Is there principle in our sport?

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Bloody money! Ruins sport ... ruins communities ... makes people forget principle.

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Howard and Andrews leave Oz at bottom of rat pile

Howard and Andrews have left our country at the bottom of the rat pile, in the eyes of those people who give credence to the concept of a fair go. Howard has ruined our reputation with those people who value humanity. And still we Australians have not awakened to he fact that Howard is a liar and that the concept of sorry applies only when Howard has something to gain, and we all know there are no votes in being nice to Aborigines and people of 'Middle Eastern appearance ... including Indians].

Kevin Andrews should apologise

Kevin, I respect the work you do for us but this time you have damaged our country's reputation beyond belief. What on earth made you behave so stupidly re Haneef? No amount of obfuscatory denials will restore the credibility of our country in the international arena. It was plain to all that you had stuffed up. The best thing for you to do is to apologise and get on with your job of ensuring our country is friendly to immigrants and capable of handling real terrorists.

Dictatorial Howard fosters insane paranoia

The saga of Howard's Way continues. Another event of disastrous consequences for Australia's international reputation has forced its way onto the front pages of every major news media internationally. When is this dictatorial Prime Minister about to accept final responsibility for fostering the insane paranoia among those professional security officers who, frankly, should have known better.

Roosters crow after the Storm

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We could hear them from here, way up north near the Queensland border ... all the Roosters crowing! They survived the Storm and now strut proudly around their chookyard.
Eggs anyone?

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Kevin Andrews: Political henchman of John Howard

Kevin Andrews stuffed up Workplace Relations with the odious workchoice mess. He's now taken over from Amanda who had taken over from Philip Ruddock. Ruddock's time at the wheel of immigration proved to be disastrous for Australia: ask Cornelia Rau and Ms Solon and the hundreds of wretched souls who lived for years in our gulags at Woomera and Villawood. Now Ruddock and Andrews have combined to bring international disgrace upon our heads and have probably reinforced some lunatic's desire to 'get even' with the Aussie dogs who defile the religious world of others

Howard should be gaoled for fraud

Howard should be gaoled for fraud. And we should be smacked in the gob for believing the cur.

Posted by: Adrian Caoimh on February 2, 2006 5:34 PM

http://blogs.smh.com.au/thecontrarian/archives/2006/01/bad_history_i_b.html?page=fullpage#comments

Howard picks a Bono and biscuit with a dickhead

I can't stand Howard and Bono ...well. who is he?
Another Geldof ... another biscuit?
Howard is right to ignore the dickhead.

Posted by: Adrian Caoimh on November 9, 2006 6:26 AM

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Caoimh criticises Howard's greed and stupid immorality

Caoimh of Tabulam NSW
Wed 25 Apr 07 at 05:42am

In 1807 the British Parliament’s Lower House voted to abolish slavery. It took the Upper House another fifteen years to ratify this decision. Why so long? because the British Establishment was afraid that by abolishing slavery they would wreck the British economy.
Howard is repeating that recalcitrant piece of greed and stupid immorality by insisting that the Oz economy is more important than the environment.

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/paulkelly/index.php/theaustralian/comments/howard_stakes_a_contrary_course/P25/

Peter Beattie agrees with Caoimh on Dr Haneef

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Mr Beattie

Congratulations for saying what we are saying. Rudd and Howard are wrong and you are right. Simple as that.

Cheers
Adrian Caoimh
A Cockroach supporter of Qld Premier

Kevin Rudd talks to Caoimh on Dr Haneef

Dear Adrian



Thank you for your correspondence relating to the very important issues surrounding the detention of Dr Haneef.



As there is varying media speculation and general commentary surrounding this case its critical to bear in mind that when it comes to matters of terrorism and matters which concern our civil liberties, the facts must be independently ascertained.



In cancelling Dr Haneef’s visa on 16 July 2007, the Minister stated he acted on the information and advice provided by the Australian Federal Police. Based on the information presented by the Minister for Immigration, the Minister has exercised his discretion under the Migration Act and appears to be acting within the Act.



Labor provided in-principle support to the Minister's decision in good faith and sought a briefing from the Federal Police.



