The media is in overdrive [earning money that is!] from the Government's blatant advertising campaign in relation to the new IR laws. To say the very least the ads are blatant advertising for the Coalition - with the tax-payers of Oz footing the bill! Not a sceric of putting countervailing arguments or even attempting to refute the ACTU ad campaign. It's all gonna be great, employees will have flexibility, etc, etc. How this whole thing will play out in the real world - away from the inner-sanctum which PM Howard and his narrow-minded little friend Kevin Andrew occupy - is graphically shown in the article by Adele Horin in today's SMH.
Most commentary on the Chilcot Inquiry Report of and associated with the Iraq War, has been "lifted" from the Executive Summary. The Intercept has actually gone and dug into the Report, with these revelations : "THE CHILCOT REPORT, the U.K.’s official inquiry into its participation in the Iraq War, has finally been released after seven years of investigation. Its executive summary certainly makes former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who led the British push for war, look terrible. According to the report, Blair made statements about Iraq’s nonexistent chemical, biological, and nuclear programs based on “what Mr. Blair believed” rather than the intelligence he had been given. The U.K. went to war despite the fact that “diplomatic options had not been exhausted.” Blair was warned by British intelligence that terrorism would “increase in the event of war, reflecting intensified anti-US/anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim world, including among Muslim communities in the
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