Tony Abbott and Political Catholicism
At Eureka Street, John Warhurst has written a piece about Tony Abbott, Santamaria and the Liberal Party. The illustration (reproduced below) is interesting for all sorts of reasons: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/abbott-pope1.jpg" The article Tony Abbott penned for the Weekend Australian colour [...]
No conspiracy at CRU, move along
What began as Steve McIntyre’s disinterested search for truth spam FOI campaign has culminated in a UK Parliamentary Inquiry into the theft of emails from the Climate Research Unit at Uni of East Anglia. The Inquiry has just delivered its [...]
LNP Candidates FAIL
If the South Australian election proved anything, it proved that to win in a tight race, you need hard working and appealing candidates in the marginals. For all the headline talk (now somewhat diminished) about Tony Abbott’s alleged momentum, what [...]
McLean, de Freitas and Carter response fails the peer review process
About a month ago we had a look at a paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) by McLean, de Freitas and Carter which purported to demonstrate that late 20C temperature changes were largely due to ENSO. There [...]
They're Here! Asylum seeker beat ups
So, it wasn’t just me that noticed a prime piece of fear mongering occupying the front page of Brisbane’s Sunday Mail (now with new editor!): <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/29-03-2010-10-50-17-AM1.jpg" The image of the paper’s Sunday cover comes courtesy of Crikey:
Senator Conroy needs some cheese to go with that whine
That nasty Google is saying terrible things about his shiny net filter that he wants to give to all Australians, whether they want it or not.
Growth and urban water
Today’s Crikey features a piece by Charles Berger from the Australian Conservation Foundation about the environmental effects of continued Australian population growth. Berger correctly observes that there is a disconnect between political advocates for continued population growth, and the evident [...]
Newspoll 56-44 TPP to Labor
Adding another data point to the gathering evidence that the polls have turned around (from “favourable to Labor” back to “landslide if maintained in an election”) here’s the Poll Bludger, and Possum. Possum’s graph of Abbott’s net satisfaction rating is [...]
Stern Hu found guilty
The Age: Australian Stern Hu has been sentenced to 10 years’ jail by a Chinese court for stealing commercial secrets and receiving bribes. Vivienne Bath at East Asia Forum has a measured yet still damning commentary on the process. That [...]
EN-V? Not this glorified shopping trolley
Few technologies have flopped with so much fanfare as the Segway transporter. Not to be deterred, General Motors has created a concept vehicle that uses the same technology as an “urban mobility vehicle” for densely populated cities. Supposedly able to [...]
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