Bright new news to sink our teeth into this week with the Federal Minister for Agriculture launching a colorful public consultation program on the future of Australia’s meat industry.
Aimed at evaluating the industry’s options for future leadership and governance the consultation program certainly nailed its colours to the mast, leaving the Minister to paint a vibrant picture of the process.
“The Red Meat Advisory Council launches Green Paper” the Minister declared.
Yanked out of history
To PS News’s World PS News now where it appears one doesn’t need a functioning memory to contribute to international stories.
Reporting on the fact that US President Donald Trump has named his preferred candidate for the soon-to-be-vacant position of President of the World Bank, the international source points out that despite all 189 members of the Bank voting on the new President, the gig is usually given to a US nomination.
“An American has led the institution since its beginnings in the 1940s, when it was created to help rebuild Europe in the aftermath of World War II,” the report reports.
Apparently James Wolfensohn, (pictured) who led the World Bank for 10 years from 1995, doesn’t count.
Sir James was born in Sydney on 1 December 1933, which apparently qualifies him to be an American.
Maybe the time really has come for Australia to make the USA our seventh state!
The full World Bank story can be accessed at this PS News link.
Wordy wise
More fun with words now after our semantically syntactical start last week when we described the cowering cow, the dogged dog and the hoarse horse as examples of a ludicrous language gone loony.
Undaunted by the challenge to find more, Yvonne M of Queensland Treasury fronted up by multiplying the linguistic magic by adding her own contribution.
Cleverly picking up on the animal farm theme, Yvonne posed a meteorological mystification pointing at a caring and considerate sheep farmer showing concern about one of his flock.
“As the farmer looked out the window,” Yvonne explained, “he wondered whether the weather would bother the wether ….”.
Ka-Boom!
Well done Yvonne, expect to find a fabulous PS News book prize heading your way any day now.
Now we see them…..!
Don’t look now but there’s something unusually common about the five national Parliament Ministers appearing on the Prime Minister’s media centre webpage at this link.
Apart from the PM himself the Ministers are Kelly O’Dwyer, Senator Nigel Scullion, Michael Keenan and Steve Irons, and all but Mr Irons have decided not to stand for re-election at the next poll.
Maybe there’s something in the water?
The winners’ circle
To Rama’s weekly giveaway for the week now in which three lucky readers have the chance to win copies of the action thriller DVD All The Devil’s Men starring Milo Gibson and Sylvia Hoeks.
To join the ranks of Rama’s winners, the lucky readers needed only to name the lead actor’s father and then be among the first three entries to emerge from the infamous PS News Barrel of Booty.
And the spritely readers who correctly named Mel Gibson as Milo’s dad were Karen W from the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Yusuf K from the National Measurement Institute and Liz D from the Western Australian Department of Education.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone for taking part. The DVDs will be on their way to the winners shortly
For another chance to take advantage of Rama’s giveaways simply visit this PS News link for the chance to join in. Its free!
Good luck to all who do.
Speed thrills!
And finally, the age old adage of never apologising unless you can fix the problem has been high on the minds of PS News management recently as the sheer number of keen readers jostling to log onto PS News at the same time has led to occasional computer meltdowns with many loyal and deserving readers being left PS newsless through no fault of their own.
Well, the sincere apology can be made sincerely now because the problem has been fixed! (He hopes!).
As of today, PS News will come to you via an all-new, all bells and whistles online system delivering pages to your desk in less than half a second and making access to all your favourite PS news and feature articles just a blink of an eye away regardless of how many thousands of readers conspire to log on at the same time.
As always, if your experience doesn’t match up to PS-sssst!’s description, please let us know, but all the tests, trials, checks, dummy runs, assessments, experiments and evaluations have been impressively successful so we’re quietly confident it will hold up in your real world.
And finally, finally, which is more correct – our use of the term ‘computer meltdowns’ as above, or should it be ‘computer meltsdown’?
And finally, finally, finally, is it possible – as in the sentence above – for one answer be more correct than another? Are there degrees of correctness?
Something to think about!
Till next week…..
