Radio Australia Today Editorial
Archive for February, 2010
The Melbourne Formula One. We’ll be there.
26 February 2010
Mark Webber, thrilled after winning his maiden Formula One race last year.
It all starts again for him, and the F1, in Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit next month, and we’ll be there in the build-up to the race, interviewing drivers, officials and fans.
Hummer bites the dust
25 February 2010
We had some breaking news this morning that the Hummer brand of cars is to be no more.
General Motors in the U.S. says that its negotiations with a Chinese company to buy Hummer have failed. GM had been dealing with China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co to sell the company.
Your Water or a Life.
24 February 2010
Here’s a quote from a new book, a quote that might be a wake-up call for anybody living in a land of plenty. It says:
Do you have a bottle of water or a can of soft drink on the table beside you as you read this book? If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of a tap, you have money to spend on things you don’t really need. Around the world a billion people struggle to live each day on less than you paid for that drink.”
That’s the opening paragraph of Peter Singer’s new book: The Life You Can Save. Acting Now to End World Poverty..
Men At Work’s Down Under a rip-off? Don’t think so.
5 February 2010
It might say something about my ears, but I can’t hear it myself.
A Federal Court judge has ruled that a tiny part of the Men At Work hit actually infringed copyright by incorporating a single bar out of a classic Australian tune, Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree.
People with good musical ears tell me that the line is in there, in a flute part about a minute or so into the song. Maybe why I couldn’t get it is partially because it is a counter melody being fluted under the main tune. Or maybe it’s because my ears are diminished somewhat because of a lifetime of playing drums.
Skippy’s dad dies
4 February 2010
If you followed the exploits of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, you’d know that this first Australian superhero lived on a bush park. You’d also know that she had an unique ability to click-click-click her mouth, and all the actors around her would translate this into news that a group of escaped prisoners were in the park and were planning to rob a local bank disguised as Amercian businessmen and using sawn-off rifles concealed inside their overcoats, and that it was due to happen at 2.15 on Thursday afternoon.
