the Coalition, independents and Greens members of a Senate committee rejected an alternative scheme Labor was then backing.Ackland omits more inconvenient facts - in the same SMH article:
THEN there was (Brandis’s) claim that it was wrong for the commonwealth to settle its part of the case brought by James Ashby (against former Speaker Peter Slipper). He criticised the settlement as a breach of commonwealth litigation guidelines, saying “the commonwealth should never settle litigation merely to avoid future costs”. Again, he must have forgotten that Fair Work cases come under a no-costs jurisdiction.Here’s what the commonwealth’s special general counsel Damien O’Donovan wrote in the settlement offer he sent to Ashby’s lawyers on September 26 last year:
IN our assessment there are significant problems in fastening primary liability on the commonwealth ... However, in order to avoid the very significant expenses associated with ventilating these issues at trial, the commonwealth is prepared to make an offer based on a worst-case scenario analysis.Commonwealth Legal Services Directions, Appendix C, clause 2:
SETTLEMENT is not to be effected merely because of the cost of defending what is clearly a spurious claim.Who is the wombat now? Ackland again:
I’M sceptical that Brandis will make much of an attorney-general ... As an experienced lawyer confided: “Better to appoint a wombat ... “
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If we’re doing so well, how did Swan go broke?
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (7:33am)
On the day of Labor’s Götterdämmerung, Treasurer Wayne Swan today boasts:
Judith Sloan explains:
UPDATE
Former Treasurer Peter Costello drafts Swan’s speech:
...our economy has grown more than 13 per cent, generating more than 950,000 jobs, since Labor came to government in 2007. Tonight’s budget will show that by mid-2015, our economy will be 22 per cent bigger than before the global financial crisis, outpacing every major advanced economy.So how can that have possibly lead to this?:
In five previous budgets, the Treasurer has racked up deficits of $173 billion and analysts tip the promised $1.5 billion surplus in last year’s budget papers will be replaced a deficit of between $10.9 billion to $22 billion.This is deceitful:
This, along with the lingering impacts of the GFC and structural changes in our economy, has resulted in a very substantial revenue hit across the forward estimates, with revenues down $17 billion in 2012-13 compared with last budget.“Compared with last budget” is meant to suggest Swan has less money now than what he had a year ago. That is false. Swan has at least 7 per cent more money than a year ago. He just has less than he then so foolishly predicted - and which he promptly spent.
Judith Sloan explains:
The projected revenue increase [in last year’s Budget] of nearly 12 per cent from 22.3 per cent of gross domestic product in 2011-12 to 23.8 per cent in 2012-13 was always ludicrous and should have been picked up by every economic journalist worth his or her large salary.No excuses, please.
UPDATE
Former Treasurer Peter Costello drafts Swan’s speech:
Mr Speaker,Terry McCrann says Swan makes wood ducks look like Einsteins:
I guess by now you have all figured out that I don’t know what I’m doing. That awful truth has finally dawned on me as well. I hadn’t been too good before, but last year’s Budget was the one where I totally blew myself up - you remember? It was May 8 last year. I thought I needed a dramatic opening to my Speech. So I began by saying, ‘The four years of surpluses I announce tonight . . .’
No one heard the rest of the sentence because of the guffaws from the other side. That smart alec Costello called it some of the best stand-up comedy ever delivered in the House of Representatives. But the thing is I really believed it. I’m not good at numbers - of the financial kind.
A year ago, he was in the process of admitting that the deficit for the 2011-12 year was going to be $20 billion bigger than he had projected in the 2011 Budget.
And yet no bell went off in his head to suggest that just maybe, he was at risk of something similar happening again in the 2012-13 year…
And what wonderful timing that would so disastrously be. A few months out from an election, at which the Government’s wafer slim chances pivoted entirely on trying to project economic credibility and fiscal responsibility.
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Up go the GP bills, too
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (7:25am)
It is crazy to expect
doctors can long keep charging just $36 per consultation when they have
staff, insurance, rent and other overheads to pay for. Especially if
you expect that consultation to be thorough:
DOCTORS will be hit with a freeze on Medicare service charges with the Gillard government aiming to save $1.5 billion over four years to help fund its DisabilityCare program.Some extra co-payment for each consultation may well be good public policy, building in a price signal to prevent consultations for mere colds and splinters. But to pretend prices won’t go up is disingenuous.
