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April 21, 2008
Hail to the elite?

Does anyone else find the weekend Australian gabfest for 1,002 of the country's best and brightest disturbing? I see three main problems:

1. Out of population of 20-odd million, why are the ideas of this select group important enough for a government to devote time to?

2. Isn't it the job of political parties and governments to come up with these ideas, rather than outsourcing them?

3. Isn't there a touch of irony that it's the Labor Party that's organised this elitist exercise? And surely the biggest irony is that in this modern democracy we are getting government policy by unelected committee?

But what do I know, I wasn't invited.

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April 08, 2008
Vegemite-gate

Tragedy strikes in Hong Kong:

Australians in Hong Kong are finding expatriate life harder to cope with due to a shortage of one of their favourite foods - Vegemite, a news report said today.

Supplies of the popular spread have run out across the city of 6.9 million, where tens of thousands of Australian expatriate business people, diplomats and their families live...British-made yeast extract Marmite, which looks similar to Vegemite but has a different taste, is still available in Hong Kong but many Australians refuse to accept it as a substitute.

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

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