The UK election: there was a verdict
Clearly, the results of the UK election are inconclusive – Labour doing much better than expected, and the Liberal Democrats worse, with the Tories falling short of a majority. Similarly, the regional pattern is quite varied – with Labour holding [...]
A new indigenous representative body
ABC News from a few days ago: A new national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has been unveiled in Sydney this morning. The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples is the first Indigenous representative body since 2005, [...]
RSPT: Capital to go on strike?
A couple of snippets from today’s papers: MINING giant Rio Tinto has shelved plans to spend $11 billion expanding its massive iron ore operations in Western Australia because of the wave of uncertainty sparked by the Rudd government’s proposed tax [...]
What's a weapon of mass destruction, anyway?
The attempted car bomb attack in New York’s Times Square does not seem to have provoked the usual level of hysteria; perhaps the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has given the cable news media something else to talk [...]
Open British election thread
Voting begins in the UK election at 7.00am GMT, which is 5.00pm AEST. This is an open thread for discussion, predictions, links, and such! NB: Previous LP discussion of the election can be found here.
The Deveny post we had to have
There’s been a lot of discussion on the Condemnation thread about The Age‘s sacking of Catherine Deveny for tweets she made on Logies night, so perhaps we should have a thread devoted to it. As a discussion starter, there are [...]
What's the matter with Kevin Rudd?
Two articles in the two Fairfax metropolitan papers tell two very different stories about Labor’s backflip/clear the decks strategy. In the SMH, Lenore Taylor has been talking to Labor strategists. The target voters, it’s argued, are those in outer suburban [...]
LNP defections embarrass Langbroek
In a neat piece of timing, Queensland LNP MPs Aidan McLindon (Beaudesert) and Rob Messenger (Burnett) chose the eve of a John Howard love in with the party’s caucus to announce their defection and decision to sit as Independents. Both [...]
Time to put the political back in climate policy?
I’ve got a piece at New Matilda reflecting on the media beatup about the CPRS backdown, inspired largely by this Picker/Green op-ed (and Possum’s ridiculous claim that the CPRS is analogous to the GST and would wreck teh Economy if [...]
All coppers are…
Be careful what word you use to complete the title if you live in New South Wales, because the State’s Police Commissioner wants the Director of Public Prosecution to re-open an offensive language case against a university student which was [...]
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