Ruddblog
Kevin Rudd has started blogging. There’s some commentary on this development from Stilgherrian and in the Fairfax broadsheets. Update: Peter Martin observes that the Ruddblog comments policy includes among its lengthy list of prohibitions: do not post overtly party political [...]
Stern Hu open thread
The obvious point to be made in the case of Stern Hu, the Rio Tinto executive detained in China for alleged bribery and espionage, is that it’s unacceptable for Australian citizens (or anyone else, for that matter) to be locked [...]
If data is not the plural of anecdote, what about the singular?
Sorry, but this Age op-ed makes my teeth grind. A FEW weeks ago, a neighbour from our street left a message in our letterbox informing us that his wife A, had died, and that a memorial service would be held. [...]
Tsunami warning – cancelled
From ABC News: The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a series of tsunami warnings for the east coast of Australia in the wake of an earthquake which struck off the coast of New Zealand. The warnings are available at the [...]
After energy markets
Three continents, two energy markets, two stories. Brian covered the first here, of which the emoting continues apace. The second is far more interesting. Yesterday, 12 European companies signed a 400 billion euro (560 billion dollar) initiative to built huge [...]
SOO 3
State of Origin 2 turned out satisfactorily at least on the scoreboard. Having achieved the historic fourth straight win, will Queensland make it the first clean sweep since NSW did it in 2000? Qld last achieved this feat in 1995. [...]
Minimum wages and inequality
My post last week on the decision to decrease the real wages of those reliant on awards for their pay by the so-called Fair Pay Commission sparked a somewhat heated thread, largely around the contention by some commenters that it [...]
Invest in ice-cream
From the SMH: THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has been overheard pouring cold water on world leaders’ chances of hammering out critical climate change limits at Copenhagen – just hours after the US President, Barack Obama, called for global optimism. [...]
Unit pricing games
At my local Coles last Sunday evening, I was struck by the number of “3 for 2″ or “4 for 3″ offers being made. That is, if you buy four of a particular item, you pay the same as for [...]
JJJ Hottest 100: Women free edition
As observed here: Only 10 songs on the hottest 100 list were made by a band who had any women in it, ever (if we include Massive Attack, who, technically, only ever had female guest vocalists); the highest of these [...]
Newspoll 55-45; The Australian turns 45
By Kim on July 14, 2009
Andrew Bolt makes sense! Truth is that it’s actually a waste of time and credibility to try to make a news story about minor changes in the Newspoll figures – changes that fall even within the margin of error. Bottom [...]
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