Category Archives: Media

ABC News 72

In a general sense, news tickers at the bottom of the screen on news channels annoy me. They often distract you from what is actually going on on the rest of the screen, and you end up missing what people say. It is even more annoying when the news being reported in the ticker is [...]

A Tad Insensitive, Advertiser

Just caught a glimpse of this rather insensitive closing line of an article about the unfortunate death of a local man over the weekend in a workplace accident, in the Geelong Advertiser. Timber Crush Death “Are you the family of the deceased man?” Seriously? Poor form. My thoughts to the family.

Our Customers Are Idiots: V/Line

Long suffering Geelong V/Line customers copped another penalty for trying to do the right thing and support public transport yesterday morning when the 4:43am service from Marshall to Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station ran out of fuel at Footscray, halting all trains behind it. This included metropolitan services on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, and caused [...]

The Australian FUDs It Again

There’s been a lot of rumbling, particularly since the 2010 Federal Election, in regards to a perceived media bias against the Australian Labor Party and its policies, particularly from Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited newspapers – most notably The Australian, our “national” paper. For me, their ongoing campaign, especially in the light of the News Of [...]

NBN – Commonwealth Guarantee

In this the final instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal, I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the last of the eight individual agreements – the Commonwealth Guarantee (CG). All descriptions are taken from the Telstra release to the ASX. As a summary, the [...]

NBN: The RFD and the ICMD Agreements

In this the sixth and penultimate instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal, I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the second and third of the agreements between Telstra and the Commonwealth – the Retraining Funding Deed (RFD) and the Information Campaign and Migration Deed [...]

NBN: TUSMA Agreement

After a short break – (other commitments have kept me busy for the last week) – here is the next and fifth instalment of my series on the recently signed Telstra/NBN Co deal. Today I will highlight what I believe are the interesting and/or important parts of the first of the agreements between Telstra and [...]

Newspaper Fail With Principle

Just stumbled across this article talking about a “principle” who has stated that students are unfairly labelled as bullies. Should that be “principal”? Obviously the headline writer didn’t follow the “principle” of getting a good education and learning how to spell “principal”. Fail.