If only it were a conspiracy…
Dennis Shanahan, playing with a fairly straight bat for once, pre-reports on the unreleased findings from John Clarke QC’s report into the charging and deportation of Dr. Mohammad Haneef. According to the report: Haneef should not have been charged. Haneef [...]
I won’t add my condemn to your condemn XXXI (Christmas edition)
Well it’s the night before the night before the night before Christmas so it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a 31st open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this week so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, [...]
Glogging
Anyone wanting an update on how the federal government’s adventures into the wilds of citizen consultation via blogs [at the Digital Economy Blog hosted under the auspices of DBCDE] are going could do a lot worse than read these two [...]
Who'll get your CPRS dollars?
Short answer: big companies from The UK, America, State Gubbermints and some Aussie companies. Beyond the headline figure of a unilateral 5% cut on 2000 levels, the numbers that will get us there look deeply disturbing. As I argued, there [...]
Calculating 'Black Swan Events' or how to falsify one's own hard fought thesis
John Quiggin picks up on something that has been bugging me for a while. The idea of the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) as a ‘black swan event’ had some appeal to me. Philosophers have typically approached the problem of induction [...]
Holden demonstrates great market timing
Petrol prices are plummeting. This must be the cue for an Australian car manufacturer to announce they’re going to build a small, fuel-efficient car in Australia. Yes, Holden is going to build its first smaller cars in Australia since the [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Predictable bigotry
Crossposted from No Right Turn On Thursday, 66 countries supported a landmark declaration in the UN General Assembly calling for full equality regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, the legalisation of homosexuality, and an end to “violence, harassment, discrimination, [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Speaking of Queensland politics…
As a bit of a postscript to my last post on the latest Queensland Newspoll, The Poll Bludger advises that Antony Green’s analysis of the redistributed state electoral boundaries has been published as a paper by the Queensland Parliamentary Library. [...]
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