Archive for March, 2006

Rodent Along on a Wave

Date: March 31st, 2006 | No Comments

More animals and Oz! Check out this Rodent Along on a Wave
CURLY shows surfing is mice work if you can get it.
He regularly rides the waves of Australia’s Gold Coast with pals Harry, Chopsticks an [read more]

Never Bloody Ending

Date: March 29th, 2006 | No Comments

More problems for the ‘bloody’ advertising campaign…they don’t know how to translate it into other languages! This could be an issue, seeing as how Japanese are one of the top target groups for the Australian Tourism Board….
Japan’s customary extreme politeness has proved an obstacle to Western copy writers attempting to write clever advertising punch [read more]

Where the Bloody Hell Are You Spoofs

Date: March 24th, 2006 | 1 comment

Spoofs quickly followed the release of the controversial tourism video ‘Where the Bloody Hell are You?’. I’ve gotten one with political undertones via email, with ‘bloody’ changed to ‘fuckin’ and a user also brought another tourism spoof to my attention. This one’s a little more volatile, but amusing for anyone who knows [read more]

Update on Cyclone Aftermath

Date: March 22nd, 2006 | 3 comments

Around 7,000 people have been left homeless in the aftermath of Cyclone Larry. The hardest hit town, Innisfail, held a massive BBQ yesterday to feed the local community with meat from butchers who were without power, and would otherwise go to waste.
Trucks carrying soldiers rumbled through the streets of Innisfail, the town of 8,500 [read more]

Kangaroo Leads Austrian Cops on Snow Chase

Date: March 18th, 2006 | No Comments

I don’t know why, but kangaroos in other countries - especially ones with snow - always crack me up. This is no exception:
VIENNA, Austria - A kangaroo led police in southern Austria on a snow chase Thursday after it jumped the fence of its cage and decided to explore its wintry surroundings.
The marsupial [read more]

Animals in the News

Date: March 30th, 2006 | No Comments

My, my. Some Australian animals have been getting some attention in the past few days.
In one of the more amusing stories I’ve seen in awhile, a koala set to be stolen and exchanged for drugs scratched the hell out of its potential captors. In turn, the thieves took to the friendlier species: a [read more]

Angela Goode: Tourism ads are offensive and sell us short

Date: March 28th, 2006 | No Comments

The tourism controversy hasn’t gone away - a guest column reams the advertisement, saying that tourism Australia would be better off catering to the rick, stuffy folk. With rich, stuffy ads. Bah. I think she would be better off in the UK. Then again, that’s the backpacker in me speaking…
BLOODY hell. [read more]

Lees’ tell-all book set for Oct release

Date: March 23rd, 2006 | No Comments

Let the money-making begin! Actually, it’s been going on some time now with the whole Wolf Creek thing, but now the real-live players are diving into the ring. Joanne Lees will be ’setting the record straight’ the murder of her boyfriend Peter Falconio. The book is to be published by a non-fiction [read more]

Cyclone Larry Leaves Thousands Homeless

Date: March 21st, 2006 | 1 comment

Further proof that global wraming is coming to get you after the hardest storm in 30 years trashed northeastern Queensland on Monday.
Metal roofs littered streets, wooden houses lay in splinters and banana plantations were stripped bare after the most powerful cyclone to hit Australia in three decades lashed the country’s eastern coast Monday.
Amazingly, the storm [read more]

Out for $20,000 - a punter’s nightmare

Date: March 14th, 2006 | No Comments

Talk about counting your chickens before they hatch…a sure-thing mid-game bet went sour for a few gamblers who decided to bet exorbitant amounts of money - $20,000 - in order to ‘earn a quick $200′. Ouch.
After Australia posted a world record 4-434 in their one-day match in South Africa late on Sunday night, Sydney [read more]