The Pope and condoms – don’t get too excited
Despite some of the reports out there in tabloid land about the Pope “ending the ban on condom use” he actually has done no such thing.
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!
Quick link: Causes of the BP oil spill
Elizabeth Jackson talks to Professor Donald Winter, the chairman of the scientific panel looking into the cause of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A preliminary report into the cause of the BP oil spill in the [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Future Imperfect
I’m currently on the organising committee for Swancon Thirty Six, Perth’s annual SF convention, which will also be Natcon Fifty, the fiftieth annual Australian convention. The following call for papers may be of interest to LP readers. It would be [...]
Gillard betrays low paid workers
As Eva Cox observed in Crikey this morning, the Gillard Government’s change of course in submissions to Fair Work Australia on a test case seeking to revise work value (and therefore pay) for a large number of mainly female workers [...]
Planning policies: circle not squared yet
Urban planning is one of the more wicked problems facing state politicians. To caricature, politically powerful groups a) dislike urban sprawl, c) want to develop stuff for sale, d) want affordable housing, and most significantly, e) intensely oppose development anywhere [...]
Education cringe — An Australian epidemic
Another week, another think-tank sounds off about education in Australia. On Monday the Grattan Institute came down from the mountain bearing tablets which told us that: Further reductions in class sizes are not likely to improve educational performance from here. [...]
Climate clippings 4
These posts include a brief mention of a number of news items relating to climate change. They don’t preclude treating any of these topics at more length in a separate post. They can also serve as an open thread so [...]
Dangerous global warming is here
After an attack of pessimism by BilB I thought this post at Climate Progress was timely. Methane is just one of 10 issues to worry about. The last year or so has seen more scientific papers and presentations that raise [...]
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