Sydney Airport Accused Of Squeezing airlines' wallets

I choose this story because Sydney is the one main of destinations that passengers from all around the world visit by.It is a large airport, so there are over million thousand people used the service from Sydney airport every day.However, it seems that Sydney airport's fees has become expensive than previous.
In this news , it tell us about Many passengers have complains about airline's fare charges that it is very excessive charges.International Air Transport Association chief executive Mr. Giovanni Bisignani told in Sydney yesterday that tougher rules should be apply on the excursive airport such as Sydney to create the fairness for airlines and their passengers. In the past, Sydney airport was the one of world's costliest airport , but now it moved from 34 th place to ninth. According to rise the fees in Sydney Airport, The airline's passengers have the anger that they are forced to a lot of money while they also continue to purchase an expensive fees on everything from car park to coffee.
Mr.Bisignani declared to the guests at National Aviation Press Club lunch that Sydney Airport's pre-tax gaining margin 82 per cent in 2009 while another airlines worldwide lost about $10 billion. Mr.Bisignani said "We need profitable airline partners.However, they must be effectively regulated so that they do not abuse their monopolistic position."Macquarie business MAp showed the half-year results yesterday which presented the majority-owned Sydney Airport added pre-tax profit 12.5 per cent to $ 180 million.
The IATA boss , on behalf of the airline who fly to Sydney, he will discuss the subject about cutting the airport charges with Sydney Airport chairman Max Moore-Wilton this week.
Lastly, Mr. Bisignani said a new or second Sydney airport was critically necessary for supporting of the New South Walse economy.
To sum up, I personally think that Sydney airport should stay the same rate as it was in the past. Otherwise, the passengers wouldn't like to visit the Airport because cost of everything at Sydney airport is really expensive. They might find an alternative airport which is cost cheaper than Sydney airport.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/travel/sydney-airport-accused-of-squeezing-airlines-wallets/story-e6freexc-1225910111469

Skywest pilots reject trade off proposals

For better knowing what is happening with Skywest Airline, I chose this article.

With the company demanding trade-offs in return for paltry rate rises, pay talks got off to a bad start at Skywest Airlines As far as we are concerned, trade-offs is bad language, and we almost told the Skywest negotiators to go and wash their mouths out with soap. In return for three 3% increases over three years, they want to a major re-arrangement of pilot rosters that are more favorable to the airline. The new rosters would require pilots to do more hours for no more pay. In 2001, after the Ansett crash happened, employees of Skywest took significant pay cuts to keep the airline flying. With our current agreement due to expire at the end of December we were planning on a bit of catch up. If there is no change in the attitude of Skywest, the TWU will certainly be recommending an application be make for Protected Industrial Action. Stoppages are well and truly on the cards. Skywest employ about 100 pilots and a majority is in the union. By early next year, when things start happening, we hope to reach maximum strength.

In my opinion, in every job people can do a mistake, there must give a chance for them to improve their self.

http://www.twuwa.org.au/news/airlines/109-skywest-pilots-reject-trade-off-proposals

Students may pay for uni funding crisis 'time bomb'

For knowing the reason why in future students will demand for tertiary education, I chose this article.

A specialist policy has notified of a time bomb ticking over education, with demand for places likely to guide to students being turned away. One of the eight research-intensive supervisory directors of universities, Michael Gallagher warned that students also will be facing compressed in with resultant decline of standards if funding were not getting higher. The group approximation that by 2030, there could be 450,000 more students demanding tertiary education, the equivalent of about 24 more medium-sized universities. Of these, about nine would need to be in fast-growing Queensland. Mr. Gallagher suggested that frees of HECS’s student might have to be increase. He said universities had expensive overheads such as research. Moreover, policymakers should consider the development of other institutions. State-owned TAFEs are already increasingly moving into offering degrees and have called for federal funding for degrees in skill areas of high demand. In Queensland and Western Australia, the school-leaver population was growing, and numbers in Victoria and NSW were set to start getting higher from 2019 and 2022 correspondingly said by Mr. Gallagher. He also noted that student-staff ratios in universities had blown out to more than 20:1, compared with just 12:1 in secondary schools, and 16:1 in primary schools. Improving the ratio to 17:1 would increase the government's annual bill to $16.8bn by 2030.

