Do it for Jesus!

Honorable Member Dana Vale

I too share your concern about Christian Australians aborting their way to an Islamic Republic of Australia. We have 50 years in which to act and act we must if we are to avoid tabbouleh becoming our national dish. I propose that your party use its majority to pass legislation declaring every Christian uterus a strategic area, vital to the nation's interests. In so doing the government will be able to classify abortion as the destruction of state property, which would quickly put a stop to that.

Of course it shall be the duty of every man to attempt to undo the demographic damage caused by decades of unpatriotic abortions. They shall need help, not all ladies have the good fortune to be as comely as yourself, honorable member. Women should be compelled to spend at least 3 hours a day in the gym, an hour beautifying themselves and at least 8 hours performing Kegel excersises while reading the Kama Sutra, which I'm told does wonders for reproductive ability. It is not necessary for women to be aroused for conception to occur so such requirements are redundant for men who shall have to perform the selfless task of impregnation. Of course our need to maintain our demographic advantage of the Crescent peril will require us to put aside quaint notions of monogamy as we know it. Each man may be forced by circumstance to impregnate several women, being Christian men they shall take no joy in it, solemnly discharging their office as guardians of a Christian tomorrow.

We must let nothing stand in the way of reproduction for the motherland. As you are no doubt aware our health minister, Tony Abbott, has failed to take this crisis seriously, even to the point of restricting the number of IVF attempts a woman can make. While this might be a sound strategy for Catholics who get knocked up at 16 as soon as look at you, more refined Christians shouldn't be prevented from taking part in the defence of the character of our nation. Besides, if we don't take action now, in 50 years we could be living in a Papist state.

Close your eyes and think of Australia!

To think I used it rhetorically...

Lyenko Urbancic, Nazi, Liberal Party member.

An avid anti-Communist who was outed in the 1970s as a former Nazi propagandist, Urbancic died yesterday in Sydney. He was still a member of the party and attended a State Council meeting last year.

The party never succeeded in expelling the Yugoslav-born, right-wing, Slovenian nationalist. Nor did it end the influence of his faction, "the Uglies", which he helped create in the 1970s to restore backbone to the party.

Urbancic's rapid rise in the party ended in 1979, when he was exposed in a radio program as a former Nazi propagandist in Yugoslavia. He was briefly suspended from the party while investigations were conducted, but denied the claims and narrowly avoided expulsion.

In 1986, he told a Sydney newspaper: "I never said 'Heil Hitler', I never put a Nazi uniform on, I never greeted in the Nazi way."

But Urbancic never disguised his efforts to lead a right-wing faction to attack the party's small-l liberal members and influence its policies on drugs, homosexuals and law and order.

SMH

Seriously, you couldn't make this shit up.

Last week

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Across the road from us...






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And we saw stuff like this

Mushrooming

Given the ease with which one can deflate the ludicrous notion that a nuclear Iran would constitute "the largest threat" facing the world, it is a cause for great concern that this view has so completely taken over rational debate on the subject. It is of even greater concern when we remember that we are only discussing a potential. But note how a central part of the propaganda campaign works: several months ago, the usual estimate for the time Iran would need to develop nuclear weapons was about ten years. Then it got reduced to five years. Now, people speak as if Iran will have nuclear weapons in the next few months. The unavoidable implication of this tactic is the obvious one, the one that Bush used so disastrously with Iraq: we need to act now. We have to do something now. There is only one word to describe this approach: it is not reasoned discourse -- it is hysteria, pure and simple.

Arthur Silber

Selling us down the river

Crooks




By Michael Gawenda, Herald Correspondent in Washington and Marian Wilkinson
February 1, 2006

THE Australian ambassador to the United States lobbied Congress to drop an investigation into allegations that Australia's wheat exporter paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.

The Federal Government confirmed last night that the then ambassador, Michael Thawley, met the chairman of a US Senate investigations committee in late 2004 to head off the planned inquiry.

The AWB investigation was ultimately dropped, despite the US Government having information that an AWB wheat contract might have been inflated to cover kickbacks to Iraq. This information included a report, seen by the Herald, from the US Defence Contract Audit Agency.

It is understood a Senate sub-committee did not pursue the AWB investigation in the face of the fierce resistance of AWB.

Mr Thawley met Norm Coleman, chairman of the Senate permanent sub-committee on investigations, in the weeks before the Australian general election on October 9, 2004.

A statement to the Herald last night from the office of the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, confirmed Mr Thawley "argued strongly" to Senator Coleman for AWB's case, which was to block a US Senate inquiry.

"The Government was very concerned that because of the strong campaign by American wheat interests, the Senate committee would be used by those interests to damage Australia's wheat interests with Iraq," the statement said.

Mr Thawley had "expressed surprise" to Senator Coleman that his committee was focusing on AWB. The statement said the Government was "very concerned at the time that AWB Ltd would be unfairly treated". It added: "The Government had no reason to believe other than that the AWB Ltd was behaving properly."

Around the time of Mr Thawley's meeting it is understood there was also a meeting involving Australian government officials and the Senate committee staffers during which the US-Australia alliance and Australia's role in the "coalition of the willing" was raised.

The Government knew the AWB was paying bribes to Saddam and reacted by using its influence, haha, to try and make it go away. Incidentally our "role in the 'coalition of the willing' was raised." Not only is the government in this grubby scandal up to its eyeballs, but our foreign policy was used as a bargaining chip to get a crooked company and a crooked government off the hook. How many Australian soldiers did it cost to make all this go away? What else did they promise? This has the makings of a government destroying scandal if the stupid boob in charge of the opposition would get his act together.