The Chinese view of the Federal Election

Australian Iconic Sounds 2010

Fourteen iconic Australian sounds have been immortalised alongside the Vegemite jingle, Waltzing Matilda and Aeroplane Jelly after being inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive's (NFSA) Sounds of Australia. Check out the site here.

Post Election - War Birds Air Show Mareeba

Got sick of the Election 'fallout' so we went up to the Warbirds Airshow at Mareeba on Sunday. Had a great time. It makes you realise how much of a historical link this area had with WWII and the thousands of military personnel that were based in this part of the world.
I'm no aircraft specialist but the DC3 would have to be one of the most amazing aircraft ever made. Built before WWII they were probably the forerunner of the modern airliner and still fly commercially in some parts of the world. I was fortunate to fly (on possibly this DC3 ) with Bush Pilots Airways back in the Eighties to Bamaga.

This one is still being rebuilt but they were still able to kick the engines over to stir the memories.
There were lots of other attractions but the scene stealers were the RAAF Roulettes.

Say no more!

What we aren't hearing

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Johnnie Walker - The Man Who Walked Around The World

Tony's Boatphone

Where's Warren?? Overseas!

Looks like Warren has a good chance to get another term of travel junkets and nose in the trough topped up pollies superannuation after this weekend. Not that it will do Leichhardt any good if Labor gets re-elected and the odds are it will. Then again he didn't really do much more when he was a HoWARd lackey last time - he supported Workchoices, the Tampa fiasco, SIEV X tragedy, Iraq, the treasonable AWB bribes.....never spoke out against any of them.

Coalition broadband: a wireless tower in every street

Under the Coalition Broadband plan our skyline will need to undergo some major modifications to allow for the myriad towers required for the limited wireless broadband technology. Here are some tasteful examples of how they might look.

This one should fit in with our tropical environment.

These would have to be some of Tone's favourites.

More Pics of cleverly disguised Talking Towers HERE

This story from Crikey

The Pyramid Race and Country Fair is on this weekend

http://pyramidrace.com/

Friday Funny - The Four Yorkshiremen

The Pitch From this week's Gruen Transfer

Just in case you haven't seen it.

Those annoying corflutes

It's good to see they are good for something!
Now I would probably vote for someone like that!

Time Warp starring Tony Abbott

Time Trivia

At exactly 06 minutes and 07 seconds after 5 o'clock on August 9th of this year it will be 05:06:07 08/09/10 ~ This will not happen again until the year 3010...

James Cook University Canopy Crane

The JCU Canopy Crane project at Cape Tribulation is set to receive a $ boost if the Gillard Government is re elected. More here from the Rainforest Revelations Blog.

Tony Abbott In: The Fundamentalist Adventures Of Tony Abbott