Crikey

Listening to snippets of radio news or watching the television reports it is hard to get a grasp of the sheer enormity of the area in Queensland covered by water*. Thankfully that great information resource the Australian Bureau of Meteorology provides a regularly updated answer. *I didn’t mention the newspapers because they become irrelevant when [...]

We’ve seen all those pictures of snow bound New York, all those travellers  stranded at airports. Must be a really cold snap in the northern hemisphere, right? Well, no, actually. Up in the Arctic circle something strange has been happening. Sea ice has been forming at one of the slowest rates ever!

During my time at the cabinet office, not a day went by where there wasn’t a Jim Hacker moment. “The problem with Google, minister” said the very high up IT man “is that it doesn’t find the pages we want people to read.” His solution was for the government to develop it’s own search algorithm [...]

If further evidence was needed that public opinion would be against the takeover of the Australian Stock Exchange by the Singapore Stock Exchange it has come in the form of findings by UMR Research. The company’s managing director John Utting summarised findings from its December omnibus survey as being “surprising just how intense the opposition is [...]

As an Australian court was convicting three Muslims with a Somali connection of conspiring to plan a terrorist attack, the Dutch security service was giving the go ahead for a raid in Rotterdam that resulted in the arrest of Somali Muslims. Radio Netherlands Worldwide gave this summary of coverage by the national dailies. The arrest [...]