THERE is an ageless Arabian proverb which says: “Once the camel gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow.” The truly revolting racist attack on a busload of Jewish schoolchildren in Randwick on Wednesday afternoon demonstrates that the anti-Semitic camel is well and truly ensconced in the Australian tent.
ONLY three events have even come close to nudging the shooting down of MH17 from the headlines, the opening of the Commonwealth Games, the launch of Joe Hockey’s premature biography and Jacqui Lambie’s gross remarks about her sexual needs.Predictably, our sports team has been doing well though the gold has not always fallen to those who were expected to shine.
Having showed utter disrespect for Indonesia, Prime Minister Julia Gillard is now trying to buy her way back into our neighbour’s good books.This ploy is being seen as a triumph for our third-rate leader by her lapdogs in the media.
It was, let me remind you, Julia Gillard who said on April 23, 2003: “Another boat, another policy failure”.Just one boat arrived that year.
News that a Sydney escort agency is attempting to sell the services of a teenage virgin will nauseate most readers.Australia is considered to be a First World nation, it adopted a highly moralistic tone when it summarily banned live cattle exports to Indonesia in June based on a single report on the ABC, yet no-one in the federal government seems to have lifted an eyebrow over this twist to the world’s oldest trade.
The old saying “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” suits Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan to a “t”.While grandstanding at the G20 meeting in Cannes, the Australian prime minister attempted to win friends by announcing that she would happily tip more Aussie funds into the IMF to assist that body deal with the Eurocrisis.
THE Gillard Labor-Green-minority government’s two-pronged strategy to destroy the Australian economy is all but finalised. The carbon-dioxide tax was bludgeoned through the senate yesterday morning and debate began in the house on the mining tax.
Julia Gillard had barely alighted in Europe before she offered Australian aid to help prop up corrupt and inefficient government in Europe.She embodies the great Labor Magic Pudding.Europeans would not be familiar with the much-loved Norman Lindsay classic but you can bet they will dig in with relish.
The latest – inevitable – deaths of asylum seekers attempting to reach Australia has left Labor’s hypocritical media cheer squad strangely silent.Had a Coalition government been running the country they would have been as shrill as a shrieking Julia Gillard in Question Time.
The Gillard government has responded to press criticism with a very threatening tactic.To wit, an “independent” inquiry into the media initiated by Parliamentary bully boy and Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.It will be run by former Federal Court Justice Ray Finkelstein, QC, with assistance from former journalist Matthew Ricketson, now a Canberra academic.
The claim by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and senior ministers to have been caught by surprise by the decision by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce to ground his fleet Saturday is either a confirmation of this Labor government’s total incompetence or a bare-faced lie.This government has form either way.It lies and it is incompetent.
It has taken three fatal shark attacks in seven weeks, but West Australian authorities have issued their first catch-to-kill order in an attempt to eliminate the shark responsible.
Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/piers-akerman/page/142