Posts Tagged ‘australia’
Environmentalists Warned Australia Of Floods: Others Warned Of Drought
BIG bits of Australia are under water. And the environmentalists told you it would happen. They warned you of the coming flood. Well, maybe not the ones who lobbied for the desalination plant over the damn, but lots did warn of a flood.
Get a load of this from Ian Lowe, head of the Australian Conservation Foundation:
The Queensland floods are another reminder of what climate science has been telling us for 25 years, like the recent long-running drought, the 2009 heatwaves and the dreadful Victorian bushfires. As well as a general warming, increasing sea levels and altered rainfall patterns, climate modellers confidently predicted more frequent extreme events: floods, droughts, heatwaves and severe bushfires.
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Posted: 14th, January 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Jordan Rice Is The Unbearable Face Of The Australian Floods
JORDAN Rice is the face of the floods that have killed tens of people and ruined lives in Australia. In Toowoomba’s flooded high street, Jordan Rice is with his brother Blake and mother Donna. They are stranded. They are on the roof of their car.
A truck driver arrives. He ties a rope to himself. He dives in. He saves Blake. Jordan and Donna take the rope. The rope breaks. Jordan and his mother are swept long. They clamber onto a tree. Jordan cannot hang on. His mother lets go to try and save him. Both drown.
John Tyson is father to Jordan Rice and his three brothers. He’s been Donna’s partner for 30 years. He calls her the “love of my life”.
“(The truck driver) went to grab Jordan first, who said, ‘Save me brother’. I can only imagine the fear coursing through his body,” Mr Tyson, 46, said.
“He won’t go down with any fanfare or anything like that – I don’t think anyone will even wear a black armband for him – but he’s just the champion of all champions, a family hero.”
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Posted: 12th, January 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
How The Greens Made The Australian Floods Worse
DID the Green Shirts make the floods in Australia worse?
POSTED originally on the comments to Booker’s column, Dellers has picked up a contribution from “Memory Vault” who lives in Queensland and, with increasing concern, is watching the devastation that has so far claimed more than 70 lives, writes Richard North.
But the issue here – as it was with the horrendous bush fires in Victoria in 2009, is that the disaster could by and large have been prevented, or the effects reduced, but for Greenie intervention. And two individuals are particularly in the frame, the first being environment minister Peter Garrett, who took it upon himself to block a proposed dam that would have prevented it flooding the town of Gympie.
But “Memory Vault” particularly condemns a second individual, Tim Flannery, a professor of earth and life sciences at Macquarie University, chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council, and the 2007 Australian of the Year. It is he, above all, he has managed to convince the state government that the predicable cycle of droughts and floods will no longer happen, and that the state, instead of beefing up defences from the last major event 30 years ago in 1974, should prepare for long-term water shortages.
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The Ashes: Sour Aussies Gladden English Hearts With Bitter Chant
THE fifth Ashes Test and England are thrashing Australia…again. This is getting to be a habit. One thing has changed, though: Australia have two songs. The usual song is a cub-scout-style “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, oi, oi!”. The new one – Song 2 – says:
“Four Saffers in your team! You’ve got four Saffers in tour team…”
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Australian Boat Tragedy: Let’s Blame The Navy
CAN the Australians be blamed for the deaths of 28 mainly Iranian and Iraqi asylum-seekers who died when their boat from Indonesia foundered on rocks off Flying Fish Cove , Christmas Island? Or should the regimes they flee be examined and the people smugglers who profit from pain?
The Independent knows. It leads with:
“Australia’s hardline refugee policy was blamed for the deaths of at least 27 asylum-seekers whose boat was dashed on rocks…”
But wouldn’t a looser policy encourage more people to try to reach Oz by boat? And wouldn’t that lead to move deaths?
In an alternative world we may praise the Australian Navy whose personnel put their own lives on the line to save 41 people from “waters so rough that volunteers standing on the 100ft cliffs were soaked in ocean spray”.
