Based on area, the author might be correct that "most of Australia... eschews" DST. Those states and territories account for 77% of Australia's total land area (7.7M km^2 / 3.0M mi^2). However, only 32% of Australia's population lives in those areas. So, despite complaining about waking up an hour earlier in the initial days of DST, 78% of Australians enjoy the extended leisure time afforded by DST.

Indeed, hereâ(TM)s an excerpt from the guardian on parts of NSW (between Newcastle and Brisbane) that are presently in the path of the fire: âoe[These] reserves include the largest areas of subtropical rainforest on the planet, some warm temperate rainforest and nearly all the worldâ(TM)s Antarctic beech cool temperate rainforest. They are considered a living link to the vegetation that covered the southern supercontinent Gondwana before it broke up about 180m years ago.â If they go up in smoke, they wonâ(TM)t be returning anytime soon. Furthermore, hereâ(TM)s link to a graphic that demonstrates what the 4,500,000 hectares (over 10M acres) of burnt land looks like overlayed on world cities. Essentially, itâ(TM)s the entire south east of England from Southampton to Coventry to Ipswich including all of London: https://www.theguardian.com/au...

Everyone has been looking at the black/white issue. The real issue is that the model 'appears' to be using a white Macbook. Also, the logo in the original image has been shoddily cloned out (ie: you can JUST see where it was). After the Photoshop/Gimp-job, the cloning is less obvious due to artifacting. This raises questions: 1) why didn't MS replace the laptop with a generic Wintel? 2) should the laptop have been changed to black in compensation? (ok, ok, I'm kidding on that last one!) ps: who cares about proper use of the photoshop trademark?