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Boycotting of Israeli fruit. |
18-06-2009 Israel continues to hurt the Palestinians Benjamin Netanyahu's cautious acceptance in principle of the two-state solution is a fine sounding sentiment aimed at appeasing the current US President, Barak Obama. A closer look at the speech shows that it is riddled with so many conditions that the Palestinians would be left with no room to negotiate and their living conditions would actually deteriorate under his proposals. For example, Mr Netanyahu's insistence on increasing the settlements would mean more Palestinian land stolen, more homes demolished and an increase in the number of refugees. However, this speech does show that the Israeli PM is a master political tactician playing to both the US Administration and his own right wing party while placing the Palestinians in a position where they have no room to move. As Jimmy Carter observed yesterday, Mr Netanyahu has "raised many new obstacles to peace that had not existed under previous (Israeli) Prime Ministers." Margaret Cassar (ref : TFI0102T) 04-05-2009 "Issues" with Mr Downer's ideas (Adelaide Advertiser 04-05-2009) Mr Downer clearly outlines the dilemma of societies faced with the choice between possible self-protection and the deliberate torture of another human being. What methods would he regard as legitimate if one of his family members was detained as an alleged terrorist and subjected to "rigorous interrogation" ? Jane Shepherd (ref : TFI0101T) 29-04-2009 Australian Compulsory Government Internet Filtering ... How can anybody be serious about this .. YOU CAN NOT PUT CENSORSHIP ON THE INTERNET .. Look what happens in China .. If the government doesn't like what is being said about an issue they don't want discussed or even read about,, it is disconnected from the system .. THERE IS NO RECOURSE .. It is EXTREMELY naive and dangerous to think this government will be any safer .. ALL GOVERNMENTS WILL HAVE PERIODS WHERE THEY CAN NOT BE TRUSTED .. The last Howard government is a good example (they could not be trusted for their whole term in office) .. Unrestricted, data, information, discussion and feedback are one of our major indicators that we are grown-ups .. If this is taken away then we have let
EVERYBODY down ... Why is there always some stupid idea
brought up by unthinking idiots .. Bob Shepherd (ref : TFI0100T) 06-04-2009 Home grown terrorists Australia cannot worry so much about Al-Qaeda as we have our own terrorists to worry about.
These terrorists
intimidate witnesses, police, and the judicial system so strongly that
they can even get away with murder, even under camera surveillance. Their members are very rarely prosecuted and are even more rarely found imprisoned. They are being found to have
infiltrated many of our law enforcing agencies and government
departments. (ref : TFI0099T)
As requested - the writer's details and original letter have not been entered into our data system.
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| 20-03-2009 Senate Senility What a disgrace the Australian senate has become. It has sent the message
that the health of our children comes second to profits made from
alcohol sales. (see : 'alcopop tax rejection')
Bob Shepherd (ref : TFI0098T) |
| 16-03-2009 Arrogant Israel Recently, British MP George Galloway, led a convoy of donated trucks and ambulances carrying medicines and food to the besieged people of Gaza. Borders which had been
closed for
years, opened to allow them free passage, and the volunteers driving
the trucks
were greeted as heroes until they reached the Egypt-Gaza border where
they were
forced to camp in the dark and were terrorized by masked men. The
Egyptian security forces eventually allowed the aid into Gaza. It is easy
for Bin Laden to criticize the Arab nations, particularly Egypt, for
not doing
more to help the Palestinians, HOWEVER.. Egypt
shares a border with the fourth largest military power in the world
which has
shown it has no qualms about bombing civilian populations if they even vote for a party the Israeli government
dislikes. A bullying
country like Israel is no different to the schoolyard bully where
by-standers
are too scared to intervene because they have seen the violence
perpetuated
against the victim. Margaret Cassar (ref : TFI0097T) (editor's note) Israel also has a bigger bully - the USA - backing it up. |
| 03-03-2009 At great cost The US is donating $900 million to help reconstruct the war torn Gaza Strip. I am sure most of us think this is laudable humanitarian aid to a bombed out territory. Still... It would have been much more sensible if the US had used its considerable political and financial clout in Israel and pressured them not to bomb Gaza in the first place using weapons that include phosphorus bombs and tungsten DIME bombs. 1,400 Palestinians would still be alive with their cities functioning and US taxpayers would be able to retain much needed funds to help them through this current economic crisis. Margaret
Cassar (ref : TFI0096T)
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| 16-02-2009 Stop Israel To discourage Israel's continued aggression on its neighbours, the U.S. should stop its financial and armaments support. The only reason Israel does not sit down and consider meaningful negotiatons with its neighbours is because it does not have to. If the U.S. pressured Israel to, 'negotiate or be cut off', nearly all Middle East aggression would cease. Bob Shepherd