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Magistrate Jails Australian For Calling Him ‘Mate’
TO QUEENSLAND, Australia, where he Magistrate Matthew McLaughlin has jailed Thomas John Collins for calling him “mate“.
Magistrate McLaughlin did not like being called mat and ordered Collins to call him “sir or your honour’‘. This provided Collins with something of an open goal and he replied: “Okay mate.”
So, she was despatched to the cells to have it sink in that the JP is not his mate.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
England V Australia Cricket In Great Photos: We Win Again
WHILE you were watching England winless wonders at the world cup, England’s cricket team were thrashing the Australians. At the First one-day international at the Rose Bowl: England 268-6 (46 ovs) beat Australia 267-7 (50 ovs) by four wickets. England’s winning show featured a magnificent unbeaten century from Eoin Morgan. It’s brewing up to a rich summer of sport. Although not for Australia – shame, eh…
Kim Jong Il Spotted At World Cup With Australia Camp: Photo
TO the front page of the Illawarra Mercury, where the region’s multiculturalism is being saluted with a mugshot of a local from each of the World Cup’s 32 participating nation’s.
C’mon Cameroon – do it for the little white girl.
And can you spot Mr Kim Jong-il? Eyes down…
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Spotter: Tim Blair
Robin Williams Says English Are Grey-Skinned Australians
ACCORDING to Robin Williams the English are grey-skinned Australians:
“The Australians are basically English rednecks…,’’ [Williams] said….
Aussie red-face Kevin Rudd reacts to a joke:
Mr Rudd said: “First of all, I think Robin Williams should go and spend a bit of time in Alabama before he frames comments about anyone being particularly redneck.”
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Posted: 1st, April 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Australians Eat Possum Pizza In Back-To-Front Shorts
PHILIP Andrew Gilmore, 35, “terrorised shopkeepers dressed only in inside-out, back-to-front football shorts.”
The terror was compounded by Gilmore wearing the shorts on her backside, not on his heard or ankles.
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Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Picture Perfect England Beat Australia
NO Photoshop – A view of England playing Australia during the seventh NatWest Series One Day International at the Riverside, Durham.
Posted: 20th, September 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
England Win Third Ashes Test
SIR Ian Botham waters the wicket at the Third Ashes Test between England and Australia.
Two more days and two more Test matches and the Ashes are England’s!
Gawd bless da Queen. Long may it rain!
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Hear Girl ‘Raped’ On Kyle And Jackie O’s Radio Show
ON the Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O radio show, a girl is strapped to a lie detector and asked about her sex life. The girl is 14. Her mother asks her if she has had sex. The girl is “scared”. She says she has had sex – she was raped at 12.
This is entertainment. Jackie O wants to probe the girl further. He want to know more about the teenager’s sex life. Kyle wants to – get this – “abort”.
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Posted: 29th, July 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (17)
Police Set Fire To Man With Taser
TO the desert community of Warburton, Western Australia, where Ronald Mitchell, 36, an alleged petrol-sniffer, is Tasered by police and duly bursts into flames.
Mitchell is now critical in a hospital.
Police say the got a call to a house. Upon arrival, Mitchell rushed at them sporting a cigarette lighter and a plastic bottle, which they now believe to have contained petrol.
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Posted: 21st, July 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Toni Collette Works To Kill The Australian Accent
ACTRESS Toni Collette, the American accented mum of The Sixth Sense, is the star of new US series United States of Tara – “Collette plays Tara, a married mother of two who suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID), commonly known as multiple personalities.”
The US show is to preview in Australia soon. So what says you, Toni Collette, in 2004?
We don’t want Australian kids to grow up with American accents. We don’t want a country of clones wondering why their world is so different from the one they watch on TV or see at the movies. And that’s what will happen if we allow our screens to be dominated by American product. We have to prevent a diet of vacuous American fodder, which will spoil their, and in turn, our true potential.
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Posted: 17th, July 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Al Gore Spews Fiery Rain On Australia
CLIMATE change campaigner Mr Al Gore has told a Melbourne audience “the number of fires and their ferocity will grow if there is no action on emissions”.
