There has been renewed debate in our local papers lately about the issue of illegal immigrants. I’d like to state my views: Australia has to protect its borders. The Government and the Opposition agree on that and they mostly agree on the methods. Many of the boat people arrivals were economic refugees, who paid others [...]
Web Central Australia
I want to comment here about a company called Web Central and their billing practices. Here’s the background to my story: 1) On March 1, 2004 I purchased and paid for a URL forwarding service from Melbourne IT for www.alpinenews.com.au. The cost was $99, which I now know to be way over the odds. With [...]
Queen’s Baton Relay
The Border Mail newspaper today took up my rant against organisers of the Queen’s Baton Relay for asking interested country people to tell them what suburb and city they live in. The article probably accelerated the official response I received today, which states the web form has been modified. Yes, the “city” field is no [...]
Local government taxation
I’m surprised how little debate there is in Australia about the archaic practices of local government taxation. Hopefully the new Howard Government will tackle tax reform in a serious manner, as people like our local MP Sophie Panopoulos have been urging. If this does occur, I would like to see them work with the states [...]
