Unemployed miss out…again
Josh Gordon in The Age on Wayne Swan’s budget: In 2005, the former academic and social justice campaigner published Postcode, a book that said Australia had become a “frayed patchwork of winners and losers from economic change”, and that there [...]
Water rise from West Antarctic melt reassessed
I’m trying hard not to adopt a misleading headline. The first article I saw on this was West Antarctic’s Sea-Level Rise May Be Overstated, Study Shows. Apparently the New York Times ran the headline “Study Halves Prediction of Rising Seas” [...]
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!
Saturday Salon
Wer doin it rong. An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Eurovision Open Thread
Throw away your football paraphernalia for one weekend. Frock up, the more sequins the better. Don the uggs. Put the pies in the warmer. Fill the fridge with Margarita makings. Lay up on the snacks and prepare for a serious [...]
Daylight Saving will kill puppies
There’s a referendum tomorrow to decide whether WA will permanently introduce daylight saving. My personal feelings are the same as Mark’s, summed up by this excellent quote: I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is [...]
Queasy listening
OK, it’s time for another thread about lists of songs – this time, hangover songs. IGN music’s 2007 list of the Top 10 hangover songs was topped – very fittingly in my view – by Sunday Morning Coming Down. I [...]
What budget lock-up was like
This year I had the opportunity to attend the Federal budget lock-up in Parliament House in Canberra, for New Matilda. You can read my analysis of the budget over at New Matilda (I called it “a gamble posing as prudence”), but I [...]
Droids? No, we want clone warriors!
The Defence White Paper spent considerable time discussing “cyber warfare” – the idea that in the future, wars would be in part fought by teams of hackers attempting to mess with the other side’s computers. Peter W. Singer argues in [...]
'Coral triangle' under the microscope
The oceans are a classic problem of the global commons. In her book Seasick: the hidden ecological crisis of the global ocean Alanna Mitchell said that in fact no-one is in charge. There is no peak body charged with the [...]
Sydney loses
From today’s Crikey email, The University of Western Sydney’s Phillip O’Neill makes a fascinating point about the infrastructure announcements in the budget, and, specifically, a very odd omission: Finally, there is the curious case of Sydney. For once in modern [...]
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