Piers Akerman has just written an article reviewing the 22 year old Heiner Affair which originated when documents relating to child abuse were shredded by the Goss Queensland Labor Govt in 1990. The documents related to an inquiry into the former John Oxley Youth Detention Centre headed by former magistrate Noel Heiner in 1989. One of the victims who was pack raped while in Qld Govt care was recently paid $120,000 and is said to be travelling to Canberra to make her case known.
As Piers Akerman explains – a 2,800 page audit document pulling together the whole saga and composed by Sydney QC David Rofe was emailed to all Senators on Australia day last month. Some leading figures in powerful positions now are involved.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in 2004 posted documents on the subject – look for Volume 2. That committee no longer exists.
Anybody concerned could write to their Senators and ask what they intend doing.
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Stunning rain forecast for Canberra in February by Weatherzone
When I first saw this I was somewhat gobsmacked. All these rainy days – in February !!
Anyway – we will see in time how good is the Weatherzone 28 day forecast. You can make a forecast calendar for your own area.
Remember that for the bright green days – 3 out of 4 should have rain – and my own thought is that the rain should top 10mm at least to count. We will see.
BTW – who is Weatherzone ?
Warmists spat over CSIRO sacking noted Oceanographer
I see this reported in the Canberra Times – “Scientist’s services no longer required”. Of course the article gives little idea as to what the good Dr. Trevor McDougall has done to fall out with top CSIRO pooh-bahs.
Does any reader have a clue ? Google has a lot of refs but just now my internet is only half of dialup so it is too slow to search myself.
Added 25th: The print copy of the CT quotes un-named people at the Max Planck Institute and NOAA / Princeton U – as writing to the CSIRO and Fed politicians in support of Dr. McDougall.
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Could the Australian Government’s Nauru decision be the greatest backflip in history ?
After months, years of mentioning Nauru as if it were on a par with a WWII death camp or the Soviet gulag.
Bowen puts Nauru on table to break asylum deadlock
Julia Gillard bends on offshore processing of asylum seekers at Nauru
As if Kim Jong Un announced he wanted to have joint elections with South Korea.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in the Nauru Presidents office when the call comes in.
Graphic sourced from Dept of Immigration
Info on boat arrivals at this APH site
Let QANTAS go to Asia – that’s what they want – plenty of airlines will fly our domestic routes
The QANTAS announcement of grounding and lockout yesterday was one of those watershed events – you just know things will not be the same again – I just do not believe the pieces can be put back together again. For months the unions have been twisting the QANTAS tail with their escalating disruptive tactics.
Late last week as our Prime Minister went to CHOGM she was asked about intervening in the dispute and she said “..no”. How could she tell her union mates to try and settle with the big bad capitalist QANTAS ?
Of course it is obvious now this decision must have been planned for weeks – deliberately pulled on the weekend QANTAS was flying many of the CHOGM leaders home. How excruciatingly embarassing for our Govt – plus Minister Albanese muddling around on National TV on a Saturday to answer questions that he had no answers to – mumbling about “acting like adults”.
This intensifying union action can be traced to the Rudd/Gillard Labor Fair Work laws which unwound the IR laws from the Howard years – well now the nation will pay the price.
I think it is constructive to think back a decade to the collapse of ANSETT – clearly it is not in our national interest to rely too heavily on one strike prone and problem prone carrier. A few weeks ago QANTAS announced plans to relocate to Asia – we should say bon-voyage mates – good luck with your plans for a more profitable QANTAS in Asia – nice knowing you. This weekend the Govt should be talking with a range of well known international carriers about increasing competition servicing our domestic routes – Air NZ, Singapore, Emirates, Etihad – come to mind.
Interested to hear what readers think.
Obama never mentioned – global warming – IPCC – Kyoto – carbon – greenhouse effect or climate change
Thanks to the ABC we heard the Obama jobs speech (8 Sept 11). You would not have thought the great IPCC driven boondoggle of a “climate threat” even existed.
How crazy is Australia to be burdening our economy with the GreenLabor Carbon Tax.
C’mon – add your vote at this Canberra Times online poll
If you have not voted yet – please add your voice and swell the numbers.
Support the truckers “Convoy of No Confidence”.
Has there ever been an Australian Prime Minister to rival Julia Gillard ?
The ABC has this online poll asking for three words to describe your views on how Ms Gillard’s minority Government has performed.
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I realise some of these entries are from GreenLeft ABC readers to the left of the PM.
New Zealand has not suffered a sequence of big shakes like this in recorded history..
This jaw dropping quote from an unspecified GNS seismologist, is in an article in the New Zealand Herald by John Roughan. “Tell Christchurch whole story”
As a now ancient geologist I am somewhat gobsmacked that in over a hundred years of logging earthquakes up and down the Alpine Fault – there apparently has not been a sequence to equal the last nine months around Christchurch.
We really are in uncharted waters.
Leading Australian actor Cate Blanchett fronts carbon tax campaign
Look Cate – we love your movies – thanks for all the hours of enjoyment – and we look forward to enjoying your work for years to come – but please you should stick to what you know best. You are too good an actor to lend your image in political advertisements.
“And finally, doing something about climate change,” Blanchett adds.
Sorry Cate but nothing we do in Australia can possibly make any difference – as this graphic comparing Chinese and Australian emissions proves.
What this tax will certainly achieve is to reduce the standard of living for many Australians – who will be overwhelmingly be less wealthy than you. Not a good look for you I don’t think.
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We could de-industrialise Australia – just leaving some quarries for the Chinese – and the drop in global emissions would not be noticed alongside the scale of Chinese increases.
In the same advert – Michael Caton says, “What if we say yes, to making big companies pay, when they pollute our skies?
“We’d be saying yes to less carbon pollution”.
What pathetic GreenLabor spin – trying to blame “big polluters” – when the reality is that all of us who use electricity, or drive our cars, or fly in an airliner, or eat bought food, ride a bus, ride a train, use manufactured products – we are the “polluters”, according to the rationale behind the crazy IPCC inspired GreenLabor great big new Carbon Dioxide Tax.