It’s extremely sad that something that is a fairly standard promotion elsewhere in the world makes front-page news in Australia:
A NIGHTCLUB party where bikini-clad women can drink as much as they want for free has been slammed as unsafe, disgusting and demeaning.
Rape crisis counsellors and alcohol experts said the party reduced women to sexual objects [...]
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What possible solution could there be to this thorny dilemma?
DROUGHT-stricken wheat farmers will tomorrow get an offer they can’t possibly refuse - except that it would be illegal to accept it.
The Australian understands that bulk handler CBH will tomorrow offer wheat farmers about $270 a tonne for their wheat, to meet soaring demand in Indonesia [...]
Hi. ChrisV here, I’m back on the Yobbo blog team. There have been some developments in the world of online poker since Yobbo’s posts on the subject. Mega-site PokerStars issued a short statement to the effect that they’ve decided it’s just going to be business as usual for them. And Neteller have, in the words [...]
A reporter from The West waits 50 minutes for a taxi and suddenly this issue is on the agenda again.
“Ask any West Australian who gets taxis and people are not just talking about half-hour wait times anymore. People are regularly having to wait 1 1 /2 to two hours,” Mr Woods said.
Deputy chairman of Safer [...]
This is not a terribly coherent essay. It’s just a collection of stuff I’ve been commenting on Harry Clarke’s site. I’ve been arguing with Harry over gambling again, and the topic of pokies came up.
Since apparently “WA doesn’t have pokies”, and WA is so great because it doesn’t have pokies!!!!! Here are some facts about [...]
This stupidity has turned out exactly as predicted:
The cost of converting a car to LPG soared by hundreds of dollars in just a few hours yesterday as WA motorists rushed to take advantage of windfall government subsidies.
Gas conversion specialists across WA were flooded with inquiries from motorists who were keen to book their cars in [...]
This goes into the “who would have thought” category:
WA’s controversial ban on smoking in pubs and clubs has caused chaos in the industry in its first week, with publicans in parts of the State reporting a catastrophic drop in trade.
Bars in rural areas appear the hardest hit. One manager said she had been forced to [...]
Pete Kerr on fast food advertising:
I had a dream, that one day my nieces and nephews would sit down to watch Videos Hits and see 50 Cent rapping about being a pimp, and his mates banging on about how real men carry guns, sell drugs and keep women in sexual slavery, without them seeing any [...]
For all of you who’ve just got out of a session of “Super-Size Me”, rest assured that no cow eyeballs were eaten during the making of the film. If you went to the candy bar during the film, however, you probably ate stuff that was made from ground up cow bones, lips and/or nutsacks. Moooo.
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