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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, [...]
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Gonski under Abbott
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 [...]
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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 almost anything* you like.
* some comments are likely to be far more welcome as part of existing discussions e.g. there’s already plenty of election threads!
Weekly Election2013 Roundtable
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.
Visceral tribalism: Abbott’s Liberal Party
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 [...]
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Culture
- Will the maroons be blue?
June 5, 2013 (7 responses) - Towards a sociological concept of neo-liberalism I
April 12, 2013 (22 responses) - Margaret Thatcher and neo-liberal sovereignty
April 11, 2013 (72 responses)
Miscellaneous
- Saturday Salon
June 15, 2013 (47 responses) - Saturday Salon
June 8, 2013 (77 responses) - Saturday Salon
June 1, 2013 (73 responses)
Policy
- Gonski under Abbott
June 17, 2013 (58 responses) - Legionnaires disease strikes at Brisbane’s Wesley Hospital
June 10, 2013 (21 responses) - Homelessness in Australia – progress in a complex picture
June 6, 2013 (8 responses)
Politics
- Gonski under Abbott
June 17, 2013 (58 responses) - Weekly Election2013 Roundtable
June 14, 2013 (101 responses) - Visceral tribalism: Abbott’s Liberal Party
June 14, 2013 (35 responses)
Politics of the Election
- Gonski under Abbott
June 17, 2013 (58 responses) - Weekly Election2013 Roundtable
June 14, 2013 (101 responses) - Visceral tribalism: Abbott’s Liberal Party
June 14, 2013 (35 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
- Improving major project management – a UK perspective
June 4, 2013 (9 responses) - How low will they go?
April 19, 2013 (81 responses) - Tweedledee, Tweedledum: all electoral systems were not created equal
April 15, 2013 (38 responses)
Sociology
- Abortion is not a plaything and it’s not a wedge
June 13, 2013 (102 responses) - 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)