Differential reporting
WTO angers farmers over apple imports Australian apple growers are angered by reports the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will overturn Australia’s 90-year ban on New Zealand apple imports. The Age, 13 April 2010
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Left reasons to oppose the net filter #nocleanfeed
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
Another tetragametic… oops, a trigametic whack for the anti-choicers
The Grauniad reports that scientists have developed a technique to tranfer healthy DNA from one fertilised egg into another fertilised egg at the same stage of development, offering”hope for women at risk of passing on certain inherited diseases to their [...]
I won't add my condemn to your condemn XLIV
Well, it’s half way through April already and we haven’t condemned, so it must be long past time to condemn again. Here’s a 44th open condemnation thread. What’s been worthy of condemnation this month so far? Which evil political, cultural, [...]
The Big Dumb Number approach to hazard reduction burning: still big, still dumb
Jack Rush, Senior Counsel assisting the Bushfires Royal Commission, has reportedly urged that the Royal Commission recommend immediately more than doubling the amount of public land burnt each year to 5 per cent, or 385,000 hectares. This reiterates the recommendation [...]
Richest few continue to take bigger pie share
Andrew Leigh has updated some earlier research into the proportion of the national income received by the people at the top of the pile. There’s now data through to 2007. The short version: the trend continues, with the wealthy’s proportion [...]
Wingnut as she is spoke: "Personal responsibility"
It is accepted wingnut wisdom that “personal responsibility” is the crucial element that separates civilisation (our gun-toting, refugee-bashing, home-schooled neighbourhood) from the barbarians (publicly-educated, prosocial, multi-branched liberal democracies). At the level of theory, the trope of “personal responsibility” conceives of [...]
Hitchens tries to indict the Pope
There’s been a bit of discussion on tigtog’s thread about an apparently co-ordinated call by Christopher Hitchens and others, supported by Richard Dawkins for the Pope to face criminal indictment over the clerical child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church. [...]
Brumby vs. Rudd (and sundry other premiers)
With the announcement of substantial funding for aged care closing the Commonwealth’s offer to the Premiers on health policy ahead of the COAG meeting next week, the National Health and Hospitals Network roadshow reaches the penultimate stage in the drama. [...]
Parliamentary inquiries and ministerial staff
The Brumby government has been copping a bit of a battering from the local press recently about accountability and propriety, not without some justification. And planning remains a hot topic. So it’s not entirely surprising that the Opposition, Green, and [...]
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