Entries for the ‘rest of australia’ Category

An open letter to Matthew Newton

Dear Matt, When I was a kid, even though the show wasn’t aimed at my demographic I remember watching more than my fair share of Good Morning Australia with your dad Bert. Let’s face it, there wasn’t really all that much on until Channel 10 served up Judge Judy and Jerry Springer in the afternoon [...]

Yahoo held liable for search results in defamation case

A search-engine works by cataloguing content available on the internet by third-party publishers. Some of those third-party publishers may indeed by subsidiary companies of the search-engine itself, but by and large the content is produced and hosted by publishers and web-hosting companies that have nothing to do with the search-engine company indexing the material for [...]

Why was Hayden Burnes murdered?

Browsing through the local Australian news today, a headline caught my eye; I can’t believe this would happen to him. My eyes scrolled below the headline and without hesitation, I instantly knew why Hayden Burnes was murdered.

Australia makes $54 million gold coin. Uh, why?

In a time where one minute the world thinks it’s in a recession, the next it’s in a depression and the next still everything is gunna be ok, a bunch of crackpots held a meeting at Perth Mint (acutal photo above) in Australia’s west and pondered… ‘so, what are gunna do with it?’ ‘all 54 [...]

Gaming Minister Michael O’Brien is a total wanker

The Australian Constitution does not have any express provision relating to freedom of speech. In theory, therefore, the Commonwealth Parliament may restrict or censor speech through censorship legislation or other laws, as long as they are otherwise within constitutional power. The Constitution consists mainly of provisions relating to the structure of the Commonwealth Parliament, executive [...]

FINAL: Two Aussie women with vaginas legally male

When you see a guy who… you’re not quite sure is a guy, after staring at his face for while, do you a. stare at his crotch and try to establish visual confirmation b. walk up to him and grab his nuts c. try to get close enough to ascertain the body hair level Whichever [...]

Islam + hamburger = violent police assaults

It’s been a while since I’ve eaten at a McDonalds Australia outlet but from memory, apart from the McOz (which is a promotional burger only), none of their other regular hamburgers contain bacon. Infact the only thing on the entire menu that contains bacon I believe is the Bacon and Egg McMuffin, available only during [...]

Hey Taiwan, stop gobbling up our kangaroo testicles!

I’ve never really understood the need to gobble up parts of a specific animal in the hope of obtaining whatever qualities in said particular animal that you desire. I’ve been eating pork, beef and chicken for nearly thirty years now and I haven’t picked up any of those traits. Well ok, maybe the pork is starting [...]

An Australian traitor wants profit? No money for you.

When it comes to criminals profiteering off their crimes, I’d have to say that I’m a ‘depends on what they did’ kinda guy. When Mark ‘Chopper’ Read for example wants to release a dodgy rap record, trading off the obvious notoriety of his name, or write a book about his experiences, I’m much more inclined [...]

Sharia law in Australia? It’s already here.

One of the things I’m proud of Australia is the fact that, despite having people from all sorts of cultures, religions and creeds, it’s that for the most part we all get along with the same reasonably secular common law. Aborigines and their special courts aside, the rest of us abide by a system that [...]