Unfairness and Abbott's parental leave non-policy
A lot has been said about Tony Abbott’s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not [...]
Feminism conquers the Liberal Party
Well, the reality is more complicated and less cheerful than the title would suggest. However, without wishing to argue blow by blow with every point made by Mark or the commenters in this thread on the issue, I think there [...]
Tony Abbott's deepest, darkest fears
Here’s the bit from the 60 Minutes transcript: LIZ HAYES: Homosexuality? How do you feel about that? TONY ABBOTT: I’d probably I feel a bit threatened… LIZ HAYES: I’m not asking if it’s a personal choice of yours. TONY ABBOTT: [...]
Abbott's parental leave non-policy
Tony Abbott has chosen to mark International Women’s Day which is, to his mind, of course, all about “benefits… provided to families with children”, by announcing a policy for six months’ paid parental leave at actual salary levels, funded by [...]
The Hukou system
Until I visited China in 2008, I’d never heard of the Hukou system. But it’s a massive deal in China, with hundreds of millions of migrant workers in the larger cities treated as second-class citizens, with little access to basic [...]
Health and hospitals and the polls
We’ve had close to a week of public debate on Kevin Rudd’s health and hospitals plan, and today’s Nielsen poll shows resounding majorities among every demographic and voters of all parties for the proposition that the Commonwealth should take more [...]
Abbott's (grey) army
Via Possum, a couple of interesting charts to ponder. These graphs below the fold show the movement in the net approval rating of Kevin Rudd and the Opposition Leader (Turnbull, then Abbott) over the last six months. As Possum notes, [...]
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!
SW Queensland awash
This image from The Brisbane Times shows the floodwaters in Roma. With a population of 6,700 Roma is the largest centre in the affected area. It’s on Bungil Creek and lies about 160km south of the Carnarvon National Park where [...]
Some new cars of interest
I’m anything but a rev head, but I was interested in information on a couple of new cars that John D sent me. I’m not sure what the category “supercar” means, but I gather it is a very expensive, high-performance [...]
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