“Australia should be preparing for the eventual end of the resources boom by moving towards an innovative economy”.

Professor Smarr wants a nationwide roll-out of a fibre-optic network and believes that installing campus networks with speeds of up to 10 gigabytes a second could be extended to homes and businesses.

* I think I read the comic book of superhero K Rudd 24/7 and it had these communication speeds. One day we shall see this implemented in the real world of OZ, maybe in the year 2020.

Coke made with sugar does kills sperm, probably because sperm soak it up. “The sperm just kind of explode.”

Deborah Anderson

Boston University Medical Centre

Bali’s environmental balance is under threat, he says.

“Water levels are decreasing, people are exploiting water, taking deep water, there is a massive exploitation of our underground water by hotels and big companies like Coca Cola. The process of drying is destroying our environment.”

I Made Mangku Pastika

Bali Governor

vitamin waters were an “artificial concoction” containing additives such as fructose, sucrose, flavour, food acid and caffeine.

“It’s not like drinking juice. It’s actually a formulated product from a factory,” she said.

“I don’t think we need these drinks. We can get all our vitamins and minerals from normal, natural food. This is just a sweetened concoction … There’s nothing healthy or natural about it.”

Ms Saxelby

Choice has lodged a formal complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the NSW Food Authority about the allegedly misleading labelling and marketing of Coca-Cola Amatil’s Glaceau Vitamin Water.

No kidding!

via watoday.com.au

The term "organic" is also a profession of faith in a healthy lifestyle that respects the environment.

Rainer Mihr, editor of the German food industry trade magazine Lebensmittel Praxis

abc.net.au

She has started advertising in Australia for key staff. Although her fine-dining restaurants are not "Australian" as such, they rely heavily on Australian chefs, managers, produce and wine. "All our chefs are from Sydney … and we use a lot of Australian produce,"

Ms Garnaut - Capital M restaurant

What the &$%(&^$( , is an Australian Restaurant, if you look at all the native ingredients that are used in the so called new Australian cuisine, you might want to give credit to the Australian Aborigines and call it an "Aboriginal Restaurant".

I think many "Australians" are not Australian as such when it comes to non-alcoholic beverages. If your in one of these so called "Australian" establishments ask them where the &%$(* are the drinks unique to our culture?

Ms Garnaut is better off hiring Chinese Australian Chefs from Sydney to work in her Restaurant, instead of confusing the Chinese elite with marketing illusions. This restaurant is going to be easily copied in China!!!

What is our Australian national dish by the way?

Mateschitz took ten years to get through college. "Life as a student is enjoyable," he muses, during a rare interview at Hangar-7

Before launching, Mateschitz hired a market research firm to test Red Bull’s acceptance. The result was a catastrophe. "People didn’t believe the taste, the logo, the brand name," he recalls now with a smile. "I’d never before experienced such a disaster."

Mateschitz ignored the research and set up offices in Fuschl, a town just outside Salzburg.

Dietrich Mateschitz

Via: forbes.com