Friday 3 July 2009
A blogger's character assessment of Malcolm Bligh Turnbull
From The Orstrahyun on Monday 29 June 2009 in a post titled See That Shark? Watch Me Jump It:
Turnbull thinks he is a rare brandy, but he is a harsh house spirit scotch when it comes to effectively bullshitting the Australian public.
Labels:
Liberal Party of Australia,
politics
NSW North Coast UFO tales
This month the UFOManiacs blog posted UFO LANDING ON HARWOOD ISLAND? a potted history of unexplained sightings on the NSW North Coast.
Thanks to North Coast Voices' Clarrie Rivers for passing it on.
Beam him up, Scotty!
Labels:
just for fun,
Northern Rivers,
urban myths
Thursday 2 July 2009
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2009 [transcripts]
Seven years ago the Council of Australian Governments commissioned a steering committee to produce regular reports against key indicators of Indigenous disadvantage.
Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2009 has just been released
Full transcript of and tables/appendices to this Australian Government Producivity Commission report can be downloaded from here.
Overview Booklet 65 pages.
Labels:
Australian society,
human rights,
indigenous affairs
Newspaper porkies for sale in the Clarence Valley
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 he proclaimed he never did it - yet again.
Forgetting established chronology (the first published article appeared on 11 June and the first letter some four or five days later) he blames the Grafton-based APN newspaper's readers.
Unfortunately for Peter Chapman his previous words and those of the newspaper's journalists live on and show the heavy-handed, hearsay-ridden attempt to link crime, Beachside, Ngaru Village and "men of aboriginal appearance" as well as "Young people running around the streets staging break and enters and smashing property".
Here are two of those The Daily Examiner articles from 11 June and 12 June 2009:
Click on images to enlarge
Labels:
APN,
ethics,
newspaper,
Northern Rivers,
The Daily Examiner
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