According to News.Com.Au, one senitor has eight, or maybe nine taxpayer funded mobile phones. Not sure what he does with them all. Link. ALso news is that ABC is axing The Glass House which is one of their better rating shows. There is the suggestion that this is because Corinne Grant is the public face of the Labour PR campaign against WorkChoices.

Also there is a Linux distribution called MythTV which does a fairly good job at deleting adverts from recorded TV programs. One of the ways that it does this is by detecting the horrible watermarks used by some TV channels (all of them) to remind you what channel you recorded!