What else, Al?
He also said challenges of climate change should be viewed as opportunities.
No kidding, Al.
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Giant Kangaroos Not Wiped Out By Climate Change
CLIMATE change is not behind the demise of the Procoptodon goliah, the giant kanagroo.No, it turns out that it was the big roo’s enmies what done for it:
It stood tall at 6’5, weighed over 500lbs, had the face of a koala and the body of a sturdy kangaroo. And apparently it was delicious.
Scientists think they have discovered the reason behind the demise of the prehistoric Australian marsupial Procoptodon goliah – better known as the giant, short-snouted kangaroo. They say it was not climate change, as has always been assumed, but hungry Ice Age hunters.
That’s the thing with the media and bad science- climate change is always assumed…
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Posted: 24th, June 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Australian Politician Jason Wood Has Multiple Orgasm In Parliament
FROM a castle on Obama Beach. Anorak brings news of Australian Liberal backbencher Jason Wood looking at the commecil imple-imple-ple-ple implemacations of multiple orgasms in parliament…
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Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Australia Unveils Its Carbon Cops
THE climate cops are massing. Klimate Kops are grassing up mum and dad – literally. Und now zer Klimate Kapos are in Australia. Carbon Breather! Raus!
FRONTLINE police will be forced to become “carbon cops” under the Government’s blueprint to cut greenhouse emissions.
The Herald Sun can reveal Australian Federal Police agents will have to prosecute a new range of climate offences… Ms Wong’s office said AFP agents would be expected to enter premises and request paperwork to monitor firms’ emissions reductions.
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Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gordon Ramsay Victimised As Australia Discovers Manners
THAT panicky TV luvvie Gordon Ramsay comes across as a Priapic bullying berk is the persona the media encourages via sweary TV shows (Gordon Ramsay’s ‘The F Word’; “40 Years Of Fuck“) and interviews. The media feeds the beast.
Old Mr Anorak says he would not let anyone so preoccupied with sex and with such a foul mouth anywhere near his food.
But the biggest shock is that Australia has discovered new standards. It is not the land that manners forgot, rather the demure paragon of decency, decency and comportment.
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Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)
Aussie Rules Welcomes First Transsexual Player
WILL ‘Power’ is an Aussie Rules fan all set to become the Australia’s first transsexual to play competitive football.
Indeed, how it took this long for a sport played by men in hot pants and boob tunes to come out is worthy of much comment.
Australians love girls sports – tennis and swimming – and this news is long overdue.
Of course, transvestites are not the same as transsexuals, and Will ‘Power’, who was born a woman and had a sex change two years ago, dreams of playing for Collingwood. But first, he’s aiming for the Bendigo Football League.
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Clare Werbeloff’s Wog Wog Boom Dance Mix
CLARE Werbeloff Sings Wog Wog Dance Mix – take her away fellas…
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Clare Werbeloff On A Wog On Wog Shooting
CLARE Werbeloff sees a shooting in Sydney – Wog on Wog violence:
Outspoken Sydney shooting witness Clare Werbeloff has become an overnight internet sensation — so much so, she has engaged a PR representative to deal with the flood of media interest.
The 19-year-old found fame online after giving her politically incorrect eyewitness account of a Kings Cross shooting to Nine News.
Video:
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Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Aussie Mates Mug Man For Video Of Them Robbing House, Post On YouTube
TO Australia , where a man has filmed two Aussie teens breaking into a house and if to the police station, when…
A man who filmed two teenagers on his phone after they allegedly robbed a house was attacked by the pair before they stole his mobile and posted the footage on the internet.
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Posted: 25th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
One In 6 Spends Stimulus Money On Sex And Tattoos
HOW will you spend the stimulus money? Sex. Tattoos. Sex and tattoos?
Old Mr Anorak plans to finally fill the moat at hgis Virginia mansion with Thai women dressed as crocodiles.
In Australia, around 15% will spend money on sex; and 0ver 30 % will spend money on tattoos.
Our survey says…
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Spotter: Andrew Bolt
