Ban smoking in cars

There was some discussion in the press today about a private member’s bill in NSW proposing a ban on smoking in cars. NSW Health Minister John Hatzistergos said the government supports a ban on smoking in cars containing children and said it will look at the issue.Personally I think anything that gives smokers a hard […]

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$1m man knows nothing

Trevor Flugge, former chairman of AWB, was paid close to $1m by the Australian Government to serve for 11 months as an adviser in Iraq’s Agriculture Ministry in 2003. This payment, strangely, was made through AusAid, ie it was provided as foreign aid by Australia.

Nice to be well connected with the Government, isn’t it? Flugge […]

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Senseless waste of lives on our roads

There have been two terrible road smashes in the last week, one in Tasmania yesterday, killing 5 women, and one in Mildura, Victoria last weekend, killing 6 teenagers. All road deaths are a senseless waste of life, these ones particularly so as the dead were all young people with most of their lives still in […]

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Showtime

Went to the Canberra Show today. I’d rather give it a miss, but the kids insisted on going, so dragged me along. Anyway, it was pretty much the same as it has been the 3 or 4 other times I’ve been, animals, rides, showbags, exhibits, etc.
Things I liked were the human cannonball, freestyle motocross (guys […]

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Technology upgrades

I upgraded to 1.5mb ADSL yesterday, and moved off Bigpond. My new ISP gives me 3 times the old speed (was 512kb) and bigger download limits (and doesn’t include uploads in the limit) for the same price as Bigpond was charging me. (Not that the cost particularly worries me … work pays for my broadband […]

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Back

Back in Canberra tonight.
Last night I was at Tugun Beach on the Gold Coast, for this sunset.
Now I know why I drive to Sydney for business rather than fly, except when I go to the CBD or North Sydney. My 2.25pm flight from Sydney didn’t leave till after 3.30. […]

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Out of town for a few days

I’m travelling to the Gold Coast later this morning, to go to my wife’s aunt’s funeral on Wednesday.

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Speaking of attitudes to women

its not just some of those moslem extremists that have bad ones.This marriage contract drawn up by some American wacko is pure gold. I just wonder how much porn he had watched before dreaming up this fantasy.When I was a teenager, one of the insults we used was “you must have two dicks, you […]

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Hard to argue with John Howard’s comments on radical Moslems

I think, despite the whinging from the Islamic lobby, that what he says is pretty fair comment.
Howard said that there is a small section of the Islamic population here that because of its views on jihad and the position of women, is a problem. Other comments he made included:
“We want people when they come to […]

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Slogan for the Howard Government

I noticed this on a video clip for “The Living End”’s new song while my kids were watching TV this morning and thought it would make a very apt slogan for the Government, particularly when faced with situations such as the corrupt AWB payments to Iraq, Children Overboard, etc.
In a time of universal deceit, […]

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