Ms Bernhardt said the 15-month calendar had errors in October 2006, with the month starting on Saturday not Sunday, and May 2007 - which starts on a Tuesday not Monday as it should.

The $20 million arena spectacular, about the brilliant career and tangled love life of performer Peter Allen, will keep Jackman busy until the end of the month. Producer Ben Gannon had suggested the $24 million musical could go on to the US for a tour of major cities.

The payment of lawyers on a time basis does not provide an incentive for the efficient conduct of trials. And finally, efforts to reform the litigation system have systematically been sabotaged and wrecked by lawyers. [As Napoleon said, the administration of justice is too important to be left to lawyers.]

Arthur Marriot, QC
The Sydney Morning Herald
18 November 2005

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Mr Chipp was born in the Melbourne suburb of Northgate on August 21, 1925, and educated at Melbourne University.

The genitals of polar bears in east Greenland are apparently dwindling in size due to industrial pollutants.

Sonne and his colleagues looked at formaldehyde-preserved genitals from 55 male and 44 female east Greenland polar bears, collected from 1999 to 2002 by about 30 polar bear subsistence hunters regulated by the Greenland government.

We've got forty forty-fours full of foam beads
Welded to the sides of our big Mack
We've got waterproofed doors and a well greased donk
And a Mercury outboard on the back
We're going truckin' in the Carribean

SCHOOLS should consider dropping restrictive blazers and dresses from their uniforms so students can exercise freely, an obesity expert says.

D.H. Killeffer had a dire warning for gasoline-greedy Americans. The chemical engineer had crunched the numbers -- he compared the country's production of crude oil with its thirst for gasoline. "Estimates based on the most complete data now available place the end of our gasoline supply between ten and twenty years, with the odds in favor of ten rather than twenty," Killeffer, secretary of the New York division of the American Chemical Society, wrote in the New York Times.
The year was 1925.

MADONNA and her husband, Guy Ritchie, have been lobbying the British Government and nuclear industry over a magic cleaning solution.

Brown said the proposal - that a planet is basically anything round orbiting the sun - is too broad and amounts to "No Ice Ball Left Behind," cheapening the solar system.

• I went in on the 55 tram and was expecting to take a tram up Collins Street from Williams Street to the Parliamentary Precinct where the Park Hyatt has quite stealthily hidden itself. I manged to walk all the way (at the southern end of peak hour) without a single tram overtaking me. I enjoyed the walk but I should have been there earlier. "Thanks" go out to the minister for dodgy how-to-vote cards.
• The food was flagged by the Lamp folk as being a bit "unidentifiable". That is being kind. Why don't they just put plates of party pies and sausage rolls (and maybe even the odd quichey thing or asparagus roll for the sheilas) onto the table and forget about the pretension of "dinner"?
• Back onto the public transport topic, my homeward cab driver (Ahmad not Ahmed: was this just a strange romanisation or what?) hit the button on my arrival at home with the meter at $20.10. I looked in my wallet and found a $20 and he said "don't worry about the .10¢". I was shocked and had to reach into my pockets to find a few gold coins for him.

Highly-placed British Intelligence sources have revealed how MI5 and Scotland Yard were able to foil the attempted midair destruction of several passenger jets headed from the UK to America this week. Minutes before takeoff, undercover agents surreptitiously switched the terrorists' bottles of liquid explosives with gallon jugs of Tuscan Whole Milk.

• The male partner spending time in a sauna immediately prior to conception may cause brain tumors in the offspring.
• A common ingredient in shampoo may inhibit brain development in a fetus.
• Two scientists (NB NOT engineers) think that we may be able to cool the oceans to tame hurricanes.
• 3-5 yo girls' consumption of french fries may increase their chances of breast cancer in later life.

Personally, I don’t know what all the shouting is about. Global warming is great. Granted, maybe it isn’t really happening, and if it is there are strong reasons to doubt that humans have anything to do with it. But if the world is warming, I say “bravo.” People in most parts of the globe should have no objection to a warmer, wetter climate. If the aliens were watching they’d conclude we were making our planet more habitable on purpose.

Overall this episode is like a minor key version of the Ern Malley affair, with the difference that Ern Malley had a great deal more literary talent than Patrick White.

Even Monty Python could not have scripted Senator Ian Campbell's decision to protect one theoretical parrot every 1000 years and block a major infrastructure project in Victoria.
The Environment Minister's decision is absurd and must be reversed.
Last week, the Herald Sun revealed that on March 10, Senator Campbell's own department recommended the project be approved and found "no direct evidence of any impact on the orange bellied parrot at Bald Hills".
In spite of this, the minister has continued to bluster.

Ruckelshaus became the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s first Administrator when the agency was formed in December 1970. During his tenure he oversaw a three-month hearing on DDT, after which he simply ignored the recommendations of scientists and instituted a politically-inspired DDT ban.

Jesse Adam Macbeth (born Jesse Adam Al-Zaid,[1] 1984) falsely claimed to be an Army Ranger and veteran of the Iraq War. He lied in alternative media interviews that he and his unit routinely committed war crimes in Iraq. Macbeth began to attract significant attention after the release of a video containing his allegations; transcripts of the video were made in English and Arabic. According to the U.S. Army, there is no record of Macbeth being a Ranger, [2] or serving in a combat unit: he was discharged from the service after having been declared unfit or unsuitable for the Army, or both, before he could complete basic training.

• How will The Age explain its massive blunder?
• Will Media Watch mention it tonight?
• Is the Pastor to be put out to paddock?
• How long before an Age apologist uses the phrase “fake but accurate”?