"McKew death threats...has anyone seen the detail? When you do I think you and Mckew might be the butt of a few laughs."

yes of course I have, I have the original hand written note in my hand... (please note sarcasm)

seriously, no, I haven't even seen the full report.
Of course this could be a Labour stunt.
I do not exactly think highly enough of any of the main parties to write that possibility off.
I do however think highly enough of Maxine McKew to believe 100% that if this is a stunt, then she would have no knowledge of it, and would have played no part in it- furthermore I believe if she found out such details she would take the appropriate actions.

more likely, this is the result of a very small minded critic of Labour and/or McKew, a devout Howard follower, or some meddling idiot who thinks this will actually help her or Labours cause.

if my comments are made a joke out of by the details, then please believe me,
I love making people laugh.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=155115&rss=yes

NEWS HOME > NATIONAL NEWS Saturday Mar 3 16:39 AEDT
McKew continues campaign despite threats
Saturday Mar 3 14:03 AEDT
Labor's star recruit Maxine McKew has vowed to continue her federal election campaign despite receiving death threats.

Authorities are also investigating Thursday night's discovery of men holding torches underneath Ms McKew's car parked in the driveway of her Sydney North Shore home.

The incident followed a number of death threats against the former ABC presenter since she announced she would take on Prime Minister John Howard in his seat of Bennelong.

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Former intelligence analyst Andrew Wilkie, who was the Greens candidate for the same seat in 2004, revealed on Saturday he too had been threatened during the last federal election campaign.




Ms McKew told reporters in Sydney how her neighbour had given a detailed account to police after spotting the suspicious men around her car.

She said the neighbour told her he saw a strange car parked in a nearby laneway and two men, one underneath her car shining a torch into the undercarriage, the other looking inside.

A full search of the car by the bomb squad and sniffer dogs had turned up nothing, she said.

Ms McKew admitted the recent events had unsettled her but said she would be not deterred from her campaign to unseat Mr Howard.

"I've just got to take it in my stride," Ms McKew said.

"You don't necessarily anticipate something like this but it hasn't thrown me."

Authorities were already aware of death threats made about the Labor candidate to the national terrorism hotline, she said.

While she now knew the details of those threats, Ms McKew declined to reveal their nature as they were "confidential".

cont

Mr Wilkie told AAP he was threatened in a series of detailed letters in 2004 outlining what would be done to him if he continued his political campaign.

"I received a number of death threats, some so alarming I also had to go to police as Maxine McKew seems to have done," Mr Wilkie said.

"It looks and sounds like the exact thing I faced."

Mr Wilkie said the threatening letters stopped after the election, in which he secured a small swing against Mr Howard, but abusive phone calls continued for many months until he changed his telephone number.

The former spy also revealed that gangs of young men harassed him on a number of occasions.

Mr Wilkie said he didn't go public about the threats at the time for fear of appearing to imply that sections of Mr Howard's support had resorted to dirty tricks in the election.

"Now I see it being done to someone else I feel I have a responsibility to let people know there's a pattern here," he said.

"When people stand against John Howard there are some people in the community who react in a threatening and unsettling way."

Mr Wilkie sensationally quit his post in the national intelligence agency in 2003 over concerns about political misuse of intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraq war.

In the 2007 federal election, he is second on the Greens ticket in Tasmania for the Senate, behind party leader Bob Brown.

©AAP 2007

Hard is it not? the thread is full of insults about Rudd,evidence is not coming that he did anything wrong but flog him still.
Then look at the feathers fly a conservative minister sat down with grubby Burk and tried to deal with him!
By the election the thought Bagdad is Iraq and that it can be defended will be proven wrong.
Interest rates will have gone up yet again ,fuel may be at its highest price ever.
Howard is in trouble and the mud will fly but on election night his defeat will give Australia a chance to forget the lies.

Good work Keith, try Australia is watching and we are learning.

We need your two eyes and my two eyes and eveyones eyes.... Keith.

Australia needs a new direction.

Maxine Mckew reportedly has four men with torches examining her car?Now if I were a bomber of real intent there would be but one man and no torches.The bomb plot could have been expedited without the fanfair of 4 men waving torches to attract her neighbour's attention.This was not a very clever political stunt.

Could this be a Labor attention seeking ploy?Maxine did not look too distressed when interviewed tonight about the death threats.The intrigueing question is that whether,Maxine had an inkling of what was in the winds.