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Air Travel -- Budget No More?
The rapidly rising fuel costs are ensuring that budget travel is not so budget anymore. Most airlines have already started to slug customers with a fuel surcharge in order to cover costs. The cynical ...
Hypocrisy?
The Australian Labor Party is against the death penalty. This is not one of the reasons or a factor in the reasons that I vote for the Labor party. I have traditionally voted Labor as the party of tho...
Tattoo Taboos
The humble tattoo is no longer the world of just bikers, criminals, or other so-called undesirable elements of the community. I would not describe bikers as being undesirable elements of the community...
Art Monthly Australia -- Child Pornography Update
This was something that I posted on previously and posed the question as to whether the photo should be considered to be child pornography. Not many comments, which is more indicative of my limited re...
Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church -- An Apology
I have been contemplating writing something on this for some time and have hesitated because the issue deserves more than just passing comment. I have not done the research on the statistics of the pr...
Captain Kangaroo
This was the first network kids show in the USA.I did not know this! But I wonder why the first network kids show in the US was called Captain Kangaroo when the kangaroo is native to Australia and is ...
Justice Michael Kirby -- Criminalizing HIV
Australian High Court Judge Michael Kirby has spoken about the growing pressure on States to criminalize the transmission of HIV. Justice Kirby while addressing a criminal law conference in Dublin was...
Annoyance Provisions -- Tossed
Just a very brief update.The Federal Court has tossed the annoyance provisions as they were written in Clause 7.1 of the legislation. The legal reasoning was that the provision was an infringement on ...
Kentucky Fried Chicken & PETA
Kentucky Fried Chicken or as it is better known KFC came into the sites of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or as they are better known PETA. It seems that PETA has a problem with the w...
The Age That I Wish To Go Back To
Thanks to katadia, I have been tagged to write about the age that I wish to go back to, thanks I think! I quite enjoy reading her blog posts and I guess she enjoys reading mine hence the desire to see...
World's Oldest Blogger -- Now In Blogger Heaven
I would love to still be alive and blogging at 108! Although I have gotta say that blogging will probably be technology of the past. Innovation and the need to develop new technologies will mean that ...
More Shark Stories
I am not a huge fan of sharks but have never found it necessary to prove my courage by going and searching one out for a close encounter of the toothy kind! However, it seems that once you hit on one ...
A Shark Story with a Photo
This is a shark story with photographic evidence and an interesting twist.Sydney has its share of ocean baths. These are essentially public saltwater swimming pools that are right on the shoreline and...
Rising Fuel Prices
A recent study by the CSIRO in Australia, Fuel For Thought, suggests that fuel (petrol) could reach AUD 8 per litre within ten years. This is expected to add about AUD 220 per week to the expenses of ...
Human Trafficking -- One for the Good Guys
Australia made a request under the provisions of the extradition treaty that it has with Indonesia that sought Indonesia's help in arresting Hadi Ali Asgar El Ahmadi. El Ahmadi is an Iraqi citizen and...
Sexting
I guess new technology calls for the creation of new words to explain new phenomenon. I always thought that I was fairly clued in and up-to-date on things. Today I learned that there was such a thing ...
World Youth Day -- Annoying T-Shirts
The annoying t-shirts that are likely to get their next airing once WYD gets underway were part of a fashion demonstration in front of the NSW Parliament building earlier today. Some of the slogans th...
Sharks in Lakes
Nothing like a shark story to scare the masses. A report out of New South Wales says that a seven-metre great white shark was netted and released into a Tuggerah Lake on the Central Coast of NSW. The ...
Wikileaks -- Real Anonymous Whistleblowing
There is a lot of talk about online or cyber-activism but what does that really mean. I should have written about this particular site earlier. Wikileaks is an online activist site plus plus. It is mo...
World Youth Day and the AIRC
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) has declined to terminate the bargaining period between RailCorp and the Rail, Tram, and Bus Union (RTBU). This means that the planned industrial ...
World Youth Day -- Transport Strike Update
The government is taking the threat of strike action seriously. So it should considering the traffic problems that it would create. However, the government's plan is to go to the Australian Industrial...
Child Pornography Debate -- Reignited
Is this child pornography?...
World Youth Day -- A Transportation Nightmare
The World Youth Day was always going to be a challenge in terms of transportation as it was going to require the closure of roads and the implementing of special declared areas (look at the legislatio...
Mercedes Corby Denies Allegations
Mercedes Corby has denied the allegations that were aired on the ABC were lies and that she and her family can prove this. The Queensland Police have apparently issued a statement that they have no ev...
The Corby Family Business -- Drugs
Things seem to go from bad to worse for Schapelle Corby as her father has just been named by a Queensland police informant as somebody who has in the past smuggled drugs, specifically marijuana, into ...
Terrorism In Australia
The trial of 11 alleged terrorists in the Supreme Court of Victoria is hearing closing arguments for the defendants. After more than five months worth of evidence the closing arguments are making for ...
Ganja Queen -- The Schapelle Corby Story
Ganja Queen is the title of a film that will (or has) screen on HBO. The film purports to go behind the scenes and look at the trial that gripped a nation. I do not know whether it gripped Australia q...
Human Rights, Freedom of Speech, and the Catholic Church
It would seem that not all Catholics are thrilled about the new annoyance laws put into place to "guarantee" that pilgrims are not annoyed or inconvenienced during the World Youth Day festivities.Fath...
Teenage Suicide
I must have lead a charmed existence as a youngster because as I sit here typing this I cannot recall one time when I thought that I had had enough and it was time to end it all. That is not to say th...
Internet -- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
There is no doubting that the Internet is a powerful tool. There is also no doubting that once something gets posted online it is almost impossible to retrieve. So, if what is posted is embarrassing t...