(SMH) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia's failure to support Israel in a United Nations vote has nothing to do with recent tensions between the two countries. The federal government has demanded Israel explain its role in the alleged theft of three Australian citizens' identities by its spy agency, Mossad, to carry out a political assassination. At the UN General Assembly, Australia abstained from a resolution demanding Israel and investigate possible war crimes during the 2008-09 Gaza assault. Mr Rudd said Australia's failure to vote against the move was not a manifestation of recent tensions over the passport scandal. "The Australian government always reviews UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions on their merits," he said. "This specific resolution does not explicitly endorse the so-called Goldstone report (accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes) and therefore we have taken our decision based on its merits." read more
Israel wants a UN investigation into December 2009 Gaza? Yeah right. If not for the passport matter, would Rudd have then voted for the UN looking into 2009 Gaza crimes? We think so! Arrhhh, the game they play called good cop, bad cop.1,200+ Palestinians deadvs 13 Israeli dead (eye for an eye?), and all they can play is good cop, bad cop.
(SMH) Housing in Sydney will not get any cheaper until the NSW government begins releasing land in the city's outer suburbs, the opposition says. [...] According to the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, land release in Sydney has been reduced from a historic average of 10,000 lots per year to less than 2,000 in 2007. Activist Dr Tony Recsei, in his introduction to the survey, said the government needed to move away from high-density housing and begin releasing land in outer Sydney or risk a "Dickensian gloom" read more
Dr Tony Recsei has our vote if ever running for office. The bloke, knowingly or not, is spitting on the UN Agenda 21 plan to herd humans world wide into compact cities and reduce population numbers down.Click here for Dr Tony Recsei's Save Our Suburbs web site.