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Fuel price watchdogs and motoring bodies have been arguing that increased competition – not regulation – is the best way to keep prices down for motorists. Hence their puzzlement at the Rudd Government’s introduction of a national FuelWatch scheme. (I’ve written about this for The Courier-Mail newspaper.) The government has argued that the new regulation [...]

What’s going on at the Nine Network newsroom in Brisbane? Final payoffs from local reporters have dropped the “national” tag. No longer is it “blah blah blah, National Nine News”. Tonight it was just “blah blah, Nine News.” Wonder where the “national” has gone?

Reports of a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera musical as it prepares to leave Brisbane’s QPAC for a run in Sydney. Few details are known at this stage although it could be set in Manhattan 10 years after the original story. The original Phantom has played to more than 80-million people in 25 [...]

It’s everyone’s dream surely to take a spin in the James Bond classic movie car, the Aston Martin. Poor Fraser Dunn then who was driving the 007 DBS to the movie set in Italy where the latest in the series, Quantum of Sollace, is being filmed. Britain’s The Sun newspaper says the GBP 134,000 (AUS$ [...]

I’m fed up with websites that start playing music or some other sound as soon as you visit them. I’m even more fed up with those that try and play me a video before I’ve even worked out what the website’s about, or whether I even need to be there in the first place. Do [...]