(ref : TFI0095T)
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| 16-02-2009 Taking the slow road Here in Australia, much more importance should be placed on our rail systems to be our main goods carriers. Rail transport is much more efficient than road transport. The national carriers should be government owned and controlled. They should not be organised to make a profit. The loading yards should be more accessible and friendly. They should guarantee faster deliveries. There should be many more trains scheduled. Much more care and importance has to be assigned to all goods. There should be no more excuses for delays, and no more excuses for delaying the inevitable. Bob Shepherd
(ref : TFI0094T)
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| 16-02-2009 Capital punishment Why not re-introduce the death penalty for those who kill, and are proven (BEYOND A DOUBT) to be sociopaths, who will kill again ? These "people" should NEVER be allowed back into society. They are basically useless and very dangerous citizens, so why not remove them altogether. There is nothing to be gained by keeping them alive in prisons, in fact, society loses its humanity by becoming human zoo keepers for prisoners who should never see freedom again. BE VERY CAUTIOUS THOUGH .. DON'T JUST BECOME LYNCH MOBS .. You must be VERY sure the people in question are truly killers, and you MUST give them every opportunity to prove their innocence before condemning them. Something that is sorely forgotten in many countries that have an active death penalty policy. (ref :
TFI0093T)
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| 12-02-2009 Israel takes another spin on reality During the recent Israeli war against Gaza we suffered the telegenic Mark Regev attempting to justify the indefensible on our television screens, and now we have seen Shimon Perez on Dateline attempting to appear the elder statesman and man of peace, while whitewashing Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Their dissembling and attempts to paint the Israelis as victims takes spin to new heights of fantasy. During George Negus’ interview he reassured Perez he had never doubted that Shimon was a man of peace. After watching this interview, it is difficult not to see Perez as a hard hearted warmonger. He should return his Nobel Peace prize. Margaret
Cassar (ref : TFI0092T)
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| 09-02-2009
These lakes are very shallow and any fresh water that is allowed to drain into them would produce a very large surface area to volume ratio, which would only encourage increased evaporation of a precious resource. Isn't this one of the major problems we are trying to avoid? As these lakes were originally much smaller before European interference and it was the white settlers who had changed the sizes by weirs, dams, etc., surely we should first redress this problem and rebuild the lower lakes back to their original sizes to help restore the original ecological balance. |
| 07-02-2009
We are constantly told the universe we can observe, is 'our' universe and its 'centre' is close (cosmologically speaking) to our solar system. This is reminiscent of millennia ago when we saw our own planet as the centre of the then known universe. It was because we could not see very far into the cosmos with the unaided eye that we thought there could not be anything much further out. This restrictive way of thinking has continued into our thoughts of today's universe. We still think the universe ends where our assisted senses can no longer reach. To explain the 'edge of our universe' we have created a daft idea that it must have all begun with a spontaneous point creation that then expanded to fill the 'void'. What was the 'void' then? A non-existent existence? This is supposed to have occurred approximately 13.7 billion years ago. The proponents of the "big bang theory' still have to devise all sorts of crazy and conflicting ideas to explain how the existing known universe had to change to accommodate the final result. As if this doesn't get screwy enough, when they found they could 'see' further into the cosmos than their arbitrary figure of approximately 14 billion years into the past, they started to say 'space is expanding' and have came up with more obscure reasons as to why this occurs. Why not take a step back from all this and look at it anew. Treat the universe as infinite and as something that has always existed. Just because we haven't the equipment to see much further doesn't mean there is an end to the universe. It just means we cannot see the rest of it, for now. Unfortunately, if some pundits are correct in their idea of the decay of electromagnetic radiation, it may be near impossible to see very far in any case, because of the incredibly increased wavelengths of the spectrum that does manage to reach us from the very distant objects. Maybe the detected 3 Kelvin 'background radiation' is the best we will ever 'see' of the further and infinite objects.. |
| 06-02-2009
It is a drug of questionable safety and should therefore never be readily available for consumption by children. It is only added to soft drinks to ensure addiction and hence ongoing profits.
