Tony Abbott: Dogwhistling towards destiny?
Tony Abbott gave an Australia day address in Melbourne last night (a few days early, but what the hey…). The Shorter Tone? Immigrants should adopt Australian values and that Mufti character was dodgy; A big population is good, but John [...]
The Henry Review
A summary of Ken Henry’s tax review can be read at Peter Martin’s blog. The report’s emphasis changed a fair deal along the way, a topic treated of by Martin in another post. If you’ve been wondering why Kevin Rudd’s [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Stop execution of teacher union activist in Iran
I’ve received the following message via the SEARCH Foundation. Please forward widely. Subject: Please act now to stop execution of Iranian teacher activist!
ABC News 24/7
There’s been some discussion on the ABC’s decision to introduce a 24 hour news channel on a related thread, and it deserves consideration in its own right. Mark Scott’s announcement was accompanied by the now ritualised shots across the bow [...]
Democracy, we hardly knew ye
In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court has brought down a ruling that puts paid to the existing framework for campaign financing, enabling unfettered donations and financing for corporations and labor (sic) organizations (sic). Unless Congress finds a way [...]
Rudd government to negotiate with Greens on CPRS?
The Australian Greens have written to the Prime Minister suggesting Ross Garnaut’s interim proposal on carbon trading as a mode of breaking the deadlock on the CPRS legislation. Details are here. On SBS news tonight, Kevin Rudd stated he was [...]
Vale Kate McGarrigle
The great Canadian songwriter, musician and singer Kate McGarrigle has passed on, leaving behind a musical legacy which includes songs like Mendocino, performed with her sister and collaborator Anna. “If, when we die, we go somewhere,” (in Tom Paxton’s words) [...]
The Last Tirade: A Ballad about NUS National Conference
If you have been a student at any time in the past 23 years you will probably have been a member of the National Union of Students. If you are the kind of person who regularly reads this blog, you [...]
Geek corner: earliest computer memories
In view of the charming thread that has resulted from Legal Eagle’s discussion of earliest political memories, let’s open a computer-related thread. Prolly anybody born from about the mid-70s onwards had some encounter with computers during their childhood or adolescent [...]
Detailed programmatic specificities in Australia Day speeches
Maybe it was all in the delivery, but Rudd’s Australia Day reception speeches were inspiring stuff, weren’t they? Productivity improvements to fund retirement incomes? I mean, who can hear a line like “by implementing microeconomic reforms to cut red tape [...]
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