GPs’ indexation of what they are paid under the Medicare Benefits Scheme will be capped at $36 a visit...
But Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton warned last night the steps would lead to a decline in the use of bulk billing, under which doctors are paid the Medicare rate directly by the government and patients are left with no additional costs for a GP visit, and adversely affect older Australians. And if doctors chose not to absorb the higher costs the measure could ultimately lead to higher out-of-pocket expenses for patients.
It is understood the government wants doctors to absorb the extra cost of the rebates...
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Up go the GP bills, too
Andrew Bolt May 14 2013 (7:25am)
It is crazy to expect
doctors can long keep charging just $36 per consultation when they have
staff, insurance, rent and other overheads to pay for. Especially if
you expect that consultation to be thorough:
DOCTORS will be hit with a freeze on Medicare service charges with the Gillard government aiming to save $1.5 billion over four years to help fund its DisabilityCare program.Some extra co-payment for each consultation may well be good public policy, building in a price signal to prevent consultations for mere colds and splinters. But to pretend prices won’t go up is disingenuous.
GPs’ indexation of what they are paid under the Medicare Benefits Scheme will be capped at $36 a visit...
But Australian Medical Association president Steve Hambleton warned last night the steps would lead to a decline in the use of bulk billing, under which doctors are paid the Medicare rate directly by the government and patients are left with no additional costs for a GP visit, and adversely affect older Australians. And if doctors chose not to absorb the higher costs the measure could ultimately lead to higher out-of-pocket expenses for patients.
It is understood the government wants doctors to absorb the extra cost of the rebates...
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Govt says #Budget is about "jobs and growth", yet it delivers higher unemployment and lower growth.
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#Budget2013 summary: MORE DEBT, MORE CHAOS, MORE SPIN
This year’s Budget delivers more debt, more deficits, more taxes, more broken promises and more uncertainty.
At a time when Australians are desperately seeking stable and competent economic management, the Budget just delivers more chaos, debt and spin.
For local families, this Budget does nothing to help deal with cost of living pressures, economic uncertainty and poor services.
Federal Labor has again broken its word to locals in our community. They promised no carbon tax and a surplus. Instead we got a carbon tax, record deficits and in this Budget, Labor scrapped tax cuts, family payments and the baby bonus.
Wayne Swan said this Budget was about “jobs and growth” but the Budget actually forecasts an increase in unemployment (up to 5.75%) and lower growth (down to 2.75%).
This Budget means less jobs and slower growth.
key areas of concern in the Budget include:
- total gross debt to breach the $300 billion debt ceiling in coming years;
- no credible path back to surplus;
- at least a $4.7 billion blowout in the management of Australia’s borders since last year’s Budget;
- new borrowings of $49 million every single day, and
- more than $25 billion in higher taxes over the next four years – with 99% of these new taxes starting after the next election.
Families and businesses have to live within their means, but this government doesn’t.
Over the last 5 years, the Gillard Government has spent $191 billion more than it has raised.
Only the Coalition has the Plan, experience and discipline to return the Budget to sustainable surpluses, reduce debt and provide real support to Australian families to help them get ahead again.
Tony Abbott’s Budget Reply to be delivered on Thursday night would provide more details of the Coalition’s Real Solutions Plan that will build a strong, prosperous economy. http://bit.ly/ZjyTjR
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But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(1 Corinthians 15:57)
Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
No matter what bondage, stronghold, sin or addiction has held you captive in the past, when you acknowledge Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you receive His power — His burden-moving, yoke-destroying anointing. Sin can’t hold you back because who the Son sets free, is free indeed! (See John 8:36.) It all starts by believing and receiving this promise. Then, as you meditate on His Word and draw close to Him, more of His power becomes alive in you.Receive His truth and life and celebrate true, eternal victory.God bless you.===
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Melissa Ohden
My thoughts on the Gosnell trial. I am a bleary, teary mess right now. In a world that by and large wanted to overlook and avoid looking at this atrocity, justice was served today. But justice needs to continue to be served today, tomorrow, and in the days and weeks that come. My thoughts:
I will likely never stand face to face with the abortionist, who thirty-five years ago, executed his job duties and attempted to kill me. I will never stand face to face with that abortionist, who thirty-five years ago, did not, as many pro-abortion people have said, “do his job properly” that day. As we know, by saying that he “didn’t do his job properly,” they mean, “didn’t kill you like he was supposed to.”
