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Even stupid people.

Concerned readers will note that while round trip tickets to Darwin can be had for a little over $2000, a one-way ticket will only set you back around $1400.

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Almost Like They’re Proud of It

Maybe it comes from standing upside down:

Hussey ton sets up stunning win for Australia

Hussey declined the charity singles being offered by Yousuf and instead looked to pierce the boundaries with drives that seldom left the carpet. He entered the nineties with back-to-back cover-driven fours off the bowling of Danish Kaneria and sealed [...]

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Big Week for Oz

The F-35 Lightning II program, better known as the JSF, is on the table down unda:

THE national security committee of cabinet will consider this week whether to go ahead with Australia’s biggest defence contract – spending at least $16 billion on 100 Joint Strike Fighters – or to delay the purchase because of [...]

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Making it up to them

Last autumn the political class chose to demagogue the unfortunate decision of senior auto executives to travel to DC in corporate jets to discuss federally-funded rescue efforts for GM and Chrysler. One of the second order effects of all that podium thumping was a slackening of orders in business jets, which in turn caused [...]

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Not Judging Before All the Facts Are In

But it appears possible we’ve been nurturing vipers to our bosoms:

Australian police have arrested four people in the city of Melbourne after uncovering what they say was a plot to launch a terrorist attack.

The group was preparing a suicide attack on an army base, police said.

More than 400 officers were involved [...]

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Where’s Melbourne?

By modern standards, the USS Kitty Hawk was not a particularly large aircraft carrier – at 80k tons dripping wet and a little under 1100 feet, she suffered by comparison to the Nimitz class, which is only a trifle longer but 20k tons heavier.

The HMAS Melbourne was in another class entirely.

See [...]

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Designed in America

Built in for Oz.

Pretty much perfect.

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GW in Perth

USS George Washington and her escort, the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens, will spend the 4th of July holiday – and $6-8 million, if history is any judge – in Perth, West Australia.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and guided-missile cruiser arrived this morning after leaving the Japanese port of Yokosuka on June 10.

This [...]

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Paging LCDR Paige

For forty years an Australian woman has worn, and treasured, a POW bracelet for one LCDR Gordon Paige, United States Navy.

Now she wants to give it back.

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The Law?

Sometimes it truly is an ass:

(Seven) years after the Sheahans bulldozed trees to make a fire break — an act that got them dragged before a magistrate and penalised — they feel vindicated. Their house is one of the few in Reedy Creek, Victoria,  still standing.

Although Liam Sheahan’s 2002 decision to disregard [...]

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