Yesterday, our Road Worrier column looked at the current state of checked baggage regulations and fees for Australia. There’s a lot of information to absorb in the rules, so here’s a simpler take on the same problem: how much would you pay to check a single bag onto each airline? More »
Regulations for airline baggage on domestic flights are tougher than ever, and if you don’t plan carefully you can get slugged significantly. Road Worrier rounds up the current rules on the four major domestic carriers, and looks at how you can get more bang for your luggage buck. More »
To mark Australia Day, Lifehacker’s Streaming column has looked at the 25 best-selling albums and singles for every year since 1970 and checked whether they are currently on sale in the Australian iTunes store. The results are slightly disturbing, especially when it comes to the availability of Australian hits. More »
The Prime Minister is inviting 1,000 experts to attend the Australia 2020 Summit in April to discuss the direction we want our country to go in. Blogger Jim Rettew decided that “working stiffs, tradies and bloggers” probably have better ideas for this country than the appointed experts so he set up a Wiki to collect ideas from “the rest of the 20,699,000 people in Oz”.
Jim hopes to present the top 50 ideas (as voted on by visitors to the site) at the Summit. There’s a petition on the site which he’ll use to try to cadge an invite to present the ideas at the Summit.
Jim also emailed me today to say he’s created a YouTube video of Kevin Rudd breakdancing to help promote the Wiki. I’ve been too scared to check it out, but it’s there if you’re curious. More »
