Gold Coast Titans boss Michael Searle is fending off criticism of how the Coast was presented at the NRL grand final presentation featuring women in gold lame swimsuits. "Come on, if anyone else can tell me how to better promote the Gold Coast, I'll take it to the National Rugby League, but we are bikinis, we are swimsuits, we are board shorts, we are malibus and we are the Gold Coast Titans."
White shoes and bling, perhaps?

It really is a small world after all - especially if you're only interested in visiting Walt Disney related attractions. As this article reports, a group of Australians is taking a 32-day world tour of all the Disney theme parks - even though they are all basically the same. One of them says: "I don't think I'll ever get tired of going. What I like about Disney parks is that once you go through those front gates you sort of leave the real world behind you. That's why it's so appealing."

I thought we all did it, but an American poll proves at least half of us admit to it. That's the practise of "re-gifting" - rewrapping a present you've received and giving it to someone else. Why do we do it? Because we think the present is more suitable for somebody else, or simply because we're too lazy to go out and shop. More here.

On 612 ABC this morning, I spoke to John Schluter (filling in for Spencer Howson) about re-gifting, the lack of clocks at airport terminals, Kink Friedman's bid to become governor of Texas and the secret behind the laptop computer on the ABC TV news desk (as I suspected, it's there just for show).

Britain's premium-rate phone line regulator, Icstis, has ruled that Big Brother misled viewers who paid to evict contestants then watched as one of them returned to the house. Media Guardian reports that Icstis received 2635 complaints after evicted housemate Nikki Grahame was allowed back on to the show. Apart from often insulting our intelligence, "reality" shows like Big Brother are money spinners for TV networks which make lots of money on pemium-rate phone calls. It's good to see one of them held to account for breaching the viewers' trust.