BRISBANE–Well, we don’t ever talk about the weather here. Mid-winter, 25 degrees always.
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The crowded Pacific: re-considering the sharp edge of broadcasting’s soft power
By Geoff Heriot
Long before the ABC abandoned shortwave broadcasting to PNG and the Pacific, its programming for indigenous audiences (as distinct from Australian expatriates) had become risible. For those concerned with Australia’s status as the region’s principal security partner, this should matter.
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What is white spot disease in prawns?
White spot disease (WSD) found in Queensland prawns is highly contagious, lethal to crustaceans and has reduced prawn farm productivity by up to 40 per cent overseas.
‘You’ve never seen anything like a Nirvana crowd’: 25 years on from that Fishos gig
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.
Mental Notes December 2016
MELBOURNE–After 11 years the truck is stacked and the flights booked to decamp to Brisbane in a couple days.
PNG Cybersecurity Law to target ‘cowards’ who ‘slander’: PM
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has forthrightly stated that a main thrust of the nation’s new Cybersecurity Law is to target so-called “cowards” on the internet who “bully or slander”.
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Somme at 100
With a blow of the whistles at 7:30am on July 1, 1916, tens of thousands of British troops went over the top and advanced on German lines in positions abutting the River Somme in France.
Who’s who in UK post-Brexit party battles
The race is on in the UK to find David Cameron’s successor as Conservative Party leader and prime minister, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has seen his own MPs pass a motion of no confidence in his leadership.
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Governor says live firing on PNG marchers ‘unwarranted’
The Governor of Papua New Guinea’s capital said the use of live ammunition on students was “unwarranted” and has challenged Government claims that police were provoked with stone throwing, kicking off a violent confrontation.
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Why PNG’s students are protesting against the O’Neill administration
The groundswell of discontent with Papua New Guinea’s Government, and more specifically the administration of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, provided the tinder for today’s violence around the nation’s main university campus.
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