Busy kids are the most active kids when it comes to participating in sports finds the Australian Bureau of Statistics. And the "busyness" can be artistic or come from being most likely to do homework.
Out came the latest set of employment figures showing a few changes and down went the value of the Australian dollar.
Here's something to look for in the employment statistics to be released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics tomorrow.
At Melbourne University they have been measuring significant aspects of family household life for a decade now and the latest report on their findings suggests that Australians are basically a happy lot.
I'm doubtful that the latest gimmick of the Gillard communications team will contribute anything substantial to the advancement of an informed public.
The US National Weather Service has joined Australia's Bureau of Meteorology in pointing to an increased likelihood that an El Nino event with its higher temperatures is on the way.
The Australian Capital Territory's only commercial egg producer has been bribed by our local government into stopping the cruel system of chickens being kept in the small cages of an egg factory.
The task of selling the need for action to combat climate change has surely been made harder for the federal government by the last 12 months in Australia being a little on the cool side.
Reuters reports the Finnish government telling its parliament that Helsinki and its Dutch allies would block the bailout fund.
I doubt that people have absorbed much of Tony Abbott's doomsday scenario.
