Eat less red meat, drink more red wine…
…or drink no wine at all, especially if you’re a woman with any breast cancer risk factors. That seems to be the gist of the latest health advice in relation to cancer and heart disease. Meat: The World Cancer Research [...]
Tsunami Pete v. Swannie
According to the Courier-Mail, which runs with some (well-timed) leaked Labor polling on Costello’s image, the debate between the Treasurers will be telecast today at 12.30pm on the ABC and also on Nine where the worm will be back. Peter [...]
AHA starting to lose the battle against small bars
While the nation wonders how it is going to survive another four weeks of election campaigning, Sydneysiders are focusing on more important issues such as Clover Moore’s Small Bar bill. As previously discussed on LP, the aim of the bill [...]
4 Corners on Australia’s air force procurement
Tonight’s 4 Corners was about the mess that is Australia’s fighter plane procurement plans, something that’s been noted previously on LP. Most of the material has been covered elsewhere before, but there was a new tidbit in tonight’s report. According [...]
Hey, this barrow has a corpse in it!
One remarkable feature of this weekâ??s eulogies for â??crazyâ?? John Mustafa Ilhan is that two columnists at opposite ideological poles have both loaded his body into their respective barrows and taken it for a victory lap around the graveyard. Irfan [...]
Garrett and Rudd show a bit of policy bravery – well for a day at least
Lenore Taylor, National affairs writer for the AFR is one journalist who seems to be across the issue of climate change. John Howard’s climate change policy is illogical. Now his Environment Minister has all but said so. Kevin Rudd’s policy [...]
Newspoll: Yawn
According to the latest Newspoll, the narrowing is on. Or something. Because with Labor still on a primary of 48%, it’s evident that some of any genuine movement that’s being picked up is coming from elsewhere – perhaps independents or [...]
More wisdom from Shanahan
Today’s instalment: There are criticisms within the Liberal camp about the extent Mr Howard seeks the advice of his former chief of staff, Grahame Morris, and that Mr Howard appears to be running his own marginal seat campaign against Labor’s [...]
Family First candidate dumped for exposing his policy
In the United States, a pleasing aspect of the so called family values politicians that pander to the religious right is that many seem to trip over their own self-righteous feet of clay. Witness the downfall of Larry Craig and [...]
Week two in review
I’ve written a post over at New Matilda’s PollieGraph on the second week of the campaign.
Senate seats in the broadsheets
Goodness, there seems to be something in the air in today’s newspapers. The Fairfax press, anyway. The Age editorial: X marks the spot on the post-election Senate map and an article: How the fight for the Senate will unfold. SMH [...]
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