Archive for June, 2006

Australia onto the round of 16

Date: June 23rd, 2006 | 1 comment

With a fantastic late game goal, Australia tied Croatia to move onto the round of 16 in the World Cup!
Follow the action over at www.worldcupblog.org, with a dedicated Aussie [read more]

Undies crack the high-tech big time

Date: June 22nd, 2006 | No Comments

Who says that Australians are anything but forward thinking? Who else puts such technical expertise into…undies?
There’s been a lot of, um, movement in men’s underwear lately. It seems Australian men are no longer content to pick between boxers, Y-fronts or Calvins. With new technical innovations and designs, it seems they are enjoying a little [read more]

Australia’s Travel Influence

Date: June 30th, 2005 | 2 comments

For a country with such a small population, Australia carries a lot of weight in the international travel area. I don’t have hard numbers to back this up, but I imagine that a higher percentage of Australians have traveled overseas when compared with Americans and perhaps other western-based tourists. Australia’s impact on its [read more]

Tourism Woes

Date: June 28th, 2005 | No Comments

NZ tourism is worried because Overseas travel hits domestic market after a 22% increase in international travel last year. Australia’s worried because Tourism fears Japanese getting over Down Under. Where are they all going instea [read more]

The Dingo Ate my Tourist!

Date: June 26th, 2005 | No Comments

A Dingo bite on dead tourist’s camera has authorities worried on Fraser Island. Less than a month after a fatal dingo-mauling of a 9-year-old boy, a tourist went missing. His body was discovered 2 years later. Authorities suspect that he may have been injured and then attacked by dingos, which he attempted [read more]

Parents pinch pennies from piggy banks

Date: June 23rd, 2006 | No Comments

Tsk tsk tsk - now, it’s your parents that you have to watch out for!
One in four Australian parents regularly “borrow” money from their children’s piggy banks to pay for anything from bread to luxury holidays, a survey said Wednesday.
Mums are more than twice as likely to raid their children’s savings than dad, with 35 [read more]

400-year-old tree faces axe

Date: June 21st, 2006 | 1 comment

The poor tree! Nothing is going to be old in Oz, shortly….
A SUBURBAN Melbourne council wants to save a 400-year-old gum tree standing in the path of a $2.5 billion tollway development.
The Dandenong Council has lodged a last-minute application for a heritage listing, and it is taking legal action, to protect the gnarled red [read more]

Sydney hostels risk lives

Date: June 29th, 2005 | No Comments

Watch out backpackers! Sydney hostels risk lives and the goverment is powerless to stop them! Well, according to this study at least, which claims that “about 100 �shonky� hostels operate in and around the city, offering 1,350 beds, according to a report by the Australian Tourism Export Council. Most are overcrowded and dangerous, with [read more]

New breed of tourists

Date: June 27th, 2005 | No Comments

Don’t get your medical work done in expensive Australia, Europe or the U.S. - head to Thailand! A New breed of tourists are heading to the country for cheap medical care that is on par with that they would receive at home, with numbers only expected to rise. Especially cool? The “dental resort”. [read more]

Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution

Date: June 25th, 2005 | 1 comment

As some of you may or may not know, prostitution is legal in much of Australia. An interested article entitled: Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution maintains that sex trafficking, enslavement of Asian ‘working girls’ and other unsavory things have resulted from the legalization of the world’s oldest profession, using the state of Victoria [read more]