THERE IS SOMETHING VERY STRANGE HAPPENING IN AUSTRALIA

WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON CULTURE IN THIS COUNTRY, THE ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, WRITERS, ACTORS, POETS, YET WE CANNOT BREAK AWAY FROM OUR CONSERVATIVE, PROVINCIAL, NARROW MINDED PERSPECTIVE, OUR FEAR OF OFFENDING THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT WING, THE BIGOTS AND THEIR POLITICAL PUPPETS.
IT IS A SHAMEFUL THING, THE WAY BILL HENSON IS AT THE MOMENT, BEING PORTRAYED AS SOME SORT OF PORNOGRAPHER. HIS WORK, REFLECTING THEMES OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS, HAS BEEN MAINSTREAM FARE IN MOST MAJOR GALLERIES AND COLLECTIONS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS. YET, AT THE COMPLAINT FROM ONE SINGLE PERSON, THE POLICE HAVE ACTED, RAIDING ART GALLERIES, THREATENING LEGAL ACTION. WHAT A PISS POOR BUNCH OF POLITICIANS WE HAVE. JUMP IN AND SUPPORT THE POLICE, AND IN THE CASE OF THE FEDERAL MINISTER FOR ARTS, PETER GARRETT, NOTHING, NOT A WORD. PETER GARRETT IS A FRAUD. A ROCK STAR FOR YEARS, A CHAMPION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, GETS INTO GOVERNMENT, AND .......NOTHING. HE IS A TYPICAL CHRISTIAN, LAWYER, IN A SUIT, WITH A SHAVED HEAD. WHAT A DUD! WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT.

CAMDEN'S "PAULINE" REDNECK

KATE McCULLOCH IS NOW THE CAMDEN AND DISTRICT FRIENDLY FACE FOR THE ANTI-MUSLIM CAMPAIGN. BUT LOOK AT THE PICTURE CLOSELY, AND YOU WILL SEE BEHIND HER, YES, RUSTY GATES! THE PLOT THICKENS!




AND WHAT'S IT WITH REDHEADS? PAULINE, KATE AND RUSTY? ARE KATE AND PAULINE RUSTY'S LOVE CHILDREN? NA, RUSTY'S NOT OLD ENOUGH. SIBLINGS SEPARATED AT BIRTH PERHAPS? DNA TESTS NEEDED, I THINK!

CAMDEN FOLKS NOT REDNECKS?

IT WAS CLAIMED IN TODAY'S SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, THAT THE GENTLE FOLK OF CAMDEN ARE NOT REDNECKS, FOLLOWING THE LOCAL REACTION TO A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR A MUSLIM SCHOOL. WELL, I BEG TO DIFFER, THESE ARE IMAGES FROM THE DISTRICT.




THIS OLD PIC IS OF THE LEADING REDNECK IN THE DISTRICT, WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, AND TODAY IS A LEADING COUNTRY AND SOUTH WESTERN STAR, RUSTY GATES.

YESTERDAY'S PIZZA IN THE SANDBOX

RUSSIA WINS EUROVISION

A BAND CALLED DIMA BILAN HAS WON EUROVISION FOR RUSSIA. WITH A NAME LIKE DIMA BILAN, IT SHOULD ENSURE THIS BANDS JOURNEY TO OBLIVION.
THEIR SONG WAS CALLED BELIEVE.


THE TOSSERS BELOW ARE A UKRANIAN ENTRY FROM LAST YEAR.

POLICE RAID SYDNEY ART GALLERY

WHERE THE HELL AM I? HAS THE LAST 43 YEARS BEEN A TERRIBLE NIGHTMARE? AM I REALLY LIVING IN 1965? AND WORSE STILL, IN QUEENSLAND? MUST BE. OUR MORAL PROTECTORS, THE POLICE, OUR GUARDIANS OF ALL THINGS YUCKY, THE PATRONS OF GOOD TASTE AND GOOD ART ARE AT IT AGAIN. OH WELL, SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE. JOH FOR PM!

RETURN OF THE HERBERTS

S.E. ASIA'S LATEST ROCK SENSATIONS, THE HERBERTS, FLY BACK INTO SYDNEY THIS WEEKEND, FOLLOWING A LIGHTNING RETURN TOUR OF BALI. THE FERRY ON WHICH THEY TRAVELLED TO BALI, WAS HIJACKED BY PIRATES AND WAS LAST SEEN HEADING FURTHER WEST THROUGH INDONESIAN ISLANDS.

