Kevin, you still got some 'splaining to do
The previous Haneef thread is getting long, so let’s summarise today’s news: The UK police were the source of the misinformation about the location where Haneef’s old SIM card was found (scratch one of the perceived AFP stuffups, although it [...]
Surge over
The current state of play in the standoff between Congress and Bush over Iraq is that the military commander, General Petraeus, will report to Congress in September on the progress of the surge. Petraeus, who was appointed because he’s supposed [...]
Somebody pays attention to New Zealand
Context is here.
Mark Bahnisch is writing a blog post about Facebook 38 seconds ago
I’ve been resisting the urge to try to conceptualise what I like about Facebook, and what makes it different from other social networking media. Instead, I’ve been urging people to give it a try. But Pavlov’s Cat has done a [...]
The Crikey Guide to the 2007 Election
…is out today. Details here. I’ve received a copy in the mail, and I’ll have a review posted in due course. But in the meantime, there’s some good news for psephological junkies feeling deprived by the absence of The Poll [...]
Who is deserting the Liberals?
There’s an interesting piece of analysis of qualitative polling over at On Line Opinion from Graham Young of the very large sample of respondents to the National Forum poll I wrote about in an earlier post. It’s worth reading in [...]
What about experience?
While down here in marvellous Melbourne our Premier might have left at the top of his game, an even more important figure was eased out. For every column inch devoted to Steve Bracks going, there has been two devoted to [...]
Communicating with the Pleroma has always been possible
Here’s one for the Aeon Flux fans. Peter Chung re/visions Tomb Raider: It’s much more Chung than Lara Croft. Here’s an interview he gave about his view of film-making, in the context of the remastering of the Aeon DVD: I [...]
Haneef on 60 Minutes
Today Kevin Andrews had this to say about the character of Dr. Mohamed Haneef. His lawyers indicated to my department … that he wanted to get out of Australia as soon as possible. If anything that rather heightens, rather than [...]
Alive and brilliant
Despite having a really appalling cold which probably means I should go back to bed, I couldn’t be more excited about the Deborah Conway gig at the Powerhouse this arvo (part of the Queensland Festival of Music.) If we’re very [...]
What is the economy, stupid?
The commentary from Rod Cameron on Lateline last night was interesting. As Christopher Sheil observes at Troppo, the key insight is that Costello’s trashing of Howard’s record as Treasurer and criticism of his profligacy as PM is very dangerous for [...]
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