Legacy wars
It was the political debate of last week, and we missed it. But that’s ok – so did most of the rest of the population, I would imagine. The columns of The Australian were full of the ‘legacy wars’ – [...]
Turnbull one year on; Emo Man's revenge
Malcolm Turnbull has been opposition leader for one year. That anniversary has been marked, among other things, by an impassioned speech in the Coalition party room by his predecessor, Dr Brendan Nelson. Nelson argued against any compromise on emissions trading [...]
The web, everyday life and the future of media
A lot of the most reliable data on web use and social media comes from the World Internet Project. Most of the findings from the project derive from rigorous quantitative research, and unlike a lot of what purports to be [...]
Norman Borlaug RIP
While Patrick Swayze’s death gets more media attention, (I never got Dirty Dancing, but his turn in Donnie Darko remains one of the more disturbing performances I’ve ever seen) a man who made a far greater impact on the lives [...]
Government 2.0 and politics 2.0
There’s been a fair bit of interesting reading about government 2.0 initiatives (the new ‘branding’ for what used to be called e-democracy or e-government) lately; probably prompted by a summit on the topic in Washington DC and the Australian government’s [...]
Structural separation for Telstra
Well, here’s some good news: Telstra is set for its biggest shake-up since privatisation under Federal Government plans that will pave the way for a break-up of the telco and introduce new hard-line consumer safeguards. Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy [...]
Caster Semenya
There was a broad-ranging discussion in this week’s Saturday Salon prompted by the middle-distance runner Caster Semenya. Semenya, originally from a village in what I gather is a fairly remote part of South Africa, has come from almost nowhere over [...]
Victoria jealous of cocaine export trade, seeks entry into crack market
I mean, what else can you possibly make of this harebrained idea? THE State Government is considering exporting millions of tonnes of high-polluting brown coal to developing nations under a plan championed by Energy Minister Peter Batchelor in a recent [...]
Guy Rundle on parallel import restrictions for books
In Fairfax’s relaunched National Times, Guy Rundle has a perceptive but inconsistent piece on the unsustainability of parallel importation restrictions (often abbreviated to PIR) for Australian books: Though the chief opponents of PIR have been the large book chains and their [...]
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!
The National Times
By Mark Bahnisch on September 14, 2009
Fairfax has revived an old masthead for its new opinion site. In some ways, that’s probably the most interesting aspect of the launch – those who remember the old National Times might well also recall the days when genuinely hard [...]
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