ID Cards for Australia

So it looks like the national debate on ID cards will be reopened... again. With the PMs new push to strengthen anti-Terrorism laws, it's one of a raft of ideas that will be considered.

I guess advocates will then have to explain how an ID card would have stopped Bali, London or S11, all of which were perpetrated by "clean skins" or people with no prior criminal record.

Good luck with that.

Mauritanian Coup

Nobody panic - the Australians and Australian companies in Mauritania are OK! That's the news in Australian papers after last week's coup by the military in Mauritania. Well thank god for that!

Why is it that the Australian media will only ever report a story if they can find an Australian angle? So too the news of last month's elections in Bougainville barely raised a murmur in local papers or indeed the death of Francis Ona - that is until an Australian angle was found. Hey - Australian companies might get another shot at making some cash up in Bougainville!

Well, I guess there is always CNN...