The Australian High Court has issued a landmark
ruling
that firmly sides with Internet providers over their liability and
responsibility for alleged infringement on their networks. The closely
watched case involves a lawsuit by the movie industry…

Children as young as 13 claim they have instantly healed hundreds of people using the miracle powers of Jesus on Queensland streets. The Pentecostal group Culture Shifters says it has healed people suffering from cancer and multiple sclerosis and is …

This podcast features an update about the murder of a community organizer in Oaxaca who had been spearheading anti-mining activities at a mine owned by Canada’s Fortuna Silver. While Australia has passed new laws which may lead to the creation of the c…

In Australia “Kalti Paarti”, or carved emu eggs became popular with both aboriginal and non aboriginal artists in the mid 19th century.This is an egg from the Australian Museum depicting a moth.  The yolk has been blown out and the surface carved …

 The Liberal National Party has all but wiped out labour in elections today. This bodes ill for the incompetent, unpopular government of julia gillard. It probably didn’t help the labour party that the gillard/rudd war took place during the e…

via: BCF’s A Dingo Stole My Koran

East Enders seek some new ideas for old buildings and find their answer down under.

In an effort to revitalize Toronto’s East End, two local community organizations searched the world over for a solution and found what they were looking for very, very far away. Last week, the Danforth East Community Assocation (DECA) and the Gerrard Eastwood Community Organization (GECO) hosted Marcus Newbury, the founder of Renew Newcastle, who spoke [...]

Autism news is seldom this good.  Australian Nine Network cameraman Glenn Edwards dived into a swollen creek and saved an autistic boy, missing for 16 hours, from a swollen Creek. The story at CabooltureNews  quotes Mr. Edwards extensively a…

Autism news is seldom this good.  Australian Nine Network cameraman Glenn Edwards dived into a swollen creek and saved an autistic boy, missing for 16 hours, from a swollen Creek. The story at CabooltureNews  quotes Mr. Edwards extensively …

Now I can hardly wait until Monday (now in the UK), with a series of promotional tweets going up today. … And I don’t have to wait any longer! Stratfor emails are being exposed, for public review. Rolling Stone, and many other media sources will be publishing juicy leaks this week. @wikileaks: Over 25 media [...]

The leadership spill will soon be upon the Oz labour party. No matter who wins labour will be damaged. Both sides are giving the opposition ad makers tons of material. the Cabinet will be divide and this will give Tony Abbott a boost, which he doesn’t …

… climate change, robo-calls, dingoes and Oscars edition… +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sugar bushes in Ontario and Quebec have tapped their trees weeks early this year due to the non-wi…

… through one of those “save-save-save!” sites… What the frick would Aussies know about winter boots? I picture Australian winter boots as sandals with closed toes! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario

Note that the partisan stripe of Australia’s governments has been just about the opposite of Canada’s for 15 years

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The NY Times, LA Times and many others criticized Heartland’s inept plan to hire David Wojick to create an alternate-reality K-12 climate science curriculum. But Heartland…

I’m not sure how the makers of this little bit of genius got permission to do it, but this is a real ad. (I’m still a little suspicious because I couldn’t see any mention of it on the college’s website … Continue reading &…

It looks like kevin rudd is set to overthrow HM Australian PM gillard. The labour party is very divided. It has a one seat majority in the lower house, it seems likely that the labour coalition will have trouble being maintained. If an election were he…

heartland.png Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same well-experienced think tanks and individuals.  Tobacco anti-science is strangely entangled with climate …

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Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same well-experienced think tanks and individuals.  Tob…

British-born Australian actress Magda Szubanski, well known for her portrayal as Sharon on the international hit, Kath & Kim, on Tuesday (Valentine’s Day) came out publicly as gay on the Australian news and talk show, The Project. From the Syd…