Aus Budget Word Clouds - Pre and During a Recession
Stolen from Crikey.com.
I pay a fortune in subscriptions so small theft is justified.
Comparative Word Clouds - 2008 / 2009 Budget speeches.
Budget Speech Cloud 2008 Pre Recession Good Times
Budget Speech Word Cloud 2009 During Recession Bad Times
Tickled my fancy.
Update: Prompted by Miles, I found the ABC Budget Word Clouds. They use Wordle to generate comparative clouds between the Budget speech and the Budget Reply.
The Price of Australian Gold Soars
Going for Gold but at what cost?
Taxpayers have forked out $16.7 million through direct federal grants for each of the 13 gold medals won by Australia's Olympic team in Beijing.
For a country of 20 odd million people who bitch about taxes, petrol prices and Government waste at every opportunity, we seem more than willing to fork out a lot of money for an Olympic Gold Medal.
The individual and team performances are incredible and deserve generous support. However it's also valid to ask where the dollar pissing competition ends.
Pre Olympic games in Canberra
In a well planned show of love for China, thousands of Chinese students descended on Canberra with a simple objective... drown out any pro Tibet activity.
This was not a spontaneous outpouring of Olympic love.
I drove she who knows best to work in the city at 7 am and watched organised groupings marching to their designated locations along the torch relay route.
China has a frail sense of confidence if it still believes sheer numbers are the solution to their issues.
At least they had no counter to the sky writer slowly composing Free Tibet across the blue morning sky.
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The new Liberal Leader
As usual, after an election drubbing, the defeated party votes in a new leader.
Guess which one they picked.
Yes, the one on the right, Brendon_Nelson.
As Defence Minister, his only claim to fame was to the loose the body of Jacob_Kovco in one of saddest cockups of Australia’s role in the Iraq war.
He’s an ambitious twerp with no deep convictions beyond his own personal ambitions. The earring has gone but the pretentious poser remains.
Image source: Crikey.com
The Blonde, the Cop and the bad bad Web
Filed under: Desperate election stunts.
Source: AustralianIT
Without prior notice or discussion, Australia's Communication Minister (the irony of that title), Helen Coonan, today tabled a Bill in Federal Parliament that hands the Federal Police Commissioner the power to decide what Web content is crime or terrorism related and to demand that ISP's ban such sites.
Australia already has overview of criminal or terrorism web content via departments such as ACMA, ASIO and the AFP. One wonders what those departments think about being usurped by a dope like Mick Keelty.
Keelty is a submissive public servant with a record of high profile fuck ups.
Where would individuals such as Richard Neville or the Chaser's war on Apec stand under the scrutiny of Keelty, after making him and his mates look like complete fuckwits on many occasions?
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