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Sadly, it's not for having a terrible show
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From the Herald:
Robson and crew arrested in IndonesiaTHE host of Today Tonight, Naomi Robson, and a Channel
Seven crew have been arrested by Indonesian authorities in Papua
after entering the province under the guise of tourists.
Robson was questioned by police along with her producer,
researcher, cameraman and sound recordist.
The head of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Imron Cotan,
confirmed five Australian journalists were being held in the Papuan
capital and would be deported as soon as possible.
The five had violated Indonesian immigration and visa laws, Mr
Cotan said. "They claimed to be tourists, but they brought
equipment for journalistic purposes and were carrying out
journalism." [snip]
Update: The best part is this quote from Peter Meakin, Seven's head of news and current affairs.
"He denied the story was an attempt to boost Today Tonight's
credibility.
"It was an attempt to get a good story," he told ABC
radio. "We don't decide what stories to do on the basis of
journalistic credibility.""
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Some of you might have noticed over the last couple of days obituaries in the paper for the late playwright Alex Buzo, who came to tech in 2002 to lead the Writer in Residence program.
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Wet baby in tumble dryer: man charged
A 13-month-old baby suffered horrific burns when she was
put in a clothes dryer, police say. The baby was left with her mother's boyfriend at a home in the
Perth suburb of Warwick while the woman went to a gym for about an
hour last Thursday, police said.
Police were told the baby had spilt liquid on herself and
the man put her in the clothes dryer and turned it on. [More inside]
Story link
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Don't go see the Da Vinci Code
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What a snorefest! This is one of those movies that has been made to cash in on the book, without regard to the quality. Two and a half hours of stuff not exploding, boring talking and Tom Hanks not boning the chick. IN fact I don't think there was a singe explosion in the movie, the albino guy was totally lame, general lack of badassness, etc etc. The only cool person in the movie was the butler, esp in the scene where the supreme evil dude has the butler to tape up the cheesy albino and he does it because he's totally the butler.
My friends who had read the book were saying that it was better than the book; well I know what I'll not be reading next. I suggest spending your 12 dollars for a movie ticket on a Starbucks coffee instead.
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As it so happens, Google shows that Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth are among the top ten lonliest cities.
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Caffeine, the world's favourite psychotropic
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According to this article, the worldwide per-capita daily use of caffeine is 76mg (totals to ~500 tons per day)- that's about a weak cup of coffee each, or a a can and a half of coke.
Caffeine definitely changes the way people think, but subtly enough that most people don't consider it as they don't view it as a "drug". What is interesting to me is that if on average everyone is on a reasonable amount of caffeine, the direction of our species must be being shaped in a large way by it. I heard a while ago that caffeine use by nobles instead of alcohol helped pull us out of the dark ages, but am having trouble finding a source.
Lately I've been drinking a lot more caffeine as it gives me mental energy, but also tends to make me very irritable and unforgiving. Is it a good thing that we're all daily using a drug that makes us into manic wackos?
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What did you guys think? Definately one of the worst I have heard.
Beazley promised the world and delivered only glib remarks, protectionist rhetoric, and another Labor election defeat.
Don't bother voting next election, Labor can't win.
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SURPRISE SEX, or ''Whoops!?''
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Rape claim
By BRAD CLIFTON
April 21, 2006
A MAN who claims he
mistakenly had sex with "the wrong woman" after entering a dark bedroom
at the home of a Sydney magazine editor was yesterday committed to
stand trial for rape.
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Isaiah Berlin, Freedom, Communism and China
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I've always been of the view that the Chinese Regime is a necessary step in its development into a fruitful Democracy, and i've always been targeted as a hideous fascist for this view. I was just re-reading Isaiah Berlin's essay on Two Concepts of Liberty, and found a brilliant libertarian evocation of my view on the matter.
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China bans sale of body parts
CHINA has finally issued long-awaited regulations on human organ
transplants, explicitly banning the sale of body parts, requiring
written permission from donors and introducing medical standards in
an effort to reduce the number of botched operations and improve
survival rates.
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You didn't need written permission before?! And they didn't any sort of standards? It's like you just kill a random on the street and take their organs to make a quick buck. It puts that urban legend about waking up in a bath full of ice, with 'Call 000' written on a mirror, to shame. At least they're sort of getting with the times.
Full story from the Herald.
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