A Bit Of The Other

The Bureau of Meteorology has gone on strike over pay. The government has said the low pay will continue well into the weekend, but can’t offer details on anything beyond the next 7 days. Tony Abbott will repeal any pokey machine reforms. He said anybody voting for him is clearly prepared to gamble. According to [...]

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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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The Commonwealth Banks aid they pushed interest rates up by 0.45% because they are “determined to be different”. They blame the rise on the increased cost of incompetent US advertising agencies. After a worse than expected performance in the mid-term elections the Tea Party in the US is being split into factions, including the “white with [...]

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Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young had her crying 2 year old child removed from the Senate yesterday. The speaker didn’t want the kid screaming and kicking and carrying on in a relentless fashion. Bill Heffernan was asked to leave for the same reason. Dick Smith spent a night outdoors at Lunar Park to support the plight [...]

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