National days today

Armenia Saudi Arabia

People on Fire news this week

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-20/police-officer-set-on-fire-in-molotov-cocktail-attack/5757700

Other Fire news …

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/09/23/4092406.htm

The Game

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/19/sydney-dawn-counter-terrorism-raids-why-now-and-why-so-few-answers

Paying for infrastructure twice http://www.smh.com.au/business/dorc-rort-the-art-of-getting-energy-infrastructure-paid-for-twice-20140919-10jega.html

Demolishing a train line in Newcastle http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/newcastles-cbd-rail-line-to-close-the-governments-reasons

Bananaland

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/currumbin-mosque-rejected-by-gold-coast-council/5747028

G20 finance ministers meeting in Cairns, omnipresent security

The Feds

Jacqui Lambie

Tony's visit to Arnhem Land http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/20/-sp-tony-abbott-vist-indigenous-nt-communities

Polls show Tony is more popular after terror raids

Climate rallies just feed Tony's student politician: "Fuck the opposition, they're socialists!"

John Howard 'embarrassed' by failed WMD intelligence on Iraq http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/john-howard-embarrassed-by-failed-wmd-intelligence-on-iraq-20140922-10k5uz.html

World

New Zealand election

Scotland

91 lashes and six months for happy dance: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/iranian-pharrell-williams-fans-happy-video-sentenced

SPORT

Football

FFAAaaaark Cup

AFL

Hawks Swans GF, as predicted by McCool, we are quite the prediction specialists. Not happy w favouritism however.

“Non, j’ne regrette rien… ...je… ....ne regrette rien” Essendon court case ruling: Jimbo and the Bombers go down; what a waste of time… http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/sep/19/essendon-verdict-judge-exposes-the-clubs-weak-and-frivolous-case

F1(Motorsport)

Ricciardo gets third in Singapore

League

Despite the moral complexities of following the Bulldogs, Gob’s Granny would have been delighted by Bulldogs sneaking home in ET on the we-end...

Miscellaneous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BentleighGreensSC

http://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/gold-coast-cops

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle,NewSouthWales#1989Newcastle_earthquake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BentleighGreensSC

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-09-17/sanderson

(et cetera, inter alia)