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Easter Nats Protest Riots: Name & Shame »
The protest riots at a Bob Jane store in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs on Friday night is more than just a national disgrace. It should be a turning point in the naming and shaming of the ever growing number of moron’s that perpetrate public pack crimes. These people believe that they are immune to the repercussions [...]
Aussies drink and pop pills to get through recession »
APPARENTLY Australians got through last year’s recession by binging on drinks, popping a few pills and eating a few burgers. That is according to CommSec’s economics team who broke down percentages of what Australians spent their money on last year. They spent less on newspapers and books to compensate but more on going out for [...]
NAB Cup rates higher than ODI’s »
IT’S embarressing for Cricket Australia to suggest that pre-season AFL rates higher on television and in total crowds than Australian cricket in what is cricket season. Well that is just the predicament that cricket is in at the moment. One Day Internationals have become mundane to even the biggest cricket enthusiast. Sporting fans are pleading [...]
Australian tennis hopes in Tomic’ hands »
AUSTRALIA won’t have too long until its new tennis star blossoms. Bernard Tomic, one of the sports’ rising stars, put up a brilliant performance in the second round against Croatia’s Maran Cilic, who made it all the way through to the semi-finals in the Open. Tomic took Cilic to five sets and looked in control half [...]
Battle of the Bridges »
THE rivalry between Melbourne and Sydney has continued with Melbourne planning a $20m lighting upgrade to its Westgate Bridge. Roads and Ports minister Tim Pallas has said that it will rival and look even better than Sydney’s Harbour Bridge – which makes the competition between the two cities even bigger. For years, Melbourne and Sydney have been [...]
Indians used as Australian punching bag »
INDIAN students have faced a horror period in recent times in Melbourne and around Australia. They have protested holding signs up such as ‘Racism is more dangerous than swine flu’. The protests follow a number of racial attacks on them in Melbourne. Many are brutally bashed; many find themselves with little hope when going out [...]
AFL club media managers on a power trip »
IT’S become almost a farce in the AFL media industry. Communication managers on a power trip, attempting to control what goes in the daily media and what doesn’t. Surely, it’s frustrating for many football journalists and organisations that these communication managers are taking a stranglehold of the media, knocking back continuous media opportunities and countless [...]
Shoppers swipe to new level of debt »
SHOPPERS are taking their shopping debts to a new level this festive period. More and more shoppers are using their credit cards and getting in more debt than ever. Swiping the card appears easy at first, but wait until you get the bill. The Boxing Day sales in Australia reached gigantic proportions with more than [...]
Out with the old, in with the new »
TEXT messaging has been a craze for more than a decade now but it is set to boom even more this Christmas after Australia Post went on strike at a critical time. Mobile phones have never been more important to Australians given that Christmas cards that were sent to loved ones in the past week [...]
Police need to become more rampant »
THE Victorian Police say they will unveil its digitector to catch speeding drivers over Christmas. But why don’t they use or unveil this throughout the entire year and not just Christmas? Yes, there are more people on the roads this time of year, but surely it would help prevent a lot of other deaths throughout [...]