We have been provided with the standard briefings given to the opposition, but it is the government that has access at this stage to the full facts. We've certainly been prepared to accept in good faith the government's information to date.



These facts will be tested, both by the independent DPP as they prepare any case and most importantly they will be tested thoroughly through the court process.



I think that in this situation it is more important than ever for us to respect the independence of our judiciary, and to appreciate the principle of sub judice, and for us to respect that our judicial system can do its job properly, and without undue interference.



Labor will continue to monitor developments in this case very closely, to ensure as far as we can in Opposition, that due process is followed.



I appreciate your concerns and thank you for taking the time to let me know your views.



Kind Regards





Kevin Rudd

Federal Labor Leader

Federal Member for Griffith







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Kevin Rudd

Please understand that Labor's inaction on the Haneef debacle is ruining its page in history, let alone ruining its
reputation now for being a party of principle.

We have to beat Howard but not at the cost of our souls.

Cheers
Adrian Caoimh


The sun sets in the east .... ?
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Murder of Indigenous peoples continues today

Murder is murder
by Adrian Caoimh Monday November 21, 2005 at 02:35 PM
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The murder of Indigenous Peoples of this continent began over two hundred years ago and it continues today. The invaders of the government of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries got away with it then and they are getting away with it still.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/99890_comment.php#99944

Rugby League and Union referees are a bad joke

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Referees are a joke. We can't find one referee for whom we have respect. Every game of League is contentious. Simpkins, Clarke, Hamstead, Hayne ... not one referee can play the game without influencing the result one way or the other. Rugby Union is no better. We watched the Welsh referee on Saturday blow Australia out of the game. It was pathetic and it has repercussions all the way from the ground to the outer reaches of our emotions.

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Referees are a joke. We can't find one referee for whom we have respect. Every game of League is contentious. Simpkins, Clarke, Hamstead, Hayne ... not one referee can play the game without influencing the result one way or the other. Rugby Union is no better. We watched the Welsh referee on Saturday blow Australia out of the game. It was pathetic and it has repercussions all the way from the ground to the outer reaches of our emotions.

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TV 'celebrities' and their deplorable English

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I teach English to foreigners and I would be glad to see cabbies speak English in a way that is understandable by most of us. But I also would be glad to hear understandable English from some of our supposedly erudite Television 'celebrities' whose grammar and pronunciation is deplorable.

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Referees are a joke

Referees are a joke. We can't find one referee for whom we have respect. Every game of League is contentious. Simpkins, Clarke, Hamstead, Hayne ... not one referee can play the game without influencing the result one way or the other. Rugby Union is no better. We watched the Welsh referee on Saturday blow Australia out of the game. It was pathetic and it has repercussions all the way from the ground to the outer reaches of our emotions.

Howard's dust is bull

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Come on, Lindsay! Explanations from a known liar are not explanations but obfuscations and out here in suffer land we are not so stupid as to believe the dust that spills from bulls has any purpose other than to stifle our imagination and purpose.

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Teaching English

I teach English to foreigners and I would be glad to see cabbies speak English in a way that is understandable to most of us. But I also would be glad to hear understandable English from some of our supposedly erudite Television 'celebrities' whose grammar and pronunciation is deplorable.

Mrs Howard confirms John Howard is a liar

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Even Mrs Howard knows her husband does not keep his word. Isn't this the same as being a liar? Is Mrs Howard therefore proud that her husband is a liar?

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Howard fails as Treasurer: Costello tells us the truth

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At last! The truth revealed. By no one else other than Costello ... the man who would be king. What does Costello tell us? He reminds us that Howard's inflation rate was 11 percent and home loans were 12.5 percent. Now that tells me that Howard is not only a pathetic treasurer but that he has no memory, for our PM has been hawking the tale that only Labor produces high inflation and interest rates. QED.

