By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2009
As another followup to recent posts on Barnaby Joyce’s egofest (driven by the Howardian egofest), Lawrence Springborg has weighed in – in the Barnaby corner: Queensland’s Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg said the comments helped highlight the faults in Labor’s scheme. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Climate change, Coalition, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, House of Reps, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, Queensland Nationals, seat, Senate, The Greens, white paper |
By dk.au on January 14, 2009
At the risk of overdosing on JW Howard Ego Legacy watching, here’s a follow up to Mark’s post about the weird power vacuum. Barnaby’s come out swinging against an ETS this morning replete with IRC Troll-esque talking points: Our Barnaby [...]
Posted in Climate change, Howardia, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Climate change, emissions trading, John W. Howard, white paper |
By tigtog on January 14, 2009
Open “Man of Steel” thread: the medal, the hype, the other recipients, the legacy etc. The former British prime minister, Tony Blair, and the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, were also honoured at the ceremony. So, whaddaya reckon? *back to holiday [...]
Posted in Howardia, USA | Tagged ceremony, George W. Bush, John Howard, legacy, medal, Washington |
By Brian on January 14, 2009
Recently I’ve seen and heard a number of stories saying that the winter sea ice levels in the Arctic are right back at 1979 levels, so what’s to worry? On the polar bears thread I expected this story to appear, [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Antarctica, Arctic, arctic ice, Arctic melting, Climate change, climate change denialism, climate science |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
It’s probably time to continue the Gaza conversation on another thread. A discussion starter might be to link to some interesting thoughts from Daniel Levy, who for mine is one of the clearest thinkers about the whole morass of Israeli-Palestinian [...]
Posted in International, Middle East, Palestine, War | Tagged conflict, Daniel Levy, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, violence, War |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland’s the only state to hold an election this year, and excitement is obviously building. Well, that’s one way of looking at it — if you’re either a News Limited journo looking for a lazy piece [...]
Posted in Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane Central, Clive Palmer, election speculation, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Matthew Palmer, Media, News Limited, Nudgee, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Robert Merkel on January 13, 2009
Lance Armstrong is a hell of a cyclist. But the anticipation surrounding his ride in the Tour Down Under in Adelaide is just bizarre. He’s not here to win. He’s here for a glorified training ride. Lance Armstrong is a [...]
Posted in Adelaide, Sport | Tagged lance armstrong, tour down under |
By Brian on January 13, 2009
The usual expert advice is that: two-thirds of the world’s polar bears — including all of those in Alaska and most of Canada’s western Arctic — will be gone by 2050. The only ones remaining, the panel warned, will be [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged Arctic, polar bear |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2009
Of late, there’s been something of an upsurge of bad news about the news, prompted probably by the coincidence in the acceleration in the decline of newspaper business models under the pressure of the global financial crisis and the upsurge [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Consumerism, Culture, Markets, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged audiences, Bachratz, Baratz, decline, editors, global financial crisis, Jay Rosen, journalism, Media, media studies, new media, newspapers, non-decision making, non-decisions, pluralism, political science, power, Sociology, sociology of culture |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
The economic news of the day was a fall in the number of jobs advertised – as measured by ANZ – to “recession levels” – the eighth successive monthly drop. A number of economists extrapolated this to an unemployment rate [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, International, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged ANZ, employment, Fair Pay Commission, global financial crisis, Ian Harper, jobs data, Julie Bishop, Keynes, Liberal Party, Mike Steketee, neoliberalism, social inequality, unemployment |
By Kim on January 12, 2009
Colonel Bob Stewart, writing at the Guardian’s Comment is Free: Prince Harry’s comments were little more than everyday army banter. He’s no racist – his heart is definitely in the right place. Since the comedy stylings of Professor David Flint [...]
Posted in Ethics, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy, David Flint, Media, military, monarchism, Prince Harry, racism, republicanism, social privilege, Sociology, youtube |
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