Articles tagged ‘Australiana’

Indonesia displays maturity in Australia drugs case

By Court | June 21st, 2005 | Comments Off

Fury in Australia over the jailing of a young woman in Bali for drugs smuggling has puzzled ordinary Indonesians, and given the world’s most populous Muslim nation a chance to display a new maturity, analysts say.
But a series of threats to Indonesian diplomats and missions in Australia following the 20-year sentence given to trainee [...]

 

Post-everything generation

By Court | June 20th, 2005 | Comments Off

This article on the Post-everything generation confused the hell out of me for the first third of the article- I couldn’t understand what the journalist was saying about university students. Eventually I figured out that according to some sources named in the article, students are becoming increasingly right-wing conservatives, hanging pictures of the queen, [...]

 

Emergency water arrives for the towns running dry

By Court | June 16th, 2005 | Comments Off

The drought situation continues to grow worse in many parts of Australia. To combat the effects the lack of rain is having on farms - and the economy, Emergency water is arriving for the towns running dry. 91% of NSW is now in a drought emergency and there are fears that a dramatic [...]

 

Australia’s Next Tourism Destination

By Court | June 14th, 2005 | Comments Off

Now that Bali is once again on the outs and Fiji has been long discovered, I predict that still-more-stable-than-PNG East Timor will be the next major tourism destination for beach-seeking Aussies. The IHT calls the place, a scruffy island paradise, which isn’t a bad thing to be. Unfortunately, it’s not ‘easy’ to travel [...]

 

Drug-Smuggling Idiots Part 1

By Court | June 13th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Another Australian has been jailed for 20 years for attempting to send small amounts of heroin from Vietnam to Australia via photographs. The uber-dork and his 10-year-younger girlfriend were given the lightest sentence, with the ultimate penalty being death.