Obscure Box
Trust the French
I howled listening the ABC radio report last night about the assassination of a Hamas leader.
The report itself was very disturbing and my laughter was not directed at the content of the story itself. What is it with Israel?
My laughter was at the reaction the assassination was creating in the countries.
In the report Gang that [...]
Why we need commas
Many style guides for news organisations here in Australia are lax of the use of commas in numbers 1,000 t0 9,999.
They prefer to drop the comma and opt for 1000 to 9999. Commas are fine higher numbers with digits grouped in threes so it’s 10,000 and 1,000,000 and so on.
I think the commas should be [...]
How to contact a Prime Minister
Not by telephone, if you’re thinking of contacting Australia’s Prime
Minister Kevin Rudd.
Just been trawling the PM’s website www.pm.gov.au and I can’t find a telephone number listed on any of the pages.
None. Not a single contact number listed anywhere. Not even on the
Media Releases.
I can follow the PM’s Blog or Twitter, engage in a web chat, [...]