Bye Bye Malcolm
The bit.ly link is to his website, which is pretty much slashdotted and difficult to get to. The announcement that he is not going to recontest but will serve out his full elected term is very formal and dignified pull-together-for-the-party [...]
Spot the Spin
We might have this as a regular beginning of the week feature – what stories did various PR people try to bury in the tail end of the news cycle over this last weekend? What are they hoping that we [...]
Lazy Monday
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!
Easter Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your extra-long weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like. [Update: This thread has now closed due to mega stoush. Please leave normal Salon type comments on last week's Salon thread ~tigtog]
Easter is about the food
I don’t celebrate Easter, but I’m very happy to eat the food. In the spirit of co-opting feasts and festive food, today I made Hot Atheist Buns, featuring the eye of Sauron. (In previous years I have decorated the tops [...]
Creeping Secularisation
I’m nonetheless intrigued by the personal choice of presenters who have no trouble taking time off for family holidays at other times of the year fronting up as normal on a day that is, for instance, one of the three days in the year that my local shopping centre used to be closed (they don’t have anything up on their website this year about closures). What an interesting public non-statement it is for these people simply to come to work as normal on this major Christian holiday.
The Coalition on economic management
Whether or not it’s a coincidence that the first of Tony Abbott’s ‘headland speeches’ was on economic policy and was delivered the day after Newspoll showed the Coalition falling behind Labor on economic management, I don’t know. But, given that [...]
Real April Fool's Day news
It’s April Fools’ Day, and nobody at LP seems to have written an April Fool’s Day post this year. But for a minute I thought ABC News online had a ripper: A $31m rollercoaster-style tower taller than the Statue of [...]
Wingnut as she is spoke: "Rudd's a phony"
It is accepted wisdom among Rudd haters that he’s “a fake, a fraud, a phony” and some day the Orstrayun people will “see through him”. I’ve seen variations on this meme repeated endlessly among blog barrackers ever since Rudd first [...]
Australian men under-diagnosed and under-treated for prostate cancer
A new Western Australian study suggests that Australian men are being under-diagnosed and under-treated for prostate cancer. This is what Dr David Malouf, president of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, said: “…the study showed many cancers are [...]
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