Sunday, December 04, 2005

Some Weekend Papers!

Never take your newspaper for granted.

Geoff is one of the other AVI’s here in Lae who arrived in the same group as me. He’s working at the Unitech in their department of distance learning. This morning, Geoff’s shown up at my place with the Weekend Australian in hand (THIS WEEKEND’s!). Every time I’d looked previously, there was only last week’s paper, and it was K19.10 for a Sydney Morn Herald/Sat Age/Weekend Australian.

So this/last Sunday morning I got to chill in the morning with the Weekend Australian. Nice. Gave the mass this morning a miss after a double-header weekend, which included the go-finish party for Jeremy (another AVI here in Lae). I’ve mentioned it before, but after 2 years Jeremy has a soon to be mothballed gutpela blog which you can see here.

Back to the papers. Looks like it’s happening as per usual in Oz media eh? Some rich reserve bank guy I’ve barely heard of dodged some tax, and Little Johnny getting through that de-regulation for that ‘culture of individual initiative’ he wants to entrench. Front page of the Weekend Inquirer-:

“Even where all employees at a workplace want to bargain collectively, they will be unable to do so if the employer refuses. This gives workers in Australia fewer rights than those in the US, as well as in most other developed economies…”

Not that it’s easily comparable, but I wouldn’t call the rights of workers here in PNG any good compared to what Aussies will still have.

Ahh… Weekend Paper input. I’ve had to turn past the book & film review section for 2005, as I started to very quickly get antsy – there’s no cinema, or good bookstore, here in Lae!

Good article on p21 as well on early childhood development:

“Part of the problem is that we’re always comparing ourselves with the US and it’s easy to look good… in [Scandinavian] countries child poverty would be around 12 percent without government intervention. With government intervention, it’s around 2 or 3 percent. In Australia, child poverty is around 16 percent, until govt. intervention bringing it to 14 percent”

Awright – I’m off to read the rest of the paper before Geoff gets back from church…

6 Comments:

Blogger little pilgrim said...

ha ha! knew you wouldn't make it to church. the newspapers (and magazines) available in lae are a treat; we can't get foreign ones in goroka. sigh. nice to meet you.

Sun Dec 04, 05:15:00 pm  
Blogger little pilgrim said...

oops, sorry; that was from robyn.

Sun Dec 04, 05:27:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, it's Eden (avi in goroka that swears too much and plays gold with cane toads). Just wanted to invite you to a party in Goroka this weekend, whats your email addy so I can send you details? if you're interested of course.

Wed Dec 07, 01:09:00 pm  
Blogger Naaaaath said...

Heh - yah, a tad keen by me to think I'd be human by 9:30am in the morning after that night...

Good to meet the Goroka crew!

My email is at the moment is:

nathanmorsillo@gmail.com

Wed Dec 07, 03:16:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gidday, Nathan, Grandpa and Grandma looking at your photos and blog. Good to have Robert your Dad here with us for a couple of days, and really like the photo of you and the one coconut. Did you climb the tree and get the coconut? Let me know when you actually achieve that feat. Here's mum now, stuck for words, has already got the garlic bread for dinner at 3pm in the avo, pitty you can't join us, love to have you here. Love to you.

Sat Dec 10, 01:56:00 pm  
Blogger Naaaaath said...

Glad to hear you could get to see the photo's n stuff Grandma/Grandpa. No climbing of coconut trees myself as yet!!

Sun Dec 11, 04:00:00 pm  

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