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The stories Australians won't read : Comments
By Alan Austin, published 14/6/2013Historians will ponder and explore these 15 accomplishments with wonder and delight.
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To uncover incompetence and corruption in someone else requires a minimum of probity and competence in the person doing the uncovering. But as it is, Gillard has cycled through her ministers so quickly that none of them have had the chance to become corrupt -- except perhaps Swan, and who on earth would trust HIM to carry out their instructions correctly?
"Australia has been voted to chair the Pacific Island Forum."
The Pacific Island Forum is a bleeding-heart lobby group dedicated to extracting money from richer nations by guilt, blackmail and any other means it can come up with. The fact that it's chosen Australia to lead the charge simply indicates the contempt with which it regards our supposed commitment to rational economics and fair play.
I'll leave the rest for others; but really, this is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff.