Sandra Lee

Joe (Hockey) and the volcano

July 29, 2009
Joe Hockey in Training for Kilimanjaro climb

IF anyone was wondering why the Federal Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey was not at the Tony Abbott conservative-studded book launch in Sydney yesterday, it’s because he was in Johannesburg, South Africa, preparing for his next summit – Mt Kilimanjaro. Hockey exited Australia on Monday and come Friday, he’ll be leading 21 trekkers up the 5895mt […]

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Is Tony Abbott the Liberal Party’s intellectual?

July 28, 2009
Tony Abbott at the launch of his book, Battlelines

Liberal Party “hard man” Tony Abbott was described as the party’s “intellectual” just hours after it was revealed that Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull had sunk further in the latest opinion poll today. “Someone here has already described him as the Liberal Party’s intellectual,” said Melbourne University Press CEO Louise Adler, at the launch of Abbott’s book, […]

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Double standards for Elle on legs

July 24, 2009
Elle Macpherson on the red carpet in London in a mini-dress

Once again the old double standards are in play when it comes to women of a certain age and how they should dress. The woman otherwise known as The Body has been slagged off in the British press by a female columnist who disapproves of Elle’s kneecaps. My first thought was, ‘kneecaps? How granular can […]

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Nothing could have saved Corporal Mathew Hopkins’s life

July 24, 2009
Corporal Mathew Hopkins in Afghanistan

The Australian Army has released a new report on the fatal wounding of Corporal Mathew Hopkins who was Killed In Action on March 16 while on patrol in Afghanistan. The Inquiry Officer found that the gunshot wound from Taliban insurgents was fatal and that “no medical intervention would have saved him”. Corporal Hopkins was 21, […]

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New report on an Australian soldier’s death in Afghanistan

July 24, 2009
Aussie troops on patrol in Afghanistan (file picture from the Australian Defence Force)

ON the 16th of March this year, Mathew Hopkins became the 9th Australian soldier killed in action in Afghanistan – a country in which our troops have been operational in the eight years since the mass murder attacks of 9/11. In the four months since Corporal Hopkins was killed, another two brave young Australian men […]

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Private Benjamin Ranaudo – Lest We Forget.

July 22, 2009
Australian soldier Benjamin Ranaudo

While the top dog of the Australian Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, was announcing a change to the rules of engagement for our troops in Afghanistan yesterday, one of our finest was being sent home from that theatre of war in a coffin. Private Benjamin Ranaudo began his final journey to Australia after […]

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