Pipsqueak Australian PM feigns indignation - International Social/Political

While Islamic attitudes are no doubt primitive to the extreme they pale in comparison to the genocidal, murderous, racist, doctrines of the Jews, which have AGAIN found expression in the REAL world, Gaza!

Let’s hear it for the slaughter of innocents in Gaza, Kevin ’07!’ You can’t have one without the other Mr ‘selective indignation.’ Perhaps a few quotes from the Torah to highlight the opportunistic bias of the Australian PM and the obscene, to any civilised person, ideological manual of the Jews:

[The Rudd government has already caved-in on carbon pollution goals set during the election. Now we have illegal spraying; to what end we would all like to know, Mr Environment Minister?]

Timber company Gunns has rejected claims residents in northern Tasmania have been poisoned by aerial chemical spraying.

A number of people who attended a sustainable farming meeting at a property at Weegena, near the Mersey River, say drift from spraying has made them sick.

Neil Graham's property is next to a Gunns plantation and he says he went outside for a closer look at the spraying.

"Within about 20 minutes, I had an irritation within my lungs and probably within half an hour of that, you could smell it," he said.

He says his symptoms got worse overnight.

While a Gunns spokesman says there is no basis to the claims, acting Greens leader Kim Booth says there is photographic evidence to prove the company was in breach of regulations.

"These photos clearly show a helicopter that is spraying in contravention of the regulations and spraying adjacent to a river, which is a drinking water supply for many Tasmanians," she said.

"It also contaminated the air shed; it goes for miles and miles and miles, the spray drift."

The Department of Primary Industries is investigating the incident.

© 2009 ABC

[Another 'stunning' performance from the Rudd government; this time from bereft Communications Minister, Conroy!]

THE federal Government has announced that advice from a specially appointed expert panel examining bids for its national broadband network will be held from public scrutiny.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the report, due to reach the government yesterday, had been submitted but shot down requests from the Opposition to reveal its contents.

Senator Conroy’s released a statement today affirming that the report’s contents would remain secret throughout the negotiation process.

"The disclosure of the contents of the panel of experts’ report before the completion of the process, particularly any negotiation phase, has the potential to prejudice the outcome of the process. As such, the Government will not be commenting on the contents of the report,” Senator Conroy said.

The Government has allocated up to $4.7 billion to fund the project.

Key participants in the tender process and the Opposition have been calling on the Labor government to keep the tender process as transparent as possible.

On Tuesday Opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin challenged Senator Conroy to adhere to a promise in December 2007 to "hold an open transparent tender process”.

"The Rudd Government should release both of these reports and seek public comment before making any final decision on a preferred tenderer. If it refuses, the Australian public has every reason to view this process with deep suspicion considering $4.7 billion of taxpayers’ money is at risk.”

"It seems the only person who doesn’t think the public should be kept fully informed about this process and given a say is Senator Conroy,” Senator Minchin said.

He also called on Senator Conroy to reveal advice from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Progress on the development of a national broadband network - a key election promise - has been troubled and sluggish for Labor.

Dragged over the barbs of regulatory tension between the two major bidders, Telstra and Optus, it’s running over six months late. The tender process to select a network builder had been expected to be completed mid-2008 with construction scheduled to go ahead early this year.

Telstra has since been kicked-out of the NBN race.

Today Senator Conroy congratulated the expert panel for its contribution to the process.

"Until this point, the evaluation of proposals received in the national broadband network process has proceeded at arm’s length from the Government.”

"The Government had not seen the contents of any proposal, nor had it received detailed briefings on any proposals from the panel of experts.”

"The Government will give this serious and detailed report careful consideration,” he said.

© 2009 News Limited

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