Unaustralian http://www.unaustralian.net.au Relief from the excessive parochialism of Australian media Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:11:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Navy Cleared of Negligence, Guilty of Bullshitting http://www.unaustralian.net.au/?p=26 http://www.unaustralian.net.au/?p=26#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:26:34 +0000 admin http://www.unaustralian.net.au/?p=26 In an internal report into December’s Christmas Island asylum seeker tragedy, the Customs and Border Protection Council has found both itself and the Navy to be faultless. Meanwhile, the Indonesion sailors allegedly in control of the doomed vessel have been charged with the facilitation of people-smuggling.

 According to Customs, the Navy first sighted the vessel at 5.40am, at [...]]]> http://www.unaustralian.net.au/?feed=rss2&p=26 0 Bad Navigator Rewarded with Young Aussie Gong http://www.unaustralian.net.au/?p=1 http://www.unaustralian.net.au/?p=1#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:39:22 +0000 admin http://www.unaustralian.net.au/wordpress/?p=1 Jessica Watson, the schoolgirl who famously did not sail around the world, has been named the 2011 Young Australian of the Year.

In conferring the award, The National Australia Day Council acknowledged that Miss Watson has long “dreamt of sailing solo, unassisted, non-stop around the world”. Which is true. The Council went on to claim [...]]]> http://www.unaustralian.net.au/?feed=rss2&p=1 1