Item one: Last Saturday, and it's reported that Maxine McKew, the high-profile ALP candidate for preselection to oppose John Howard in the electorate of Bennelong, has received death threats - something that made the papers worldwide.
I have never met Brian Burke.
Yesterday, Fairfax launched brisbanetimes.com.au, the website of their new newspaper, the Brisbane Times. The thing is, however, that there is no print newspaper called the Brisbane Times. The website is the newspaper.
Anything that chips away at the Murdoch monopoly in Brisbane is welcome. The question is: will the arrival of the Brisbane
Airline Partners Australia's proposed buyout of Qantas received the green light from the Federal Tip With No Iceberg, Peter Costello, today, but only after undertaking to comply with the national interest by:
Democracy throws up some baffling results sometimes, especially when most of the eligible voters don't bother.
Last weekend the voters in the Cherokee Nation approved a constitutional referendum, rescinding citizenship of the descendants of pre-civil war slaves.
As stated in a Cherokee Nation news release issued on Saturday:
Youtube video produced by the Marrickville Greens drawing attention to the toxic waste created by the dumping of obsolete computers. Features Fiona Byrne, who is running for the State seat of Marrickville in the March 24 election.
Not a sponsor of the World Cup, but alas, with no one to ambush.
