Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like. (Sorry for the lateness!)
Higgins by-election (and Bradfield by-election)
Tomorrow sees voters in Peter Costello’s old seat of Higgins (and Brendan Nelson’s seat of Bradfield) go to the polls. Labor is not running in either by-election. That seemed like an arguably justifiable decision at the time nominations closed, but [...]
What’s going on with the National Curriculum?
Introduction by RM: After this rather brief post touching on the introduction of a national curriculum for Australian schools, Susan Zivcec has kindly contributed a piece on some important aspects of that curriculum. Susan is an environmental health and safety [...]
The Women
Dr. Cat’s post on women and Tony Abbott is a must-read. She really nails one of the problems I’ve had with the general coverage about Abbott’s “women problem”. So go and read it now. I’ll wait. I’m not going to [...]
Open thread on banking and finance
Here’s a forum in which you can post as you see fit (as long as you comply with the Comments policy) on the great issues of banking and finance. Don’t be afraid to be as unorthodox or unfashionably orthodox as [...]
Opining beyond one's academic expertise
Apparently, there’s more people getting injured on bicycles than the official statistics show, according to a new study: The NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust report, obtained by Radio National’s Background Briefing program, has found a huge discrepancy between ACT police data [...]
Kristina Keneally NSW Premier
OK, apparently New South Wales has a new premier, after Planning Minister Kristina Keneally rolled Nathan Rees 47-21 in a ballot held tonight. Anybody want to take bets on Keneally lasting until the state election?
Afghanistan
Well, as widely reported, Obama has finally announced a new policy for the Afghanistan conflict. In short, 30,000 more troops are to be deployed there in the short term. After eighteen months, it’s planned that troops will “begin to come [...]
Prospects for climate change policy
I’ve been out today, and was framing a post in my mind about what’s been discussed on this thread. Rather than plonk a very long comment there I’ve done a new post. Some of it repeats material from the commentary [...]
Not spilling, dripping
Meanwhile in other spill news, NSW Premier Nathan Rees has lived to fight another day, reportedly seeing off the possibility of a leadership challenge by Treasurer Eric Roozendaal and/or Frank Sartor. NSW Premier Nathan Rees insists his leadership is “solid [...]
CPRS defeated in Senate: Open thread
The CPRS has been defeated in the Senate, with only two Liberal Senators supporting the legislation – Judith Troeth from Victoria and Sue Boyce from Queensland. This is the first fruits of Tony Abbott’s leadership. The potential questions are many: [...]
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