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Support for Taliban grows: "at least the camel trains run on time"
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Britain's decision to
ban Australia's
"Where the bloody hell are you?" tourism ads has been met with a
torrent of abuse and expletives by outraged officials. Irate tourism
minister Fran Bailey left immediately for the UK to get the ban
reversed, saying "Who the fuck do
they think they are?"
Celebrations are occurring across Australia to commemorate the tenth year that Peter Costello's leadership ambitions have been thwarted. The jubilation was heightened as the nation simultaneously marked the tenth anniversary of Australia not being run by Paul Keating, Kim Beazley, Simon Crean or Mark Latham.
Efforts to save former leader Simon Crean from losing his seat were hampered today when Mr Crean publicly backed himself in the preselection battle. Since Mr Crean threw his weight behind the fight to save himself, support for the former Opposition Leader has slumped from "token" to "abysmal". Insiders acknowledge that Mr Crean faces a tough fight to save his career, as well as conceding that he lost the fight many years ago.
Australians have called on the Muslim community to defend Mohammed after Tim Blair’s decision to publish the Danish cartoons on his blog were totally ignored. “You don’t have to kill him, but you could at least rough him up a bit,” said Ken Williams of Adelaide. “I hate wannabe Neo-Cons.” 
Tony Abbott made a passionate defence in Parliament yesterday of his right as Health Minister to veto the abortion drug RU486. "The TGA is the wrong body to make these sorts of difficult moral decisions. Whereas the current system allows me, as an elected representative, to canvass public opinion," he said. "And then reject it to impose my own narrow religious beliefs." 
