Submitted by rickeyre on
I was pleased to see that the majority of Australia's national league netballers have affiliated with the Australian Workers Union. The AWU website has more news of the alliance with the ANPA.
Submitted by rickeyre on
Firefox 1.0.1, the latest version of my browser of choice, has been released. The 4.7 meg setup file for Windows can be downloaded from Mozilla.org. See the Mozillazine announcement.
If you are using Firefox 1.0 or an earlier version, upgrade now. If you are still using that internet "explorer" from the House of Gates (ie, IE), then there is no better time to convert than today!
Submitted by rickeyre on
Mrs Cui Yu Hu turned 104, and received a letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister, John Howard, which reads:
"Janette and I are very happy to learn of your 104th birthday. We would like to join with your family and friends in extending our congratulations and best personal wishes to you on this wonderful occasion."
But the mailman also delivered a letter from the Immigration Department, refusing her an aged parent visa.
Submitted by rickeyre on
"The players broke the club's disciplinary code and have also been found guilty of unauthorised use of a fire extinguisher and a bicycle."
- Newcastle Knights chairman Mick Hill, 21.2.05
(Please refer to the source and background to this deathless prose.)
Submitted by rickeyre on
It's quite unsettling to hear the news of Hunter S Thompson's death, apparently by shooting himself. It's only last Friday that I wrote a short appreciation of him on these pages.
Submitted by rickeyre on
It's alive. It's Flash-infested. Its stats are out of date. Michael Clarke's management company has created a slick-looking website for him called - you guessed it - www.michaelclarke.com.au. I wonder how long before they remember to take down the Number 49 wallpaper.
For all the press clippings on his website, they missed these accounts of his first-class debut (New South Wales v India, 1999-2000):
Submitted by rickeyre on
The cancellation of the 2004-05 National Hockey League following an industrial dispute could well mean the death knell of the sport as a viable major league concern in North America. Will we miss it? Give me curling anyday.
Submitted by rickeyre on
To celebrate the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol this week I am releasing a sidebar version of the aggregated environmental newsfeed that appears on the environment page on this website.
The Greenbar contains news about the environment and related sciences aggregated from XML feeds from: AllAfrica.com, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, E-Law, Forests.org, Greenpeace, Grist, Inter Press Service, MSNBC, National Geographic, Oceana.org, Reuters, the Washington Post, Waterconserve.info, and the World Wildlife Fund.
Submitted by rickeyre on
Hunter S Thompson is probably best known in Australia for using the adjective "pharquing" live to air on the Don Lane Show in 1976. To the rest of us, he's just a sportswriter for the ESPN website... among one or two other things.
His first column for the Disney-owned behemoth in 2005 was posted a few hours ago: Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray (link updated 25-2-05).
Submitted by rickeyre on
Our pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister - Mister Can't Do himself, John Winston Howard - can't apologise on behalf of an inept immigration department, can't sign the Kyoto Protocol even though it becomes international law today, can't cancel the foreign debt of tsunami-stricken countries, can't let the buck stop with him. He can't sack incompetent ministers either... though that may be because he'd have nobody left.