Stirling Efforts in the Cold Blood

"Don't believe the ads you see on television from the union bosses trying to create fear. The unions are now running an almighty campaign against the government and they are trying to create a climate of fear."
Joe Hockey. Howard Minister.

But Group of Eight universities chairman Alan Robson hit back, saying he was disappointed at the Government's "attack on the intellectual honesty of the investigators".

"I think it's appalling that a legitimate study is attacked because one of the funders is the unions," he said. "I have absolute confidence that this is a rigorous study and that, as I understand it, it is an ARC linkage grant, so it was peer-reviewed, and there's no reason whatsoever to assume that the results will be biased … if the funder was a business organisation, would the same matters have arisen?"
The Age.

"The left and the socialists in particular have been absolutely decimated and annihilated over the last 20 years until we realised we are actually on our knees already we are going to make a whole lot of strategic blunders... I didn't read a newspaper for 2 months after the election, I could hardly talk to my friends, I was traumatised and I don't think I was alone there and I think it is really important that we do look for realistic seeds of hope... Call me old fashioned but I am inspired by the Romans, they took the view attack is the best means of defence. You do not accommodate, you don't simply buckle under but you've got to complement that with realism...you've got to be very very careful about the way you inject your lethal force but you've got to think about how you inject the lethal force in the current situation."
Academic John Buchanan, 2005.
























THE BIGGER STORY;


By ninemsn staff

Veteran newsreader Mary Kostakidis has accused SBS co-host Stan Grant of bullying and treating her with disdain, the Federal Court heard yesterday.

She also launched an attack on the management of SBS — her employer of 21 years — for catering only to over 55s, Fairfax papers reported.

Kostakidis has alleged SBS breached her contract and contravened parts of the Trade Practices Act since Grant was added as co-host of World News Australia seven months ago.