I will likely never stand face to face with that abortionist, but because I was blessed to survive the abortion procedure and was provided medical care after it was discovered that I wasn’t dead like I should have been, like it was initially believed I was, I can now stand face to face with abortionists like Dr. Gosnell. In comparison to his victims, I believe that Dr. Gosnell is lucky. Today he was found guilty on 3 of 4 counts of murder. Compared to the children whose lives he ended in the womb, and the children whose lives he ended outside of the womb, he is lucky, indeed. He is lucky to have experienced life, albeit filled with horrific choices that he made. He is lucky to have experienced what it was like to be loved by someone in his life. He is lucky to have been born.
Justice was served today. But it does not stop the other ‘Gosnell’s’ that exist in our world today, who not only end life inside the womb but attempt to end it through their own actions or inactions once the child is outside of the womb. I pray that justice be served for the rest of the children who are affected by abortion and infanticide every day.
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"As an American I regret [UN Resolution 3379 - Zionism is Racism], but I don't let that piece of paper deter my commitment to the survival of freedom and liberty and democracy in Israel. That resolution is bothersome, it is a problem, but it doesn't have anything to do with the substance or the content of our belief. As a Black American, who understands racism, I know that it makes no sense to equate it with Zionism."
Barbara Jordan (1936–1996)
* First African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction
* First southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives
* Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Lincoln
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Labor revised actual Budget hole 3 times in two weeks($7bn,$12bn then $17bn). They now say trust me with 10 year estimates.
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NSW GOVERNMENT WEEKLY UPDATE – 10 May 2013
20,000 JOBS CREATED IN APRIL
NSW has recorded another strong month of employment growth pushing the total number of jobs created in the first term of the NSW Liberals & Nationals Government to 130,600.
The latest ABS Labour Force figures show there were almost 20,000 (19,746) new jobs created in April, on top of the 4,300 new jobs created during the previous month.
The NSW unemployment rate fell to 5.3 per cent from 5.5 per cent the previous month – the second lowest of all the states.
With the national unemployment figure at 5.5 per cent, NSW has spent 15 consecutive months under the national average.
CHEAPER GREEN SLIPS FOR NSW MOTORISTS
Motorists will soon be paying up to 15 per cent less for their Compulsory Third Party insurance, with the NSW Government introducing legislation to make the green slip scheme fairer and more affordable.
At the moment the scheme is nothing more than a lawyers’ picnic, with accident victims getting less than half of all premiums collected by insurers.
Under the new ‘no fault’ scheme those injured in motor vehicle accidents will be compensated sooner, without argument or lengthy legal battles.
Under the changes green slip premiums will be more competitive with other states - at the moment NSW is the most expensive state and that needs to change.
COMMUNITY SAFETY PROTECTED THROUGH CONTINUED USE OF CCTV
The NSW Government is introducing exemptions to ensure local councils can continue to use CCTV cameras to prevent crime.
The decision was taken after the Administrative Decisions Tribunal ordered the CCTV in the Shoalhaven Council area be turned off after it found they breached privacy laws.
The NSW Government is now drafting a regulation to provide appropriate exemptions under privacy laws to allow local councils to continue using CCTV.
The NSW Government will not allow this tribunal decision to undermine police efforts to reduce crime on our streets.
POLICE GANG CRACKDOWN GETTING RESULTS
Efforts to crackdown on gang-related crime have been getting results – with hundreds of people arrested and thousands of guns taken off our streets in a range of Police operations.
Operation Apollo was established in February 2013 to reduce public place shootings and since its inception more than 220 people have been arrested and more than 420 charges have been laid.
