Kevin Rudd

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• Australia Considers Same-Sex "Marriage"

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiCANBERRA, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of its inquiry into the Marriage Amendment Bill the Australian government yesterday heard arguments for and against same-sex “marriage.”The Australian Green party is pushing for the redefinition of marriage as part of their platform ...
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• Compassion

  
  Magic of the Ordinary — Authority: 116
  Tomorrow will see the launch of the Charter for Compassion. I posted a link to this a few weeks back, though I am not sure how many MOTO readers clicked The Charter is a project designed to help bring people from all religions  and cultures – including secular folk – together through a commitment [...]
  9 hours ago

• On being too clever

  
  Floating Life — Authority: 424
  Let me draw your attention to Recommendation 1 of the recent HREOC report on Christmas Island. That and the rest of the report strikes just the right note as far as I am concerned. This piece of legalistic chicanery came via the Howard administration and is as shameful and Dickensian now as it was then. [...]
  13 hours ago

• Rudd Deceives You Yet Again

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  By Andrew Bolt Professor Sinclair Davidson contrasts what Kevin Rudd says his huge emissions taxes will cost against what Treasury told him they’d cost: Another problem with the Prime Minister’s argument is jobs. Rudd says Treasury modelling also demonstrates that all major employment sectors grow ...
  22 hours ago

• Sheikhs offensive letters preaching peace

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 589
  A SELF-STYLED Muslim Sheik has chained himself to the steps of a Sydney courthouse in a bid to convey his message of peace. Sheik Haron appeared at the Downing Centre Local Court today charged with sending harassing letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers, The Daily Telegraph reported . As the ...
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• Rudd’s NBN under renewed attack

  
  Right Pulse — Authority: 126
  Rudd’s household fibre to node network plans have been panned by Rupert Murdoch, who claims that Rudd will have to eventually right down half the asset value of the venture . I made a similar claim sometime ago. The US edition of the WSJ has also renewed its attack 0n the plan: The NBN, a tremendously awful ...
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• Traveston Dam Decision Expected Within a Week

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  A decision on whether the Queensland Government’s controversial Traveston Dam will go ahead will be made within a few days. Environment Minister Peter Garrett told Channel Ten’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday November 8 that he would “…make a proposed decision over the next week,” adding he would, “take ...
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• Essential Report – political approval and the economy

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 539
  This week’s Essential Report has the primaries coming in 48 (down 1) /35 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 59/41 the same way – no change since last week. The Greens are on 9 (up 1) while the broad “Others” are sitting on 8 (steady) . This comes from a two week ...
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• Reality Check

  
  Right Pulse — Authority: 126
  Rudd claims that opponents of the climate change agenda will hurt future children. According to Bjorn Lomborg it is the exact opposite: Getting basic sanitation and safe drinking water to the three billion people around the world who do not have it now would cost nearly $4 billion a year. By contrast, cuts in ...
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• Australian PM arrives Wednesday as attacks on Indians continue

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) With a fresh attack on an Indian in Melbourne, the targeting of Indian students in Australia is set to dominate proceedings when Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd comes to India on a two-day visit Wednesday with an agenda to broaden the scope of bilateral ties.Rudd starts his visit from [...]
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• Asylum Seeker Polling – Three Pollsters

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 539
  Today we have some results on the public perception of asylum seeker policy issues from both Newspoll and Nielsen. When combined with last week’s Essential Report questions on the same issue, all three pollsters turn out to be pretty consistent with each other, only differing by amounts we’d expect from slightly ...
  2 days ago

• Honeymoon Restored

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 539
  Not that it actually stopped to begin with, we have this months Nielsen today in Fairfax ( demographic tables here ) coming in with the primaries running 45 (down 1) / 38 (up 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 56/44 the same way – a one point increase to the Coalition since the last ...
  2 days ago

• Craig Murray and John Pilger on the “War on Terror”

  
  chtodelat news — Authority: 127
  The Fabulous Craig Murray , “ Uzbek Terror and the UK/USA” (interview on The Real News ; watch Craig’s recent talk on the same grim topic here and here ) John Pilger , “Breaking the Australian Silence” (Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech): Last July, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said ...
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• Real leadership on emission reductions is required now Mr Rudd.

  
  Peter Campbell's blog on the state of the planet — Authority: 106
  Kevin Rudd is a hypocrite and a political opportunist who is doing nothing to reduce Australias emissions with a fatally compromised CPRS (ETS). Instead he just plays politics by slamming "the opposition" and torpedoing Copenhagen negotiations for his fossil fuel Corporate mates (with his ridiculous 5% emission ...
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• Rudd a fearful follower, not a leader

  
  ...And Justice For All - Leon Bertrand's Blog of Reason — Authority: 424
  Gutless wonder The author of this blog felt better today for the first day since the tonsillectomy. Its amazing how much a minor operation and some painkillers can wear you down. I tried working on Friday, and was falling asleep on the bus home. The infectiousness of my throat was one of the two monkeys that ...
  3 days ago

• Breaking the Australian Silence By John Pilger

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 539
  Dandelion SaladBy John PilgerICHNovember 06, 2009In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia’s human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the “unique features” of a political silence in Australia: how it affects the national life of his homeland and the way ...
  3 days ago

• UN Tells Rudd: Give Us Your Billions

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  By Andrew Bolt How many billions does (Australian Prime Minister) Kevin Rudd promise to pay this man? The video shows Yvo de Boer, executive secretary for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate, setting out the demands that countries such as Australia must fulfil at the UNFCC’s Copenhagen ...
  3 days ago

• Memories

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 574
  John Howard is on the front page of the Sydney Sunday Telegraph proclaiming “I’d stop the boats!” … Meanwhile, all week since the Newspoll likely outlier , the tone of the media coverage and commentary has shifted. Glenn Milne, with his accustomed lack of subtlety, gives the game away in his column today ...
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• Lawrence Solomon: Numbers racket

  
  FP Comment — Authority: 604
  Politicians the world over claim that 4,000 scientists believe in global warming. Depends on who’s counting  By Lawrence Solomon I n a speech yesterday, Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd explained why he is so certain that the science is settled on climate change. It stems from the number 4,000 ...
  4 days ago

• Kevin Rudd plays politics with asylum seekers lives

  
  Peter Campbell's blog on the state of the planet — Authority: 106
  Kevin Rudds recent stance on refusing entry to Australia for asylum seekers from Sri Lanka is a disgusting political debacle. He is looking at the polls and positioning his actions to try and neutralize the Oppositions attacks on him and appeal to people on Australia who regard incoming asylum seekers as a bad thing. ...
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