Posts Tagged With: Australia

New York Times Criticizes Australian Anti-Whaling Claims

» by GI Korea February 25th, 2010 at 4:14 pm » Comments (86)

Here is a pretty good article in the New York Times that pretty much sums up the absurdity of the Japanese whaling issue: It must count as one of the more ...more »

Korean Wife Causes Political Dispute In Australia

» by GI Korea February 6th, 2010 at 5:52 pm » Comments (14)

Accusations of racial discrimination are being thrown around Down Under due to a politician having a Korean wife: A RACE row has erupted at a Melbourne council with a former Greens ...more »

Australian Accused of Murdering Elderly “Jap”

» by GI Korea October 26th, 2009 at 7:39 pm » Comments (8)

Well this isn't going to do much to change Australia's perception of being a "racist country": James Anthony Dean-Willcocks, of Illawong, was yesterday charged with the murder of Magno Alvarado, ...more »

Beat Takeshi On Why Australians Oppose Whaling

» by GI Korea September 22nd, 2009 at 7:45 am » Comments (22)

Via Japan Probe comes this interesting program produced by the talented Japanese director and actor Beat Takeshi that has a panel of Australian debating a panel of Japanese people on ...more »

China Threatens Australia Over Film

» by GI Korea August 9th, 2009 at 5:44 am » Comments (6)

In recent months China has launched quite the bullying campaign against Australia and the latest effort to intimidate Australia has been the continuous threats against the city of Melbourne for ...more »

Australian Lacrosse Team Detained In South Korea Because of Swine Flu

» by GI Korea June 14th, 2009 at 9:00 am » Comments (1)

I am willing to bet the hotel these Aussies are going to be moved to will the quarantine facility in Seoul that was used to quarantine a number of foreign ...more »

A Degree In Professional Protesting Offered Down Under

» by GI Korea June 13th, 2009 at 3:09 am » Comments (1)

Much like the professional protesters in Korea, protesting world wide is becoming a industry and not a movement: ANTI-military activists have been offered training on how to disrupt Australia’s top-level wargames ...more »

The Highest Paid Enlisted Person I Have Ever Seen

» by GI Korea June 11th, 2009 at 6:18 am » Comments (1)

Do you have some cooking skills and looking to make $200,000 a year? Join the Royal Australian Navy: THE highest paid non-officer in the military is ... the guy cooking food ...more »

Japanese Law Professor Sentenced in Australia

» by GI Korea March 29th, 2009 at 5:42 am » Comments (6)

A Japanese law professor is in hot water Down Under: Southern Cross University thought Megumi Ogawa had just the talents to be an associate lecturer in its School of Law and ...more »

Australian Defence Minister Linked to Chinese Operative

» by GI Korea March 27th, 2009 at 7:57 am » Comments (2)

The irresponsibility of the Australian Defence Minister is just astounding in this case: [caption id="attachment_12072" align="alignnone" width="420" caption="(Left) Liu Haiyan (Helen Liu) taken from the website of Shandong calligrapher Chen Zekun, ...more »