Daily Mail – The Tories managed to pull of sweeping victories across the country in the local elections as Labour haemorrhaged seats even in its key heartlands. In the two most striking results, and in a massive blow to Labour, the Tories won the northern weathervane of BURY, which covers key Westminster battlegrounds, and made stunning gains to seize control of SOUTHAMPTON.
They gained eight seats to take control of the south coast city, which had been administered by a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, for the first time since 1984. In a further humiliation for the Government, Labour lost four seats in READING to no control with the Conservatives gaining an extra four seats. The defeat left it without control of a single local council in the south east. Read the rest of this entry »
By AR – Time Magazine has published its list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Ranked somewhere among the influential “Leaders and Revolutionaries,” is Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. The accompanying spiel was written by the Australia’s Head of State, Her Majesty, Queen Cate Blanchett.
The Queen doesn’t hesitate to trash her country:
For years, Australia’s government refused to apologize to Aborigines for past wrongs done to them — most notably, the systematic removal of children from their parents, an official policy that continued until the 1970s.
LiveNews {Audio available at the link} – The owner of a dog, deliberately run over in Sydney’s west, has described how the men responsible laughed as she screamed for help. Jennifer Patten’s pet Chihuahua, Vinnie, is dead after the brutal attack on Grex Avenue at Minchinbury last night. She’s told 2GB’s Ray Hadley three men in a red hatchback kept on coming back for more.
“They ran over my shitzu first – he flattened himself out on the ground because he was so petrified – and the car just passed over the top of him,” she recounted. “And then my little Chihuahua-cross, who’s like 1.5 kilos and wouldn’t hurt a fly… I was screaming for my dogs to come to me and he started to run towards me and they lined him up and ran him over.” Read the rest of this entry »
A few days ago we heard that is was that mean, nasty John Howard and his lowering-taxes thinking that caused teenage girls to hit the bottle. How he lasted so long by not jacking up taxes is beyond me. Good heavens was the man completely insane, thinking that we might be better off doing what we wanted with our money!
SMH – Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has blamed the former Howard government for the rise in teenage binge drinking. Ms Roxon said the decision to cut taxes on premixed alcoholic drinks eight years ago helped fuel the surge in excessive drinking by young people, particularly teenage girls. Ms Roxon said she did not know why the Howard government had cut the excise in the first place. Read the rest of this entry »