ANDY JAMES SNOT GOD

ANDY JAMES IS NOW RUNNING AROUND CLAIMING TO BE THE GREATEST ELECTRIC EGYPTIAN NOSE FLUTE PLAYER IN THE WORLD, HE OF COURSE COPIED HIS TECHNIQUE FROM THE GREAT RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK, WHO PENNED THE LINE, "THE NOSE KNOWS". ANDY JAMES REALLY IS A WANKER, A PRETENDER, A CONMAN. DON'T BE TAKEN IN BY HIS SMOOTH TALK LADIES! IF HE RINGS YOU UP, WHISTLE IN THE PHONE. AS THE GREAT RAHSAAN SAID, "WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK"! IAN ANDERSON OF JETHRO TULL FAME, ALSO TRIED TO COPY KIRK, BUT WAS ONLY A PALE IMITATION, ANDY JAMES IS CYBER SNOT.

ALAS POOR YORICK

I KNEW HIM WELL

IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

THANKS FOR SB2 SENDING THIS TO ME.

NORMIE ROWE CONSCRIPTED BY MISTAKE!?

A STORY HAS COME TO LIGHT THAT AUSTRALIAN POP STAR OF THE 60'S, NORMIE ROWE WAS CONSCRIPTED BY MISTAKE. THAT IS, HIS BIRTHDAY WAS NOT PULLED OUT OF THE LOTTERY BARREL. SO, 41 YEARS AFTER THE EVENT, HE'S MAKING AN ISSUE OF IT? IF IT DIDN'T PLEASE HIM AT THE TIME, WHY DIDN'T HE TELL THEM TO STICK IT?
I THINK HE WAS THINKING OF ELVIS...AND THE PUBLICITY.
WHY HAS IT JUST COME TO LIGHT? PUBLICITY? check out the link to abc news ....http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2245816.htm

RETURN OF THE HERBERTS

SYDNEY ROCK GROUP, THE HERBERTS, HAVE RETURNED TO BALI FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL APPEARANCES AT THE BALI HARDROCK CAFE IN RECENT MONTHS. LOCAL INSIDERS REPORT THAT KEITH SLINGERLAND, PLAYED AT THE APACHE BAR IN LEGIAN LAST NIGHT TO A CROWD WILD WITH THE AFFECTS OF ALCOHOL AND THE CONTENTS OF BOOGIE BOARD BAGS. BASS PLAYER, H.H. WAS LAST SPOTTED SHOPPING FOR MORE BOOGIE BOARD BAGS.
INSTEAD OF FLYING TO BALI, THE HERBERTS WORKED THEIR PASSAGE ON A RETIRED SYDNEY FERRY.

THE GROUP'S DRUMMER, KEITH SLINGERLAND, WITH AN IGNITED DRUMSTICK.


A GROUPIE AFTER HER EXPERIENCES WITH K. SLINGERLAND. SHE CERTAINLY DOESN'T LOOK DISAPPOINTED!

CONGRATULATIONS, CLIFF, I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE ONE!

ANTIQUE TEENAGER, CLIFF RICHARD WAS BEATEN BY A BRIBE IN THE 1968 EUROVISION CONTEST. THE ONE VOTE WINNING MARGIN WAS APPARENTLY ORGANISED THE THE RULING FASCIST REGIME OF GENERAL FRANCO. THIS HAS JUST BEEN EXPOSED IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY NEED FOR BRIBES IN ENGLAND'S SPORTING CONTESTS, AS THE PUBLIC SIMPLY WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT.

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

WHEN JOHN AND YOKO HAD THEIR BED-IN, IN A CANADIAN HOTEL ROOM, JOHN WROTE THE LYRICS TO GIVE PEACE A CHANCE ON A BIT OF PAPER AND GAVE IT TO A YOUNG GIRL THERE. HE TOLD HER IT WOULD BE WORTH SOMETHING ONE DAY. SHE KEPT IT, AND IT IS NOW TO BE AUCTIONED, WITH ESTIMATES AROUND $500,000!