To sum up, I think paying fees for something that worth for is not a bad thing. However, they should control fees not to be too high as there are also many students who cannot afford it.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/students-may-pay-for-uni-funding-crisis-time-bomb/story-fn59niix-1225910632018

Growth counteracting improved air quality

For knowing what is happening to the climate in Sydney and the reasons of it, I choose this article.
Due to growing population and traffic congestion gnaw at the gains that made by nonleaded petrol in the 1980s, Sydney is at the risk of air pollution for photochemical smog and ozone.
For more than 20 years, the city’s air is normally clean. However, there will be a climate change currently. The department report found that the number of days when air pollution from ozone exceeded guidelines over a four-hour period would rise 40 per cent from 2021, and 92 per cent from 2051.
South-west Sydney (Around Campbell town and Liverpool) would be hit by high ozone levels the most. This can damage lung tissue. Because of the prevailing sea breeze is north-easterly, the south-west Sydney is most affected by air pollution.
In my opinion, I think the people must start to reduce pollution. For example, the smoker stop smoking, reduce the use of private vehicles, and so on.

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Petrol is 'dirtier' than Liquid coal for cars

To get more knowledge about the harmful fuel that we are using and warn ourselves about it, I chose this article.

Not all energy alternatives are created equal. In fact, some are twice as bad as gasoline from a global warming perspective. Scientists had warned that some vehicles fuel such as liquid coal can cause more harmful than diesel or petrol. The technology to convert coal into liquid fuels is well established. But it is also true that between the production process and burning it in cars, coal-to-liquid fuel produces more than twice the greenhouse gas emissions as gasoline and nearly twice the emissions of ordinary diesel. These are terrible ratios. For example, liquid coal can produce 80% more global warming pollution that petrol. Moreover, fuel like petrol from tar sands is approximately have 14% more global warming potential compared to standard petrol. On the other hand, corn ethanol could be either more polluting or less than petrol, depending on how the corn is grown and the ethanol is produced. The cleanest alternative, the report says, is cellulosic ethanol, made from grass or wood chips. It could cut greenhouse emissions compared with petrol by more than 85%.

To sum up, I think we need to reduce the use of harmful fuel so that we could lower the global warming.

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Stocks weaken as 'harsh reality' begins to set in

I choose this article because I think it has an important. People must keep on updating news, so they could come to know what is happening around the world.

On Friday, the Australian share market reached a 4 days low on the eve of the federal election. Weaker offshore markets and hawkish comments from the Reserve Bank of Australia outweighed a better-than-expected trading update from ANZ Bank. The Australian dollar also fell sharply, at the close trading at US89.05c, down US0.81c.
The fall turned the index negative for the week. It was the second consecutive weekly falls in the index, after five consecutive weekly gains."It looks like harsh reality starting to set in all over the world and as much as one may be attracted to the feel-good view of the blinkered bull, a complete system cleanse is fundamentally necessary and inevitable," said Wesley Legrand, a broker at Grand Private Equities.
Comments from RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino hit the market in thin lunchtime trading. In my opinion, they must keep alert and support Australian dollar as much as possible as it can affect currency of other countries as well.

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Battellino Says Australia Must Be `Alert' to Inflation Risk of Mining Boom

The reason why I choose this article is because it is a good sign for Australian to keep alert in inflation.
Now in Australia’s 20th year of growth as a mining investment boom intensifies, an expansion in Australia’s economy will boost inflation pressures in coming years, said by Central Bank Deputy Governor Ric Battellino . Between October and May, The Reserve Bank of Australia, which has led 20 Nations Group in raising borrowing costs six times, kept interest rates unchanged on Aug. 3 for a third month, partly on concern economic growth may slow in the U.S. and Europe. Chinese demand for resources is prompting companies such as Chevron Corp. to boost investment, driving down unemployment and potentially worsening a shortage of skilled workers. In the past year, the rate of the central bank increases have helped the Australian dollar to be the third best performing currency among the 16 most traded. The local dollar has gained 40 percent since March 2009. Policy makers predicted that until the end of next year, inflation will average 2.75 percent, before accelerating to the top of the bank’s 2 percent to 3 percent target range by mid-2012. In early October, to prevent inflation from accelerating, the central bank increased the overnight cash rate target by 150 basis points, or 1.5 percentage points, to 4.5 percent in May from a half-century low of 3 percent.