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31-01-2009 Power
profiteering
For years now, since privatisation, our
electricity suppliers have been dragging their feet on maintenance and
long term planning, so as to maximise profits.
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28-01-2009 War crimes
Ex-president Bush, and ex-PMs Blair and
Howard illegally invaded a sovereign country displacing millions of
Iraqis and causing deaths of approximately a million people (including
over 4000 US military). |
| 26-01-2009 Israeli
imperialism
Israel still doesn't get it. |
| 26-01-2009 Donations to
terrorism
If you don't
support the terrorist actions of Israel then maybe it's time to check
the businesses you're
supporting, to ensure they
are not helping to prop up Israel .. (ref : TFI0085T) |
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25-01-2009 re : Internet Joke
Bush has an IQ
of 125 ??
GET REAL !!!
He probably wouldn't even know how to fill out the questionnaire ... (ref : TFI0084T) |
16-01-2009 (ill)logic
Israel
Israel has
portrayed its invasion of Gaza as a
logical consequence of sporadic Hamas rocket fire.
Based on this
logic, it is now time for the world to
seal Israel’s borders, deny it humanitarian aid and subject all
Israelis (not
just the Knesset warmongers) to sustained bombardment from which there
is no
escape.
This cruel
scenario is inhumane, morally repugnant,
unthinkable.
J. Shepherd (ref : TFI0083T)
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| 15-01-2009 (re - TFI0076T) An
open letter to the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd
Being
imprisoned for one year, or being branded for a crime you did not
commit is devastating. So why then does the
justice system only have a DNA review board for prisoners protesting
their innocence with
sentences of twenty years or more. Mr. Rudd .. How much longer will you let this deplorable situation continue ? There has to be justice for all.
(ref : TFI0082T)
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| 06-01-2009 Sympathy
SO WHAT ?
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| 06-01-2009 Hypocrisy
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| 07-01-2009 Good riddance
YOU
can keep him ..
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| 08-01-2009
Most of their ideas
and themselves should be relegated to the dustbins of history.
(ref : TFI0081T)
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| 04-01-2009 Japanese
whaling
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| 03-01-2009 An
open letter to the new president elect of the United States of America
The
Prosecution,
and for some unfathomable reason, many judges, do not like to admit
they may
have imprisoned the wrong people, even when incontrovertible evidence
has been
presented at a later date that shows the original suspect was not found guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt . They are still
persecuted to seemingly “save face” of the original prosecutors . Is this not
“un-American”
and only helping to destroy the USA’s legitimacy as a democratic
country with a
just legal system ? Yours very
concerned
.. Bob Shepherd
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22-12-2008
The
farce continues
J.
Shepherd (ref : TFI0072T)
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| 29-08-2008
How can anyone expect to keep their moral up working in such an eyesore, especially when the rest of the city is being revamped. Surely the public & politicians have seen the run down buildings, or have they been wearing blinkers all this time. Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0069T) |
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04-08-2008
There seems to
be no understanding by the traffic ministry that
the continual stop/starting caused by badly unsynchronised lights
causes most of the traffic pollution and congestion. Adelaide
Rex (ref : TFI0068T)
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| 02-07-2008
If this ridiculous rot is
allowed to continue, and no sensible reaction is forthcoming from our
politicians, then it will definitely spread like a cancer. |
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01-07-2008
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27-05-2008
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10-05-2008
Who cares what the military in Burma says .. It never stopped the super powers attacking other countries before. Bypass the Burmese military and make them irrelevant .. THIS
IS NOT A GAME. PEOPLE'S
LIVES ARE AT RISK. |
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22-04-2008
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18-04-2008
Years from now, when their story becomes common currency, we will be able to say :
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11-03-2008
South
Australia’s recidivism rate is now one of the highest in Australia. Implementing
Mr. Wade’s policies could help us achieve Victoria’s much lower rate
and considerably cut the cost of crime to our state. |
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10-03-2008
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26-02-2008
They are like
a rowdy bunch of school fools, where the teacher has left the room .. The have no
idea how to behave, and they seem to need a leader to get them back
onto the track of representing the people who voted them into their
