Articles tagged ‘Australiana’
Bid to be cultural icons
By Court | August 4th, 2006 | Add a Comment »It’s about time they honored something, uh, important.
ARE Gold Coast meter maids culturally significant? Adoring Queenslanders believe the bikini-clad good samaritans have contributed as much to the state’s identity as the Great Barrier Reef after they were nominated as an “icon”.
Bid to be cultural icons
Young man survives ravine plunge
By Court | July 20th, 2006 | 1 Comment »Make sure you lick through to read this article - the last line about where he beer was is priceless.
An Australian man is recovering from a close brush with death after surviving a fall of nearly 30 metres into a ravine in East Vancouver on Tuesday.
The man, who had been drinking, climbed up onto a [...]
Parents pinch pennies from piggy banks
By Court | June 23rd, 2006 | Add a Comment »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 [...]
Tax office clarifies vibrator claims
By Court | May 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments »It’s becoming even more enticing to work in the sex industry in Oz after the government has approved tax deductions.
VIBRATORS, whips and G-strings – who’d have thought tax could be so exciting?
The Australian Tax Office has issued a revised set of tips for workers in adult industries in an information sheet that would have [...]