Operation Apollo builds on the success of Operation Spartan, which has resulted in 690 arrests and almost 1,200 charges laid.
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has congratulated Commissioner Andrew Scipione and the men and women of the NSW Police Force for the good results they are achieving in locking up crooks and making our streets safer.
FASTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE HELP FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME
A new Victims Support Scheme will focus on giving victims of crime assistance when they most need it and make it easier to access free counselling and other services to aid them in their recovery.
Financial support will be provided for urgent medical and dental treatment, home security upgrades or for crisis accommodation to keep victims safe from further violence.
The new processes are designed to drastically reduce waiting times and make sure the $72 million available to victims of crime each year goes to helping more people more quickly.
An independent report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers found the current scheme is financially unsustainable and not meeting victims’ needs in a timely manner.
YOUNG OFFENDERS TO LEARN ABOUT MILITARY HISTORY
The NSW Government has teamed up with the RSL in an innovative new scheme targeted at young offenders who desecrate War Memorials.
New sentencing options will be introduced so young offenders who damage war memorials can be required to undertake voluntary work with the RSL.
Suitable young offenders will spend time with veterans by volunteering with the Corps of Guards and assisting the ANZAC Memorial Guardians with Memorial tours.
Attacks on War Memorials are an insult to the entire community, but particularly hurtful to our current and former servicemen and women and their families.
The NSW Government has also announced grants totalling $107,000 to restore and maintain community War Memorials in the lead up to the Centenary of Anzac – details can be found at www.veterans.nsw.gov.au.
BILLIONS ALLOCATED TO RESTART NSW
The NSW Government’s fund to drive the renewal of infrastructure in NSW - Restart NSW - has reached $4.7 billion following the long term lease of Port Botany and Port Kembla.
Restart NSW is now enabling us to get on with the job building the infrastructure the people of NSW want and deserve including $1.8 billion for the WestConnex motorway.
Other commitments from Restart NSW currently include $403 for the Pacific Highway upgrade, $170 million for the Princes Highway upgrade, an Illawarra Fund worth $100m from the lease of Port Kembla, and Bridges for the Bush – a $135 million program for replacing and upgrading 17 bridges in regional NSW.
Along with $4.3 billion in net proceeds from the Ports transaction, Restart NSW has received $312 million from the lease of the Sydney Desalination Plant, $96 million from windfall tax revenues announced at the Half Yearly Review, and $46 million to date from Waratah Bonds.
NEW APP TO HELP PEOPLE EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
A new smart phone app has been launched for people who are experiencing domestic and family violence.
The app is gives users the ability to create a trusted network of friends who can be easily contacted with an agreed message and a GPS system to ‘call-for-help’ and alert recipients of the sender’s location.
The Aurora domestic violence app has been developed by the NSW Government to help people who are experiencing abuse make informed, empowered choices.
The app was developed in consultation with the NSW Police Force, with input from experts from the domestic and family violence sector.
GOVERNMENT MOVES TO EASE SHORTAGE OF BURIAL SPACE
An additional 6,700 burial spaces are now available for people of the Jewish and Muslim faiths at Rookwood Cemetery to ease critical burial space shortages.
The area known as Lot 10 has been allocated equally to Muslim and Jewish communities to secure their burial needs for the next decade.
We are seeking additional burial space in the greater Sydney region for the future needs of people of all religious and cultural beliefs.
Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello congratulated the Muslim and Jewish communities for their input and leadership on this issue.
MAJOR EVENTS DRIVE CONTINUES TO BLOOM
The NSW Government drive to attract major events continues to bloom with two more secured this week.
This week it was confirmed Sydney will host the Australian Garden Show for the next three years – estimated to contribute at least $12 million into the state’s economy
Meanwhile, in a major coup for Western Sydney, the internationally recognised motorsport event, Monster Jam, will make its first and only Australian appearance at ANZ Stadium, Homebush.
This monster truck event has proven a hit right around the world, attracting a TV audience of more than 30 million people a year.
