Easy enough for Miss Australia - Kristina Keneally's cheap gibe insults Kokoda sacrifice

Daily Telegraph ^ | 10th June 2010 | Angela Kamper

[truthguy]

I had never heard of it, and I am a WW2 buff...

Then read up on it and you will be amazed at what the Australians did. And you will wonder why it took so long to hear about. We know a lot about the War the British were involved in in North Africa (many Aussies there as well) and we know of the Battle of Britain and other parts of the war where the US was not directly involved. But we don't hear much about the battle of New Guinea in which the Aussies were hugely involved. I'm sure there are many great stories to tell and I wonder why Hollywood has not made more movies about this aspect of the war.

They made a garbage movie called Australia a couple of years back but why don't they make a good one? This is a story that needs to be told. Given a good scrip, it would make an epic movie. Are you listening Spielberg?

[csvset]

Wow. Thanks for the the link to the Kokoda site.

What a wealth of information. The video clip interviews are something else.

[naturalman1975]

Australia has two Houses of Parliament - the House of Representatives and the Senate (as in the US, Representatives are elected to represent particular areas, while Senators represent their state with the same number of Senators for each state).

A government in Australia is formed by the party (or parties in Coalition) with the most seats in the House of Representatives - similar to what happens in the UK with the House of Commons.

The Greens have never won a seat in the House of Representatives, and the best they are hoping for in the coming election is that they might win one for the first time.

If we wound up with a Parliament that was evenly split between Labor, and the Liberal/National coalition, a sole Green MP might enter into an agreement with Labor, but that's the only situation in which it could happen at the moment.

The Greens do have a significant presence in the Senate, and their current polling would suggest they might get a couple more Senators, which might give them the balance of power there, which would make things awkward for whoever is in government, but would not actually change the government.

On current polls, the Liberal/National coalition would win the election. Whether that will still be true at the time of the election is hard to say. If Rudd loses, it will be the first time since 1930, Australia has thrown out a government after only one term - it's unusual.

[Leisler]

A bit off, but a grate book, Quartered Safe Out Here (1992),george macdonald fraser, a memoir of his experiences as an infantryman in the Border Regiment during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

[Leisler]

I went to Netflix but it isn’t out on DVD, however you can do a Google Kokoda torrent search and download it. Which I have, but haven’t watched yet