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18-12-02

Telling lies for "the poor"

Samizdata has a great series of posts going on right now about the "rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer!" squealers. Excellent reading.
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S
outh African politicians puff too much of the good stuff

From The Guardian today;

South Africa cannot afford drugs to fight HIV/Aids partly because it needs submarines to deter attacks from nations such as the US, its health minister said.
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told the Guardian that budgetary priorities meant her department could not provide anti-retrovirals to the estimated 4.5m South Africans with HIV. "We don't have the money for that. Where would it come from?"

Asked if it could come from defence savings from leaving out the submarines which formed part of a £4bn arms deal, the minister said that South Africa needed to deter aggressors: "Look at what Bush is doing. He could invade."

File this one under sure...everything in Africa is the fault of white people.
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Oh God, not her

The Australian has a wonderful opinion piece by Janet Albrechtsen on Kate Carnell - former Chief Minister of the ACT and raving loon: A woman with an extraordinary talent to create financial, human and political disasters from nothing. Now she wants a senate seat. God help us.

There are two reasons why the former ACT chief minister's bid for the Senate next Saturday should be dead in the water. The first is history. Her sorry record says it all. Carnell should be hiding in a dark corner ashamed of her political failures rather than looking for a promotion to the upper house on the hill.

The second reason is one of principle. Carnell represents everything that a conservative party should not be.

Amen. Let's hope we've seen the last of this nut-job.

Thanks to Alex Robson for the heads-up.
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Fascist-lovings celebrities

MCJ has some thoughts on Hollywood's Castro admirers.
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Alex Robson vs. paid maternity leave

Fellow ANU blogger Alex Robson has written a solid critique of the current plan for mandatory paid maternity leave. Sadly, something tells me this stupid scheme is inevitable.
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Why socialists hate rich people

Oooooh, this will piss a few people off.
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Yeah, man, it's all about justice for the Palestinians...or something

Charming people;

On Monday, the Hamas website showed a picture of an eagle pecking at the severed head of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The caption read, "We will use the skulls of Zion's sons to build a bridge to heaven," according to press reports.

The banner praised the murder of Jews as part of jihad (holy war).

An earlier banner headline on the site, commemorating the ninth anniversary of the death of a senior Hamas official in Gaza, vowed: "We will knock on the doors of heaven with the skulls of Jews."

The accompanying pictures showed an axe smashing the word "Jews" and the skulls of Jews.

Nah, no anti-semitism here folks. Don't you all read Robert Fisk? It's all the Americans' fault.
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One great thing happened today

Justice Dyson Heydon has been appointed to the High Court of Australia. Naturally, the ABC are horrified. The man could have no better endorsement.

Heydon himself has some important things to say about judicial activism;

The judiciary has a different character from that of a generation ago. There is within its increased ranks a large segment of ambitious, vigorous, energetic and proud judges. Ambition, vigour, energy and pride can each be virtues. But together they can be an explosive compound. Rightly or wrongly, many modern judges think that they can not only right every social wrong but achieve some form of immortality in doing so.

The duty of a judge is to decide the case. It entails a duty to say what is necessary to explain why it was decided as it was, and a duty to say no more than what is necessary. To breach the latter duty is a form of activism capable of causing insidious harm to the rule of law.

A danger for judicial probity arises where the court deliberately sets out to alter the law.

Amen. Welcome to the bench sir. The highest court in the land will benefit from your presence.
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