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Something odd in the translation, as he predates by hundreds of years a prevalent monotheistic view. However the answer is simple .. what a person considers evil or distasteful is not the same as God's view. I don't like waking up early, but I should. A good man should not sacrifice their own son .. but Abraham was willing. A person can't resurrect three days after being crucified to death, but Jesus did. - ed
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Roy Rogers Yodels – The Cowboy Night Herd Song
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iPad Music Station..Perfect desktop Music Machine.. Pads, Keyboard, and knobs all for your MIDI fun.. hook it up to your laptop or desktop too..
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Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.
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Quick Pix: Harry Carey, Jr. w/Video
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שבנו אתמול עד שעה מאוחרת על תקציב הביטחון, והחלטתי להביא בפני הממשלה החלטה שעיקרה מיתון בקיצוץ המוצע בתקציב הביטחון, מיתון של מיליארד שקל שלא יבוא על חשבון הציבור.
צה"ל על מפקדיו, על לוחמיו, על כלי הנשק שלו - הם חיוניים לביטחון ישראליים. חיוניים הן בהגנה והן בהתקפה - אלה שתי חזיתות מרכזיות.
The IDF – including its commanders, soldiers and weapons – is vital, in both defense and offense, to Israelis' security; these are two main fronts
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"Beware these BAFTA creatures!" Yesterday the Doctor and Clara found a BAFTA in the TARDIS - which caused some confusion for the Doctor...
Check out the clip from the British Academy Television Awards here: http://bit.ly/18F35d6
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You have a right to expect restoration of the things that the devil has stolen from you! Find out more in today's devotional and be blessed! http://bit.ly/12Hbt9q
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If God is for us, who can be against us?—Rom 8:31
God doesn’t bless you because you have been good. He blesses you because of the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on the cross for you! Jesus’ precious blood has washed you whiter than snow. That is why God is for you today even when you fail!
And if God Himself is for you, who can come successfully against you? What adversity or adversary can stand against you? There are none! Hallelujah!
http://josephprince.com/
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Beloved, have you been blessed by the testimonies of other believers? Has reading about what Jesus has done for them built your faith to receive the breakthrough you’ve been praying for? Then help to encourage fellow Christians and share your own praise report using this link:http://bit.ly/R6fa43!
We love to hear how you have been impacted by the gospel of grace, and transformed by knowing Jesus more personally as your Lord and Savior. So tell us what the Lord has done for you, and let us rejoice in His grace and goodness together!
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May 14: Shavuot begins at sunset (Judaism, 2013); Feast day of Saint Matthiasand Saint Mo Chutu (Roman Catholicism)
- 1796 – English physician Edward Jenner (pictured) began testing cowpox as a vaccine for protection against smallpox.
- 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition led by explorersMeriwether Lewis and William Clark left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, and began the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.
- 1868 – Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from theBattle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
- 1925 – Mrs Dalloway, one the best-known novels of English modernist authorVirginia Woolf, was first published.
- 1943 – Second World War: The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
- 1973 – The NASA space station Skylab was launched from Cape Canaveral.
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Events [edit]
- 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
- 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
- 1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
- 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washingtonpresides.
- 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
- 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
- 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
- 1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
- 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
- 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
- 1889 – The children's charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
- 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
- 1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
- 1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
- 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
- 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
- 1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
- 1943 – A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
- 1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
- 1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
- 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- 1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
- 1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
- 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
- 1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
- 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. 27 die in the crash and ensuing fire.
