Acknowledgement of country 'culture wars'
They’re at it again: Members of the Liberal Party have been creating a minor storm about the matter of Indigenous recognition. In statements made to the Adelaide Advertiser yesterday, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott implied that formal recognition of traditional owners [...]
Costello piles on
Peter Costello’s written a bit of a spray about Tony Abbott’s parental leave scheme in The Age. Actually quite an amusing read. I don’t know if The Great Pretender’s distaste will have that much impact in the Coalition ranks, but [...]
Who's interested in geoengineering?
Via Joe Romm, a fascinating snippet: a scientific conference on geoengineering is to be held in California, with the goals of: Identify potential risks associated with climate intervention experiments Propose a system to assess experiment design for potential categorical risks [...]
Is the PSA test worth it?
There’s been a fair bit of discussion going on throughout the media about the value of the value of a widely-used screening test for prostate cancer, the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA test. The original inventor of the test, Richard Albin, [...]
Pssst! That's our lecturer! In the Susso queue!
This morning’s media reports that the Opposition now intends to support the Federal Government’s intention to bring back the Susso for several categories of welfare recipient including those on Newstart Allowance. The use of the term “Susso” is not mere [...]
BOM and CSIRO report on the state of the climate
The CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have done a brief snapshot of the state of Australia’s climate. For example this map shows the increase in mean temperature per decade from 1960 to 2009: It has become hotter everywhere, [...]
Coalition wedges itself on parental leave
Today’s Essential Research poll might show the reversal in the movement of the polls, which I suspected prompted Tony Abbott’s parental leave thought bubble last week. My view was that Abbott’s speech was a ‘crazy brave’ attempt to shake things [...]
Sex-selective IVF
The National Health and Medical Research Council is apparently reviewing whether the prohibition on those undergoing IVF treatment selecting the sex of the (hopefully) resulting children should be retained. This guideline is part of “Ethical guidelines on the use of [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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