Headlines Sunday 27th April

Taint sticks to Bryce
Piers Akerman
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 03:04pm
AN unprecedented legal challenge may prevent the appointment of Australia’s first nominated female Governor-General, Queensland Governor Quentin Bryce.
Documents lodged with the Queensland Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee on February 14, two months before Ms Bryce was nominated as Australia’s next Governor-General by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, have created a Constitutional nightmare for the Queensland Government and the Prime Minister.
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Pauline Hanson accused of taking money from party
By Glenn Milne
April 27, 2008 01:27am
PAULINE Hanson has been accused of siphoning off more than $200,000 in taxpayers' money from the bank accounts of her own party.
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Star alive after drug overdose
TELEVISION star Todd McKenney has been found unconscious in a park after a drug overdose and revived by ambulance officers.
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Rudd doubles tax to end Breezer binges
THE COST of pre-mixed drinks will jump by about $1 a bottle from today after dramatic action by the Government to curb binge drinking.
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Historic victory for Opposition in Zimbabwe
By Susan Njanji in Harare
April 27, 2008 02:15am
ZIMBABWE'S opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has won a historic victory over President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, official results confirmed on Saturday following a partial vote recount.
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Army PR man reports for Seven
By Ellen Connolly
April 27, 2008 12:00am
A YEAR after Channel 7's controversial fake dawn service stunt, the network is in trouble again over its coverage of Anzac Day and the Iraq war.

ALP shuns Morris Iemma on power sale
By Linda Silmalis and Andrew Chesterton
April 27, 2008 12:00am
PREMIER Morris Iemma and Treasurer Michael Costa have lost the support of the party membership, with just one ALP branch backing the proposed power sale.
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Sydney running out of space for new burial plots
Erin Maher
27/04/2008 9:00:00 AM.
Sydney’s land shortage is extending to its cemeteries, with the city running out of burial plots.
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Insurance for unborn babies
A growing number of older mothers in Australia has fuelled an insurance giant to create a new baby policy.
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Cancer increase blamed on lack of salt
The trend towards gourmet salts is believed to be responsible for a dramatic rise in Thyroid cancer rates.
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Plans to monitor teachers with video cameras
Australia's third largest economy calls for better infrastructure
Man in hospital after Sydney bar brawl
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Al Gore - international criminal
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (08:35 am)
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Where’s the mercy killers when you need them?
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (08:51 am)
Dear God, our one nomination in Prospect’s list of 100 contenders for the world’s finest public intellectuals and it has to be him. Al Gore’s nomination also spoils what has the beginnings of a reasonably good roll-call, for a Leftist magazine.
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Houellebecq picks up a stick
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (09:02 am)
One of the things I love in Michael Houellebecq‘s novels is how he steps out at times to whack some errant philosopher or artist. One of the best passages of that kind comes in the book I’m reading now, The Possibility of an Island, in which the narrator, typically (almost) nihilistic, draws a line - right through Larry Clark, director of Kids and Ken Park:
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China mobilises troops in Japan
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (09:23 am)
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Bear with us: more hype deflated
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (09:31 am)
The eco-hype is cooled, along with the weather
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Warming to higher bills for the poor
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (10:11 am)
Not for the first time, the obsessions of New Class Labor will hurt working class Labor
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Who we defend
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (10:15 am)
A reminder to those demanding we abandon Afghanistan, as well as Iraq. These are the kind of heroes we’d be giving up on. It really is a fight between ignorance and enlightenment; between jails of fear and the freedom to think.
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Williams cool on sceptic
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (10:56 am)
Good that the ABC’s Robyn “100 metres” Williams does this time allow a global warming sceptic to speak on his ABC. But, typically, Williams rings the lepers bell before Professor Don Aitkin gets the chance to speak for himself.
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Don’t go there, Nicola
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (11:40 am)
Interesting accusation:

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has blamed the former Howard government for the rise in teenage binge drinking.

By the same token, of course, we can blame Labor for creating so many thugs, thieves and rapists.
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The nation’s speech-crusher objects
Andrew Bolt – Sunday, April 27, 08 (11:44 am)
Age columnist Russell Skelton was apparently unable to have a conversation until Kevin Rudd liberated him and his friends last November