Humanitarian charity Oxfam has launched a new campaign to call for the regulation of the sale of ammunition around the world.

Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne scrambled for the exits in the House of Representatives this morning as suspended Labor MP Craig Thomson lent his "tainted" vote to the Opposition.

The Zutbots is a new toon strip from Gus Leonisky. It will feature a family of robots and hopefully will be published on this site more or less daily. The Zutbots at times will be politically relevant, mostly subliminally... Please note that the terms Zutbot, Zutbots and The Zutbots are non-registered but activated by publishing herein trademarks of the Gus Leonisky Corporation.

Billionaire James Packer will reportedly ask shareholders to dump the head of Sydney's Star casino in favour of former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett.

Mr Packer, who is chairman of Melbourne's Crown Casino, has called for the chairman of Star operator Echo Entertainment, John Story, to be stood down over the company's management of the casino and handling of a recent public inquiry into its operations.

Apparently the Greeks (Athenians) invented the tax refund... When there was enough loot plundered from somewhere else, they would refund the taxes (used to fund the looting armies) accordingly... Unfortunately these days looting is far more sophisticated than war and one could say that the Greeks have been buggered by the US bonking (sorry Freudian slip: I mean banking) system...