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Shooting unarmed people again It seems that 'don't shoot unarmed people' is too difficult to understand for some people. Seems also here they are trying to pass it off as incompetence - 'Oops I shot him by mistake because I couldn't tell the difference between a taser and a handgun', and...

Thought there would already be a thread on this one - there's been nothing but this on the local news and a fair bit of international coverage. ABC coverage A single man has taken 15-30 people hostage in a cafe in the heart of Sydney, the political motivation hinted at when some of the...

Fuckit, as if money in politics was not bad enough already the New South Wales state government is proposing to make it compulsory for business to be given, and exercise, the vote in city council elections. It is apparently a ploy to get rid of the current mayor of Sydney who, for the past...

Just caught this article about recent events in Iraq. So Sunni insurgents have decided that they don't really like being out of the show, so to speak, when it comes to running things and have started capturing cities (like Mosul) in an advance towards Baghdad. The US trained and supplied army...

Startgate - SG1 Maybe 4/10, potentially higher if I give it more time. Just to be clear I love SF, books, film and TV. I never watched a lot of Stargate when it was aired, just because it struck me as a relatively low budget cash is to a surprise hit film. I caught the first couple episodes...