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I think that its more that they want to send everything overseas into Asia. Case in point QANTAS says they pay their baggage handlers 15% more than Virgin baggage handlers, but as the TWU points out QANTAS uses 3 baggage handlers per aircraft while Virgin uses 6 handlers per plane. Oh well Mr Joyce ...

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Hi, long time lurker and second time poster. As a black South African, I feel that there is a couple of misconceptions that need to be clarified with regards to the issue of economic transformation which the debate around nationanilisation is a symptom of. Since the late 90s, the South African gove...

So how should/can Obama recover this situation?

My uncle lived in Perth for business, his advice stay away from Perth. Apparently it somehow both a hick filled backwater and terribly expensive. Hey we are not all hicks in Perth :shock: , just because we like the banjo and don't leave the state very often doesn't make us hicks. That being said th...

So what do you think of this I think that it is doable if someone had the political guts to do it. http://www.energy.unimelb.edu.au/upload ... ort_v1.pdf

Christians clash with gays and lesbians Police called to keep the peace Woman pushed out of wheelchair A GAY and lesbian rally against homophobia in Adelaide has ended in violence after it was crashed by Christian protesters, with one person being removed by police. About 200 people gathered outsid...

And so it begins.... Breaking news Diphtheria case 'shocking': AMA From: AAP May 03, 20112:26PM THE death of an Australian woman from diphtheria, a disease virtually unheard of in Australia, is shocking, the Australian Medical Association says. The 22-year-old Brisbane woman died in hospital last we...

I watched it on channel 9 (Australia) at my mum's house.

Stas Bush wrote:Incidentally, why hasn't NATO attacked Syria yet? Assad has dispersed unarmed protesters using force, there are victims. Where's bombs falling on Syrian government forces?

I'd say t would be a case of one at a time.

Hey Friendly did your letter ever get published? I note that in the recent petroleum industry conference in Perth the main speaker again claimed that Àustralia was the only country in the world to be seriously looking at putting in a carbon tax.

I'm surprised no-one has posted this yet: Mike Koehler promises lifesize AT-AT walker will be Ewok-proofed with anti-log technology By Peter Farquhar, Technology Editor From: news.com.au April 12, 2011 8:57AM Mike Koehler says if Oprah can make it to Australia, there's no reason his AT-AT couldn't. ...

On a related note I am having a "discussion"with a friend about the pipeline that Barney wants to build from the Kimberlies to Perth I have pointed out that it would be a lot cheaper to build desal plants then the pipeline. He claims that if we build the desal plants Cockburn sound will be...

I watched it today and enjoyed it for an alien invasion movie it looked realistic. I felt that the Alien were more like marines going in to capture and expand a beach head for the heavier army units and airbases for their airforce hence why they may have been using drones. Anyway how long would it t...

I'm curious what is wrong with McAffee.

From what I have read on Serbian site they reckon that this event and the one in Italy were orchestrated by anti-EU groups. They think that doing insane stuff like this will stop Serbia from join the European Union.

My grand parents on my fathers side moved to Australia from Croatia after the first world war, and my dad married my mum who was also from the same town (Blato on the island of Korcula) and brought her back to Australia.

Nice ending Stuart, I was wondering was Yahweh the only angel that could control the weather? If others could do it may become a "source" of revenue for the angels with that ability they could bring rain to drought affected area on Earth and possibly relieve the dust storms in hell?

According to the information I have the *soviets lost(KIA or MIA) by year: 1941: 2,993,803 1942: 2,993,536 1943: 1,997,127 1944: 1,412,335 1945: 631,633 IMO if the Soviets just concentrated on heading straight for Germany without trying to "liberate" the rest of Eastern Europe they would h...

She's full of shit. First, what is she basing her statement that the spill isn't as bad as they say it is? (In fact she's right, but not in the way she thinks it is. The spill is worse than the were saying.) Second, again, how is she coming to the conclusion that it's not BP's fault? It's their rig...

I'm having a discussion with someone about the spill anyway amongst other things ie spill not as bad as they are saying it is the good news this spill wasn't BP's fault and its all an anti-Britsh thing in the US :roll: and she pointed out this article as proof: BP oil spill: leak found in rig weeks ...

Just finished reading Exodus (Hellgate, London, Book 1) by Mel Odom, much better than I expected will be getting the next 2 books. Yes it is based on the game Hellgate London, and is set 15 years before the game with the hellgates opening and the immediate aftermath. :evil: Damn you .. I've been lo...

The loss to Germany is part of our cunning plan to win the world cup, as we are going to come 2nd in our group and it means we play England and our goalie can catch

Just finished reading Exodus (Hellgate, London, Book 1) by Mel Odom, much better than I expected will be getting the next 2 books. Yes it is based on the game Hellgate London, and is set 15 years before the game with the hellgates opening and the immediate aftermath.

The coalition would win as there are race in the non-aligned worlds that are as technologically advanced as the Minbari but not the will to fight facing genocide they would help. The canonical source for that is what? I know there is some fanfic speculation which claims that the Vree are almost as ...