Radio Australia Today Editorial
Electricity: the long fight to get rid of it
14 December 2010
It’s happened at last. Long last.
NSW premier Kristina Keneally has finally achieved what her two more electorally successful predecessors couldn’t do, and privatised the NSW electricity grid.
Burma and the difficult art of humour
22 November 2010
There’s not a lot that’s funny in Burma right now.
Even with the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week, the mood has been cautious. That’s because the junta that has been running the land for fifty years has just won an election. All but the most optimistic would call the election a sham, but the junta is calling a win a win and probably feels pretty self-righteous right now.
This doesn’t mean the junta doesn’t have a glass jaw, as the bizarre episode I’m about tell you about might prove.
Hillary’s Oopsy moment
9 November 2010
High level international visits rarely go terribly awry.
That’s because visiting dignitaries are careful not to say anything that could be offensive to their hosts, or embarrassing to their own leader back home.
Cluster Bombs just got banned. Or did they?
30 July 2010
There are times when smaller countries can take it up to the big guns.
They might not win, but they can try.
That’s what’s happened with the new ban on Cluster Bombs.
More things than you ever dreamt of. Photos from the deep!
19 July 2010
The Great Barrier Reef project has uncovered the most amazing creatures, creatures that you certainly will never have seen before.
We spoke to the University of Queensland’s Justin Marshall, the lead researcher Great Barrier Reef project. He says the project was aiming to uncover new species. They’ve definitely done that.
Follow the link below and have a look at the photos. You seriously won’t believe that we share the planet with such fabulous creatures.
