Bunny Munro “knows what everybody knows who is into this sort of thing – that with its flaccid bun, its spongy meat, the cheese, the slimy little pickle and, of course, the briny special sauce, biting into a Big Mac was as close to eating pussy as, well, eating pussy”. If that makes you want...
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When Federal Court Judge Peter Heerey handed down the heaviest fine in Australian corporate history to Visy he said of the cartel they had been running with AMMCOR “It was carefully and deliberately concealed. It was operated by men who were fully aware of its seriously unlawful nature.” The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
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Travel writing is a notoriously unoriginal game in the 21st Century. Any $50 a night whore with high school education can get a cheap plane fare, fuck around in some savage land and then write about how tickled it made them feel. (Actually that might be half-worth reading). But not the crap we get...
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So now we’re getting all the ‘Green Shoots’ stories, the ‘Back from the Brink’ stories, the year anniversary of the ’28 Days That Shook the World!’ stories, the ‘Worst is Over’ stories. That’s great. And with $5 Trillion of global citizens cash pumped into that evil beast of an economy you’d want to be...
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Yesterdays papers had banner headlines announcing the death of actor Patrick Swayze. Swayze had been battling cancer for many months a finally succumbed at the age of 57. While a solid actor who appeared in a number of successful movies such as Ghost and Dirty Dancing Swayze will not go down as one...
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Sunday nights Australian Idol sent shockwaves through the Australian music business as one of our potential great musical exports was relegated to obscurity by only a handful of votes. The elegant voice that is Ashleigh Toole was banished, like a musical Adam and Eve, from the Garden by the dirty pointing finger of the God that...
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 Controlled demolitions, remote control planes, faked phone calls, missing Jewish workers and even reptilian shape-shifting aliens are just some of the many conspiracy theories that have arisen in the 8 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks. It’s easy for the likes of Mathias Bröckers, Morgan O. Reynolds, David Shayler and Francesco Cossiga to generate...
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On Saturday 12 September God will be appearing at the Sydney Football Stadium, yes God himself, well according to the promoters of Hyundai A-League that is. On many websites and in newspapers, adverts have been appearing with the bold headline ALOISI vs GOD. One would think that such a audacious advertising campaign would have caused...
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Qantas is currently facing many challenges. The airline industry has seen a massive downturn during the recent economic slump and while many markets are starting to see a slight upturn the aviation industry is going to take a long time to recover. Qantas has also see the entry of two new competitors,...
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Australians are boorish, impatient, aggressive drunks who are struggling to adapt to their insignificance in an ever-rapidly increasing and globalising population. That’s what one would conclude after reading an article on the rising incidents of passenger rage inflight and at airports (“Fight Club” by Geoffrey Thomas, Air Transport World August 2009). Thomas states that...
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