The international student mess
Andrew Bartlett has a typically measured, insightful post on the multi-stranded mess surrounding international students, particularly those from India. On top of Andrew’s piece, I’d just like to add that I hope the government is careful in how it reforms [...]
Warming oceans
On Wednesday on The World Today there was an item about the ocean surface warming. There were a few talking points covered in the segment. First was the warming of the Arctic where we are told that: the predictions are [...]
When can I get complacent, then?
Foreshadowing changes to Australia’s anti-terror laws which will apparently “make them tougher”, Robert McLelland warns us not to get too comfortable: Mr McClelland says because an attack has not happened yet here, Australians may be becoming a little too comfortable [...]
Bernard Salt: pop demographer
KPMG consultant and media columnist Bernard Salt has been available for comment on just about any social or demographic topic for some years now. These comments rarely do justice to the hard work of statistical analysis performed by real demographers, [...]
NUMBYism
The world’s first clean coal power station (discussed earlier here on LP) has been operating for a little while now. It’s working fine – except for one little problem. All the CO2 is still ending up in the atmosphere. As [...]
Guest post by Glen Fuller: Kyle Sandilands, Jackie O as trauma jocks
Cross-posted from Event Mechanics. So we’ve had shock jocks for some time. Now we have trauma jocks.
Melbourne University's endowment woes
The stoniest of the sandstone universities is wielding the axe. And it’s the global financial crisis’ fault, apparently. MELBOURNE University will slash 220 full-time academic and administrative staff because its financial position has taken a battering in the economic crisis. [...]
Books in the digital age
I’m speaking on the 11th of August at an event organised by the Queensland Writers Centre: Books in the Digital Age:The Future of Writing With the rapid changes in Australia’s writing and publishing industry, where will books fit in the [...]
Work-life balance; we're doing it wrong
Professor Barbara Pocock, of the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia, thinks that we shouldn’t be talking about work-life balance at all. We should call it work-life interference, and try to measure how much work [...]
The Mad Monk
I’ve got a feeling that the mix of a seemingly random collection of crazy authoritarian policy ideas (covenant marriage, raising the pension age to 70, bringing back WorkChoices, the federal government taking over everything) and arrogant self-congratulation that appear to [...]
Malcolm Turnbull is the new Brendan Nelson
By Mark Bahnisch on July 28, 2009
… with less Emo. The poll that News Limited owns is out. Possum reports: In fact, this whole poll is pretty much identical to Nelson’s last… On the beauty contest that is Preferred Prime Minister, Turnbull’s PPM rating has, for [...]
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