- 2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
- 2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashed near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
Births [edit]
- 1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
- 1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1615)
- 1574 – Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, chitarrone player, and poet (d. 1621)
- 1630 – Katakura Kagenaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1681)
- 1652 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, German composer, statesman, and doctor (d. 1732)
- 1657 – Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, the eldest son and successor of Chhatrapati (sovereign) Shivaji Maharaj from India (d. 1689)
- 1666 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
- 1679 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
- 1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
- 1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
- 1710 – Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (d. 1771)
- 1725 – Ludovico Manin, French leader, last Doge of Venice(d. 1802)
- 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
- 1737 – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Irish-English statesman (d. 1806)
- 1752 – Timothy Dwight IV, American theologian (d. 1817)
- 1752 – Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
- 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
- 1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
- 1814 – Charles Beyer, German-English locomotive engineer, co-founder of the Beyer, Peacock and Company (d. 1876)
- 1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
- 1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
- 1832 – Charles Peace, English burglar and murderer (d. 1879)
- 1852 – Henri Julien, French-Canadian artist and cartoonist (d. 1908)
- 1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (d. 1919)
- 1868 – Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (d. 1935)
- 1869 – Arthur Rostron, English captain of the RMS Carpathia (d. 1940)
- 1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
- 1878 – J. L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
- 1879 – Fred Englehardt, American athlete (d. 1942)
- 1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
- 1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
- 1881 – Ed Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1959)
- 1885 – Otto Klemperer, German conductor (d. 1973)
- 1890 – Alex Pompez, American sports executive (d. 1974)
- 1893 – Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
- 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
- 1897 – Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
- 1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
- 1899 – Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
- 1900 – Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
- 1900 – Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist, composer, and writer (d. 1957)
- 1900 – Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
- 1900 – Edgar Wind, German historian (d. 1971)
- 1901 – Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
- 1903 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
- 1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator, son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić (d. 1973)
- 1904 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
- 1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
- 1905 – Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (d. 1989)
- 1905 – Antonio Berni, Argentine painter, illustrator and engraver (d. 1981)
- 1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
- 1907 – Ayub Khan, Pakistani field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
- 1907 – Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
- 1908 – Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse, Prisoner of war (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Robert F. Christy, American physicist (d. 2012)
- 1916 – Lance Dossor, English pianist and educator (d. 2005)
- 1916 – Del Moore, American comedian and actor (d. 1970)
- 1916 – Marco Zanuso, Italian architect and designer (d. 2001)
- 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1917 – Norman Luboff, American choir director, arranger, and publisher (d. 1987)
- 1919 – Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
- 1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1921 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
- 1922 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
- 1923 – Mrinal Sen, Indian director
- 1925 – Sophie Kurys, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Patrice Munsel, American soprano
- 1925 – Oona O'Neill, Bermudian-Swiss wife of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991)
- 1925 – Al Porcino, American trumpet player
- 1926 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian (d. 1984)
- 1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
- 1928 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters and The Cadets) (d. 2000)
- 1928 – Brian Macdonald, Canadian dancer
- 1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist, inventor, and educator
- 1929 – Henry McGee, English actor (d. 2006)
- 1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
- 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
- 1932 – Robert Bechtle, American painter
- 1933 – Frank Harte, Irish singer, architect, and lecturer
- 1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
- 1933 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
- 1935 – Rudi Šeligo, Slovenian writer and politician (d. 2004)
- 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1973)
- 1936 – Charlie Gracie, American singer and musician
- 1936 – Dick Howser, American baseball player (d. 1987)
- 1940 – Troy Shondell, American singer-songwriter
- 1940 – H. Jones, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1982)
- 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (d. 2003)
- 1942 – Byron Dorgan, American politician
- 1942 – Prentis Hancock, English actor
- 1942 – Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player
- 1942 – Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
- 1943 – Jack Bruce, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (Cream, Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and West, Bruce and Laing)
- 1943 – L. Denis Desautels, Canadian accountant and Auditor General of Canada
- 1943 – Derek Leckenby, English guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
- 1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Icelandic educator and politician, 5th President of Iceland
- 1943 – Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure
- 1944 – Gene Cornish, American musician (The Rascals and Fotomaker)
