Integrated television is the way to go and unless the government gets its head around that, a quick conversion is not going to happen.

Australia's government is extremely sensitive to any idea of an American containment of China. Australia sees the rise of China as a huge economic opportunity with few diplomatic drawbacks.

If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature,

Now, on state television you see all the government bureaucrats crossing themselves. It's open propaganda for religion. Even in official events like the president's speech to the Federation Council, the patriarch sits up front and the other religious leaders have to sit in the back. It's a way of showing that all the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Why should ordinary people pay for a government decision that makes their television sets obsolete?

[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.