The green police are having their way on things like emissions standards and petrol consumption and the nerds are having their way on the internet controlling cars so that soon we will all be sitting in silent Toyota Priuses doing nothing but trying to find something to do with o...

Everyone’s a great Australian these days. You only have to appear on a reality TV show, help win a footy game or give away some tax deductible money to see your name in the paper. Of course the real great Australians hardly get a look in. 

They tell me there are quite a few workers who won’t be in Monterey next week. Well I know not everyone can afford the $325 entry to Gordon McCalls Motorworks Revival at the Monterey Jet Centre. But they do throw in free wine and food. That’s if you can find the waitp...