jobs in the first place .. Maybe Kevin
Rudd should take control of their party as well and bring them
back to reality .. Even a
cardboard cut-out of him seemed more intelligent than the so called
politicians prancing around his picture .. |
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26-02-2008
you
would get away from that person as quickly as possible, but .. This
is precisely the answer and attitude of most oncologists when
suggesting chemo-therapy .. They
seem to have no second thoughts on the damage they are about to inflict
on your body. They
seem to think their way is the only way, as that is the way they have
always done it, and
nobody had better rock their boat. They
have even managed to stop responsible research into alternative
therapies by getting legislation that, chemo-therapy must be given
to trial patients at the same time … This
effectively damages the immune system so the alternative therapies
(most of which rely on the patient’s own immune system to kill off the
cancers) cannot work, and can therefore be rubbished by the oncology
profession .. Oncology
has become its own god, and has taken control of people’s choices in
treatment .. Many
oncologists are frightened that there are other treatments for cancers
that work, and at the same time, do not devastate the patient .. Many
in the oncology profession are afraid to lose control of their
respected and very profitable industry. This
ridiculous situation cannot be allowed to continue .. Chemo-therapy
has been responsible for so many deaths, yet, its legitimacy has never
been properly questioned .. Chemo-therapy
should be banned pending further investigation .. |
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30/12/07 (30/12/10007PH)
Quite often they are the
family pet that attacks members of their own household, or neighbours. Why should ANYONE
be allowed to keep large vicious dogs in suburban areas. The average person who owns
such dogs is either too stupid or lazy to care for and train such
animals. These dogs are basically
nothing more than domesticated wolves! Apart from the threat
from attack the larger dogs present, the smaller breeds have a high
nuisance value as well. In my neighbourhood for
example, EVERY house except ours has a dog. Quite often 2 or more in
many instances. These animals are left to
their own devices in the backyards of every house. They bark incessantly all
times of the day and night, and are very rarely taken for walks or even
given basic obedience training. In my opinion, the ONLY dogs allowable in suburban areas should be well trained and cared for guide dogs! Tassie Terror (ref : TFI0056T) |
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19-11-2007
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20-09-2007
We
obviously don’t want our children to be questioning,
intelligent, bright or sane .. They
will,, eventually,, become happy
little morons .. |
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31-08-2007
Unfortunately,,
when the Taliban did finally kick out the Russians, they
took control of the country and imposed their own form of intolerance
and brutality. So totally unexpected. (who are the idiots?) We
never seem to learn.. |
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27-07-2007
It wastes the
time of prospective employers and demoralises job seekers at a time
when they sorely need every ounce of self-confidence they can muster. |
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a / The
coach, manager and owner of the guilty team,
(ref : TFI0051T) |
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09-07-2007
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26-06-2007
He thinks (and
he may be right) that he has at last found an easy target in outback
Australian Aborigines.
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06-07-2007
Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0049T) |
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26-06-2007
In the future,
as other continents struggle to safely de-commission
their nuclear facilities and agonise about waste disposal, we
could be enjoying the benefits of safe, renewable forms of power
generation. J. Shepherd (ref : TFI0047T) |
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26-06-2007
J. Shepherd (ref : TFI0048T) |
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15-06-2007
Maybe somebody doesn’t want the tourists to see how badly we treat our environment. |
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31-05-2007
Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0044T) |
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30-05-2007
Prostitution
is a necessary social service and instead of attacking its use,
we should be protecting its workers and supplying safe work
rooms. Remember : Sexual prostitution is also a social safety valve. (ref : TFI0043T)
(editor's note) I agree and sex workers are humans too. |
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26-05-2007
In 2006 Mr.
Vance was working in He suspected
the firm he was working for was engaging in illegal weapons trading
and, on reporting his suspicions to the FBI, was asked to stay as
an FBI informant. The question must be asked - who is responsible for running US military prisons... and why are they being allowed to bring such discredit on their country?
