kahmelb | August 28, 2009
Jaysis I’m a cynical bugger at times.
The lovely lady who sells coffee down at my train station of a morning, and is therefore solely responsible for me surviving each AM commute, just told me there’s a community meeting around our way this weekend. And as usual for ‘community meetings’ in our tree-burbia when summer is [...]
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Tags: back burning, Black Saturday, bushfire, controlled burns, fuel redution burning, Victoria, wild fire
kahmelb | August 20, 2009
Bushfires kill. In case you hadn’t noticed. Considering that in February last year even the population of Edinburgh – and I’m talking the cosmopolitan northern hemisphere city known for snow and cold, not the fictional middle-Melbourne suburb on an aging local soap – was well aware of this fact, saturated as even the media on [...]
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Tags: Black Saturday, Bushfires, February 2009, Firestorm, Royal Commission, Wildfire
kahmelb | August 10, 2009
Hands up all those who didn’t laugh hysterically last week when Ol’ Uncle Rupert started talking about “quality journalism” and his plans to make readers of News Corp websites pay to access it? Even the Huff Post got in on the act with a headline which read: “Murdoch to charge for news online ‘if we [...]
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Tags: internet, journalism, media, News Corporation, newspapers, paywall, technology