Capital spending takes off. The promised investment boom is here. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures out this morning show the trend volume estimate for total new capital expenditure rose 3.3% in the March quarter 2011 while the seasonally adjusted estimate rose 3.4%.
But he’s only got one head! Queensland Liberal National parliamentary leader in exile Campbell Newman has gone on the attack as he defends the presence of all migrants in his adopted state. Mr Newman reacted strongly to Premier Anna Bligh describing him as not being a true son of Queensland.
Ms Bligh, while proudly claiming she led a team of proud Queenslanders who believed the state was the best place to live, argued the opposition did nothing but “knock it”.
“Queensland leads the way in everything we attempt,” she said, before rubbishing the ascension of the non-elected Mr Newman to the party’s leadership.
“I note that, when they looked around and could not find a leader in their own ranks … they could not find a Queenslander,” Ms Bligh said.
“They had to find a Tasmanian.”
Mr Newman began a press conference firstly telling reporters it was disturbing that Queensland’s economy was running last nationally under the Labor government. The news.com.au report of the conference continued:
“The second thing I wanted to cover today was something that frankly disturbs me even more significantly,” Mr Newman said.
“And that is the breathtaking display of xenophobia from Anna Bligh (and her ministers).”
Mr Newman said Ms Bligh and her team had “cast out a huge slur against everybody who hasn’t been born in Queensland but has made a contribution to this state” and should apologise.
Asked whether he was turning the issue into one of race, he would not answer.
“What I do say is the premier made it very clear today that if you weren’t born here, that you don’t count, that you’re a second-class Queenslander, and I think that’s offensive.”
*Disclosure of interest: Richard Farmer, while born in Adelaide, was raised from an early age in Tasmania.
Northern Territory News loses title. In what will be a humiliating loss of face, the Northern Territory News has lost its title as the publisher of the year’s most dramatic crocodile attack picture. The Darwin tabloid’s Cairns counterpart snatched victory with this offering yesterday of a monster croc devouring a green turtle:
Giving the tick to pink pork. Cuts of pork have joined their beef and lamb peers. The US Department of Agriculture has given the tick for cooking all whole cuts of meat to 63 °C (145 °F )as measured with a food thermometer placed in the thickest part of the meat, then allowing the meat to rest for three minutes before carving or consuming. It previously recommended a temperature for pork cuts of 71°C (160 °F).
The USDA recommendations for ground meats, including ground beef, veal, lamb, and pork, are unchanted. They should be cooked to 160 °F and do not require a rest time. The safe cooking temperature for all poultry products, including ground chicken and turkey, remains at 74 °C (165 °F.)
Not holier than Karl. Having been Kerry Packer’s man in Canberra back in the days when the political correspondent for The Bulletin had to handle some company matters, like combating allegations about the boss being The Goanna, I am in no position to be critical of Karl Bitar for taking a lobbying post for his son James. But I probably am in a good position to say that his boss’s judgment leaves something to be desired.
Given the delicacy of Labor’s House of Representatives majority and the need to curb poker machine use to maintain it, doing anything that looks like it favours the former party federal secretary will be very difficult.
Giving the tick to pink pork. – What’s going on here ? There appears to be a conversion problem for the temperature for cooking meat. You don’t cook meat at the temperature of hot water. Meat is cooked at 160/180 C. not 63C.
I think that the temperature quoted in brackets should be deg. C and then has been mistaken as deg F, and then converted yet again leading to the low temperatures quoted.
The numbers are correct. Those are not the temperatures you cook at, but the temperatures the meat must reach internally before it is “done” (though you could obviously cook with temperatures that low if you wanted to – it’d just take a hell of a lot longer).
@ drsmithy – T hanks, I stand corrected.
Dr Harvey M Tarvydas
Richard Farmer’s “*Disclosure of interest: Richard Farmer, while born in Adelaide, was raised from an early age in Tasmania.” then commentator on Queensland’s new race flirtation is exotic enough but have a taste of mine (for free) – I am a rare ‘Samogitian’ (parents), born in Kempten Germany and brought up in and still West Australian.
Napoleon brought the Samogitian to western awareness with his decree on returning (just barely) from Russia “any Samogitian to enter France will be treated as royalty” and as far as the West is concerned it has stayed with the French but they (Samogitian’s) were awesome warriors and invented gun powder 300 years before the known/accepted date having repelled Genghis Khan’s ‘Mongol hordes’ using the stuff.