2015.07.14 Quaker Grannies

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. - Charles Bukowski


Show Notes


RIP

Omar Sharif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Sharif#Family_and_personal_relationships

Satoru Iwata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

Alby Schultz

Tenzin Delek Rinpoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Delek_Rinpoche http://news.yahoo.com/tibetan-lama-tenzin-delek-rinpoche-dies-chinese-prison-071515369.html

PMs of Oz

Number 22: John Malcolm Fraser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Fraser#Bibliography http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3003441/The-night-Malcolm-Fraser-lost-trousers-seedy-Memphis-hotel-popular-prostitutes-drug-dealers.html

NEWS

Watermark/Shenhua/Barnaby's bullshit

Coal revenues in Queensland http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/14/queensland-budget-papers-reveal-plummeting-revenue-from-coal

Live exports and Indo http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-14/barnaby-joyce-searching-cattle-markets-indonesia-slashes-imports/6617430?section=business

Greece/Grexit/Agreexment

Ivan Milat tour of Belanglo http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-14/belanglo-tour-of-ivan-milat-killing-ground-slammed/6617660 http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/belanglo-state-forest-extreme-terror-tour-angers-families-of-murder-victims-20150713-giadmu

Alan Morison, journo in Thailand http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/06/30/australian-journalist-faces-jail-under-thailands-troubling-justice-system/

Five times more spent by Australia on immigration detention than by UN Refugee Agency for all operations in SE Asia http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-14/cost-of-offshore-processing-united-nations-fact-check/6609764

Budget time in Bananaland http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-14/queensland-budget-2015-curtis-pitt-delivers-economic-plan/6618732

Wargames http://www.marines.mil/News/NewsDisplay/tabid/3258/Article/608198/amphibious-operations-storm-ashore-for-talisman-sabre-2015.aspx http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-14/special-forces-soldiers-in-black-hawks-make-mock-attack-darwin/6617346

Quaker Grannies (including Jo Valentine) http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/grandmothers-arrested-over-talisman-sabre-protest-in-central-queensland-20150714-gibl09.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-14/quaker-grannies-plead-guilty-over-peaceful-tea-party-protest/6618944

Dishonourable Mention for George Brandis http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/divorce-fee-rise-sneaks-back-in-despite-senate-ruling-20150714-gibyil.html

WEATHER

Antarctic vortex

Climate change is serious http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/treat-climate-change-as-seriously-as-national-security-global-report-finds-20150713-gibjgr.html

SPORT

Cricket http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-3160734/Brad-Haddin-miss-second-Ashes-Test-Darren-Lehmann-considers-handing-gloves-keeper-Peter-Nevill.html

Hirdy took a tumble http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/14/essendon-coach-james-hird-hospitalised-after-nasty-fall-from-bike

W League back on the tele, kinda http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/14/w-league-set-for-new-broadcast-deal

Bye bye, Watto

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