Lumičre (ref : TFI0042T) |
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23-05-2007
Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0041T) |
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22-05-2007
Gadfly (ref : TFI0039T)
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23-05-2007 The handling of David Hicks by the Australian Government has been nothing more than a pathetic melodrama. Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0040T) |
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21-05-2007
Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0038T) |
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15-05-2007 In You will
always lose whether you are in the right or not, and you may be made
bankrupt as a punishment. Even if you
win the first rounds (or trials), you will always lose on the
appeals. You must learn this lesson :
Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0037T) |
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14-05-2007 Another vehicle using potentially Green (but non taxable if obtained from home solar cells) fuel has been outlawed from our roads. The Reva
Electric vehicle which is being embraced by Europe and India as a
cleaner and cheaper alternative to our heavily polluting gas guslers
for city driving, has been pushed aside in Australia as a bad idea
for our traffic conditions. Just another
cheap excuse by John Howard. He has got to
go. Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0036T) |
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10-05-2007 Bankrupting Australia Once again our Australian Prime Minister has done financial damage to our country. He has irresponsibly committed 16 Billion of our hard earned and most needed dollars to a set of American fighter planes that we do not need. He is determined to do as much damage as possible to the Australian public before he loses office at the next election in November. He has neglected our almost bankrupt health system, our public schools and all our other social services to help his business friends in the U.S. I just hope
this money can be halted from leaving our shores once he is justifiably
dismissed from power. Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0034T) |
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10-05-2007 Our not so treasured Treasurer Heading
found in Adelaide Advertiser (10 May 2007) Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0035T) |
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04-05-2007
But let's not
forget the casualties in Yes, Israelis
should be calling for his resignation not just on military grounds but
for his apparent total absence of compassion and in his lack of moral
judgement. |
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03-05-2007
So, switch those lights off, at least during sleeping hours. From a
budgetary point of view I can only deplore the inmates' outrageous
behaviour in slamming their heads into concrete floors. Guards should
not be looking smug at this point. Then, there is
the kind of company the detainees keep and their wasteful choice of
rendezvous in distant lands where torture is legal. A little more restraint is called for. Lumičre (ref: TFI0032T) |
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30-04-2007
If he had put
up as much of a fight for alternative energy sources as he did for
Nuclear power, He has instead
squandered Millions (which will eventually be Billions) on pushing an
industry that will eventually poison us to death. |
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26-04-2007 Let
Australians celebrate the biggest botch-ups in military history by
holding “ANZAC day”. Our Prime
Minister is trying to use this common racist trait against all clear
thinking Australians, to scare them into patriotism.
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24-04-2007
It will measure 3.5 metres high and all movement will be strictly controlled through military checkpoints. If Iraqi
citizens want to see their future they need look no further than
Gadfly (ref : TFI0029T) |
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20-04-2007 (20-04-2007PH) Tassie Terror (ref : TFI0028T) |
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18-04-2007
This has put many of these
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18-04-2007 This does not
apply to LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas), nor “Natural Gas”. Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0026T) |
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14-04-2007
In 1950, two
years after The same law
was later applied to Palestinians in the Zircon (ref : TFI0025T) |
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12-04-07 (12-04-10007PH) Tassie Terror (ref : TFI0024T) |
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11-04-2007
Bob Shepherd (ref : TFI0023T) |
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01-04-2007 Lumičre (ref : TFI0022T) |
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29-03-2007 Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0021T) |
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28-03-2007 Gadfly (ref : TFI0020T) |
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11-03-2007 (11-03-10007) Tassie Terror (ref : TFI0019T) |
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06-03-2007 Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0018T) |
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26-02-2007 Power saving Instead of the Australian
government wasting billions of dollars on feasibility studies and
Nuclear power stations to keep up with our ever increasing electricity
demands…. Adelaide Rex
(ref : TFI0017T) |
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26-02-2007 Adelaide Rex
(ref : TFI0016T) |
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20-02-2007 Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0015T) |
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13-02-2007
Adelaide Rex
(ref : TFI0014T) |
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11-02-2007 Adelaide Rex
(ref : TFI0013T) |
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11-02-2007 Gadfly (ref : TFI0012T) |
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08-02-2007 Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0011T) |
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08-02-2007 Gadfly (ref : TFI0010T) |
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06-02-2007 (ref : TFI0009T) |
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05-02-2007 (ref : TFI0008T) |
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05-02-2007 Gadfly (ref : TFI0007T) |
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01-02-2007 re : David Hicks Gadfly (ref : TFI0006T) |
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05-02-2007 (ref : TFI0005T) |
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31-01-2007 (ref : TFI0004T) |
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29-01-2007 Adelaide Rex (ref : TFI0003T) |
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29-01-2007 Adelaide Rex. (ref : TFI0002T) |
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25-01-2007
Adelaide Rex. (ref : TFI0001T) |
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