When too much opinion is more than enough @abcthedrum
I might be inadvertently posting this on Pile On The Drum Day, if this snippet is any indicator. Let me just note that I don’t agree that the ABC shouldn’t be running an opinion site, because it encroaches on commercial [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly look at media spin tactics: let’s dissect the PR that aims to blow one’s own horn, bury one’s errors, resurrect the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look A Big Distracting Thing.
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Guest Post: Liu Xiaobo’s Peace Prize
Guest poster MH reflects on the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, including its implications for the prospects for democracy in China. — RM. Late on Friday it was announced that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Income management and the Tasmanian Children’s Commissioner
When a failure in child protection makes the news, it’s always gut-churning stuff. The case of a 12-year-old Tasmanian girl prostituted by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend is no exception. The political reaction to the release of a report [...]
If you’re in Brisbane on Saturday, you must attend this event
This event being the pro-choice rally calling for charges against Tegan Leach and Sergei Brennan under Queensland’s anti-abortion laws to be dropped, and for the laws to be repealed. Date: Saturday 9 October Time: 1pm Place: Queens Park, Brisbane (opposite [...]
Toxic red sludge has now reached the Danube
A few days ago red alkaline muck burst out of storage in western Hungary. The BBC account tells us: The muddy red sludge is waste from the early stages of aluminium production. Aluminium-containing ore, bauxite, is washed at high temperatures [...]
The Wabo hydro project
A couple of weeks ago, to some fanfare, the Bligh government signed a memorandum of cooperation (memo here) with Origin Energy and the PNG Sustainable Development program for the Wabo Hydroelectric project. The plan, described in fact sheets from the [...]
Will NBN be faster than a carrier pigeon?
Seriously it probably depends on how far you have to send the information and how big a memory stick you need. The most recent NBN thread generated discussion on urban myths. Brett cited a story from 1879 about telephones not [...]
Rundle on Afghanistan
Reproduced from yesterday’s Crikey with permission. Guy Rundle writes: Reading the assembled Australian punditocracy on the Afghanistan war, you can’t help be reminded of the couple interviewed for Irish television in the 1980s. Who makes the decisions in the household, [...]
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