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!
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
The horse-is-bolted uranium sales debate
It seems that we are going another round of the “sell uranium to India” discussion, with “Uranium Breath” Martin Ferguson pushing for the policy to currently prohibits sales to India to be changed. You can take your pick of op-eds [...]
Gough’s “nervous Nellies”; Kevin’s “panicking Pollies”
In this guest post, LP reader JohnL (who you might remember contributed this excellent takedown of BER myths) examines how sources can manipulate media coverage – in this case, with uncritical acceptance of “secret polling” data that presents those who [...]
Climate clippings 16
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 [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by an actual cat burglar.
The Gillard government’s multiculturalism and anti-racism stance
In a week when the Liberal party has sunk to new lows by politicising the funerals of asylum seekers drowned off Christmas Island (and, it’s becoming clearer, doing so at the behest of a One Nation campaign), and senior Liberals [...]
How important are Greens preferences in the NSW election?
The Sydney Morning Herald seems to be running a bit of a campaign to portray the coming New South Wales election as apocalyptic for Labor, and thus worthy of interest. It would be foolhardy to assume that, under pressure, votes [...]
Get your group Crikey subscription at Troppo!
It’s that time of year again when Nicholas Gruen rallies the multitudes behind the good cause of subscribing to Crikey. If you’d like to get a year of Crikey goodness at a discounted price, head on round to Club Troppo [...]
The Liberal Party reaches for new lows
Judith Brett once wrote of Menzies’ Liberal Party that it sought to represent the “moral middle class”. Scott Morrison’s Liberal Party, led by Tony Abbott, must take its moral compass from the more fetid regions of talkback radio or right [...]
Quick link: Engage in the struggle against anti-Jewish racism
Engage is a website originally formed by left-wing activists in Britain’s University and College Union opposed to proposals for an academic boycott of Israel. Engage’s current focus is as follows: Engage is a single issue campaign. It focuses on one [...]
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