Quick links: Economy? As you were
For what it’s worth, in the midst of the interregnum Standard and Poor’s announced that – whatever the ultimate outcome of the election – that their AAA credit rating on Australia’s sovereign debt was to be maintained, with a stable [...]
Tingle on Friday: Labor must decide what to do with News Limited
Laura Tingle’s Friday Fin Review column, ‘This Week in Canberra’, has caused such a stir today that someone has gone to the trouble of posting a photo of it on Flickr.
The wisdom of Solzhenitsyn and the folly of Quadrant
Early in The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn propounds an important truth about the human condition: Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, [...]
A respite for the Murray – for now
The heavy rain in south-eastern Australia might have flooded some houses and damaged some crops, but it’s doing wonders for the health of the Murray-Darling. Water is flowing into the Coorong again. The overallocation of irrigation water in the system [...]
Quick Link: Pure Poison on the OO on The Greens
Pure Poison notes an Opposition Organ (how nice is it to be able to continue to say that?) editorial with lots of bad advice for Julia and a remarkably candid comment on the paper’s attitude to The Greens. From the [...]
How facts backfire
In the LP discussion of Possum’s superb post on The Great (conservative) unhinging, a commenter mentioned some research on factual “backfire”. In a nutshell, it suggests that when political partisans are confronted with facts that challenge their beliefs, rather than [...]
Guest post by Pavlov’s Cat: Seeing the future
Cross-posted from Still Life With Cat. Listening to first Tony Windsor and then Rob Oakeshott deliver their verdicts in this afternoon’s press conference was a really interesting experience. I was driving home, so heard it on the radio rather than [...]
They just don’t get it
The most predictable feature of the press reporting of a parliament with a minority government and much more fluid processes for formulating policy and negotiating legislation is that the media can’t give up on its usual frame. (Aside, of course, [...]
What Now for the Greens?
Chris Dickinson is a member of the Greens. He oversaw the creation of the TV and radio ads for the party at the 2008 WA state election. He is also on the committee of Sustainable Energy Now, and has worked [...]
Robb v. Bishop
Looks like a challenge might be on. Dominic Knight has suggested a hashtag: #deathspill
Will Robb do better than Gerald the Gnome?
Wednesday Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by revoltingly cute baby animals from the Daily Squee. I think they are begging for a caption, or at least for fond reminiscences of favourite tales of anthropomorphised animals from ones misspent youth.
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
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