Blood in the water: RET Edition
It’s fair to say it’s been a lobbyists’ feeding frenzy in Canberra lately. Here’s all you need to know about the Renewable Energy Target in the same sense that all you need to know about emissions trading is that it’s [...]
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!
Japan votes
Today Japan votes in an election of the House of Representatives, the house that elects the prime minister. Wiki tells us: Japanese general election will be held on 30 August 2009 for all of 480 seats of the House of [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Entrenched racism
Crossposted from No Right Turn. In the run-up to the 2007 election, then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard decided to repeat his successful racial wedge tactics with Aborigines as the victims, declaring a “state of emergency” in Northern Australia, taking over [...]
Did Facebook kill the blogging star?
On Line Opinion has been featuring pieces on the internet and everyday life throughout August. My contribution, published today, examines some questions about the social and cultural implications of new media technologies, and in the process, busts some myths about [...]
Ironies for the stupid
John Howard sez: [A Bill of Rights would transfer] decision-making authority to unelected judges accountable to nobody in the barest theoretical sense. … I’ve always held the classical view that the public elects members of parliament, who pass laws hopefully [...]
Vale Ted Kennedy
Since there’s already been a few off topic comments on other threads, here’s a dedicated one so you can keep it all in one place. There’s little doubt that had he survived a little longer, he would have made sure [...]
Here we go again…
The Grauniad reports that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process might resume: Barack Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talks before the end of next month, [...]
Biodiversity and climate change
Last week Brisbane hosted the 10th International Congress of Ecology, a huge affair lasting all week with over a 100 papers delivered each day, which largely went unnoticed by the MSM. Also largely under the radar has been a report [...]
Unequal pay for work of equal value
The persistence, and now the widening, of the gap between men’s and women’s pay is one of the continuing scandals of Australian public life. Despite the fact that unequal pay for work of equal value has been illegal since the [...]
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