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SES a cause for worry

The local SES set fire to tall grass in a field opposite our home in Tabulam. I was in bed recovering from a hefty medical operation and, still bearing stitches in my gut, had to struggle from the house to the garden [we are on acre in village] to get the bore primed. As it is an old bore it requires a fair bit of work to get it going. The flames were high and we faced a tall wall of fire as my wife and I battled to get the water flowing. After all, the SES did not warn us of this burnoff, and we have an old wooden house with old roof and loads of vegetation to ignite.
I split my stitches and set my recovery back at least a week.
The pictures I have taken of the fire afterward clearly show how close the fire came to igniting vegetation close to our neighbour's house.
I spent the next two hours hosing my garden as the cinders were caught in the swirling winds of Tabulam.
One gets the distinct impression of cowboys at play when one watches your blokes getting a backburn going. It is pathetic in the extreme.
With carbon trading the political buzzword of the day and with a simple tractor blade the ability to mow and mulch, I ask why this absurd practice of burning within the town [village] limits? The school's fence burned. They set fire to a garbage dump with tyres burning black. They set fire to the electrical equipment that fed, until recently, a workshop owned by local Kooris. These were big kids in SES uniform having fun and as my wife and I struggled to get the bore working, we wondered how much effort would it have cost, were these firies to have warned us, so that we could have, at leisure, or at least with ten minutes warning, primed our bore and have been ready when they set the flames upon the grass.
If your blokes assert that they had the situation under control, then my photos will illustrate the way the fire jumped and set alight grass quite close to property.
We have seen a few of these fires and not once have we had the benefit of a warning. My recollection of the law tells me that such a warning is necessary at times of planned burnback.
Tabulam is a village of some 100 people and we live smackbang in the middle of the village. It is not a big deal to warn us by simply shouting from the gate to give us ten mins warning. Is this too much to ask from intelligent people?

An De Rui and the Queen in China Daily

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An De Rui 2007-07-16 15:45
If the Queen were amid a storm, mayhaps t'was because of her reign? Seriously, though, folks, our favourite online newspaper [what do you call a paperless newspaper?] is a bit slow in reporting that the dear old BBC is guilty of a mighty clanger. The Queen was breezing into the interview on a cloud of hope, amid a climate of suspicion.
Now for the weather, folks ...

http://comment.chinadaily.com.cn/articlecmt.shtml?id=5433561

Enga Experience: Change your life!

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You can see some of my photos from Enga at:
http://aylaaus.hi5.com/

My trip was organised through Ben ?Loken / ?Lokain & his daughter, Josephine. I was put in touch with Josephine through Adrian Keefe, who answered the email I sent to the link on
http://www.engaexperience.homestead.com/engaexperience.html

I only came across it by doing a google search for Enga. When looking for places to stay, I 'googled' all highland provinces I was interested in. Even then, I only found it with some hunting. I'd like to see links on major PNG internet tourism sites, and being linked with, eg. Niugini Holidays at http://www.nghols.com/

Re cost... I think its a matter of numbers. If there is more demand for reasonable airfares, maybe they will provide them. At present, I get the impression that most people travelling are from organisations such as churches, government and busines. All these are prepared to pay full price airfares, whereas tourists are not. If thousands more tourists want to go, the Qantas etc will be able to earn more by charging less. Eg. Bali - Australia, and London to Australia.

I wish anyone well, setting up such tourism ventures.

Lisa

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John 'Coward' Howard guilty of war crimes?

Howard's complicity

Sir--

Consensus is growing in Australia that our Prime Minister John "Coward" Howard should be tried for war crimes.

That a grudge against Saddam Hussein by George W Bush is construed by others as a legitimate cause for invasion and pre-emptive war, is sufficient indication that the invasion of Iraq was morally and politically indefensible. Bush was quoted as saying that "Saddam tried to kill my Daddy" and Coward Howard, as he is known in Australia, was known to be fully supportive of this emotional claptrap. Thus, the invasion and terrible suffering for Iraqis.

Australian Muslims and non-Muslims abhor this conflict; only fools and thieves relish this war.

