The great Julia Gillard Disability Support Pension lie
I write this post as someone with a disability that isn’t going to go away. (A missing leg isn’t gonna grow back). I also write this post as someone who works. And I write this post as someone who would [...]
Backstory and the Ties That Bind: Guest post by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Tansy Rayner Roberts is the author of some of the best stories I’ve read in the last few years. Siren Beat won the “Washington Association Small Press Short Fiction Award” and is going to become a novel one day, and [...]
The “new” 7:30, lame as the old
Have any LP’ers bothered to check out 7.30 yet? Perhaps a sample size of one show is a bit unfair, but if last night’s episode is indicative I’m not sure why anybody with a serious interest in current affairs would [...]
Quick link: pokies and what they do to us
Wilkie, Xenophon and anybody else willing to make pokies less attractive as revenue raisers, and help make pubs and clubs more genuine community gathering centres again, gets a big thumbs up from me.
Planned outage this Sunday
Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan tyrant here. To perform some important maintenance on the site, it will be necessary to deactivate all Ozblogistan blogs temporarily on Sunday afternoon. I am expecting to take the site down around 2pm, central standard [...]
Julia Gillard’s Calvinist Nation
In the wake of her Gough Whitlam Oration, Julia Gillard has devoted another speech to articulating her “values” – an address to the Sydney Institute’s annual dinner. Her speech on “The Dignity of Work” is another repudiation of what the [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by allegedly The Best Paper Airplane In The World. Build it and see!
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
The backdrop to Gillard’s carbon price compensation announcement
Is anybody (who’s interested enough in politics to read a blog like LP) in the least surprised by the latest tidbit of information about the carbon price? The idea of households receiving compensation for the impact of a carbon price [...]
The biggest, most destructive drinking game of all
There is a ubiquitous, wildly popular pink elephant in the room. The “bad news” about alcohol keeps rolling in, but boy oh boy, it’s a whole lot easier to ignore it. In November 2010, The Guardian reported the results of [...]
Medical research and corporate tax
From the perspective of somebody whose research is (partly) funded through the Australian Research Council, the world of medical research has sometimes looked like a land of milk and honey, where lavish laboratories, full of very expensive machines that go [...]
Coin-tossing and Chernobyl
Apparently there’s a bit of a rehash of the question of the death toll from Chernobyl going on at the moment. But, before getting to that, let’s talk about a very important subject: tossing coins. Repeatedly. More specifically, let’s talk [...]
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