July  2006 
2006-447P 31July06  Family motoring holiday.
High cost of petrol affecting families.
2006-445 31July06  Interest rate rise bites.
A toothy view of the impact of interest rate rises.
2006-442P 28July06  Bombe Alaska book.
The Attorneys General Phillip Ruddock trying to
impose tighter book censorship on the States.
2006-443P 28July06  Howard's inflation graph.
Went with article on Howard claiming that the rise in inflation was a 'one off'
caused by the cyclone last Summer.  Which drove up the price of bananas.
2006-441 28July06  Strong wages bargaining position.
Esoteric look at Industrial relations and the high price of bananas.
2006-437 27July06  Rising interest rates.
Claims that rapid increases in oil and banana prices
has created the impetus for an interest rate rise.
2006-433 25July06  Measuring support for recycling sewerage water.
Debate over whether recycling of sewerage water should be introduced.
2006-432 25July06  Television slogans.
Relaxation of cross media ownership laws.
2006-428 24July06  News today.
Ongoing drought now a major news story.
2006-430P 24July06  Water use in the future.
Went with article on the debate about whether
sewerage water should be recycled for drinking.
2006-425 21July06  Lebanese civilian lifeline.
Difficulty for civilians to flee Lebanon.
2006-416 18July06  Tanks the world needs.
War and militarism seemingly to have a higher
priority than tackling environmental problems.
2006-404 11July06   The big petrol price rise.
Rapidly rising price of petrol reflected in "the big" Aussie kitsch culture.
2006-420P 18July06  Blues versus the Blues.
AFL team Essendon to play Carlton (the Blues)
having lost their previous fourteen matches.
2006-417 18July06  Extinct animal display.
Ascent of war and militarism in the world.
2006-415P 17July06  Bulldogs interchange bench.
AFL team the Western Bulldogs suffering from a high number of injuries.
2006-411 17July06  The three wise men today.
Open warfare in the Middle East.
2006-410 14July06  Future media ownership remote.
Speculation that the relaxation of Australian cross media ownership
laws will mean an even greater concentration of media ownership.
2006-407 13July06  Please miss, what is peace?
Perpetual state of war in the Middle East.
2006-406 13July06  How can they do this!
The link with violence and the arms manufacturing industry.
2006-401 10July   Memorials to the fallen.
Ongoing drought conditions have meant that
many reservoirs have fallen to very low levels.
2006-405 11July06  When are you going to step aside?!
Peter Costello's efforts to persuade Prime Minister Howard to step aside.
2006-400 10July06  Where John Howard stands.
John Howard reluctant to step down as Prime Minister.
2006-397 7July06  The AWA that John Howard would object to.
Using the new AWAs as a springboard for
Peter Costello's succession aspirations.
2006-396 7July06 Teaching prep kiddies their ABC.
Grading very young primary school age children is very
difficult and can cause the kids unnecessary stress.
2006-398P 7July06  Not signing AWAs.
Went with article reporting that nearly 50,000 Australian
workers had signed the new AWA contracts.
2006-394 6July06  Government school history lesson.
Dilapidated state of many government schools.
2006-389 4July06  Teenagers' Playschool.
A look at the alleged sexual assault on the Big Brother program.
2006-392P 4July06  Deciding on how to proceed.
Went with article on the American military considering
how to proceed with their prosecution of David Hicks.
2006-384 3July06  Is the Colliwobbles contagious?!
Falling ratings Channel Nine ratings, Eddie McGuire and the Collingwood Colliwobbles.
2006-385 3July06  Big Brother eviction texting.
Calls by the Prime Minster to scrap the Big Brother
program  because of an alleged on air sexual assault.
2006-381 30June06  Welfare reform expressed as a beach patrol.
Tighter compliance rules for welfare recipients.

 June 2006 
2006-375 29June06  Assisting David Hicks.
The Federal Government giving little assistance to David Hicks, an Australian citizen
who has been held in Guantanamo Bay prison without trial for over four years.
2006-377P 29June06  Anglican church steeples.
Split in the Anglican church, largely over the ordination of women.
2006-378P 29June06  Skills shortage in the country.
Ties in two stories.  The skills shortage in Australia and continuing drought.
