I LOVE stories like this! I just hope it doesn’t encourage Clive Cussler to write another book. :) Just kidding Clive…

Basically an American salvage company has discovered a shipwreck with an amount of gold, platinum and gems that they are saying could be worth up to 11 billion dollars(!).

It will be interesting to watch the legal nightmare that will no doubt follow this discovery. The salvage company has spent a lot of money on locating the wreck, but as it turns out the law isn’t exactly finders-keepers, losers-weepers.

I’ll go on the record as saying I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if the US government doesn’t end up getting a large chunk of the discovery. :)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/30/2478562.htm

I know that there are a lot of people who will get their knickers in a knot about this - but at the end of the day it
wouldn’t really cost anyone anything, except maybe their stubborn pride.

I think that any gesture that makes our society feel more inclusive for indigenous Australians would be worth doing.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1006106/Moving-Australia-Day-’has-support’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Day

Wow, this is interesting.

I hope this is paranoia, because if it’s not then it is a pretty scary world we are heading towards.

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24817536-15306,00.html

It is so typical that Telstra wants special treatment for their bid for the national broadband network.

I have to say that Mr. Rudd continues to impress me with the way he is going about things.

I really think that the best thing that could possibly happen to telecommunications in Australia would be for Telstra to get chopped up into little bits and fed to their competitors. :)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/15/2446644.htm