Ugly parent syndrome
Partly, it’s a slow news day, but this story seems to have pushed people’s buttons quite hard: UGLY parent syndrome is rife in suburban footy, parents say, after the suspension of two clubs over an off-field brawl. The Riddell District [...]
Losing to the Poms sucks
Well, what a sucky few days for late-night sports-watching. Not only does Andrew Flintoff bowl the Poms to victory at Lord’s, but Cadel Evans had an absolute shocker on yesterday’s stage of the Tour, pretty much ensuring that he won’t [...]
Ratania
Labor MP Vince Catania last night announced he was quitting the Labor party and joining the Nationals, the party whose support helped Colin Barnett become Premier after the close state election last year. A former member of the upper house, [...]
Robert Hill to head Australian Carbon Trust
What’s a Carbon Trust? Why it’s the Pommy genesis of such radical, climate saving, innovative grants as a £198,910 research subsidy to replace spark plugs with a laser: Unlike the venerable sparkplug ignition system, which fires just one or at [...]
Will "Liberal Rule" improve on "The Howard Years"?
In between the incessant ads for bicycles (amusingly, an ad featuring Lance Armstrong only claims that “we believe” his sponsor makes the “world’s best bikes” – which must be the first time ever Armstrong wasn’t sure about anything) , SBS’s [...]
Mining the good earth
Tonight Four Corners is going to investigate the proposed mining of the Liverpool Plains area near Gunnedah in NSW in a program entitled The Good Earth (preview here.) There has been considerable discussion of the issue of mining on fertile [...]
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!
Tony Abbott is pro-choice!
Abbott wants to bring back fault-based divorce… …for couples who make a free choice for their marriage to be governed by a set of laws reminiscent of the old fault-based laws. Those couples who would like their marriage to be [...]
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