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The excitement rain can generate after a long dry spell.

Overuse of water from Australian rivers.

Recent Ford Job loses.

Huge financial rewards from sponsorship deals for competitors who win gold medals.

Difficulty in controlling inflation.

Practise by many Australians of marking points where their loved ones have been killed in car crashes with commemorative crosses and flowers. Many of the victims would have died due to speed.

Robert Mugabe making only a token offer of power sharing.

High Australian bank interest rates.

Both Russia and America's willingness to use military force but quick to condemn others using military force.

Fighting in Georgia/South Ossetia and global warming.

High interest rates and the Olympic Games.

Icy road conditions in Southern Australia.

Drastic cuts to water allocation for irrigators in the Murray Darling river system while water pipes being constructed to urban centres.

Pollution at the Beijing Olympic games.

Comment of the Beijing Olympic Games smog.

High cost of groceries.

Federal Government admitting that they can't save the Coorong wetlands of the lower Murray river.

The Reserve bank slow to react to the slowing economy.

Procrastination over how and when to introduce a carbon emissions trading scheme to Australia.

Subprime mortgage market woes.

China imposing tough internet censorship for the Beijing Olympics.

Esoteric look at the world economic slowdown.

Allegorical cartoon drawn in response to a spate of neglect cases in Australian aged care homes,

Incident where a Qantas plan lost part of it's fuselage during a flight.

Petrol stations quick to pass on Wholesale petrol price rises to customers but slow to to respond when the wholesale price of petrol falls.

Economic musings in light of so many people defaulting on home loans in recent times.

Australia's Generation Y staying home longer than the Baby Boomers did.

Rising inflation rate primarily fuelled by the rapidly rising price of petrol.

Pocket cartoon that went with AAP story about Myer planing to open a store in Dubai.

Lighter comment on the widespread rollout of CCTV.

Allegations that the Government's environmental Green Paper has been compromised by the coal lobby.

Australia unwilling to reduce coal exports to tackle global warming.

Australian banks raising their interest rates despite the Reserve Bank putting official interest rates on hold.

The powerful sexual drive of young people and World Youth Day.

Pocket cartoon that went with AAP story about the axing by Channel Ten of the reality TV show Big Brother.

The two largest home finance companies in America on the brink of collapse.

Most countries that have set greenhouse are failing to meet them.

Pocket cartoon that went with AAP article on the rapidly rising price of petrol.

Time running out to save the lower parts of the Murray River.

The water allocation process is often not fair.

News of movie star Nicole Kidman having a baby seeming to get a higher priority then the G8 Summit.

Pocket cartoon that went with AAP article about Tasmania wanting to get an AFL football team.

AFL footballer Barry Hall repeatedly suspended for striking.

Soaring world food prices.

Inadequate response by most governments to global warming.

Excessive pumping of water from rivers impacting on environmental flows in the rivers.

Call by the African Union for Mugabe to accept a power sharing agreement with the Zimbabwean opposition.

Pocket cartoon that went with AAP story about police getting extra arrest powers for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day in Sydney.

Confusion and indecision about how to set up a carbon emissions trading scheme.

Recent failures by child protection authorities to protect children at risk.

2008-475 18Aug08 Farmer's sunny day.

The excitement rain can generate after a long dry spell.