These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as an open thread. This post has emphasised adaptation and mitigation, essentially what we need to do to achieve a safe climate. Comments, about science, [...]
It may have escaped attention last week that the Coalition waved the Gonski bill through the House of Representatives on the voices and without amendment. The common view in the press has been that Gonski is dead in the water [...]
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what else did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
In order to keep Saturday Salon as a 2013 Federal election-free zone, here’s a separate news-cycle week-ending thread where you can talk about anything related to current politics and the election.
A few days ago when Abbott once again invaded our TV screens protesting how many women surround him, my wife happened to be reading Laura Tingle’s Quarterly Essay on page 52 on how Howard and Abbott had changed the Liberal [...]
It’s time, methinks, for the first condemn thread of the revived LP. Feel free to condemn the living daylights out of whatever has got your goat recently – but do try to keep this thread stoush-free. To kick things off, [...]
When the first female prime minister of the country makes abortion an explicit topic for debate, surely we can take a moment to acknowledge what a big deal that is.
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