What's in a name?
More than one might think, if this news report is anything to go on. Newcomers to LP are referred to this thread.
Climate change and climate science
Jonathan Holmes’ piece on the Carter Drum brouhaha (see Phil’s earlier post for general discussion on this topic) contains many disturbing aspects. But there’s one bit that particularly caught my eye: Climate change is a vast topic, with aspects that [...]
Government: Don't feed the trolls
The last couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of furore about those intertubes. Anna Bligh wrote to Facebook about the defacing of a couple of memorial sites for a child and a teenager who’d been murdered in Queensland. [...]
Get Carter!
All sorts of dark conspiracies are alleged at Quadrant. Quadrant Online previously reported that the ABC had invited Bob Carter to contribute to an online debate on The Drum following their publication of a series of five articles by Clive [...]
No new coal power in NSW campaign
Just in passing, I see that the NSW Greens are campaigning against new coal power and electricity privatization. Figuring out the details of exactly what the Labor government is proposing to sell off in its “privatisation you have when you’re [...]
Germaine Greer trashed in The Monthly
I don’t know what qualifications you need to be a public intellectual. I think you get such a gig because readers of The Age have voted for you, or something. But apparently playwright Louis Nowra is one. In 2007, he [...]
OMGWTFBBQ!?
Thanks to commenter Paul Burns for alerting readers to this bewildering story of Tony Abbott lost in the outback at Kings Creek Station. On a quad bike. With Aboriginal guides. For 12 hours. Really. Questions: – Did he encounter a [...]
The reception and implementation of the National History Curriculum
A while back, Kevin Rudd proclaimed the history wars over. He may have been right, at least insofar as the combatants left on the field are looking decidely ghostly; witness the non-event of the launch of Keith Windschuttle’s latest tome. [...]
Rudd's health policy
Kevin Rudd has released his health policy at the National Press Club. Essentially, it encompasses a phased takeover of responsibility for activity based hospital funding by the Commonwealth, with 30% of GST revenue to be diverted directly to hospitals. Funding [...]
Liquid electricity continues to flow
It seems that Victoria’s aluminium smelters will continue to operate into the never-never: THE biggest consumer of Victoria’s brown-coal-fired electricity is to continue operating for decades after the surprise announcement of a long-term power deal for Alcoa’s controversial aluminium smelters. [...]
Rudd unwhacked
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2010
Newspoll came in last night with essentially a status quo result, with both parties one point up on primaries (and the 2PP changing one point down each way to 52-48 because of a measured fall in The Greens’ primary.) I [...]
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