SF Saturday: Recommended reading for a teen boy?
My son is currently absolutely fascinated by the idea of space propulsion systems and orbital habitats. He has just possibly been playing too much Halo. He’s full of questions and schemes for writing his own stories/future world. He’s got to [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
The shorter Hendo: Anonymous facts edition
Gerard Henderson’s email exchange with Amanda Meade over Kerry O’Brien’s age is one of the funniest things I’ve read in ages. All documented in his quixotic Media Watch Dog blog; Hendo goes for the throat and bites himself on the [...]
What price offsets?
One of the concerns about the CPRS is that it will primarily be an exercise in locking up foreign rainforests rather than deploying clean technologies within Australia. This not only delays the development of the clean energy technologies required on [...]
Fitzgibbon gone
Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has resigned. Story at the ABC. Fitzgibbon was of course the subject of a sensational story in the Fairfax press claiming that he was being investigated by his own department for his links with Chinese-born businesswoman [...]
Years ago the Queensland government owned 90 butcher shops – Anna Bligh's defence
She did say that in her speech to Parliament: At times in our history the government of Queensland has sold beer, sawn and milled timber, retailed fish and even had 90 state owned butcher shops. In Brisbane, our electricity network [...]
UK Labour death spiral
Four cabinet ministers in two days- that must be getting close to a record: The exchanges came on the eve of Thursday’s European Parliament and English local council elections, which are predicted to be a bloodbath for Labour – and [...]
Tiananmen Square, 4 June 1989 – 20th anniversary open thread
It was twenty years ago today that events occurred in China which caused me as much anger and grief as any political event that I can recall, and which had a similar effect on virtually everyone I knew who was [...]
The recession that never was?
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, we’re not in a recession. At least in terms of the definition of recession as two quarters of negative growth, that is – the economy grew by about 0.4% last quarter. It’s not [...]
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