Word: australian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there were an international prize for mean-spiritedness, controversial author Germaine Greer would be on the podium this week delivering her acceptance speech. Steve Irwin's body was barely out of the water before the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper published the expatriate Australian's opinion that the animal world "has finally taken its revenge" on the Crocodile Hunter...
...over time, the idea that the price of Telstra shares was a political albatross, or that the regulators would rig the game to the company's advantage, has been put to rest. The world has changed?for Telstra and its competitors, investors and Canberra. Voters have wised up. Australians have now lived through a decent cycle of asset-market turbulence (even though gross domestic product has been expanding for 15 years). Says one government adviser: "House prices are the key to how Australian voters feel about their wealth. Full stop." Among existing homeowners, only those who bought late...
...people haven't fully absorbed that the political rules have changed on Telstra, including those hard-driving executives who run the company. Since he arrived last year, chief executive Sol Trujillo has participated in a flamboyant campaign against the regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; senior ministers are in thrall, if that's the right word, to his charm, moxie and talent to infuriate. Trujillo, however, is doing what he was hired to do: get the best deals possible for Telstra shareholders, hurt the competition and revamp the company for growth. The market has yet to applaud his efforts...
...Australian naturalist Steve Irwin was famous for getting up close and personal with his deadly subjects. He leapt fearlessly on to the backs of man-eating crocodiles, wrestled Komodo Dragons and deftly juggled snakes as they sought to plunge their venomous fangs into his arm or face, all the while keeping up a lively commentary for the cameras of his multimillion-dollar documentary operation. Scratched, bitten and bruised, he would display his wounds like trophies, casually using gaffer tape to bind up a severe bite from a large saltwater crocodile that he had been wrestling in a mangrove swamp...
...This morning, at 11am Australian time, things finally came unglued for the 44-year-old as he was shooting a documentary segment on stingrays. Snorkeling on Batt Reef , a stretch of the Great Barrier Reef about 15km from Port Douglas in North Queensland, Irwin happened to swim over a large ray which, startled, whipped its barbed tail upwards into his chest. He died instantly. Veteran marine wildlife documentary maker Ben Cropp, who has spent hundreds of hours filming on Batt Reef, says Irwin had come too close to a bull ray. Citing a colleague who saw footage of the attack...