A few months ago I blogged about the cost of entertainment and how even a weekend surf at the beach was likely to cost car parking fees, barbeque facilities use fees and of course, GST on the ice, petrol, esky contents, (surf) board wax and zinc cream. In other words it’s hard for the [...]
Residents of the Antipodies (that’s Australia for people in England – New Zealand for the Spanish and somewhere else for people in the USA) are used to being the forgotten race. Our claim to fame is the Kangaroo, the Kiwi and a cute little marsupial misnamed “Bear”, the Koala. OK, we also play a [...]
It has been pointed out to me that the comparative figures I used for this article – i.e.: News International and News Digital Media are for differing markets and therefore not really capable of being used comparatively. Therefore the conclusions based on those assumptions are withdrawn and readers should disregard the findings of 95.86% [...]
We’re on the verge of an infrastructural shift as profound as any in human history, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. You might say we’re going to be seeing the other side of that revolution, and it will change our political system, our ideologies, and our beliefs. Richard Heinberg. July 2006 On the [...]