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Twenty one million people by the end of the month.
(God knows how many on work permits).
We seem to punch far above our weight; or is it an inflated national Ego?
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Japan and Australia form security pact
Correspondents Report - Sunday, 10 June , 2007
BRENDAN NELSON: The missile defence capability which Japan and the US is developing is specifically for targeted threats that are in the region,
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Correspondents Report - Japan and Australia form security pact
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Did Australia demand reversal on natives?
GLORIA GALLOWAY
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
June 9, 2007 at 12:25 AM EDT
OTTAWA — Canada's decision to withdraw support for the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples coincided with a visit to Ottawa by Prime Minister John Howard of Australia — a country that strongly opposes the declaration.
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globeandmail.com: Did Australia demand reversal on natives?
As soon as snow begins to fall in the mountains it starts to get cold here. (Not even a frost though where I live)
Not many people know that Australia has ski-fields as big as Switzerland. + a lot of ski fanatics
(Many Americans seem confused by the very fact that it is winter here!?)
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Australia ski season gets jump start
Posted on Saturday June 9th 2007 at 1:03 pm
It’s the start to the opening of winter 2007 Australia has been waiting for. Snow is currently falling in Perisher Blue and cold temperatures (low of -4.5°C in Blue Cow) have allowed snowmaking in Perisher Valley and Blue Cow from the early hours of today.
There is around 4-5cm (two inches) of fresh snow in the village so far today, adding to the natural snow cover from several good pre-season falls and snowmaking that has been going on for the past three weeks.
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SKIREBEL Magazine » Blog Archive » Australia ski season gets jump start
Seems that more and more so called "funds" management companies are taking over Oz assets. Often to their determent. I doubt if we will ever have the resources to buy them back.
They would have pulled a 5B dollar heart out of Qantas if they managed to get it.
Very much the scenario of the movie "Pretty Woman".
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Brookfield Asset Buys Australia's Multiplex for A$4.2 Billion
By Daniel Taub and Fergus Maguire
June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Brookfield Asset Management Inc., North America's biggest publicly traded property manager, agreed to buy Multiplex Group for A$4.2 billion ($3.5 billion) as banks and commodities producers in Australia boost demand for offices.
The cash bid values Multiplex, builder of London's Wembley Stadium, at A$5.05 a share, 22 percent more than the stock was trading at before a takeover approach was annou
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Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand
Maybe it cuts two ways?
the media here is increasingly in the thral of big companies. The local radio station broadcasts out of Brisbane 1000 + K away. Didn't even know there were local floods happening.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australia's Macquarie Media Group said Tuesday it acquired two U.S. community newspaper publishers with a combined enterprise value of 80.1 million Australian dollars (US$67.6 million; ¤50.6 million).
Macquarie said its wholly owned subsidiary American Consolidated Media has entered into an agreement to buy 100 percent of Superior Publishing Corp., a publisher
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Australia's Macquarie Media buys US local newspaper publishers
I had never heard of
"force majeure" before
Wikki explains it thus
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Force majeure (French for "greater force") is a common clause in contracts which essentially frees one or both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as war, strike, riot, crime, act of God (e.g., flooding, earthquake, volcano), prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations under the contract
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BHP Billiton declares Australia coal force majeure, prices up
Port Newcastle in Australia
BHP Billiton Ltd has declared force majeure on thermal coal shipments from Australia`s Newcastle port because of flooding, with the lost supplies pushing spot coal prices to three-year highs on Tuesday.
Rio Tinto, the biggest exporter of thermal coal through the country`s top export terminal, said it had not declared force majeure, though other exporters said they could still do so.
The port resumed limited shipments on Tuesday after being shut down on Friday by heavy seas and torrential rain.
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Mining Journal Online
The Green Party is not happy about another coal mine going in in the Upper Hunter Valley. What Global Warming?
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BHP Billiton, Centennial Coal Co Ltd and certain other coal producers, which form the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG), have won the right to build a new A$500 million ship-loader at Australia’s Newcastle Port, the world’s largest coal-export terminal, to help meet soaring demand.
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Mining Journal Online
China is angry that local pollies, after a bit of ingenuous dithering, decided to meet the Dali lama (B****R*DS)
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Australia demands China respect its democracy
Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:28 PM IST25
By Rob Taylor
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia demanded China respect its democracy on Wednesday and said Tibet's Dalai Lama was welcome in the country at any time, despite a dressing down from Beijing over the exiled spiritual leader's current visit.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the Dalai Lama, on an 11-day tour, was a significant religious figure and it was up to Australians to decide which world figures they met.
Prime Minister John Howard is scheduled to meet the Buddhist leader in Sydney on Friday, while Labor Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd met him on Tuesday night, reversing an earlier refusal.
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http://in.today.reuters.com/news/new...archived=False
