Red Kerry leaving the 7:30 Report
He’s quitting at the end of the year. The ABC’s article/press release says says that: Director of ABC News Kate Torney says O’Brien’s retirement from the program marks the end of his reign as Australia’s leading current affairs presenter and [...]
Greed is still good…for the greedy
Oliver Stone’s sequel to Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps, has received mixed reviews – not so much in the sense that it’s divided critical opinion, but that the critics themselves are uniformly conflicted about the film, with considerable merits balanced [...]
Abbott, pairing and legal advice
The federal government has released the text of the legal advice provided by the Commonwealth Solicitor-General, Stephen Gageler SC. In deciding to reject the Parliamentary Reform Agreement they’d signed up to, the Coalition, if Christopher Pyne is to be believed, [...]
Cyber-warfare outside a sci-fi novel
If you’ve got a really good memory, you might remember the Defence White Paper of 2009 devoted (comparatively) a fair bit of attention to the idea of “cyber warfare” – computer hacking as a weapon of war. Like I said [...]
Soundscapes in the natural world
If this is a slow news day, you could do worse than have a listen to a talk by Bernie Krause of Purdue University, who has been collecting soundscapes from the natural world for over 40 years. While his focus [...]
Not the Twitter election
Malcolm Farnsworth has an excellent piece at The Drum on how claims that the 2010 federal election was going to be a Twitter campaign are very wide of the mark. I’d recommend reading the whole thing. If the premise is [...]
Wild Rivers, wild times and new paradigms
I’ve been wondering why Tony Abbott has to keep giving near identical speeches to “the party faithful”. It couldn’t be because (despite being, according to the Shanahans and Kellys of this world, teh best opposition leader evah) he didn’t actually [...]
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Nearly two million people die prematurely each and every year due to indoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization (Full text (PDF)), virtually all in low and middle income countries. In terms of perhaps a more useful estimate [...]
Turning off the voters: guest post by John Davidson
Tim Colebatch in The Age presented some interesting data on voter turnout and informal voting. He says that: More than 14 million Australians were on the rolls for the 2010 election. But almost a million of them decided not to [...]
Rudd’s new role on the world stage is an ideal fit
That, believe it or not, was the title of the editorial in Courier Mail yesterday. A pity it isn’t online. This is how it begins: Kevin Rudd has always looked more comfortable on the world stage. It is there, far [...]
Walden Bello on the political consequences of stagnation
Walden Bello is a senior analyst at Philippine think-tank Focus on the Global South, the author of more than 14 books, and was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for “… outstanding [...]
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