- 1944 – George Lucas, American director
- 1945 – Francesca Annis, English actress
- 1945 – George Nicholls, English rugby player
- 1945 – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of the Maccabi Haifa sport organization
- 1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)
- 1949 – Sverre Årnes, Norwegian writer
- 1949 – Walter Day, American businessman, founder of Twin Galaxies
- 1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
- 1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
- 1951 – Robert Zemeckis, American director
- 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Talking Heads)
- 1952 – Scott Irwin, American wrestler (d. 1987)
- 1952 – Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut
- 1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and humanitarian (Red Rider)
- 1953 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (d. 2008)
- 1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, Cambodian king
- 1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
- 1955 – Marie Chouinard, Canadian dancer and choreographer
- 1955 – Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
- 1955 – Peter Kirsten, South African cricketer
- 1955 – Alasdair Fraser, Scottish fiddler (Skyedance)
- 1957 – Big Van Vader, American wrestler
- 1958 – Christine Brennan, American columnist
- 1958 – Jan Ravens, English actress and impressionist
- 1958 – Chris Evans, Australian politician
- 1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer, actor, and poker player
- 1959 – Steve Hogarth, English singer and musician (Marillion, The Europeans, and How We Live)
- 1959 – John Holt, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1959 – Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1959 – Robert Greene, American author
- 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer-songwriter and poet
- 1960 – Ronan Tynan, Irish tenor (The Irish Tenors)
- 1960 – "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American wrestler (d. 2009)
- 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
- 1961 – Jean Leloup, French-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author
- 1961 – David Quantick, English writer
- 1961 – Tim Roth, English actor and director
- 1961 – Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
- 1962 – Ian Astbury, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Cult, The Wondergirls, Circus of Power, and Holy Barbarians)
- 1962 – C. C. DeVille, American guitarist and actor (Poison and Samantha 7)
- 1962 – Danny Huston, American actor
- 1963 – Pat Borders, American baseball player
- 1964 – James M. Kelly, American astronaut
- 1964 – Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
- 1964 – Eric Peterson, American musician and songwriter (Testament and Dragonlord)
- 1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish author
- 1966 – Marianne Denicourt, French actress
- 1966 – Mike Inez, American musician and songwriter (Alice in Chains, Black Label Society, Slash's Snakepit, and Spys4Darwin)
- 1966 – Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter, dancer, and model (Milli Vanilli, Rob & Fab, Empire Bizarre)
- 1966 – Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
- 1967 – Tony Siragusa, American football player
- 1968 – Greg Davies, English actor and comedian
- 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- 1969 – Sabine Schmitz, German race car driver
- 1969 – Danny Wood, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (New Kids on the Block)
- 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
- 1971 – Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress and model
- 1972 – Gabriel Mann, American actor
- 1972 – Mark Ruskell, England-Scottish politician
- 1973 – Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer and actress (All Saints and Appleton)
- 1973 – Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
- 1973 – Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
- 1973 – Julian White, English rugby player
- 1973 – Shanice, American singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Jennifer Allan, American model
- 1974 – Krister Axel, American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and engineer
- 1975 – Nicki Sørensen, Danish bicyclist
- 1976 – Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI, The Force, and The Frisk)
- 1976 – Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
- 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, English actress
- 1977 – Sophie Anderton, English model
- 1977 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player
- 1977 – Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
- 1977 – Pusha T, American rapper, songwriter, and actor (Clipse and Re-Up Gang)
- 1978 – Brent Harvey, Australian rules footballer
- 1978 – Eddie House, American basketball player
- 1978 – André Macanga, Angolan footballer
- 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1979 – Clinton Morrison, English-Irish footballer
- 1979 – Edwige Lawson-Wade, French basketball player
- 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1979 – Dan Auerbach, American singer/songwriter
- 1980 – Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
- 1980 – Eugene Martineau, Dutch athlete
- 1980 – Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
- 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby player
- 1981 – Pranav Mistry, Indian computer scientist, and inventor
- 1982 – BeardyMan, English beat-boxer and musician
- 1982 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
- 1983 – Anahí, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress (RBD)
- 1983 – Keeley Donovan, English reporter
- 1983 – Frank Gore, American football player
- 1983 – Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
- 1983 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress
- 1983 – Tom Welham, English singer and guitarist (Thirteen Senses)
- 1984 – Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
- 1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
- 1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
- 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
- 1984 – Olly Murs, English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1984 – Luke Gregerson, American baseball player
- 1984 – Zarine Khan, Indian actress and model
- 1985 – Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
- 1985 – Simona Peycheva, Bulgarian gymnast
- 1985 – Zack Ryder, American wrestler
- 1986 – Alyosha, Ukrainian singer
- 1986 – Marco Motta, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Andrea Bovo, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Sarbel, Greek singer
- 1986 – Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
- 1987 – Jeong Min-Hyeong, South Korean footballer (d. 2012)
- 1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987 – François Steyn, South African rugby player
