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Today is Monday, May 12th, 2008

Feature Article #1

Spam, spam, and more spam

Spammers appear to be more concerned about our health than our wealth, as the number of spam emails continue to rise, according to a recent report.
Internet security provider Marshal has released the findings of its latest Threat Research and Content Engineering report for the second half of 2007, which found that the total volume of […]

JohnF | February 13th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Firefox - Australians embrace open source browser

THE proportion of Australians using Mozilla Firefox to surf the web is among the highest in the world, according to internet trend research.
Firefox, the main competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, is an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation that is free to install and use.
The Oceania region, which includes Australia, New Zealand […]

JohnF | February 13th, 2008 | Continued

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Single mums facing child support cuts

May 7th, 2008 • JohnF • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

SINGLE mums will receive between $10 and $100 less each week from their former partners after the Child Support Agency sends 1.5 million parents new assessments by the end of this week.

By July 1, about 60 per cent of divorced fathers will pay less under the overhaul of the system.

The lobby group representing single parents is urging the Rudd Government to review rules passed by the Howard government two years ago that drastically changed the system.

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$30,000 spent to decides birthday venue for child

May 7th, 2008 • JohnF • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

TWO warring parents who cant even agree on the location of their little girls birthday have asked the Family Court to rule on where her party should be held and who should be invited.

It took a judge, three barristers, three solicitors and a day in court at an estimated $30,000 to work out where the girl should celebrate her seventh birthday.

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Coastal dads top nation’s child-pay shame

May 5th, 2008 • JohnF • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

FATHERS in coastal regions are the nation’s worst offenders when it comes to shirking child-support payments.

New data shows many parents, most of them fathers living in Queensland’s resort towns have turned their backs on their children.

Child Support Agency statistics show parents in leading tourist destinations including Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach and Palm Beach, on the Gold Coast, and Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, are the least likely to meet their child-support payments.

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Radical laws to ban drinking at home

May 5th, 2008 • JohnF • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

DRINKING a glass of wine in your own home could be illegal under extreme new liquor laws that rubber-stamp the use of no-go alcohol zones in NSW.

Stirring up images of 1930s’ prohibition in the US, the Iemma Government is using the total ban on alcohol in some Aboriginal communities as a blueprint.

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Give young $50,000 for kidneys - doctor

May 5th, 2008 • JohnF • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

AN Australian doctor has called for laws preventing the sale of organs to be overturned, saying young healthy people should be paid $50,000 for a kidney in a move that would save lives.

Canberra nephrologist Gavin Carney says permitting the organ trade would save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in care for sick patients who have to wait up to 10 years for a donor kidney.

The practise of selling organs was also dangerously rife overseas, Dr Carney also told Fairfax newspapers today.

“Being forced to travel overseas and illegally buy an organ from someone who desperately needs the money, with no medical controls over the process and nobody checking whether the kidney is a good match, is what I call unethical,” Dr Carney says today.

Selling or buying organs is illegal in Australia, carrying a penalty of six months jail and or a fine of $4400.

Australia has one of the lowest organ donor rates in the world, and more than 1800 people are waiting for a kidney transplant while only 343 were donated last year.

“Weve tried everything to drum up support for organ donation and the rates have not risen in 10 years,” Dr Carney also says.

“People just dont seem to be willing to give their organs away for free … lets pay people some money for a new car or a house deposit and those waiting lists will be halved within about five years.”

Give young $50,000 for kidneys - doctor | NEWS.com.au

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Petrol price to keep rising: Caltex

April 24th, 2008 • JohnF • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Motorists can expect to pay even more at the bowser with oil prices to continue rising, says the chief of Caltex Australia.

“There is long-term upward pressure on petrol prices and Australians, like motorists around the world, can expect to pay more,” Caltex chairman Elizabeth Bryan told shareholders today at the company’s annual general meeting in Sydney.

Ms Bryan said that, as an oil refiner and marketer rather than producer or explorer, Caltex was forced to pay the world price for oil.

“Petrol prices are rising, and are expected to continue to rise, but not because of collusion or price gouging, as our critics suggest,” she said.

“The cost of crude oil, our main input, which we have to buy on the open market, has rocketed from $US10 a barrel to well over $US100 a barrel in the last 10 years.”

New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in May, struck a record high of $US119.90 before it expired earlier this week.

In overnight trading , light sweet crude for delivery in June closed at $118.30 a barrel, up 23 cents.

Ms Bryan said lower oil prices would be better for Caltex, reducing working capital for its crude inventories, interest costs and debt needs.

“But unfortunately the outlook remains for rising crude oil prices,” she said.

“Factors such as the ongoing increases in demand in the Chinese and Indian economies show no signs of letting up.

“Oil exploration and production costs are increasing significantly, and environmental regulation to minimise emissions is also going to increase petrol costs.”

She said the federal government’s plan to introduce a carbon cost to the economy by 2010, through an emission trading scheme, would also contribute to higher petrol prices if it was applied to transport fuels.

AAP

Source: Petrol price to keep rising: Caltex - National - theage.com.au

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