Club Troppo

Thirty years ago, when I managed the local credit union I received regular requests ( if memory serves it was called a S263 query) from the Australian Taxation Office to search through financial records in an attempt to find those taxpayers who had not declared significant int...

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I can't resist covering this story from the NT News : Territorians don't mind an orgy and are not embarrassed to use sex toys, survey of sexual habits shows. Sixty four per cent of Territory women and 48 per cent of men admitted to having been in a threesome. Fifty per cent of...

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Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. Apparently the ABC has finally been cowed and beaten by the Right Wing Death Beasts. And I have to confess I've been a (small) part of the problem by occasionally joining the chorus of criticism of Auntie's evident left-wing bias. Of course, if the...

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(via Al Bundy) Currency Lad , a frequent, well read and provocative poster at this and other blogs, has launched out in his own right and started a solo blog. And not before time. He's a welcome addition to the blogosphere, and can be expected to vex the left of the 'sphere on...

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Some readers may have momentarily felt sorry for Prince Charles after reading this story : PRINCE Charles handed over his entire personal fortune to his late ex-wife, Princess Diana, as part of their divorce settlement, his former financial adviser told a British newspaper. Ge...

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Al Bundy has posted an amusing and lengthy shot in the History Wars at his blog. The latest skirmish started with Al posting in my comment box (to this post ) a link to an account in the Oz of events at a meeting of the Australian Historical Association, which discussed variou...

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Here I was, just cruising the blogs when I came upon Al Bundy's latest and, while thinking "he can write a good piece" especially the link to this post by Patrick when who should walk through the door but my beloved with her purse bulging with the well gotten gains of a public...

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As regular readers would know, a young couple that come from the next suburb are currently travelling the world. Every now and then they send me a travelogue which I post to my web site. The latest can be read here . For those who might like to see a wider view of Africa Tarun...

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I can't tell you how disappointed I am that our political leaders have been so badly let down by the intelligence community, not only in the US and UK but in Australia as well . The really tragic thing is that John Howard would clearly have done something completely different...

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Sam "Yobbo" Ward doesn't think much of Qantas. But he probably should thank his lucky stars that Aeroflot isn't our national airline: Two crew members on a domestic Aeroflot flight beat up a passenger who had complained that the flight attendants were drunk, airline spokeswoma...

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I have a confession to make. I've started watching ABC TV Media Watch again, after swearing blind a year or so ago that I'd boycott it because of David Marr's blatant, hypocritical bias. He's no less biased or hypocritical now, but Marr is an amusing, eccentric character in hi...

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Troppo Armadillo is clearly in tune with the zeitgeist. I posted a long article about values and civility several weeks ago. Now I see Don Arthur has also posted a shorter piece on the subject, musing that "deep civility" might be regarded as a core value of classical liberali...

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The second of theTerritory issues I thought worth mentioning (see post immediately below for the first one) is a minor controversy about whether the NT (presumably somewhere in central Australia) will be the site for a Commonwealth low-medium level nuclear waste dump, in the w...

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A couple of current political controversies in the NT might be of some interest to a wider audience. The first is John Howard's announcement yesterday that park entry fees into Kakadu will be scrapped completely from 1 January 2005. At the moment they're $16.25 per head, as Je...

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Christopher Sheil blogs a fascinating viewpoint that seeks to characterise current Australian political progressions in a sweeping ideological overview sense: This era [ neoliberalism of the 1980s ] has in turn given way to an aggressive neoconservative reaction. The reaction...

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This story claims that the Nine Network is about to make drastic personnel changes, especially to its current affairs lineup: Ray Martin and Jana Wendt are among those stars whose positions are under threat, with gardening guru Don Burke also set to be replaced by Jamie Durie....

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What's all this hoo-haa about the Iraqi PM dropping a few insurgents ? They said the 58-year-old prime minister "wanted to send a message to his policemen and soldiers not to be scared if they kill anyone especially, they are not to worry about tribal revenge". What better way...

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I'll leave o thers to report on the match but wanted to say that the game and the result, while not unexpected, could have been made more interesting had the Australian coach been more constructive. I say not unexpected because the world's best attacking team vs the best defen...

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It's granny season in the Top End. Visit any shopping centre and you'll see the oldies shuffling around wasting time, looking after the grandchildren, until their working children finish supporting the unemployed and the military and they can go home to get their fix of the da...

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I've just deleted the "Indiscreet Personal Revelation" post from the database. It was making me feel bad every time I saw it. And it was having an even worse effect on Jen. Not much point in being made unhappy by your own blog. Probably wasn't a good idea to turn my life into...

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