by NEIL FLETT – NICKNAMES have a special place in Australian humour, usually (not always) rhyming and usually (not always) funny – but always carrying a barbed truth. If you have a nickname, it often means you’re a mate, perhaps an accepted…
IN THE midst of the ongoing battle with COVID-19, government continues to allow holders of Australian passports to return. Some bring the virus with them into quarantine, leaving many Australians shaking their heads.
AS AN exercise in sheer unadulterated hypocrisy the public relations campaign around the Star Casino Tower Development ranks number one with daylight below it.
The original plan for the Ritz-Carlton and apartments complex atop the Star Casino in Pyrmont was to build 66 stories of hotel rooms and apartments in one soaring tower disregarding all town planning height restrictions.
MALCOLM Turnbull’s myopic investment in yesterday’s technology, today, for tomorrow, even managed to skip nuclear in his race for the past. In an interview with Defence News the US Navy’s top officer Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday says he has…
WHEN new wallpaper first goes up it makes an impression. You look at it, study the patterns and colour, have an opinion about it. It’s new, exciting and brings something else into your life. But once it has been up for some months, unchanged, its attractiveness fades, you gradually become bored, you don’t even notice it … and eventually you change it for something new.
IT’S time to listen to blind Freddie. When COVID first struck it was both common sense and politically astute for governments to design the communication response on the advice of the best medical minds in the country.
Now as the second wave rolls up the beach it is neither common sense nor politically astute to use doctors as a handy excuse for clumsy messaging. The COVID-19 communications now need to be sophisticated, well-rounded and comprehensive.
IN THE NSW town of Bowral last week it was hard to find a car space. Motels, hotels and virtually every restaurant were booked out.
The queue outside the main-street pie shop extended, with social distancing, 100 metres along the footpath. This was a town in recovery mode. Not a sign of Coronavirus. The hotels alone had been turning people away every night, at weekends up to 50 per night.
EVERY day but Sunday, my farmer mate Ferdie walks into his paddocks for his 10-11 hours of hard work. And every day he thanks God that he’s not a cynic, or a politician.
Even though he lost one year’s crop to drought, one to bush fire smoke and was locked down for months, these are times, says Ferdie, to stay positive and know you’re safe because Australia’s leaders will be focussed 100 per cent on our best interests, on what’s important for Australia.
“I CALL the meeting to order. Jim, please move your chair away from Kath. Social distancing please. We’re here to get some figures for Gladys. Let’s get underway…
“Buses, currently we have 12 passengers, not counting school kids. Ideas?”
IF YOU’VE ever had phone problems, you might have experienced Telecom Syndrome.
You started off liking those overseas operators who promised they could easily solve your issues, but gradually you grew to hate them as the issue remained unfixed for days then weeks, while you hung on the line, got transferred, listened to Muzak, repeatedly gave your personal details “for security purposes”, waited for call backs and stayed home for technicians.
