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What is Abbott up to?
Max Gillies Smith thought the Abbott budget reply a series of stumbles. These include the promise that peoples “fortnightly budgets will be under less pressure as electricity prices fall and gas prices fall and the carbon tax no longer cascades [...]
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Trolling coal: jobs, climate and the Iron Lady
The pre-recorded televised tributes have ended. The street parties are over. In Britain, the outrage that swelled in some quarters over the Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s faux state funeral has died away, leaving in its wake the dull, tedious thrumming of [...]
Climate clippings 74
The weekend was a bit ordinary for me, but as supercoach Wayne Bennett says, if you can’t say anything nice say nothing. That’s how he addressed his troops after the thrashing they got in the previous week. This week they [...]
Lazy Sunday
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!
Saturday Salon
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything* you like. * Weekly Reminder: Comments Policy | Netiquette FAQ | rinse-and-repeat news-cycle churn/spin should be taken to the Overflow thread
Greenland melt
You may have seen images like this before, demonstrating the progressive summer melting of the Greenland ice sheet: Then in July 2012 this happened: The image on the left represents melting on 8 July. By 12 July some 97% of [...]
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Culture
- Towards a sociological concept of neo-liberalism I
April 12, 2013 (22 responses) - Margaret Thatcher and neo-liberal sovereignty
April 11, 2013 (72 responses) - Envisioning realistic Utopias, realised utopias, Erik Olin Wright and Crooked Timber
April 7, 2013 (10 responses)
Miscellaneous
- Weekly Whimsy
May 22, 2013 (2 responses) - Saturday Salon
May 18, 2013 (35 responses) - Saturday Salon
May 11, 2013 (75 responses)
Policy
- What is Abbott up to?
May 21, 2013 (43 responses) - Trolling coal: jobs, climate and the Iron Lady
May 21, 2013 (62 responses) - Raising the GST
May 20, 2013 (28 responses)
Politics
- What is Abbott up to?
May 21, 2013 (43 responses) - Trolling coal: jobs, climate and the Iron Lady
May 21, 2013 (62 responses) - Raising the GST
May 20, 2013 (28 responses)
Politics of the Election
- What is Abbott up to?
May 21, 2013 (43 responses) - Raising the GST
May 20, 2013 (28 responses) - Abbott budget reply open thread
May 16, 2013 (46 responses)
Polls
- Campbell Newman’s austerity and privatisation agendas are toxic in Brisbane
April 11, 2013 (16 responses) - Why we have Labor leadership spills and stoushes; and how to avoid them
March 20, 2013 (85 responses) - Does Labor need a primary vote in the low 40s to win?
March 16, 2013 (33 responses)
Process
- How low will they go?
April 19, 2013 (81 responses) - Tweedledee, Tweedledum: all electoral systems were not created equal
April 15, 2013 (38 responses) - Australian misses actual story on Simon Sheikh and ACT Greens leaked email
April 8, 2013 (14 responses)
Sociology
- The best place in the world to be a mother
May 16, 2013 (11 responses) - Feminism and the terrifying dependency of children
May 9, 2013 (97 responses) - Sexualising Keynes: Not just about Niall Ferguson
May 7, 2013 (12 responses)