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How does Prime Minister Kevin Rudd remain bright eyed and bushy tailed with his massive daily workload ? This important question was raised ...

Former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has been given a challenging job in the Philippines : cataloguing Imelda Marcos’s vast collection ...

Strange as it may seem , the early 20th century revolutionary Emiliano Zapata , at times portrayed as a laughable Mexican bandit , is playin...

The commonest announcement following the “for your convenience” tag is something like – “in order to serve you better/provide better and mor...

Victorian MPs have awarded themselves increases in their electoral allowances of up to $35,000. This is about 3 times the sum allocated to A...

We live in an age of political correctness (don’t start me) and occupational health and safety, and in a social milieu of increasing litigio...

The epic voyage of the Argonauts came to mind when Lord Nelson rose on the poop deck of the SS Alco-Pop to deliver his budget reply speech. ...

I regret to advise that our language is deteriating rapidly. At 6am in the morning I heard news about a change to industrialations, which is...

Welcome to Zimbabwe ! That’s not the kind of message you expect to receive nowadays from that pitifully oppressed country . However , back i...

Last night, the dinkum Aussie treasurer, Wayne Swallow, released his first budget for the nation. The budget had numerous prongs, one of whi...

The nation should be prepared for the sad demise of the esteemed writer and national treasure , Phillip Adams . Adams admits to n...

How often do you get asked to provide proof of identity? Australian life now seems to be a lurching from one bureaucratic obstacle to anothe...

The Royal Darwin Hospital cardiac department has been placed on a war footing for the remainder of 2008 due to a predicted ou...

I love computers. I spend hours daily on and in and with mine, I can do lots of things with them, and almost reformatted mine a few days ago...

"Don't get yerself in a state," my mother used to harp at me. Well. I have got myself in a state, and that state, which will r...