Radio Australia Today Editorial
Archive for February, 2010
Keynes versus Hayek, the YouTube sensation
3 February 2010
My, education has come a long way since the days when Mr Keast in 6th class used chalk, blackboards, dusters and a Gestentner copying machine to teach us that Tirana was the capital of Albania.
Mr Keast would never have heard of the internet, nor would he have known of hip-hop.
Barack Obama to come to Australia
2 February 2010
One of my most embarrassing moments was on the day after Barack Obama was elected President of the U.S. I was walking in to work early in the morning, bleary eyed after watching the election coverage, and I saw a colleague.
“We’ve got a black President!” I said.
Quick as a whip, the colleague replied, “I didn’t know Australia had a president.”
I wasn’t the only one to get caught up in the story. Opinion pollsters have said that the president is popular here in Australia, more popular than he is in the United States.
Haiti Adoption arrests. A Stolen Generation?
1 February 2010
They work fast, these adopt-a-baby people.
Fast, but not necessarily thoroughly.
On Friday, two and a half weeks after the Haiti earthquake, police arrested 10 members of a US Christian group at the Haiti border with the Dominican Republic. It’s alleged they tried to leave the country with 33 children survivors.
On the weekend the five men and five women were charged with child trafficking.
