Milne land
Peter Costello announces he’s retiring from Parliament, Malcolm Turnbull implodes, and therefore Glenn Milne needs a new bandwagon. He’s found one. Tony Abbott for PM. If the polls haven’t turned around by Christmas, etc. This must be what John Hartigan [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Does Kevin Rudd not have enough things to do?
From news.com.au: PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has promised two nuns that he will press the Pope on the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. The Archdiocese of Sydney said Mr Rudd would raise the issue in a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI [...]
Bikie gangs and the law
Ken Parish has an excellent post at Club Troppo about the excessive reach of the “anti-bikie” laws recently enacted by several state parliaments. The powers, and the lack of safeguards on using them, provided by the laws are akin to [...]
Scotland leads but not everyone follows
Scotland recently passed what was billed as the world’s “most ambitious” climate bill. As with the UK they have adopted an 80% emissions reduction target for 2050 but also include international shipping and aviation, which may well be a first. [...]
The ultimate cosmic ray blast
Luckily I’ve found a new disaster that could befall us. The image above, courtesy of NASA, is something called the heliosphere. The circles in the middle are the orbits of the planets of the solar system. According to Wiki the [...]
Sleepness nights begin
It’s going to be one of those weekends where too much sport will indeed barely be enough, if you’re a sports-watcher. In the AFL, it’s the home-and-away matchup of the year. While there have been longer winning streaks in the [...]
Cheerful and violent
As the world mourns for Michael Jackson, a “colourful” Melbourne identity is laid to rest with a tinnie of VB on his coffin. “Tupps” was the last surviving member of a Melbourne “crime dynasty” which has its own police taskforce [...]
Rudd and Gillard attack News Limited, Hartigan punches back
Crikey‘s editorial today (reproduced over the fold with permission) picked up on the political significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s critical remarks about the conduct of News Limited papers in publishing the concocted email at the centre of the [...]
The hard cases – protecting vulnerable teenagers
The annual report of the Victorian Child Death Review Committee, examining the deaths of children known to Victoria’s child protection services, was released last week. While the deaths of children are always tragic, it is good (and surprising, to me) [...]
Comments Policy clarification
By LP Administrator on July 1, 2009
There seems to have been a little confusion lately as to what is the proper netiquette for our traditional LP pseudonym play, especially for those who do not have gravatars and for whatever reason do not wish to register one [...]
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