Here is the Sydney Morning Herald mocking the Prime Minister over the 6 Australian flags the AFP placed behind its podium for the Prime Minister's speech on national security yesterday.

Tony Abbott's new emergency alert system is much clearer than the low, medium, high and extreme system employed by the national security apparatus.

You need simply count the flags.

The Prime Minister had six Australian flags all in a row behind him as he delivered his national security statement on Monday. It was a personal record. His level of alert in this new dark age was off the scale.

......for Tony Abbott, this is a search for a way out of a dark age, and you need only count the flags to know it.

Now look at the way the leftist Guardian newspaper reported on the same number of flags, 6, while Julia Gillard was PM.

Tony Abbott plus 6 flags equals bad.

Julia Gillard plus 6 flags equals "cool".

And the same article goes on to fawn over the Gillard/Obama "relationship".   Imagine Tony Abbott in a similar pose with a female equivalent.

Here's News Limited's report about one of the claims made by Ms Gillard.

SA Senator Nick Xenophon receives apology, cash settlement for incorrect claim in Julia Gillard’s autobiography

Ms Gillard wrote in My Story that Senator Xenophon had been involved in stuffing a ballot box when he was a student politician at the University of Adelaide.

“At that stage a Liberal Party person, Nick was infamously excluded from university for a period as a punishment for stuffing a ballot box full of voting papers he had somehow procured,’’ the former prime minister wrote.

In an advertisement published in several newspapers today, Random House retracted and apologised for the error.

It also promised not to publish the claim in any future editions of the book.

Senator Xenophon yesterday said he wished the statement had never been published but he was glad there had now been a retraction.

“I think there’s a lesson there for anyone who publishes a political memoir to at least be fair and accurate,’’ he said.

I am disappointed the prime minister is using only six Australian flags as a backdrop. More needed as a security blanket surely.

— Paul Bongiorno (@PaulBongiorno) February 23, 2015

Imbecile.

https://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/170215_Martin_Place_Siege_Review_1.pdf

Rockhampton has no power, no refrigerated food in most shops, no ATMs, no petrol pumps, no credit card transactions, most mobile phones out of power, most people desperate for news and heaps of houses that are unlivable.

Around the corner from Dave's place.

Our mate Dale's car:

And as it appears in the local newspaper

And the typical drive home.

It's a fabulous weekend in the Riverina!   Hugh was off to cricket this morning:

We checked out Kapooka

And The Rock, just south of Uranquinty and Collingullie

Then back to the Riverine Club where we stay for $70 per night.

Here's some of Dave's drive home today:

And the KFC Bucket is a bit the worse for wear

My brother in law Dave took this shot of a house losing its roof just minutes ago.

This video was taken a short time ago as the eye of the cyclone apparently closes on Rockhampton.