Grave ethical concerns?
A government-commissioned report into stem cell research has found the arguments for therapeutic cloning have not advanced since the issue was last debated in Parliament four years ago. So what is the real debate about stem cells? Where is the [...]
Sir Joh haunts the Queensland coalition
Note: This post is part of the series of Crikey Queensland election commentary and is cross-posted at Currumbin2Cook. Update: The Poll Bludger comments on the Newspoll. —– The Australian highlighted a Newspoll on its front page yesterday which showed Team [...]
America sucks! (headline approved by the new US Ambassador)
The incoming US Ambassador said this. “I want to get out across the entire continent of Australia” to say that “it’s OK to disagree with this US policy or that US policy but still be pro-American because we have so [...]
The PM’s dumb mantra
Last night on Lateline the Prime Minister was busted spinning a contradictory line. We’re grappling perhaps for the first time – for any Australian generation – we’re grappling with the reality that a lot of these things are no longer [...]
Why state oppositions are hopeless
Note: This post is part of the series of Crikey Queensland election commentary and is cross-posted at Currumbin2Cook. —– Gerard Henderson is only the latest pundit to make what is by now a trite observation – state oppositions seem incapable [...]
Amazing Amazon: here today, but tomorrow?!
Tim Flannery in his book The Weather Makers has a chapter on three biggies, three possible adverse events in the future of our climate that we should avoid at all costs and that would spell big trouble for the climate [...]
Winning form or The L Word?
Part of the fantasy aspect of The L Word was the trajectory women’s circuit tennis player Dana took after she came out. She’d always been advised by her agent that revealing her sexuality would be a disaster for her endorsements. [...]
The Republican Liberal War on Science
Griffith University emeritus professor Ian Lowe has an opinion piece in the latest issue of Australasian Science on how the politicization of science by the Federal government is driving scientists overseas to continue their work or even to ‘censor’ results. [...]
Crikey story: Preferences and the Queensland campaign
Note: This story was published in Crikey today and is cross posted at Currumbin2Cook. Elsewhere: More commentary on preference strategies at The Poll Bludger. Much of Laborâs electoral success outside Brisbane from 1998 was built on the back of exploiting [...]
The Truth About Jon-Benet’s Killer…
…is that s/he is not John Mark Karr. The charges against Karr have been dropped because the DNA found at the scene does not match that of Karr. This is deeply embarrassing for New Idea magazine, because the cover of [...]
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