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Memo for MIN DEF
Minister for Defence. How the Army would fix the Navy. 1. Find some people to join the Navy. 2. Find ships that can sail (NB – don’t have to made in Aus) 3. Stop people leaving the Navy faster than we can train replacements. 4. Reintroduce leadership training for officers. How hard can it be? Australian Navy struggles to sail the seven seas An Australian Navel photographer takes a picture of the resupply vessel HMAS Sirius. Picture: Charlie Brewer. MORE than half the Royal Australian Navy’s fleet has been forced out of action for repairs to unexpected faults or defects over the past year. Official figures reveal some vessels were out...
Read MoreWhich Would You Rather be Bitten By: a Vampire or a Zombie?
Which would you rather be bitten by: a vampire or a zombie? I only ask because we are up to our necks in the undead (and the Occupy movement) these days and both fates seem preferable. Zombieland is triumphing (deservedly) at the box office. Not far into the past lurk the films I Am Legend, 28 Weeks Later and Dawn of the Dead. With Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the undead are colonising literary history. Charlie Higson’s new book The Enemy is about zombies. Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series has filled bookshops with vampires; HBO’s True Blood has done the same to television schedules. You can’t move for the undead blighters....
Read MoreEuroMoney, please define “Best Performance”?
Thank you John Gault, You sum it up perfectly!
Read MoreHow to turn a recession into a Great Depression
This is a really great article about how the US government, through poorly planned interventions and protectionism turned the Great Recession of 1929 into a decade long depression, while large parts of the world were already recovering. America’s Great Depression is often cited as the primary example of the failure of free market economics. According to the official liberal interpretation of the Depression, both the economic collapse that began in 1929 and the nation’s eventual recovery prove that the American government must never again allow its economy to operate in a free market mode. The common view is that the 1920s in America was a period of unbridled free...
Read MoreRange Rover Evoque Review
First of all – people may ask what on earth a car review has to do with Uncommonwealth. I could answer by creating some tenuous segue to aspirational motivators – but that would be crap. I saw it, I played with it and now people are asking me questions. Here are my thoughts: There are two ways of approaching the RANGE ROVER Evoque that will determine if it is right for you or not: 1. If you are looking for a compact SUV then there may be better choices (consider the “1” offerings from Audi and BMW). The RRE is a little light on for size (especially in the back seat which was designed for groceries not grannies). But… 2. If you are...
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