#Vicvotes Quick Link: Richardson on Labor and The Greens
As an addendum to our recent discussion on the dynamic between Labor and The Greens in the context of the Victorian election campaign and results, it’s well worth pondering some interesting thoughts from Charles Richardson in today’s Crikey. An excerpt: [...]
Cancún gets under way
The annual meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) is now under way in Cancún from 29 November to 10 December. When we last looked at Cancún alexinbologna explained that in 2007 in Bali countries agreed to two paths, firstly, [...]
Quick link: Brumby concedes
ABC News confirms.
#Vicvotes mythbusting II: Labor’s “brand” is toxic
So, Tony Abbott was out and about this morning trumpeting the claim that the Victorian election result meant “Labor’s brand is toxic”. If you actually think about what that sentence means, it’s a fairly incoherent assertion. Nevertheless, there’s been the [...]
#Vicvotes mythbusting I: The wisdom of the betting markets
Now that it’s looking much more likely that the Coalition has won power in Victoria, I think we can fairly say that we’ve got a very clear cut case that the claims about the predictive power of betting markets are, [...]
Australia: mostly harmless…
…at least in the eyes of one American diplomat in Zimbabwe. In the Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy sense. What do you make of the latest Wikileaks document dump, so far?
The UN General Assembly disgraces itself
Some, reading the title, would say “So what’s new?”. Anyway, Thor Halvorssen reports that what has happened is that last week the UN General Assembly agreed to an amendment which deleted reference to “sexual orientation” from a special resolution condemning [...]
Fear of ghosts and the Bracks-Brumby government
At this stage, the most likely outcome of the state election appears to be a narrow Coalition majority. While the campaign itself will be analyzed to death, I reckon it’s a mistake to overemphasize the events of the last few [...]
Australian water myths
This is an article many farmers will not want to read. Andrew Dragun, Adjunct Professor at the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, identifies seven myths which dominate the perceptions of irrigation water in Australia: 1. Australia is the driest continent. [...]
Spotlight The Spin
Our weekly look at media spin tactics: let’s dissect the PR and propaganda 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!
Our busiest roundtables last week were [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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