Pwning the future
In a quick and dirty post announcing the presence of LP on Twitter I wrote about where I thought mass adoption of the platform was likely to take place. My favourite use for Twitter? Search for breaking news and to [...]
None out of two is pretty bad, actually
Is it breaking Godwin’s Law when you compare something to Hitler, but in a good way? There has been fiery debate in State Parliament over the government’s legislation proposing greater stop and search powers for police, with comparisons made to [...]
REDP grants to geothermal, wave, integration
The government’s Renewable Energy Demonstration Program is going to hand over a not insubstantial amount of money to four renewable energy projects around Australia, according to Marn’s press release. A total of 235 million dollars is to be handed out [...]
Another go at equality in Canberra
Crossposted from No Right Turn. The ACT Legislative Assembly has just passed a civil union law, amending its existing civil partnerships legislation to permit public ceremonies. There’s some history here – in 2006 and 2007 civil union laws were repeatedly [...]
Australians for Australian books
In a second piece of good news to come from the Federal government today, the Productivity Commission’s mooted changes to the import regime for books have not been accepted. The argument about consumer benefit was always spurious – the purported [...]
Peter Garrett rejects Traveston Dam
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has declined to give Anna Bligh’s Traveston Dam the tick of approval. Bligh inherited this project from Peter Beattie, and I, and a lot of others, always thought its conception in the first place had [...]
Remembering total war
On this Remembrance Day, Armagny chooses to remember the horror of total war: Behind such particular, smaller scale, analogies and partisan arguments, played out in nations largely benefitting from a sustained pax, there is the big thing that happened in [...]
Cribb on the future of food
In this post I reminded people of Gwynne Dyer’s warning that: “…the first and most important impact on human civilisation will be an acute and permanent crisis of food supply.” He reckons that food supply issues will become acute after [...]
Food price hike
Competition lawyer Professor Frank Zumbo studied food prices in the OECD from 2000 and found price increases in Australia at 41.3% were the third highest behind only New Zealand and South Korea. He had no doubt the evil duopoly of [...]
News(poll) hits new lows
At politicalowl, Richard Farmer quotes Gary Morgan on the Newspoll released today, which asked questions about the Prime Minister’s handling of asylum seekers but which also included questions about voting intention. But the results of those questions were not printed [...]
Murdoch on how we're all thieves now
Rupert Murdoch on Sky News: Make of it what you will. It seems pretty incoherent to me. I think Cory Doctorow’s pretty much right – these musings are fantasies, and his editors are going to have a horrible time trying [...]
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