Category Archives: Australia

British Airways - Old With The Signs

1 July 2008 – 9:53

March 2008. Thomo checks into a British Airways flight in Sydney. Whilst waiting in the queue I noticed the sign. See the date? Remember, the date - I was checking in in March 2008. BA is talking about new arrangements in March 2007. When exactly does something new become old? Time to update the sign [...]

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Aussies Beat Americans Again!

21 June 2008 – 0:38

Yep, Aussies have beaten the Americans again in yet one more thing. The Sydney Morning Herald noted on 20 June 2008 that Australia pips US as world’s fattest nation. Yes, goodly reader, us Aussies have managed to outweigh the Americans.
Fat Happy Thomo reports that he is also one of the sportsmen contributing to this victory [...]

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Airport Security? Cods!

14 March 2008 – 10:36

I’ve been travelling. I left Saudi Arabia on Sunday night and flew to Dubai, Bangkok, Sydney, then back to Bangkok and now I am sitting in Dubai prior to flying back to Saudi Arabia. So, that is five days, two airlines and four airports, twice over. The flights were Emirates (VERY nice airline) from Saudi [...]

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Bloody Big Catfish

3 March 2008 – 10:07

In a report, Sea Shepherd activists attack Japanese whaler, in the Sydney Morning Herald, there is a note of a conference in which:
Onodera spoke of the latest clash as he addressed a seminar in Tokyo with officials from 11 developing states that have recently joined or plan to join the deadlocked International Whaling Commission.
Japan [...]

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Albatros DVa and Pfalz DXII Being Restored at AWM

29 February 2008 – 11:07

It seems that the Australian War Memorial, being the proud possessor of an Albatros DVa and a Pfalz DXII, has decided to restore them for display in November this year (I guess as an exhibition on the Great War and to celebrate 90 years since Armistice Day).
The ABC had a report on it - you [...]

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Aussie MPs Upset

15 February 2008 – 0:20

The Sydney Morning Herald ran a report today on Aussie MPs get heated as Rudd freezes their pay. Seems the Prime Minister called for and the Opposition Leader agreed to a freeze on the salaries of Members of Parliament. Following is the classic quote from one Liberal Party member:
“Keep this up and you’ll fill the [...]

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Dr Brendan Nelson Forgets Democracy

30 November 2007 – 14:41

The Australian election is over and Kevin Rudd is the new Prime Minister of Australia. There was a resounding swing to the Labour Party and to its clearly articulated policies for the future direction of Australia, socially and economically. Dr Brendan Nelson was elected as the leader of the Liberal Party, the main opposition. He [...]

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New South Wales’ Counter-Terrorism Website

13 November 2007 – 0:37

I discovered the other day that we New South Welshmen have our very own Counter-Terrorism website. Yep, it’s there under the New South Wales Government Gateway at http://www.secure.nsw.gov.au/. I learned two things today from it. The first was that Australia has had a national counter-terrorism alert level system in place since 1978. Boy weren’t we [...]

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Lawrence of Arabia & the Light Horse

12 November 2007 – 9:30

The Australian War Memorial Museum has started a blog to inform folks about their forthcoming exhibition concerning T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and the Australian Light Horse in Palestine in 1917-1918. The exhibition will open in December 2007 in Canberra and run over the summer of 2007-08. I for one will be visiting that [...]

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Pack of Pain

12 November 2007 – 0:09

The Sydney Morning Herald noted yesterday in a piece titled Pack of Pain, that the Australian Defence Force is facing legal action from soldiers with injured backs. It seems that the officially provided backpacks are crap and many soldiers buy their ow, especially when they are being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
For an Australian, that [...]

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