Radio Australia Today Editorial
East Timor has bad news for Julia
8 July 2010
It only took a couple of days for Julia’s Gillard’s big asylum seeker fix to turn into a headache. The new PM was hoping to have the asylum seeker issue sorted by the end of this week, with the centrepiece announced two days ago. It was for Australia to set up, in partnership with other countries in the region, a processing centre in East Timor.
The trouble was that she had not told the East Timor government about it, having just held preliminary discussions with the country’s president, Jose Ramos-Horta.
Today we spoke to a senior East Timor official who said he was speaking for many in the party in saying the processing centre was wrong for his country at this time.
An apology from a football tragic
5 July 2010
Football tragics never apologise.
They never apologise because they know everything there is to know about football. When a player, under the threat of being pummelled from fourteen gorillas, decides to side-step to the right, the football tragic will scream that he should’ve stepped to the left.
Whales to save the world. Sorry about that, Japan.
16 June 2010
The new saviour of the planet in its fight against climate change is the Sperm whale. Actually, it’s the Sperm whale’s poo.
East Timor: Stories that need to be told
11 June 2010
I’ve written a few books, some of which have been published, and I can tell you the power of telling a story, of seeing it in print, of knowing that it is out there for other people to read, is a very powerful thing indeed.
If you are in a country as young but as historically intriguing as East Timor, there are plenty of stories to be told.
Now those of you in East Timor can tell your story.
Time and chatter sinking the Pacific
7 June 2010
There’s been a flurry among climate change deniers over the last five days, with new evidence that some Pacific islands are actually expanding in land mass, apparently contradicting the view that rising sea waters are about to spell the islands’ doom.
Commentators have jumped on the findings to claim that the islands, like Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are proof that human-caused climate change is a load of bunkum.
But are they right?
