August 24, 2011 was a particularly sad day in Australia. In the early hours of Wednesday morning news broke that 11 people, including 8 children had been killed when a fire decimated a house in the Brisbane suburb of Kingston. While the media is often too keen to use the words tragic and horrific to...
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There is a huge shit fight going on between the government and mining companies over the new ‘super profits’ tax right now. In response to mining claims of jobs and future investment drying up our Prime Minister (PM) trotted out a couple of words last week only the dorkiest of dorks would ever use...
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As an AFL football follower i care not about Rugby League or the Storm. This article is not about the Melbourne Storm. As a regular reader (online) of the Herald Sun rag i seem to spend as much time reading ‘reader comments’ as the actual articles these days. The inability of many to spell...
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The faux’s discuss problems with the two largest Australian tabloid newspapers, The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun: (function() {var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT');s.type = 'text/javascript';s.async = true;s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);})();
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Today Georgie Pilcher wrote a provocative little piece for the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun about some mother who defended her ‘right’ to hit her 9 year old daughter with wooden spoon, and how the ‘spoon squad’ (I suppose some weird play on ‘goon squad’), being the police, intervened to defend the grade 3...
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