Articles tagged ‘Australiana’
Indonesia displays maturity in Australia drugs case
By Court | June 21st, 2005 |
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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.
Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?
By Court | June 11th, 2005 | Comments Off
Ever wondered why it is you got targeted at customs while the long-haired hippie backpacker slid right on through? An excellent article entitled, “Cold targeting: the front line” gives readers inside access to the jobs of customs officers trained in ” observational and psychological techniques to recognise the out of place, the unusual” including [...]
Corby “Extras”
By Court | June 10th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
So these aren’t directly related to the happenings in the Corby drama, but these articles are definitely spin offs. In Surfers know to lock their bags, the author uses the shitty and lazy lead of “WHEN it comes to international travel, the world’s best surfers learned long before the Schapelle Corby case that it pays [...]
Tragic end to adventure Down Under
By Court | June 9th, 2005 | Comments Off
AN Irish backpacker who drowned at the Burren Junction bore baths on the weekend had been celebrating with a couple of mates after finishing a three month working contract cotton chipping on a local property.
The 21-year-old, whose name has not yet been released, was swimming with two friends in the bore at about midnight after [...]
From the “Poor Taste” Files
By Court | June 6th, 2005 | Comments Off
Well, I don’t really know what these guys were thinking when they named their racing greyhound Navi Talim, or Ivan Milat (the name of a serial killer) backwards. If I had to guess, they probably thought they were being ingenious…or funny. After the expected outrage, the group changed Emma’s (her ‘real’ or [...]
See it or Flee it - the good the bad and the butt ugly Australian destinations
By Court | June 3rd, 2005 | Comments Off
Trying to make a spash, the new Australian Traveller Magazine has kicked off their first issue with the snazzy title of: See it or Flee it - the good the bad and the butt ugly Australian destinations. Before your knickers get in a bunch, you should know that capitals were left out of the [...]
