Footy fans face a ban on calling umpires "white maggots".
AFL Umpires Association chief Bill Deller has called for spectators who use the time-honoured sledge at any AFL match to be thrown out.
The Gabba has ruled fans who yell the age-old term at Brisbane Lions' games will be evicted instantly.

No surprise that Bill Deller would instigate such draconian measures. The worst umpire in the games history and probably who the term was devised for.

The more demand there is the more volume will be produced and the greater the volume the more cost-effective it becomes to manufacture and supply products to the market, allowing companies to be more price competitive.

[W]e were surprised to hear that Leah Vader is a lesbian. She seemed so happy with Han Solo!

But overall, government schools receive a higher level of government funding than private schools. Sixty-seven per cent of students are in government schools that receive 75 per cent of total taxpayer funding. And under the Howard Government's funding formula, which is based on income demographics for the school catchment, the poorest non-government schools can receive a maximum of 70 per cent of the taxpayer funding provided per government school student, with a sliding scale down to a minimum of 13.7 per cent.

British researchers have stated that after hours of experimentation they have come up with a recipe for the perfect bacon sandwich

Contra the hype, Rudd speaking Chinese is not an advantage at higher diplomatic levels, for it just opens the door to endless dissembling and posturing which is traditional Chinese politics, and for plenty of smoke and mirrors at the Australian end.
Like any foreign Mandarin speaker, Rudd will have a ‘Chinese name’ which he will use to introduce himself to a Chinese speaker. (Mine is ‘Bian Xiao Xia’). A properly selected name has a subtle poetic meaning which gives the native conversant vast opportunity to expound obscure hermeneutics. So any conversation will go like this:

‘Greetings, my name is X-Y-Z and I am aspiring to be Prime Minister of Australia..’
“You speak excellently (even if you don’t), where did you learn? … Who was your teacher?…
Your name means ‘flower of the new spring’ and reminds me of my native province… have you been to Hai Nan? It is a beautiful place….”

And so on. Bearing in mind also that Chinese believe in ‘Wu-wei’, which means that the higher status the person the slower and more portentously they speak every syllable [the Emperor ideally was not supposed to speak at all, Wu-wei - ‘accomplishing without acting’ (by pure virtuousness)]. So the conversation will take an hour or so to cover a few preliminaries.
Since it’s basically a stunt to get elected, what’s the bet that Rudd is tempted to go to China, talk a lot of meaningless platitudes, then give us a distorted account of what was discussed?
After last week’s account of his attempt at press manipulation, I wouldn’t be surprised.

[Referring to David Hicks] what he repeatedly, voluntarily, freely said in letters to his father and elsewhere about what he did, and the fact is, it is just beyond any question that he trained with al Qaida which is responsible for the deaths of more than a hundred Australians including some probably watching right now.