Google Headlines are sometimes quite interesting.
This one, that just popped up on my feed, had me puzzled.
The picture did not fit the text..
Do you know why?
A story about the Australian Northern Territory Health service, and a picture of a nurse giving an injection.
The person getting … Read the rest
Zhao Lijian, China’s foreign ministry spokesman, tweeted a digitally created image that purported to show an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child on Monday 30 November 2020.
The cybersecurity firm, Cyabra, said it had found 57.5% of … Read the rest
Scott Morrison has stated that Australia is to stop using Carryover Credits to meet emissions targets, in line with the rest of the world.
What does this actually mean?
Using the definition below, it ‘could’ mean something like this:
Assume a country has … Read the rest
There has been a lot said about lockdowns causing relationships to end, but how accurate are these stories.
Do news reports only report on negative issues, and not the positives?
A survey by the UK charity Relate in July 2020 found that 43% … Read the rest
Virgin Airlines pays no Tax in Australia.
Virgin Australia has asked the Australian Federal Government for a 1.4 billion dollar bailout to help it through the coronavirus crisis.
Its owners are not prepared to put up their own money, and want help from the Australian Taxpayers.
Virgin Airlines is a … Read the rest
Immigration was again the main topic in Pauline Hansons maiden speech in the Australian Senate, a similar speech to her 1996 maiden speech in the House of Representatives.
A selection of her comments:
In Pauline Hanson maiden Speech in September 2016, she made the following statement:
“If they cannot rein in the budget with overpaid public servants – one being the head of Australia Post, who is on $4.8 million per year … Read the rest
Much has been said about Foreign Ownership of Land in Australia, with 80% of people appearing to be concerned about this.
A Register of Foreign Ownership report has recently shown that only 13% of Australian Agricultural land is foreign owned, but there appears to … Read the rest
The percentage of Agricultural Land in Foreign Ownership in Australia varies between 4.1% (NSW/ACT) and as high as 30.1% (NT), according to FIRB information.
The ownership percentages for each of the States and Territories at Jun 2016 was:
30.1% of Northern Territory in 71 … Read the rest
Postcodes in Queensland are said to begin with 4
and
Postcodes in New South Wales are said to begin with 2
Do addresses such as this confuse you:
Tweed Heads, QLD, 4225
Official … Read the rest
