Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Too much information, Tony? Open Tony Abbott oversharing and exhibitionism watch thread
What is with this dude? Tony Abbott bemoans lack of sex on campaign trail * Speaks candidly about sex life * “One of life’s greatest pleasures” * “Almost impossible on campaign trail” If you dare, you can “read more about [...]
Balance?
I’m not sure how this one slipped through: What the longevity of almost all state and territory governments suggests is that it is difficult for an opposition to come to power except through the electorate’s view that it is time [...]
Homelessness is not a choice
In the wake of Abbott’s Brutopian comments at the Catholic Social Services Australia national conference, Stephen Nash, CEO of Melbourne homelessness and housing support agency HomeGround Services, has published a rebuttal of the claim that homelessness is a choice at [...]
Climate change and the coasts
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has given a speech in Adelaide at the first forum designed to address the impact of climate change on Australia’s coasts. This is part of a broader programme of adaptation planning, and this particular meeting [...]
Teenagers, brain scans, and biology as destiny
It was the perfect storm of teenage recklessness, and five died as a result. A few weeks ago, Stephen Johnstone got behind the wheel of his Falcon XR6 to leave a party, after what appears to be a confrontation of [...]
International climate change policy after Copenhagen
Last night on Lateline, Ross Garnaut pointed out to an apparently taken aback Tony Jones that 57% support for the ETS – as a major reform – was actually extremely impressive. Today in New Matilda, Ben Eltham rightly says that [...]
Vale Ruby Hunter
2010 is becoming an awful year for losing great singers and songwriters before their time. Ruby Hunter has joined Alistair Hulett and Kate McGarrigle in that Great Gig In The Sky.
Abbott and Murdoch
The News Limited papers have been pounding Stephen Conroy for having met Kerry Stokes while holidaying in Colorado, prior to the Rudd government’s hand out to free to air tv stations. [For the record, Conroy denies the two events are [...]
The politics of risk and uncertainty in an election year
Writing in Crikey yesterday, Guy Rundle described the Greek imbroglio as the second wave of the Global Financial Crisis: So let’s try and make it as clear as possible — the second wave of the 2008 GFC has begun, and [...]
Newspoll and climate change opinion II; partisan affiliation, gender and age
As a supplement to Paul’s post, I thought it was worthwhile posting derived tables of the breakdown by partisan affiliation, gender and age, courtesy of Possum. As he says, “Those results are pretty interesting in and of themselves!”… particularly the [...]
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