A Bit Of The Other

Ikea has airbrushed women out of its Saudi catalogues, claiming they were wrecking the joint. IKEA Christmas Cards are to display Joseph as a single parent. California has banned psychotherapy claimed to straighten gay teens. Instead the best they can hope for is that they’ll straighten their rooms. Alan Jones is to be called in [...]

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The Dutch owned super trawler that has been banned from scooping in volumes of fish in Australian waters could be redeployed to pick up pommie backpackers off Bondi this summer. Myers has seen a sudden drop in profits, reflecting a worldwide slump in demand for unfashionable clothing. Business managers are showing the lowest level of [...]

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Police now have powers in NSW to remove any face coverings. They’ve already asked Thomas Keneally to have a shave and for Barry O’Farrell to take off one of his chins. The government has been talking to industry about the proposed carbon price. Mobile phone companies said there should be a $49 cap, with $899 [...]

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The government has banned all exports of live passengers on Jetstar following a Four Corners expose. Lots of flights have been cancelled this week after planes arrived from South America with the ash trays full. The ash cloud over Australia will go the way of other menaces from Chile – it’ll be offered the spare [...]

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Australia is to stop exporting live animals direct to Indonesia. Instead pastoralists will have to send their cattle to Malaysia for processing. A team of Australian officials will be sent to Indonesian abattoirs next week. But there’s hardly any meat on them and they’ll be a poor substitute. An unintended consequence of the ban on [...]

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