Thursday 12th December 1996
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Professor Hay, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Queensland, said, "What is going there is going to be unique in the state. It won't just be print based, not just Internet-based, not just face-to-face, but provide technology for what is required 20 years down the track."
Some of my fondest memories include the day back in Januray 1994 when the then Business Development Manager of the City of Ipswich, Mal Bryce, launched my Interactive Group companies second multimedia exhibition at Technology Park in Bentley, Western Australia. We sat in my office and I showed him my concept of the "electronic community". This led to an invitation to demonstrate the concept to the leading lights and eventuated in my move to Ipswich from Western Australia.
Yesterday I had a call from the Mayor of Wanneroo informing me that that this major Western Australian City had just embarked on the development of a Au$22 million electronic library based largely on Global Info-Links.
Australian sporting couple Grant and Lisa Curry-Kenny are suing New Idea magazine Au$30,000 for exemplary damages and Au$40,000 for the loss of an appropriate fee after a photograph of Lisa Curry-Kenny was used on the October 14, 1995 issue of the publication.
The publication carried a story arranged by the organisers of the Australian Grand Prix which was aimed at promoting the event. The same week Women's Weekly magazine published a story on the Kenny's for which the couple were paid.
The magazine's defence is that it arranged the story through the Australian Grand Prix and not through the Kennys. Pacific Publishing have requested the Kenny's financial records over the last four years to assist it in building its defence for the case which is to be heard next year in the Brisbane District Court.
Last night the ABC television programme the 7.30 Report carried a story about the police trained "neighbourhood watch" groups which have been co-ordinated in the town of Dubbo in New South Wales to combat the growing crime wave there.
Perhaps the most interesting factor about this report was the strongly racial slant by the reporters who began by interviewing a group of Aboriginal kids who said that stealing was "easy" and even if they were caught nothing happened to them. They also interviewed a senior policeman who named Aboriginal teenagers as the major problem in the town. Then, just in case you hadn't got the message they spoke to an Aboriginal councillor who said that Aboriginal kids no longer have any respect and today "even knock off the belongings of their elders".
This is the same television station which has been running a concerted campaign of misinformation about Pauline Hanson - siting her whenever and wherever they can as "racist".
The major petrol companies have simply made the regulated price their sale price to resellers creating huge profits for themselves over many, many years.
From January the 1st next year the RACQ and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will officially monitor the deregulated price of petrol. They plan to name petrol stations or oil companies which charge excessive fuel prices - which can vary up to 30 cents a litre in different parts of the country.
You should see the speed with which banks lift interest rates for existing borrowers when there is an increase in the rates - it is liked greased lightening - housing rates rises practically beating the Reserve Bank announcement!
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said after the announcement, "This is terrific news for home buyers".
He went on to say, "the reason why interest rates have been cut is to give benefits to consumers not banks".
Ah Queensland beautiful one day, perfect the next!
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