I think this is a good thing that the central bank is being careful on inflation. However, no one knows the future; as a result Australia must keep an eye on inflation continuously.

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Dizzee Rascal calls journalist a "bitch", demands footage be destroyed at Big Day Out

The reason I choose this article is because many people like to read gossip.

In Sydney, on Friday at the Big Day Out concert. While a rapper Dizzee Rascal, who is well known for songs such Bonkers and Suk my Dik, was surrounding by publicists, he was interview by Alison Stephenson (News.com.au reporter). At the end of interview Stephenson asked him that if he had ever fallen on the stage. The rapper answered, ‘Yeah, yeah I have stacked it on stage’. Stephenson asked again that did he eat the floor or anything. As a result, he blasted out calling a journalist a “bitch”. Later on, Dizzee refused to leave his place and give any further interview that day until Stephenson agreed to delete the video. Stephenson said that she was not expecting an apology and she also did not get one. However, this was not the first controversy that the rapper has faced on his summer tour of Australia.
I think everyone can make a mistake, but only if you do not take it as a habit of saying it. Being a super star, it does not mean you can do or speak everything.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/dizzee-rascal-calls-journalist-a-bitch-at-the-big-day-out/story-e6frfn10-1225823300207

Katy Perry Shares Teenage Dreams with Australia

I choose this article because Katy Perry is the american pop princess which is many people's favorite. Many people like to follow where ever she goes, and what ever she does.

Right now, she is on a promo tour of Australia. Her new single, Teenage Dream, the album comes out August 24th. With her voice floating over the track as light as air, Katy talks about those precious feelings and feeling young forever with her new flame. The feelings are so good, Katy wants to “go all the way” with no regrets. " We all remember falling in love for the first time as teenagers. That lovey dovey feeling at the sound of your sweetheart’s voice, the butterflies when you touch", said Katy.

I think this track can be more popular than her current hit "California Gurls", which right now is No.1 on hit single.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/katy-perrys-teenage-dream-in-australia/story-e6frfn09-1225904199991

Roll Up Your iPad Through Latest Technology Introduced by Italy and Australia Researchers

Because it is a very interesting thing that how iPad could be rolled like a newspaper, I choose this article.
It is one of the newest technologies. Researchers in Australia and Italy were developing a new technology which could enable you to roll up your iPad, TV or mobile phones and carry it under your arm as you would a newspaper. At Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization and Padua University, Italy, researchers have been using laser technology to make such devices slimmer, much more flexible, and what is more important to the consumer, so much cheaper. The screen that would be replacing a light bulb also was being used to develop by the same technology. The laser technology would also dramatically cut manufacturing costs and make color displays brighter. The researchers were developing prototypes to take to Apple and other manufacturers next year. The prototype has been in development for the past five years. The technology could easily be applied to iPads to make them more user-friendly said by researcher Jacek Jasieniak.

In my opinion, it is amazing because we could take iPad or TV with us anywhere just by rolling it. MORE

Iphone 4 released

Iphone is one of the most used mobile phone in Thailand. However, there are also a huge group of people who used iphone in Australia.

Today, in Australia, the question for Apple’s iphone 4 is where to get the best band although they launched too many exhibitions. This is because the iphone 4 has had a troubled journey since it first launched in the US last month, with users complaining of antenna issues. Steve Jobs was forced to offer free protective cases to users because of this problem. However, many people, who are fan of Iphone, still wait in a line from early morning to buy an Iphone. Mark Novosel, IDC Australia telecommunications analyst, advised that before taking the plunge users must check their spending patterns and priorities. “People really need to know what their needs are ... some people just want all their friends to be on the same network -- that's important to them," Mr. Novosel said.

I think it is a common thing that iphone 4 is having a problem as every new technology does when it first created. Even so, I hope it would be improve in future.

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