It's on again – SOO 2009
State of Origin rugby league is on again tonight. Queensland are favourites having won three series in a row and having kept almost the same team from last year. I always expect NSW to win because of their speed and [...]
Re(a)warded
Because you’ve earned it. THE editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, has won the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence for leading the newspaper’s coverage of climate change policy. The award is presented each year by the Australian Petroleum Production [...]
Blogging otherwise…
I might have mentioned in passing here, and I know I’ve said on Facebook, that I’ve become interested lately in exploring some themes which don’t really seem to fit into the LP space, and also in a more personal form [...]
Medical abortion under a cloud in Queensland
A month ago, a Cairns woman and her partner faced the Magistrates’ Court after being charged with procuring an abortion. Abortion is generally legal in Queensland under similar case law to that in other states, but the charges were prompted [...]
Sow/Reap
Our loss is also a loss for the City of Wichita and women across America. George dedicated his life to providing women with high-quality heath care despite frequent threats and violence. We ask that he be remembered as a good [...]
Anna Bligh's privatisation train will run off the rails
Intoning the phrase ‘Global Financial Crisis’ at every opportunity, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has been preparing the ground for the privatisation of a wide range of state assets. It was confirmed today that QR’s freight train business would be among [...]
Punched out II
There’s been an excellent discussion on a previous thread here by Phil about News Limited’s new online venture The Punch. To add to the reflections on that thread, it’s worth discussing what The Punch says about the future of big [...]
Drug-resistant malaria
While we’re all worrying about swine flu, here’s something else to worry about – drug-resistant malaria. At the moment artemisinin-derived drugs, such as artesunate, are the main therapy available against malaria. It’s currently very effective. But it seems that in [...]
How to clean up our rivers and lakes and save the world
It was a throwaway line but on Bush Telegraph the other day Professor Jorg Imberger, Chair of the Center for Water Research at the University of Western Australia and that state’s Scientist of the Year, in talking about demands from [...]
Cheryl Kernot on social enterprise and the participation society
While the ‘economic management debate’ rumbles along its predictable partisan grooves, something interesting has been taking place elsewhere – something of a concatenation of the better legacies of the communitarianism of the 90s and a shift in values which has [...]
Detainees and protestors
Australia has been asked to take 17 Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Held for the past 7 years, they were declassified as “economy combatants” back in 2005. They can’t go back to their home, in north-western China, because of the [...]
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