By dk.au on January 26, 2009
So Malcolm Turnbull has given a speech about climate policy to the Young Liberals Convention in Canberra (does that count as ‘annoucing policy’?) riffing off a rich heritage of Conservative climate campaigners from Thatcher, to Schwarznegger, David Cameron and, somewhat [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Howardia, Markets, Policy, Technology | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, biosequestration, climate policy, cprs, fiona wain, Green Carbon Initiative, Malcolm Turnbull, soil carbon |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dobson.jpg" align=left Indigenous activist, academic and co-chair of Reconciliation Australia Professor Mick Dodson has been named “Australian of the Year”. This award makes an interesting contrast with the selection by The Australian of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Bart Cummings. [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Indigenous, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australia Day, Australian of the Year, bridging the gap, Indigenous issues, Indigenous policy, Invasion Day, Labor, Mick Dodson, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
I have just a little feeling there might be some interest in discussing what’s on ABC1 at 7.30pm. <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2008-xmas.jpg" Image via Hoyden. Elsewhere: Catriona at Circulating Library often liveblogs Doctor Who, so it’s worth checking in at 7.30pm Queensland [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged david tennant, doctor-who, next doctor, whoverse |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
Following on from one of the conclusions that can be drawn from the thread on Bernard Keane’s critique of the Rudd government’s involvement with bankers – that there’s a growing perception that the long term implications of “emergency” economic decisions [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Industrial Relations, Markets, Politics, Poverty | Tagged ALP, AMWU, car manufacturing, employment, free markets, industry assistance, industry policy, Labor, labour market, labour market programs, neoliberalism, Rudd government, skills, Tenneco, unemployment, unions, vehicle parts |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 24, 2009
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Posted in Miscellaneous |
By Robert Merkel on January 23, 2009
It’s summer, and the annual battle between the Japanese whaling ships, and Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace, is on again. Meanwhile, another group, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, is trying a more subtle approach, charging that Japan’s whaling activities violate [...]
Posted in Environment, International | Tagged fishing, Greenpeace, International Fund for Animal Welfare, international whaling commission, iwc, japan, sea shepherd, whaling |
By Paul Norton on January 23, 2009
Liberal Senator and ultra-right bomb-thrower Eric Abetz has resorted to scriptural metaphors in a tirade against Liberal moderates to be delivered at the Young Liberals federal convention on Saturday: While it may make for good media copy, doomsaying of the [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics, Religion |
By Robert Merkel on January 22, 2009
Well, it seems that a few commercial-scale “clean coal” plants are reaching the moderately serious planning stages. But, as with the abandoned Hydrogen Power plant in Western Australia, the costs are just mindblowingly expensive. Sean Casten at Gristmill looks at [...]
Posted in Energy, Science, Technology | Tagged clean coal, gasification, igcc, taylorville energy center, tensaka |
By Mercurius on January 22, 2009
I am a skeptic. You are a denialist. He is a mad conspiracy theorist. With the blogospheric emergence of the OMG AGW is a conspiracy/hoax/cabal! meme, we see climate change skepticism descend into full-fledged nuttiness on a par with other [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Environment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 22, 2009
In a piece in today’s Crikey sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s remarks about the difficulty Australian banks are having accessing foreign capital, Bernard Keane makes some good points about the response to the global financial crisis: Rudd’s rather anodyne response [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Policy | Tagged banks, bernard keane, economic policy, Economics, finance, financial sector, global financial crisis, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, nationalisation, neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Rudd government |
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