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Today is my last day in Brisbane before moving to Melbourne, but that’s no excuse to let the news picks slide! So here they are. Enjoy. Russia and the USA have just signed a new nuclear arms treaty called START. The process started almost a year ago. Politics is slow. I found out that there […]
December 3, 2010
It’s been a big week so here are just a few things I discovered in my travels around the internet this week. Enjoy. Independent news organisation New Matilda will shut in two weeks if it doesn’t make its fundraising target. Please donate to keep some semblance of balance in our media. According to a report […]
November 26, 2010
Here’s the bits and pieces of the internet that kept me entertained and interested and thinking this week. Hope you enjoy. The first installment in a three-part series on 2010 in Australian Federal politics talks about how Australia’s two-party system is over, perhaps forever. Instead, we’ve got a two-and-a-half party system. A clever, funny blog […]
November 12, 2010
Um. Oops? Google Maps mishap leads to Nicaragua inadvertently invading Costa Rica. Maybe they should have cross-referenced with another source as well. A homeless youth initiative in Cairns seems to be doing some good stuff: Bridges, a program run primarily by youth services YETI and Youth Link, has placed eleven homeless people under the age […]
October 26, 2010
New Matilda is an independent, online only news source. It covers things the mainstream media often doesn’t and covers the big issues and topics of the day or week from angles you wouldn’t read or hear about elsewhere. As its website says: Believing that robust media is fundamental to a healthy democracy, newmatilda.com is fiercely independent […]
February 4, 2011
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