June 2008
Two reasons Gordon Brown is cactus
The Everything-New-Is-Old-Again Labour Party wasn't expected to win the Henley by-election. It was, after all, an extremely toffy-nosed Tory seat, made vacant when Boris Karloff became Lord Mayor of London. But how many people expected Labour to (a) come fifth, behind even the Greens and BNP, and (b) score less than five per cent of the primary vote, thereby losing its deposit, so to speak?
At least Richard McKenzie (Labour, 1066 votes) outpolled such lumninaries as Bananaman Owen (Monster Raving Loony Party, 242 votes) and Harry Bear (Fur Play Party, 73 votes).
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World Refugee Day June 20
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More information from the UNHCR, as well as their Youtube WRD video playlist.
See also the Refugee Council of Australia, who are conducting Refugee Week across June 15 to 21 in Australia.
World Ocean Day
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See The Ocean Project for more information.
The theme for 2008 is "Helping our climate / helping our oceans" with a special focus on coral reefs.
(2008 has been designated the International Year of the Reef by the Interational Coral Reef Initiative, an NGO which sits outside the UN framework.)
Out of Iraq
One of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history has come to an end, with the commencement of the withdrawal of our combat troops from Iraq.
The withdrawal came more or less with a whimper, and certainly not telegraphed in advance. Earlier this year the Senate Estimates Committee was told that Australia's role in Iraq was complete, and this was confirmed by Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston yesterday (video). We, of course, should never have been there, an aggressor nation (along with the USA, UK and numerous smaller members of the "Coalition of the Willing") invading a sovereign entity on the other side of the world, on the basis of fabricated "intelligence". The acronym for the original (subsequently discarded) US name for the invasion, "Operation Iraqi Liberation", sums up the underhanded motives fairly well.
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