Other little sporting event on
What? I check SBS’s TV schedule and find that something’s kicked the Tour off SBS1? What could that be? Some cricket match in Cardiff? Yep, The Ashes begin tonight. As Peter Roebuck notes, England have a decent team, while Australia’s [...]
Fair Pay Commission still a misnomer
Julia Gillard has criticised the decision of the Fair Pay Commission to award no increase in the federal minimum wage. She accurately notes that the decision will have an impact on other workers as well, because the safety net is [...]
Waxman-Markey and Senate passage
Rob recently discussed the passage of the Waxman-Markey emissions trading bill through the US House of Representatives, and there’s been much written about its impact both on global climate change negotiations and on the chances of the CPRS legislation in [...]
I hate retro acts
Joni at Blogocrats notes that the Liberals are bringing back the debt truck. From ABC News: Mr Turnbull will today launch a new debt truck campaign which will see the vehicle driven around the country with a billboard that will [...]
Hospitals takeover?
There’s been a little bit of Commonwealth-State argy-bargy recently about the possibility of a federal government “takeover” of hospital funding. You might recall that the draft report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission canvassed options for such a [...]
We Belong: Pat Benatar versus Tori Amos
The summer of 1984-85 had its ups, downs and sideways moments for me. One of the unmitigated ups was Pat Benatar’s best song IMHO, We Belong. Here is the studio version, and here is Pat in recent times performing it [...]
At the cutting edge of media experience
Well, I think it’s safe to say that a full scale war has broken out between News Ltd and Australian independent media operators. Posts today at Crikey, Larvatus Prodeo and The Oz’s Mark Day. Day amused me with this in [...]
Federer makes it 15
Sometime after 3am our time Roger Federer finally prevailed, winning his 15th slam event and 6th Wimbledon title. Picture and story at Nine.
News Limited's partisan nonsense actually a disaster for the Liberals
Various News Limited scribes on the weekend opined (all speaking in the voice of Tony Abbott’s ventriloquist dummy – it couldn’t be more obvious) that Malcolm Turnbull had set himself the task of tearing Rudd down in order to win. [...]
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!
Palin does a Latham
In what possibly constitutes the world’s first self-nomination for an Agincourt Award, I’d like to chew over the dimilarities and sifferences between the resignations of Mark Latham (2005) and Sarah Palin (2009) from their respective positions: Similarities — both had…
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