Standing between the people and a bucket of money
I must confess that this one had passed me by until I heard an interview on the ABC yesterday with Professor George Williams, constitutional lawyer of the University of New South Wales (can’t find it on the net.) It seems [...]
Unsustainable logging
A native forest eucalypt felled in East Gippsland in Victoria has been carbon-dated to be more than 500 years old. As botanist Steve Mueck explains, this single discovery effectively refutes claims that old growth forest can be sustainably logged. Current [...]
CPRS, American-style
Joe Romm at Climate Progress reports on an American emissions trading bill that’s just been released in draft form by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce committee. The key bits are summarized here. The headline part is an emissions [...]
Defamation for bloggers
Folks might recall some discussion about the law of defamation when the spurious photos alleged wrongly to be of Pauline Hanson were published during the Queensland election campaign. As promised, Legal Eagle and Skepticlawyer have put together a guide to [...]
Kevin Rudd, Gordon Brown, Adam Smith and free markets
As Kevin Rudd joined Gordon Brown in decrying “the false god” of “unfettered free markets” in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Janet Albrechtsen got her apoplexy in early, lamenting the fact that Kevin Rudd doesn’t read Hayek (apparently Ayaan Hirsi Ali [...]
Spend! Spend! Spend!
The telly news led with rhetoric suggesting the February retail figures showed that spending “dried up” after the December stimulus, and the opposition chimed in with their claim that “the money was saved” (which apparently is terrible, even though it [...]
Alastair Campbell on Kevin Rudd and the media
As Kim observed in a recent post, the big story on Kevin Rudd’s recent BBC appearance as far as the Australian media was concerned was why he wanted to sit next to UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband rather than the [...]
The Princess of Cleves v. Sarkozy
The French know how to do culture wars properly, and how to protest: witness this delicious story about the cultural and literary fightback against Nicolas Sarkozy from The Guardian.
New appointments to the ABC Board
Some very good news – the Rudd government has appointed two members to the ABC board who actually know something about public broadcasting and culture. Former Opera House boss Michael Lynch, who was praised by the Queen for transforming London’s [...]
Energy. It's what you dig out of the ground.
Is there anything more alarmingly delightful than the creaking gears of history as the dialectic of Enlightenment lurches forth?? For all the gnashing of teeth and angry bashing of keyboards about K-Rudd’s 100% pathetic climate target, the real politics – [...]
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