False advertising by Oz plonkers

Seems Oz wine growers were duped by their lead scientific agency wrongly growing and marketing a supposed niche variety that has just been confirmed to be common plonk. And a white at that.

Producers who thought they had bought the promising Spanish white wine variety albarino and poured marketing dollars into carving a niche for that variety, have been bottling the almost unheard of French variety savagnin blanc, not to be confused with sauvignon blanc.

A visiting French expert raised questions last year, and DNA testing has confirmed winemakers' worst nightmare. The material CSIRO sourced from Spain is savagnin.

Material had been imported in 1989 when there was no DNA typing available.

What else could I expect from an Australian? It's just not cricket.

Dingos chasing their own s59

Using tree-hugger Bradford's anti-smacking laws as a fine example of legislation, dingos on the other side of the ditch want something similar.

Smacking of children by parents is currently legal under the common law, as long as reasonable force is used and the sole intention is to correct behaviour.

As it was in NZ and should still be. Haven't they heard of the upcoming referendum on that matter and the fact that 85% were dead set against that change?

This time it is one of their academics pushing for change. Again suggesting Mr Plod should be the arbitrator with a wishy-washy law.

I would expect that police will not take action unless there is not real harm done

Now remind me how many kids are on the wall of shame since that loony law was passed.

I expect Oz parents will tell Krudd where to smack this suggestion.