The management mindset that risks the lives of hundreds of Australian air travellers in a crash in the next 10 years is abundantly on display in carrier and regulator submissions to the Senate inquiry into pilot training and airline safety.
The fact that Rafiq Copeland was at a karaoke bar singing Africa by Toto will testify to his drunkness. Yet it came as a shock to wake up and realise he'd missed his flight to Johannesburg. God bless Ian from the Qantas customer call centre.
As the plan of the main library in San Francisco is open, with no full separation between floors, one gets the sense of a theatre where the confessional is aired. Binoy Kampmark listens to the library secrets, told amongst piles of books.
While sitting a car munching down on a couple of sausage rolls, Bob Gosford had a chat with journalist Michael Coggan, who recently returned to the Northern Territory after spending a year working in India.
The Port Welshpool Long Jettyis worth so much more to the local economy as a key tourist attraction and one of the best fishing platforms on the Bass Strait coast, writes Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore.
Australia has a Thing for Big Things (think the Big Banana, Big Pineapple etc). So Jay Martin had to drive five hours for the opening of the World's Biggest Jesus in Swiebodzin, western Poland, which rises from a field of cabbages, across the road from a Tesco.
There will be tens of thousands of opportunities at all domestic and international terminals in Australia today for baggage handlers, cleaners, caterers, retailers, refuellers, police officers and security company staff to pass bombs, guns, knives, and vials of germs to passengers once they have passed through the security checks.
The Book Show’s Ramona Koval offered W H Chong the recipe for her Bubba’s Birthday Sponge. He carefully followed her instructions and, with sticky hands, took photographs of the process.
Not overly successful Australian explorer Peter Warburton and his party became stranded at the Oakover River and were reduced to eating their camels one by one. Bob Gosford goes through his old camel recipes.
Weaving through the Nordic coast line where the roads were windy, the cliffs were steep and houses were painted a compulsory white, Sarah Baker hiked up the famous Pulpit Rock, where daring climbers can dangle their legs over the end of the world.
