Great big new tax scare campaign game: Two can play
Both the Government and the Coalition are publicly committed to a 5% emissions reduction target. Tony Abbott claims he will get there via ‘direct action’ and avoid the ‘great big new tax on everything’ – his characterisation of Labor’s ETS. [...]
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 Women's Weekly and politicians
Over at Gatewatching, Jason Wilson references Andrew Elder’s very good question about the Australian Women’s Weekly being a graveyard for politicians, and asks another good one – given the magazine’s truly huge readership, were Tony Abbott’s comments ill advised? The [...]
Tony Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry
There’s been some talk about Tony Blair’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq War on the open thread, so it might be best to have a dedicated post to focus comments. A good starting point for discussion is [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Hit 'em where it hurts
The below comment is solely the opinion of the author and is not reflective of or endorsed by the publishers of Larvatus Prodeo or related entities. Today in a glorious wrap-around cover, the Sydney Morning Herald published an extensive league [...]
Parsing the polls: Just how strong is Labor's lead, really?
I’ve been wondering myself, recently, about the significance of Labor’s unbroken lead in the polls, which if memory serves, has persisted for over three years now. There’s little doubt that it’s Rudd’s election to lose, but, conversely, big Labor victories [...]
So what are NAPLAN tests, anyway?
There have been a few comments on the threads on Myschool asking about the other part of the equation – what’s in the NAPLAN tests from which the achievement scores are calculated. Well, if you’re curious, here’s NAPLAN’s website, from [...]
It's been a bit hot, just about everywhere
In spite of a bit of a cold snap in parts of the northern hemisphere recently (we’ll come back to that) it’s been hot just about everywhere in 2009. In Australia 2009 has been the second warmest year on record [...]
And still they defend him
The doctor who first claimed that the MMR vaccine could cause autism has been found guilty of a series of misconduct charges, that include putting children through painful and unnecessary tests, a disciplinary hearing has ruled today.
Education Revolution: A complete 360
Even in those heady piñata-bashing weeks of November 2007, I don’t think any of us were expecting the Rudd/Gillard government to be some kind of paragon of progressivism. By then, I was already low expectations R Us. Simply not being [...]
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