A dangerous accumulation of inflammatory rubbish
Max Rheese, who seems to aspire to the title of “Man of a Thousand Front Groups”, has a column in today’s Australian attacking the Victorian Government for not accepting the Parliamentary Environment and Natural Resources Committee recommendation of a prescribed [...]
Kookaburras sitting on an old gum tree, interfering with creativity
It’s official; Men at Work ripped off Kookaburra in the flute hook of Down Under. ABC story here. You can read the actual judgement here. I’m completely unsurprised with the judge’s findings. But, to me, it shows that copyright, as [...]
Department of Climate Change analysis of Coalition policy
… The text can be accessed here [link to pdf].
The cultural politics and sociology of anti-science in Tony Abbott's Australia
Overland editor Jeff Sparrow has a great piece in Crikey today, reflecting on the significance of Christopher Monckton’s tour of Australia. If you’re not signed up, I’d strongly urge you to take out a trial subscription to read the whole [...]
JSF in trouble?
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is supposed to be the long-term replacement for the F-18 Hornets that make up the majority of Australia’s air combat capability. It’s been pretty controversial; aside from doubts as to whether it’s really as capable [...]
The Queensland LNP deputy leadership challenge
In the land of pineapple politics postmodern style, it might be thought that any aspiring leader should have done their time in reality tv. After all, Anna Bligh’s been on Celebrity MasterChef. Until last week, Liberal National Party MP, Aidan [...]
Putting a figure on the Coalition's shadow carbon price
The politics of the Coalition’s climate policy announcement has already been covered by Mark, but the policy also contains some pretty dodgy accounting, as I argued in my piece yesterday for New Matilda. Today I thought I’d take some time [...]
Tony Abbott, you're no Mark Latham
Possum has compared Tony Abbott’s polling with Mark Latham’s at the start of his leadership, and found: So while Abbott and Latham have some similarities in their early polling performance, Abbott was literally miles behind where Latham was at a [...]
Breaking the CPRS deadlock
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2010
Almost two weeks ago, I suggested that something positive might come of The Greens’ suggestion that Ross Garnaut’s interim measure on carbon emissions should be the circuit breaker for the CPRS impasse. In the intervening period, I’ve been surprised that [...]
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