Australia's triple tax on petrol

Seeded on Thu Aug 3, 2006 7:43 AM EDT (Australian News Network)

This article mentions two of the taxes on petrol in Australia: fuel excise (38c/litre) and GST (about 13c/litre with petrol at $1.37 at the moment).

business, prices, taxes, australia, petrol, fuel-excise

[Tour de France-Doping] Who will win? Who cares...

Seeded on Sat Jul 1, 2006 1:12 AM EDT (Australian News Network)

Thanks to the bizarre process of announcing suspected doping results on the eve of the greatest cycling event in the sporting calendar, none of the top 5 cyclists from 2005 will be competing this year.

sports, doping, cycling, tour-de-france, lance-armstrong, jan-ullrich, ivan-basso

Google Ads only for Ebay and Amazon

Seeded on Fri May 26, 2006 1:32 PM EDT (PBS)

John X Cringley has been around for years; first as one of Apple's earliest employees and then as an incredibly insightful technology journalist.

google, technology, amazon, ad-words, cringley, john-cringley, john-x-cringley

Government eases laws on copyright

Seeded on Sat May 13, 2006 11:55 AM EDT (Australian News Network)

I don't follow international copyright law changes but this has to be an important legal precident: Australians will be able to legally copy music onto digitial music players (iPods etc) and will be able to tap TV and radio for the purposes of satire and parody.

entertainment, tv, music, australia, ipod, copyright, legal, mp3, satire, digital-music

WORLD RECORD: Nightwatchman scores 201

Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:02 AM EDT (Australian News Network)

Incredible! Many world class batsmen play their entire life and never score a Test match double century.

sports, bangladesh, australia, world-record, cricket, centuries, double-centuries, jason-gillespie

It's our Internet, not yours

Seeded on Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:43 AM EDT (torrentfreak.com)

ISP and Internet users are not friends. The former wants to charge the latter as much as possible for the lowest cost. That latter - us - just wants to use the internet any old way we please.

technology, tv, download, encryption, movies, downloads, downloading, azureus, torrent, bandwidth

1000 runs in a day? I hope not.

Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:40 PM EST

Last week, no cricket side had ever scored more than 400 runs in a single one-day international (ODI) match. On the weekend, both Australia and South Africa did it. So the question is... Do we want more? Or rather, do we really want more games with 800 runs?

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sports, australia, south-africa, world-record, cricket, shane-warne, glenn-mcgrath, barry-richards, steve-waugh

WORLD RECORD: 872 runs in one day

Seeded on Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:52 PM EST (Australian News Network)

No team in international one-day cricket has ever scored 400 runs in an innings; ever, and yet today two teams did it; one after the other.

sports, australia, south-africa, world-record, cricket

Ex-Googler: "No idea why anyone buys Google shares"

Seeded on Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:23 AM EST (Xooglers)

"...it has always been a bit of a mystery to me why anyone bought Google's stock, let alone paid $470 a share for it not so long ago.", says ex-Google employee, and blog author on Xooglers, Ron.

google, business, wall-street, nasdaq, shares, xoogler, over-priced

Extra $3000 First Home Owners Grant in Australia - The Advertiser

Seeded on Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:28 AM EST (Australian News Network)

The state governments are not reducing their stamp duties on real estate fast enough for the Federal government, perhaps? Or is this an attempt to purchase the first home buyer/first-time voter at the next Federal election?

business, homes, australia, real-estate, property, liberal-party, realestate, first-home-owners-grant, fhog