1. How are they going to make it dark during the day?
2. How is a northern trajectory from Phillip Island taking them over the San Remo Bridge? That would be east.
3. How has the population got to "More than a million" if the bridge is such a hazard?
4. If the bridge lights are as unnecessary as is suggested by this action, why not have them off every night?
5. How come these extraordinarily stupid birds only mistake bridge lights for the moon? Why not normal street lights?
6. Who writes reads this nonsense, anyway?

Dear Mr Bissett

Thank you for your email of 19 March 2005.

Thank you for pointing out the error in our story. Immediate steps were taken
to correct the transcript on the website and remove the audio link. The
reporter has been counselled and acknowledges the error and the need for
absolute accuracy in reporting.

The story itself did deal with many of the issues you raise, especially the
retrospectivity and lack of discretion in the regulations.

Thank you again for raising this matter with the ABC.

Yours sincerely

Kieran Doyle
ABC Audience and Consumer Affairs


>To: currentaffairs@your.abc.net.au
>Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:48:46 +1100
>Subject: Andrew Phillips was not CONVICTED of a sex offence
>Priority: normal
>X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21a)
>
>Attention: PM producers
>
>On PM last night it was reported: "a teacher who had to leave his job because
>he was convicted of a sex offence 13 years ago". It is a key issue in this
>debate that no conviction was recorded in 1992.
>See http://www.theage.com.au/handheld/articles/2005/03/16/1110913662789.html
>amongst others.
>
>I think this is an important point because the legislation appears to me to
>be a case of retrospective gefingerpoken in our justice system by the Bracks
>government. That makes this sacking a much more substantial issue in my
>opinion.
>
>-- 

>R. J. (George) Bissett
>Blog: http://tramtown.blogspot.com/

[Benedict XVI is] according to this list, the first pope since Adrian Dedal (Adrian VI, 1522-23) whose surname ends with a consonant.

The jaws of life would not cut through the marine grade stainless steel, so firefighters had to use an air powered hacksaw to cut him free.

Ms Delahunty said the new Recital Centre would be ranked among the world's best for uncompromised acoustics, architecture and the calibre of the artistic program that will be presented.

The play opens on a dark and stormy night with a cabinet minister stabbing a man to death, in self-defence. That clearly signals to an audience that we have leapt into fiction.

"Our Government is turning us into a kind of cultural Werribee,” she complained.

My home town—slandered! Shut up, witch!

No, Mr Beazley, the culture wars do matter

David Iliff told theage.com.au about eight police cars surrounded the tram, which was at the intersection of Glenferrie Road and Wellington Street, and carrying about 10 passengers.
"A number of police officers had guns drawn and were yelling at the boy inside the tram to open the doors," he said.

The boy, from Sunshine, was taken to Boroondara police station and charged with nine offences, including two counts each of theft of trams and conduct endangering life.

1. How did he get obsessed with trams if he lived in Sunshine. He'd have to take a fairly lengthy trip on other public transport to get to the nearest tramline (either the 57 or the 82).
2. I'm still not getting this theft thing. In order to prove theft you would have to have some sort of assumption that the boy could in some sense take posession of somebody else's property. This is hardly even true in a short term sense.
3. Eight police cars and guns drawn? These are seriously scared police.
4. 
   I reckon they've got the Luna Park location about a hundred metres north of true. That tramline runs across the north face of Luna Park.
5. And again with map trivialities... have they found the True Source of the Yarra River, just inside the grounds of Scotch College? What is the Kennett connection?

Police were called in to break up a fight between 100 right-wing recruits and a left-wing faction, the newspaper said.
One submission said supporters of a political hopeful, David Baynie, showed their pistols to intimidate others.

1. Make sure your children are taller than 120cm
2. Make sure your children are 12 or under
3. Make sure your children have no obviously restrictive medical conditions
4. Go early in the week during official Victorian school holidays
5. Take your own drinks or snack food (house stuff is not prohibitively expensive, though)
6. Make sure your children are aware that they may not get a ride on the Scenic Railway (manage disappointment)
7. Arrive at about 10:45am so you get a park nearby (or do the right thing and catch a tram)
8. Take gold coins so you can buy a parking ticket ($2.20/hr) or a tram ticket for that matter
9. At the opening of the gates, make a beeline for the ticket box
10. Buy a $23.95 all day ticket for each child
11. Head straight for the Scenic Railway queue to get a ride before it breaks down
12. After the Scenic Railway ride choose any other ride, their queues are short

YOU MAY CALL THEM PATHETIC GEEK NERD-O LOSERS
But this blog calls them people who are lining up for a movie seven weeks in advance at the wrong theater.

Mr Young said the Thomson Dam was full and overflowing when the continuous release of water began on November 11, 1996. The water release was stopped when the dam was 75.4 per cent full on October 7 the following year. Today it is just 34.7 per cent full.

He estimated that the amount of biological particles in the air, worldwide, annually is 1,000 teragrams. A teragram is somewhat more than a million tons.
By comparison, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environment Program, estimated biological particles at 56 teragrams, compared with 3,300 teragrams of sea salt and 2,000 teragrams of mineral dust.

Well, I suppose it is possible that the pumping is only over a short rise to provide water to an existing power station making use of a greater fall than the rise required to get the water there. The article did say that it made little commercial sense and that it seemed beneficial only after the convoluted system of carbon credits and so on were applied. There is also the possibility that the "pumping" would involve using slave labour to carry the water bucket by bucket and then, as everyone knows, the cost is zero.
Of course, the whole "clean green" thing is an advertising slogan without basis in fact. A couple of coats of lead-based "apple-green" paint would keep the place just as green.

Nanny is very concerned about road safety, so much so in fact that she has instructed her law enforcement officials to make sure that as many motorists are possible are fined for speeding, dangerous driving and the like.
We therefore must commend the Cleveland police for their exceptional vigilance, on Nanny's behalf, in stopping a vehicle with a broken brake light.
The vehicle was an ambulance, just arriving at the A&E department of Hartlepool hospital, with an emergency patient on board.

This black comedy by Australia's Nobel Prize-winning writer Patrick White is his first published play and great expressionist drama – never before performed in Melbourne.

The thought of the characters in the game world, forbidden to speak to their enemies, yet finding a way to communicate by going outside the bounds of their own reality, would make a story worthy of Philip K Dick.

It's the height of impertinence for a government department -- which, rumour has it, is chock-a-block full of lesbians -- to decide that the lifestyle which many of their number have embraced is deserving of a taxpayer-funded plug before an audience of six-year-olds.