Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
“Can do” Campbell goes super-fast broadband
As flagged by Wozza, Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has announced that Brisbane will have super-fast broadband within four years. No unsightly lines hanging from telegraph poles, no digging up streets, company i3 Asia-Pacific plans to put a fibre connection [...]
“New water” into the Murray-Darling
The plan for the Murray-Darling Basin was released a few days ago, complete with a very nifty “knowledge base” that indicates where the MDBA got its data from. As Quiggin explains, the plan calls for about 3,000 to 4,000 gigalitres [...]
Tegan and Sergei not guilty
That’s the good news from Cairns. The challenge now is to not relapse into a false sense of security, not let the Queensland government off the hook, and to get the law repealed.
Cancun looms, ready or not
Climate talks in Tianjin, China have ended. That’s it now until Cancun, Mexico on 29 November-10 December, where the optimists hope than a binding post-Kyoto treaty on climate change might be concluded. That can’t happen without China and the US [...]
Wednesday Whimsy
Fantasy and fighting and sword-sorcery-dragon stuff usually bores me to sobs, but my whimsy of the week (Via Alas, a Blog) is this charmer of an animation made with open-source software. (Quoting Tigtog): Please share any bits and pieces you [...]
Boycott Queensland
LP readers are by now well aware of the prosecution of Tegan Leach and Sergei Brennan under Queensland’s archaic abortion laws. As part of my contribution to the campaign against the charges and the laws, I would like to call [...]
‘La Stupenda’ takes the final curtain call
Dame Joan Sutherland sadly died yesterday in Switzerland, where she made her home in retirement, at the age of 83. All day ABC FM have been talking about her life and work and playing recordings of her singing. I liked [...]
Blaming women not the answer to abortion law reform
This is a guest post by Tanja Kovac, National Coordinator, and Hutch Hussein, National Co-Convenor, of EMILY’s List Australia. This is a somewhat controversial argument for pro-choice activists, and that’s what this thread is for. In order to provide a [...]
Europe considering deeper emissions cuts
I reckon that most journalists around the traps in Australia would agree with the COALition that Copenhagen was a flop, as a result nothing new is happening around the world on climate change mitigation, so if the Gillard Government, influenced [...]
If Lady Gaga married Hu Jintao could she smash the patriarchy?
On page 167 of my copy of The Women’s Power Pocket Book by Joan Kirner and Moira Rayner is written: Power Rather Than Influence: Joan Kirner has had both. She says power beats the hell out of influence any day. [...]
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