Quick not-link: Australia’s biggest music funding body
…is the Australian Defence Force, according to some figuring by Brian Toohey in the Fin Review today.
Fitzgibbon gone
Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has resigned. Story at the ABC. Fitzgibbon was of course the subject of a sensational story in the Fairfax press claiming that he was being investigated by his own department for his links with Chinese-born businesswoman [...]
More on the Yellow Peril
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/youtube_kevin-rudd-chairman-mao-2.jpg" align=left In the wake of the Joel Fitzgibbon brouhaha, the “investigative journalists” of the press are now hot on the heels of any vague link between an ALP figure and China, working themselves up into an illogical lather [...]
Joel and the poll
The Joel Fitzgibbon saga rolls on, with the Opposition getting a bee in their bonnet about the evils of Communist China and Labor’s supposed connections with all manner of Chinese folk. The government fires back that they’re playing the “yellow [...]
Defence quickies
You might remember an LP thread some time ago about the details of our Afghanistan deployment – in essence, only our special forces have been involved in “offensive maneuvers”. It seems that may change, in part because our special forces [...]
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