Climate clippings 12
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 [...]
Thursday Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by wild polar bears playing football with a camera embedded in a very tough sphere, from a BBC documentary narrated by the dulcet Highland tones of David Tennant.
Be kind, rewind, rollback, dissemble….
In the years immediately after the 1998 Federal Election, at which John Howard’s Coalition successfully won a mandate for introducing the GST, Federal Labor got stuck in a real policy communication rut. Sure, there was quite a bit of popular [...]
The flood Royal Commission – lessons from the bushfire RC
It hasn’t taken long for the Queensland Government to appoint Justice Cate Holmes to head a Royal Commission into the floods. Her two direct deputies are former Queensland police commissioner Jim O’Sullivan, and Phillip Cummins, described as a “dams expert”, [...]
Open thread on floods
We now have a number of specific threads running on aspects of the Queensland floods. This thread is for comments that don’t fit the specific threads or if you want to comment on other current floods lacking a thread, such [...]
Social capital, social networking and the Brisbane floods
My colleague in several incarnations, Dr John Harrison, has a neat post on social capital and the SEQ floods at jmaced: The good thing is that communities with high levels of social capital recover from adverse circumstances faster than those [...]
Germaine Greer wrong on Brisbane floods
There’s been some debate on this blog, across a number of threads, about the degree to which debating the causes of and response to the Queensland floods, and those in Brisbane and South East Queensland in particular, is helpful at [...]
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!
Quicklink: Interactive map of Brisbane flood damage
Nearmap has provided an interactive map of the Brisbane floods, which allows people to zoom in to street and house level. Images were taken during a flyover on Wednesday.
Quick link: Quiggin on water policy after the Queensland floods
John Quiggin has some preliminary thoughts on the directions water policy might take after the Queensland floods.
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
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