Opinions.com.au » australian

Calls for more roads spending

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:40:08 +0000

HE Australian government’s being pressured to spend more of the annual billions of dollars in petrol tax collected improving the nation’s highways.

Excerpt from:
Calls for more roads spending

$5m man lives in van, fixes potholes

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:33:36 +0000

A MAN who won $5 million in Lotto still lives in a caravan and has no plans to retire from his local council job fixing potholes.

Excerpt from:
$5m man lives in van, fixes potholes

Gangland execution plot

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:18:24 +0000

A BRAZEN gangland execution planned for the heart of a capital city’s legal precinct has been narrowly averted by authorities.

See the original post here:
Gangland execution plot

Hello world, it’s me: Laws back on radio

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:02:52 +0000

TWO YEARS after retiring from radio, broadcaster John Laws is preparing for a comeback.

Teacher charged over drunken orgy brawl

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:07:29 +0000

A TEACHER’S aid allegedly involved in New Year’s Eve sex party brawl has appeared in court.

Six die in PNG plane crash

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:28:58 +0000

Six people are dead and a pilot is fighting for his life in hospital after their Cessna light plane crashed in Papua New Guinea.

View original here:
Six die in PNG plane crash

King of Middle Earth Peter Jackson made a knight

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:28:54 +0000

Oscar-winning movie director and king of Middle Earth, Peter Jackson has been made a knight in the first New Zealand honours list since the country reinstated the title.

Here is the original post:
King of Middle Earth Peter Jackson made a knight

Female driver blows 14 times Aussie blood-alcohol limit

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:28:51 +0000

A United States motorist has recorded a blood-alcohol reading of .708 – more than 14 times the Australian legal limit of .05.

View original post here:
Female driver blows 14 times Aussie blood-alcohol limit

Six dead, Aussie pilot injured after PNG plane crash

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:28:45 +0000

Six people are dead and an Australian pilot is fighting for his life in hospital after their Cessna light plane crashed in Papua New Guinea.

Originally posted here:
Six dead, Aussie pilot injured after PNG plane crash

Thatcher unsympathetic to boat people

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:35:45 +0000

Margaret Thatcher was unsympathetic to the fate of Vietnamese boat people, saying it was wrong for them to get social housing in the UK ahead of white Britons.

View original post here:
Thatcher unsympathetic to boat people