The Tobin Tax and the GFC
In a recent post, I observed that the momentum for systemic reform and coordinated international regulation of the financial sector, pursued through the G20 in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, appeared to have stalled. In that context, it [...]
The airborne fraction
Shock horror: in a press release from the American Geophysical Union, the following headline promoting a new journal article appeared: No rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction in past 160 years Sounds pretty dramatic, doesn’t it? So is everything we [...]
Guest post by Colin Jacobs: It's the edges that matter
Colin Jacobs, Vice-Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, writes in response to my piece from the other day on the direction of the No Clean Feed internet filtering campaign [MB]: I’m afraid you’re going to hear a lot about some pretty [...]
Liberals and The City
The last couple of releases of quarterly Newspoll data saw a theme emerge about Labor’s supposed weakening outside capital cities (and then a bounce back, which suggested that the huge amount of prognostication spun about the first quarterly poll was [...]
Fairness
Despite attempts by the WA Government to make this into a luxury car thing, or an equal before the law thing, I think it’s clear to anyone who values the rule of law that this is bullshit. A PERTH doctor [...]
Sea Shepherd and the ICR play chicken over whaling
You’ve all undoubtedly seen the news reports about the Sea Shepherd’s ship, the Ady Gil, colliding with the Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru No. 2. Andrew Bartlett has a post on the issue. His opening paragraph contains the following claim: [...]
A great win, but still a lousy call
I wonder how many other people took themselves away from work early to watch the amazing conclusion to the second Test. It was a highly improbable comeback by the Australians; only six times in the history of Test cricket have [...]
The No Clean Feed campaign
Alex White has posted on what he describes as soul searching in the campaign against internet filtering about its direction. White’s post is replete with useful links, and is well worth a read. He disagrees with the focus on censorship, [...]
Indian students and criminal violence
The tragic murder of Nitin Garg has revived debate about violence against Indian students in Australia, spilling over into a range of statements at Ministerial level in both countries. I think there is no doubt that hate crimes occur in [...]
Do they know it's Christmas?
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2010
The summer holidays are perhaps the time of year when the dissonance between most people’s lived experience and the obsessions of the political and pundit class is most starkly on display. While everyone else is lapping up the sun, or [...]
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