"It's not like we're battling it" Part I – EITEs
So Woodside, Rio and Boral have responded to the Australian Conservation Foundation and Australian Climate Justice Program complaint to the ACCC about the yawning gap between the shrillness of public emoting and disclosures to the investment community, which increased even [...]
Hillary Bray's scoop: Julia Gillard is Stalin!
The comedy keeps coming from Christian Kerr: WE not only have the “Education Revolution”. In good Stalinist style, we have the “Building the Education Revolution” plan. We also have a band of doubters and dissidents the authorities have decreed to [...]
Merkel 1, Col du Tourmalet 0
I’ve been ‘waiting for the photos to prove it, but Merkel and the Mountain ( described here) is over, and Merkel came out with a points decision, despite some setbacks along the way. The really short version is that I [...]
Weightless capitalism
For quite some time, it’s been becoming easier to conceive of the commodity as something immaterial – a social relation – and indeed of economic value as a social construct. Indicative of the accentuation of such trends – and this [...]
Twitter, blogging, social media and the Iranian election
There’s been a ton of discussion about the role of social media in the protests ensuing on the Iranian election. Two notable posts are those by Rosanna Ryan at ABC Online and my QUT colleague Terry Flew at his eponymous [...]
NSW Budget: The Housing-Led State (with new letterheads!)
If NSW Treasurer Eric Roozendaal’s first budget (and NSW Labor’s 15th) confirms anything at all, it’s that NSW public finance is at the mercy of the property market. The fiscal picture is a $1.3 billion deficit for the current year, [...]
Analysing the anti-analysts: Christian Kerr deconstructed
In the wake of the strange anti-analytical spray from Christian Kerr in The Australian against blogs yesterday (discussed here), my QUT colleague Axel Bruns has posted a comprehensive analysis of his rant: Amongst the standard-issue ammunition in the journalism industry’s [...]
Bananas, food security and climate change
When I posted about importing bananas from the Philippines back in April I was hoping for two things. First, that someone would enlighten me as to what Biosecurity Australia meant in practical terms when they said that individual cases of [...]
I won't add my condemn to your condemn XXXVII
Well we haven’t condemned since, well, forevah, so it must be long past time again to condemn. Here’s a 37th open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? [...]
Go; and smirk no more
A long serving Liberal party backbencher indicated today that he will not be renominating for the next Parliament.
Sand in your shorts?
Ok, I’ll bite. Christian Kerr. There are the group blogs that cover politics, economics and provide platforms for protagonists in the culture wars; Club Troppo, probably the best and most balanced of them all, Catallaxy for the libertarian right and [...]
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