Club Troppo’s Missing Link has a good round up of blogospheric commentary on the 2020 summit, and Tim Dunlop at Blogocracy links to some posts as well as commentary in the MSM.
The interim report of the summit is online here.
Update: More from Andrew Bartlett, Andrew Norton, Lauredhel, Derek Barry, Gary Sauer-Thompson, gatewatching, tigtog and John Quiggin. Bartlett also has a large number of links in his post with summaries.
Further update: More posts from Graham Young, Andrew Leigh and Jacques Chester, and a plethora of commentary at New Matilda, where there are articles on “The Long View”, the governance stream, and climate change.
Stuart Cunningham writes about the digital agenda, and at PollieGraph, Ben Eltham has an initial look at the Creative Australia stream, about which I’ll also be having something to say in due course.
And there’s more: A new links post from Andrew Bartlett. The post will be updated with more links over the next few days as they come in. Andrew Leigh republishes his op/ed from today’s Fin Review at his blog.
Cross-posted at PollieGraph.
BTW, I’m currently working on a 2020-related post. Should be up mid-afternoon or so…
There were some pretty intense live conversations on 2020 (pre, during and post summit) on Twitter, the immediacy and the character limitations there made for some quick moving and interesting conversations. Too bad the rest of the blogosphere missed it.
John Winston Howard must’ve has nightmares on Sunday night. Kevin Rudd given a standing ovation. (He never got that outside of a Liberal Party Conference or a Liberal Party party on election night.
Worse, everything he stood for (pactically) over the past 11 years more or less overturned in one weekend.
And worse even still, his years of government implicitly defined as years of lost opportunity.
Good on yer, Kev.
As for media/blog coverage, right wing snarly. Surprise, surprise. Everybody else, reasonably thoughtful, sort of.
MSM, mainly trivial. Who woulda thought it.
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Looking forward to it. Does it contain any “big ideas” of your own Robert?
It does, of sorts.
I’m also working on an analysis of the 2020 sustainability stream report. Preliminary conclusions: disappointingly timid, bureaucratic, and populist.
Paul Burns says:
Paul, the “standing ovation” Rudd got at the 20.20 stunt was the equivalent to those standing ovations Howard got at Liberal Party election rallies.
- Annabel Crabb
Yes my impression also. It seems Penny Wong kept a lid on any real debate in the climate change stream. I mean, how hard can it be endorse the idea of no new coal-fired powerstations without CCS? Its not like its official govt policy!
A cynic might think that’s precisely why she’s in the job of climate change minister. i.e. to stop anything happening.
You might argue that an explicit moratorium is unnecessary because carbon trading is coming, and if implemented seriously will make new-build coal without CCS unviable.
Further update: More posts from Graham Young, Andrew Leigh and Jacques Chester, and a plethora of commentary at New Matilda, where there are articles on “The Long View”, the governance stream, climate change.
Stuart Cunningham writes about the digital agenda, and at PollieGraph, Ben Eltham has an initial look at the Creative Australia stream, about which I’ll also be having something to say in due course.
Dear Friends;
I am writing to let you know about a significantly expanded and updated version of a paper of mine which has been published on Znet. (nb: it has doubled in size since its previous incarnation)
Issues covered range from tax, health, education, welfare, aged care, the housing crisis, and including an expanded social wage… If the explanations of Australian political terms seems a little cumbersome - this is because the paper was also written with an international audience in mind. I thought the areas I cover are relevant in light of the recent debate surrounding the 2020 Summit.
Znet and Leftwrites now allow for reader comments – and your input would be appreciated. Feel free to comment either here at Larvatus Prodeo, or at Znet or Leftwrites. I would appreciate the opportunity to stir up some debate.
The article can be found at the URLs below - although for some reason the links don’t seem to always be working.
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/17191
http://www.leftwrites.net/2008/04/20/australia-some-ideas-for-change-comment-here-or-at-znet/#more-1226
Again – feel free to comment in your Blog, or at Znet or Leftwrites…
And feel free to reproduce this article elsewhere - and please let the author know if you do: tristane@bigpond.net.au
Take care, and all the best.
sincerely,
Tristan Ewins
tristane@bigpond.net.au
And there’s more: A new links post from Andrew Bartlett. The post will be updated with more links over the next few days as they come in.
I was very impressed by Mick Jeffrey’s loaves and fishes act at the start, able to make 1002 martinis with only a 18 inch long tube of ice. That was cool.
Haven’t had time to look at a lot of the blog commentary. I only read the papers this arvo. I reckon the commentary following the Jabberfest will prove more interesting than the Jabberfest itself.
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Seem to me that Kevvie just picking up where Paul left off. A tad misguided I think. I mean why did Paul get the boot. And as much as I loathe David Flint he has a point - the monarchists deserved a voice. They did win remember.
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I reckon Kevvie should focus on health and education and not looking like he’s fucked the economy. That’s it for now.
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And also would someone please tell him what the word treaty means.
“I reckon the commentary following the Jabberfest will prove more interesting than the Jabberfest itself.”
As opposed to what real event?
Andrew Leigh republishes his op/ed from today’s Fin Review at his blog.