Last October the first-home buyers ‘grant’ for purchase of established homes was doubled to $14,000, and tripled to $21,000 for new ones. Since then the average first home … More
Category: Society
Ruing Roubles: Eat Roo Too!
Russia has temporarily suspended imports of kangaroo meat from Australia, apparently following contamination concerns. Unfortunately that accounts for 70% of exports, … More
Sydney Shaking & Sticky
Brand Sydney project, with a committee of 14 ‘stakeholders’ from government, corporations & quangos (lovely term) spent 12 months and $1 million of taxpayer funds to … More
Brettless Virgin
Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey announced his retirement (stepping down, calling quits) along with a forecast $165 million loss and heavily-discounted $231m capital … More
Belfast ‘Orangefest’
Orange marching season in Northern Ireland has its climax on July 12. People leave the country to avoid riots that inevitably follow this provocative Protestant tradition. Parades organised by … More
Oi,oi,oi,okay – Oui,non!
Online travel company Expedia surveyed 4500 hoteliers world-wide about the behaviour of nationalities amongst their clients. First ranked for politeness were … More
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