US cap-and-trade bill doomed, for now
A cap-and-trade bill for greenhouse emissions has been making its way through the US federal senate for a while now. Key to its chances has been its one Republican cosponsor, Lindsay Graham; his participation, along with Democrat John Kerry and [...]
Fired once for being too attractive, threatened again for talking about it?
The story of Debrahlee Lorenzana seems to be everywhere on the Internets at the moment, for any number of reasons. Aside from an excuse to closely examine pictures of an attractive woman, Lorenzana’s story represents a man-bites-dog case of workplace [...]
Bligh sinks further; Queensland budget brought down
Derek Barry at Woolly Days has written a comprehensive post on this year’s Queensland Budget. Suffice it for me to state that I agree with his conclusion: Queensland’s 150th budget is much like the 149th that came before it. It [...]
Maternal mortality rate decreasing
Women Deliver, an advocacy group devoted to “bringing together voices from around the world to call for action against maternal death.”, is currently holding a major conference on the topic. You might remember that reducing the maternal mortality rate by [...]
Doom or salvation for Rudd Labor?
I continue to be quite surprised at the levels of panic about the Labor party’s current polling predicament, and some of the reactions. The government’s response to the Nielsen poll yesterday was to point out that Tony Abbott stands a [...]
David Marr's Quarterly Essay on Rudd and anger
David Marr’s Quarterly Essay, ‘Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd’, already highlighted in the weekend papers, will no doubt garner even more attention now that it’s been released. Indeed, Marr was on the 7.30 Report tonight being interviewed [...]
Nielsen poll open thread
The Age: THE Abbott Coalition has broken through for the first time to a clear election-winning lead of 53-47 per cent in an Age/Nielsen poll that will rattle Labor and intensify pressure to change its increasingly unpopular mining tax… The [...]
Spotlight the Spin
A weekly look at stories various PR people tried to bury in the tail end of the news cycle before this last weekend. Also, what stories are the headpieces stuffed with straw spinning for us first thing this week, and what particular advantage do they hope to gain thereby?
Who governs Australia?
Much more is at stake in the noise around the RSPT than whether the mining industry ends up paying more tax. A whole host of serious public issues entwined with the proposal – including but not limited to the adequacy [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
CFMEU on the anti-RSPT campaign: "It's going to ruin us!"
The CFMEU’s YouTube ad [via tigtog at Hoyden]:
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