This is going to end well
Crazy president No 1 with plans to extend sphere of influence in the Middle East: Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, and the United States is rallying friends and allies to isolate Iran’s regime to impose economic sanctions. [...]
Guest post by Jim McDonald: Rudd’s IR announcement
Dr Jim McDonald blogs at Rage and Enthusiasm, and is a former senior union official and adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations at Griffith University. Laborâs new IR implementation policy announced by Labor leader, Kevin Rudd, fails the [...]
Guest post by Jim McDonald: Rudd's IR announcement
Dr Jim McDonald blogs at Rage and Enthusiasm, and is a former senior union official and adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations at Griffith University. Laborâ??s new IR implementation policy announced by Labor leader, Kevin Rudd, fails the [...]
Cheaper natural gas – not for long…
Apparently natural gas bills are likely to get cheaper in Victoria in the short term, after the Essential Services Commission proposed a cut in the service charge paid to the monopoly distributors of gas throughout the state. If natural gas [...]
Election Speculation
An open thread where, at the mercy of your election-year mania, you may discuss various breaking politicking news that is not on topic for other current threads.
Who saw a red moon a-rising?
Image Credit: ohmykozy See larger image at ohmykozy’s Flickrstream and heaps of images at the Australian Photographers Flickr-group. We went to Sydney Park which was full of dinks from the nearby apartments with beer and wine, and families with kids [...]
Samantha Fox and her “very close friend”
Samantha Fox is in the country to participate in the latest Countdown potter down memory lane. Fox was the female who confirmed for a generation of working-class girls that the only way out of the East End was to possess [...]
Samantha Fox and her "very close friend"
Samantha Fox is in the country to participate in the latest Countdown potter down memory lane. Fox was the female who confirmed for a generation of working-class girls that the only way out of the East End was to possess [...]
Hank is going to hell
So? Anyone watch Californication on 10 last night or was everyone too busy finger banging the cat? I laughed especially hard when the David Duchovny character (Hank, a writer) was pitched a blogging gig by his friend Charlie, now that’s [...]
The musical is the political: West End cabaret
It’s interesting how one evening can crystallise a few strands of thought. Recently, former Brisbane Labor Lord Mayor (and now paid huckster for developers) Jim Soorley hit out at West End folks: FORMER lord mayor Jim Soorley has accused West [...]
Nasty union bosses in my face, no thanks!
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/iwfm.jpg" Lordy, they might swear or something. But according to sources connected to policy negotiations, Labor wants to quash business fears that militant union officials such as Western Australia’s Joe McDonald could once again have carte blanche to enter [...]
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