Frost and drought wipe out PNG, Solomons highland crops
El Nino-driven drought and frosts in the normally tropical highlands in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has brought Tasmania-like weather to the region, a regional administrator said.
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El Nino-driven drought and frosts in the normally tropical highlands in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has brought Tasmania-like weather to the region, a regional administrator said.
Rattled America will find it can’t spin itself out of this one By Bob EllisThe Age, January 5, 2007
Scrappy Seattle three-piece Nirvana had just knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard music charts when they played Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel on Queensland’s Gold Coast, 25 years ago today.
The passing of former prime minister Gough Whitlam is not just a day of mourning for Australia, but also for a region shaped by his expansive policies of outreach to Asia and the Pacific, regional leaders say.
MELBOURNE–Ah yes, the cold is indeed breaking here in the south, and stay tuned for the probably ordinary news of my bicycle stunts as I go out today to get me some wheels. The impetuous for which is my starting presenting the morning edition of World View this coming week. Click the link for the … Continue reading “Mental Notes: August 2006”
Hello from the coalface. Yep, I’m back reporting, back at SBS in the Melbourne office, working for World View, the “cross cultural meeting place” of feature-style radio reports and some news/current affairs. It’s on nationally 6-7am and 5-6pm weekdays, and truly is a whole lot of fun… when one can come up with enough ideas, … Continue reading “Mental Notes: August 2006”
MELBOURNE–Hello from cold and flu world. Still without a whole lot to say due to recent return to ‘pixellation’. Friends know what that is. Very funny shit from recent excursions: AutoBlogger; Matt Price in Syberia in Syberia Ho!, especially the Kyrgyzstan entry; the Interpretive Arson crew; Dawn and Drew and my ears again piqued by … Continue reading “Mental Notes: June 2005”
SYDNEY–Wracked with a bloody cold. Still churning out radio programmes somehow though, fill-in for The Bridge Sydney Album Show follows. Am gettin’ wiggy about my new residence, moving in July 26. Flubba.
SYDNEY–Just got off an Allnighta shift for FBI, tracklistng follows. Now a casual on the SBS radio news desk several days a week. Sorting out my move into the lovely old house at the bottom of Darling St. 15 metres to the ferry pier. Nice.
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”