- 1988 – Jayne Appel, American basketball player
- 1990 – Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
- 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
- 1993 – Kristina Mladenovic, French Tennis Player
- 1994 – Dennis Praet, Belgian footballer
- 1998 – Taruni Sachdev, Indian actress (d. 2012)
Deaths [edit]
- 964 – Pope John XII (b. 927)
- 1219 – William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (b. 1147)
- 1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
- 1574 – Guru Amar Das, Indian spiritual leader, 3rd Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
- 1608 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
- 1610 – Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- 1643 – Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
- 1649 – Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss theologian (b. 1600)
- 1667 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
- 1688 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
- 1754 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
- 1761 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (b. 1710)
- 1818 – Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
- 1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
- 1860 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
- 1873 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
- 1878 – Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the "three great nobles" who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
- 1881 – Mary Seacole, Jamaican Nurse (b. 1805)
- 1887 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
- 1889 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
- 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
- 1906 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
- 1912 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
- 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist (b. 1849)
- 1918 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
- 1919 – Henry J. Heinz, German-American businessman, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
- 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, French statesman, 43rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
- 1923 – Sir N. G. Chandavarkar, Indian National Congress politician and Hindu reformer (b. 1855)
- 1925 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
- 1931 – David Belasco, American producer, director, and playwright (b. 1853)
- 1931 – Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (b. 1887)
- 1934 – Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
- 1934 – Baikuntha Shukla, Indian nationalist and revolutionary (b. 1907)
- 1935 – Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. same day 1868)
- 1936 – Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, English general (b. 1861)
- 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian anarchist (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1945 – Heber J. Grant, American 7th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
- 1954 – Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
- 1956 – Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)
- 1957 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian painter (b. 1884)
- 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1897)
- 1959 – Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)
- 1962 – Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
- 1968 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
- 1969 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
- 1969 – Enid Bennett, Australian actress (b. 1893)
- 1970 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
- 1973 – Jean Gebser, German author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
- 1976 – Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Yardbirds and Armageddon) (b. 1943)
- 1979 – Jean Rhys, Dominican novelist (b. 1890)
- 1980 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
- 1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1982 – Lady of Ro, Greek patriot (b. 1890)
- 1983 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
- 1983 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
- 1984 – Walter Rauff, German SS officer(b. 1906)
- 1985 – Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
- 1986 – Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (b. 1975)
- 1987 – Rita Hayworth, American dancer and film actress (b. 1918)
- 1987 – Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (b. 1914)
- 1988 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
- 1989 – Mary Lalopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1926)
- 1991 – Jiang Qing, Chinese actress and First Lady, wwife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
- 1992 – Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
- 1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (b. 1899)
- 1993 – Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
- 1993 – William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
- 1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Harry Blackstone, Jr., American magician and author (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist, writer, and environmentalist (b. 1890)
- 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
- 2001 – Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (b. 1919)
- 2003 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
- 2003 – Wendy Hiller, English actress (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2004 – Anna Lee, English actress (b. 1913)
- 2006 – Lew Anderson, American actor and musician (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
- 2006 – Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
- 2007 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
- 2007 – Ülo Jõgi, Estonian historian and patriot (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Will Elder, American illustrator (b. 1921)
- 2010 – Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)
- 2010 – Norman Hand, Profesional Football Player (b. 1972)
- 2012 – Mitchell Guist, American alligator hunter, cast member on Swamp People (b. 1964)
- 2012 – Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Taruni Sachdev, Indian actress (b. 1998)
- 2012 – Mario Trejo, Argentine poet, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Belita Woods, American singer (Brainstorm) (b. 1948)
Holidays and observances [edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which the first day of Sanja Matsuri can fall, while May 20 is the latest; celebrated on the third weekend of May. (Sensō-ji, Tokyo)
- Hastings Banda's Birthday (Malawi)
- National Unification Day (Liberia)
- The first day of Izumo-taisha Shrine Grand Festival. (Izumo-taisha)
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