The proliferation of mobile phones is infuriating American police, who object to being filmed at work. Australian police say they’re a lot more relaxed.
Customs
Border ‘security’: how inconvenient is the new deterrence
I walked from Slovakia to Poland yesterday. No guards, no Customs inspection, no border formalities of any sort. It’s how all frontiers ought to be.
Porn, air travellers and the Customs confusion
Australian customs officials are now asking on airport arrival forms about pornography, technically requiring travellers to decide whether any photos they have of themselves and their lovers is ‘pornography’, explains Ben Sandilands.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Fairfax a sinking ship?
Is Fairfax really looking like a company soon to collapse? Plus, who is preparing water tanks to keep their rarely used tennis court luscious and green?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The McPherson LNP preselection candidates revealed
The blog post that got a Courier-Mail subbie sacked, no news probably isn’t good news for Ian Macfarlane, customs staff don’t land on Free Parking, and a tasty tip-off on the McPherson LNP preselection candidates.
weird 
Man without fingerprints confounds US customs
An estimated one in 50 people around the world lack matchable fingerprints. One cancer patient’s fingerprints were so eroded by the medication he was taking that the US authorities couldn’t let him into the country.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.
