Targets, registers, what's the difference?
It’s hard to know how seriously the world is taking the “compromise plan” by Australia for the successor to the Kyoto agreement. In a nutshell, it appears rather than requiring hard emissions targets for developing countries, the proposal would allow [...]
Tabloid environmentalism
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Liberal Party renewal?
The conservatives could sure do with some renewal, if you believe the latest polling. A contribution to that renewal is claimed to have arrived in the shape of Kelly O’Dwyer, who comfortably won preselection for her former boss Peter Costello’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!
Tim Soutphommasane, ideology and narratives
The Australian is running a series on defining the left (!), kicking off with a contribution today by Tim Soutphommasane. Soutphommasane is apparently the go to person at the moment for all things social democratic, having written a book arguing [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Look out! Incoming brain-fart!!
Robert has a very measured piece about defence, including thinking about women in combat roles. He mentioned Greg Sheridan’s column in The Australian, in which Sheridan offered several arguments contra women in front-line combat. Robert is clearly a nice person. [...]
Women in close-combat roles in Australian Army?
We haven’t had a defence-related thread for a while, so it’s worth rounding up some of the more interesting stories. Brendan Nelson, in his extended “I was right about everything” valedictory speech, included the much-debated Super Hornet purchase in the [...]
Question time: The classical philosophy edition
Parliament goes into recess next week, after a sitting whose most prominent contribution to political discussion was the unruliness of question time (aside, of course, from the usual shenanigans of opposition disunity, which are now customary). Writing in Crikey yesterday, [...]
Win a free pass to the Media140 conference
There’s a big confab on in Sydney on the 5th and 6th of November on all things social media and future of journalism – Media140. Rachel Hills is running a competition to win a free pass to the conference. For [...]
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