The poetic stylings of Gina Rinehart

This is almost too good to be true, but it appears to be very much real.

Gina Rinehart has composed a poem extolling the virtues of Special Economic Zones and guest workers, and had it engraved on a boulder placed outside a new market in Perth’s suburbs.

Quick link: Cattle out of Alpine National Park for good

Quick link: Cattle out of Alpine National Park for good

The Victorian government’s “scientific trial” of cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park has been stopped permanently by Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke under the National Heritage Act. Here’s the Ministerial press release, and here’s the formal notice of the [...]

The Tour (of the Adelaide burbs) Down Under

While he certainly drew in the crowds, I’m not in the least sad that Lance Armstrong is safely tucked up in Texas, possibly in conference with his lawyers, and well away from the Tour Down Under this year. But it’s [...]