2006-379P 29June06  The AWA silent majority.
Prime Minister John Howard's dismissal of mass protests against his government's
workplace laws, insisting that a "silent majority" supports the controversial changes.
2006-369 29June06  Celebrity wedding vows.
High rate of divorce amongst celebrities.
2006-372 27June06  Rolling out the red carpet.
Recent visit by John Howard to Indonesia to shore up Indonesian Australian relations.
2006-368 26June06  Iraq war progress report.
The level of fighting in Iraq contradicting reports claiming progress is being made.
2006-370P 26June06  Who do you think will win?
Heavy drinking associated with watching the World.
2006-365 23June06  Chocolate drives.
Chocolate and doughnut drives in schools not
encouraging healthy eating amongst children.
2006-361 22June06  Body parts ethics committee.
Illegal trade in body parts by the medical profession.
2006-356 20June06  What brings us together.
Highlighting the negativeness of religious fundamentalism.
2006-349 19June06  Clean politician monument.
Recent allegations that the Victorian Government kept dirt files on opposition members
has highlighted the culture of dirty tactics that pervades modern Australian politics.
2006-352P 19June06  Counting sheep.
Implementation of an Australian farm livestock survey.
2006-350 19June06  Crossing the floor.
Tying  the intense interest in the World Cup with threats by
some government MPs to cross the floor over the immigration bill.
2006-347P 16June06  The bodyline series.
Rush on tickets for this year's Ashes cricket series.  'Bodyline' refers to the
controversial 1932-33 cricket season when head high bouncers were first bowled.
2006-348P 16June06  Supposed to sling mud, not collect dirt!
The Victorian Government caught with dirt files on opposition members.
2006-345 16June06  ABC board, the  final solution.
The Federal Government's attempt to undermine the independence of
the ABC by stacking the board with appointees close to the Government.
2006-343P 15June06  Crossing the floor.
Threats by Liberal MPs to cross the floor and
vote against the immigration legislation.
2006-341 15June06  Modern Waltzing Matilda.
Immigration bill currently before Parliament that will
see asylum seekers processed on offshore islands.
2006-339 14June06  Indefinite sentencing for sex offenders.
Trend in the Australian judicial system for some
serious sexual offenders to be held indefinitely.
2006-336 13June06  Over the first World Cup hurdle.
Australia may have beaten Japan in the
World Cup but now faces the mighty Brazil.
2006-335 13June06  The public's  nuclear response.
Esoteric view of Australia's preoccupation with the World Cup.
2006-334 9June06  East Timor threat.
The Australian Government not classifying Aussie soldiers In East Timor
as being in a threatening situation (which would attract a higher wage).
2006-333 9June06  World and Iraq Cup.
Oblique look at the ongoing brutality of the Iraq war.
2006-329 8June06  Nuclear power experience.
John Howard's nuclear power enquiry.
2006-319 19June06  Nuclear power potential.
The link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons production.
2006-327P 6June06  Channel Nine numbers.
A hundred people to lose their jobs at Channel Nine.
2006-323 6June06  World Cup planet.
All pervading World Cup fever.
2006-320 5June06  The little red Howard.
John Howard's proposal that Australia to go nuclear.
2006-318P 3June06  The Snowy hydro  sale falling over.
Federal Government pulling out of the Snowy hydro sale,
which forced Victoria and NSW to follow suite.
2006-315 3June06  The real reason people climb Mount Everest.
Extreme difficulty in getting tickets to the Ashes Test.
2006-314P 1June06  AFL Grand Final goal posts.
AFL pressured to hold the Grand Final in the evening to maximise TV coverage.
2006-313P 1June06  The merger that did occur.
Potential merger between the Queensland Liberal and
National Parties that was scotched by the Prime Minister.

 May 2006 
2006-307 30May06  Above average rainfall.
Continuing dry weather pattern in Australia.
2006-304 29May06  New kid on the block.
Rising popularity of soccer challenging Australian rules.
2006-303 29May06  East Timor volcano.
East Timor's history of colonisation and occupation
a big influence on the current unrest.
2006-300 26May06  Waltzing Matilda.
Deployment of Australian troops to various hot spots across the world
viewed in the light of the traditional wandering Aussie swagman.