Tuesday 2 November 2010

Pssst! Did you hear the news?


Well, we can knock out Gillard, Roxon, Wong and Macklin because they are a wrong gender fit for that rather strange rumour which mentions cabinet minister and inappropriate behaviour in the same sentence and very little else.
That leaves Swan, Rudd, Evans, Crean, Smith, Albanese, Conroy, Carr, Garrett, McClelland, Ludwig, Burke, Ferguson, Bowen, Emerson and Combet.
Now that’s so wide a field for speculation that it’s a wonder any journalist bothered to spend time at the keyboard, even if you throw in a hint of leadership ambitions.
But then at least one anonymous journo is aware of the flimsy nature of his piece because he justifies it by saying that the news is not what the minister did or didn’t do but that the supposed internal party response (to what can only be called phantom actions) represents instability within the Gillard Government and his newspaper’s rendition of the gossip is in the public interest.
I kid you not. These days an article containing no name, no action, no time or place is relevant news in the public interest.
G’arn!

150th Melbourne Cup 2nd November 2010 - full field

The first Tuesday in November. One of life’s sterling traditions………

MELBOURNE CUP 2010 Group One Race – 3200 metres – field of 24 - 3pm start


Melbourne Cup horses:

1 SHOCKING Mark Kavanagh / Michael Rodd
2 CAMPANOLOGIST (USA) Saeed Bin Suroor / Kerrin McEvoy

3 SO YOU THINK (NZ) Bart Cummings / Steven Arnold
4 ZIPPING Robert Hickmott / Nicholas Hall
5 ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE (GB) William J Knight / Glen Boss
6 MR MEDICI (IRE) Peter Ho / Darren Beadman

7 SHOOT OUT John Wallace / Corey Brown
8 AMERICAIN (USA) Alain de Royer Dupre / Gerald Mosse
9 TOKAI TRICK (JPN) Kenji Nonaka / Shinji Fujita

10 BUCCELLATI (GB) Tony Noonan / Steven King
11 DESCARADO (NZ) Gai Waterhouse / Nash Rawiller
12 HARRIS TWEED (NZ) Murray & Bjorn Baker / Brad Rawiller
13 MANIGHAR (FR) Luca Cumani / Damien Oliver

14 MASTER O’REILLY (NZ) Danny O’Brien / Vlad Duric
15 MONACO CONSUL (NZ) Michael Moroney / Craig Williams

16 PROFOUND BEAUTY (IRE) Dermot K Weld / Patrick Smullen
17 ZAVITE (NZ) Anthony Cummings / Michael Walker

18 BAUER (IRE) Luca Cumani / Chris Munce
19 HOLBERG (UAE) Saeed Bin Suroor / Frankie Dettori
20 PRECEDENCE (NZ) Bart Cummings / Blake Shinn
21 RED RULER (NZ) John Sargent / Mark Du Plessis

22 LINTON Robert Hickmott / Brett Prebble
23 ONCE WERE WILD Gai Waterhouse / Jim Cassidy

24 MALUCKYDAY (NZ) Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes / Luke Nolen
{http://www.blogger.com/www.horseraceaustralia.com/melbourne-cup/melbourne-cup-2010}

Sportingbet.com.au/MelbourneCup

www.TAB.com.au/MelbourneCup

www.Centrebet.com/MelbourneCup

FINAL FIELD UPDATE:
Bauer has been scratched

Monday 1 November 2010

Westlawn Group thinks you can take it with you?



Advertisement found on realcommercial.com.au on 28 October 2010
Click on image to enlarge


A link to this online advertisement was sent to me recently with the comment;
It’s difficult enough to negotiate this narrow part of Yamba Fair now – it doesn’t need any further hazards.


In its relentless pursuit of profit the Westlawn Group is once more trying to wring more rental dollars from finite floor space.

Not content with reducing the number of parking spaces as part of its Yamba Fair expansion program, now it appears that it intends to convert a relatively narrow concourse (operating at capacity during local peak shopping periods) into something of an obstacle course for the elderly, mothers with prams and those in wheelchairs/mobility scooters as they compete for right of way past this 'kiosk'.

One has to wonder if this relentless profit hunger at the expense of consumers indicates that the Group believes that directors and shareholders can actually take their profits with them when they go to that free-market utopia in the sky.

Kirrily is the Grafton Jacaranda Festival Queen in 2010




Congratulations to Kirrily Tough who this morning is waking to her third day as Grafton's Jacaranda Festival Queen.

Kirrily says of herself on the 76th Jacaranda Festival website;

I am 28 years old, married with 3 adorable small children. I am the only daughter of Ron & Petra Munro and was born here in Grafton attending Grafton Infants, Primary and High School, only leaving at age 18 to work on the Gold Coast before returning in 2006 to raise my family.

Every other contestant in the queen and princess categories also deserves a round of applause, for their efforts in both promoting the region and festival as well as adding beauty, personality and a sense of fun to festival functions.