Ford Rangers, Mazda BT-50s recalled as farmers report spot fires with new utes
A farmer in western Victoria says a fire started by his new ute, a model recently recalled by the manufacturers, could have cost him millions of dollars in damage.
Contact High
Social payback delaying return of executions in PNG
The regional furore over the Indonesian government’s executions by firing squad of eight convicted drug offenders has turned the spotlight on Papua New Guinea’s plans to re-institute the death penalty there.
What has Australia done to Nauru?
By Nic Mclellan. Originally posted in Overland, Spring 2013
The Branch Davidians and the Waco Media 1993-2003
From WorldWide Religious News.
Mental Notes: May 2004
SYDNEY–Tracklist of The Weekend Overhang – FBI 94.5FM Sunday 7-10am – follows. WABS–In Melbourne, staying in St Kilda Thurs May 13-Tue May 18. See Resume & Contacts for contact details, I’d love to catch-up with all the Melbs/Prrrth posse while there.
Mental Notes: May 2004
SYDNEY–Just completed the final The Bridge, Sydney Album Show, so the final entry and tracklists of the show’s page on fbi.org.au follows. Sydneyfolk, listen this Sunday 7-10am when I do Weekend Overhang, the Sunday brekky show for one week only. Streaming MP3s of previous WOs here. WHO.com lives! Soft-launched, awaiting hardening :P WABS–In Melbourne Thurs … Continue reading “Mental Notes: May 2004”
Mental Notes: June 2003
Here’s the edited version I just sent to [insert the first address with no spaces, it sends it directly to her fax machine]:
That Sinking Feeling | That Magazine
You are lying in bed, reading, and the light bulb blows overhead. Why not just float up and fix it? And unite the world’s religions at the same time. Hang on! I think you just might be asleep already.
Tyranny of Distance? Save your Pity For Yourselves
Article for The Australian – Western Australia feature (Sept, 1996): WA music industry It was during a small, suburban park cricket match in late 1995 that many of us finally realised that Western Australia’s largely unheralded music ‘renaissance’ had finally broken through. Halfway through the Treadmill Eleven’s dashing batting effort on a slow but true … Continue reading “Tyranny of Distance? Save your Pity For Yourselves”
Spank; the Eidelweiss Dance Troupe; Cinema Prague; Beaverloop, Fly By Night, June 1, 1996
The Electric Mistress CD launch was always going to be huge – you could tell by Spank’s collective fingers bitten to the quick and the poster glue on their clothing. And as Spank guitarist Sam Hobbs jigged at the side of the stage to Beaverloop with over five hundred punters in the house, you could … Continue reading “Spank; the Eidelweiss Dance Troupe; Cinema Prague; Beaverloop, Fly By Night, June 1, 1996”