Adrian Keefe
Tabulam
Australia

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/700/letters.htm

Unions and Labor

It is strange. I went for a job as a union organiser with the United Services Union (NSW) and in my application I made it clear on two occasions that I was a member of the Socialist Alliance. At the end of the interview, for which I had travelled 360 kilometres, I was advised that if given the job I was to become a member of the ALP. I protested that I had made it known that I was with the Socialist Alliance. I was told that the SA was not a political party! When I insisted that the SA was indeed a political party, the interview was suddenly curtailed. It is strange!
Adrian Keefe
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'RANE' is the most compelling work in years ...

From: Caoimh 25/12/2002 8:55:33 AM
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The E Book 'RANE' by Adrian Keefe is the most compelling work I have seen in years. Horrible characters and vicious theme but it is extremely well written and I couldn't put it down. A graphic illustration of the Stolen generations but in a graphically savage manner.

http://www2b.abc.net.au/rn/arts/atbooks/disc/archives/archive1/newposts/3/topic3

How tribal Australian TV viewers really are ...

Adrian Keefe:

The Logies! I am amazed at how tribal Australian TV viewers and others really are. Take a look at sideburns...even bald men wear sideburns. Little patches of hair in front of the ears. Rove's haircut. Would anyone willingly wear such a ridiculous style if it were not for the tribal mind? Follow the leader ... except we do never know who the leader is. We just follow."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/The-Tribal-Mind/The-Logies-no-laughing-matter/20

Stuff the Unions and John Howard

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Stuff the unions!
I don't know which of the two I detest the more ... unions or John Howard.
If we could have a political system that did not cater to special interests but, instead, catered to the bloody electorate, us, the mob who actually exist in this politically blighted land.
Rudd is the same as Howard, seeking at all times to feather his own bed, at the expense of us nobodies. They make me sick!

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A bloke named Christ

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Hell! I knew a bloke named Christ and he pronounced it to rhyme with grist ... however ... and it's a big however ... nobody told all the others. So poor Old Mr Christ became the Saviour of his suburb.

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Gus Gould's Ghouls of Rugby League

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I wholeheartedly agree with Wayne Bennett. Scott Prince was assaulted by two huge Bronco forwards a split second after Prince punted the ball. It was deliberate! There was no attempt to block the ball. It was pure attack on the body of Prince and now the half back has to suffer because, as Bennett says, the game of Rugby League does NOT protect the kicker of the ball in play.
The blame must rest largely upon the critics and commentators of our game. The chief offender is Gus Gould who berates any referee who punishes a late tackle. Gould grunts and groans during his commentary about so-called soft penalties, penalties given for head-high tackles, late charge-downs, etc. Gould relects the thug in rugby league. Oh yes, Gus may have been a successful coach but his continued philosophies of brutal play cast him squarely in the Camp of Thugs.
Immedialey after Prince was sidelined, Brisbane scored. They won the game. And Prince was left to suffer simply because the game itself does not protect the kicker of the ball in play.
Wake up, Mr Gallup. Wake up Mr Stirling. wake up all you influencial people of Rugby League and protect the kicker.

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When Ritchie met Sally ... err ... became Sally ...

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When Ritchie met Sally ... err ... when Ritchie became Sally ... none of us knew that she would grow up to become a Gold Logie winner. Sally has seen off all the Pippas, Dodges, Stalkers and Maccas, and has buried the Bobbies, Kens and Beths. But it's the kids in the show that somehow are not destined to be repeats of Sally herself. Young VeeJay isn't allowed to be heard; young Pippa is sort of seen and heard to mumble, and young Ryan was almost allowed to act, but was shoved aside recently. So it's probably Sally's daughter, Pippa who may cause Sally herself to be shown the exit door ... finally!

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Howard's lies lie dormant until ....

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Australians who voted for John Howard amaze me. This woman displays complete child-like faith in a man for whom she has had respect. What I want to know is, why did she respect a man who has made lying an art form. Does not truth play a fundamental part of our nation's psyche any more? My angst is not so much against this congenital liar but against the millions of Aussies for whom lying obviously is not a shameful act.

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John Howard denies Aboriginality

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The most fantastic thing to occur would be for John Howard to discover among his heritage that he is descended from an Aborigine. Boy, would that make a difference to the Indigenous community! Or would it? Most probably he'd deny it!

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