Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Babbage’s Difference Engine in both Meccano and Lego versions.
Literacy skills not only lacking in the trades
If saw the front page of the Opposition Organ or ABC online yesterday, you’ll have seen stories about Millions behind on basic skills, or Report shows 8 million workers lack job skills. It’s also attracted the attention of Harry Clarke. [...]
Kevin Rudd on Q&A
… So, KRudd did some truth telling on Qanda tonight. That should shake things up a bit. Elsewhere: Grog’s Gamut.
Quick link: Farnsworth on the LNP’s contempt for democracy
Malcolm Farnsworth ably sums up some of the key reasons why the LNP’s installation of Campbell Newman as ‘Alternative Premier’ equates to a contempt for parliamentary and representative democracy at The Drum. NB: Previous LP discussion here.
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend?
Pending a recount, Greens claim Balmain
With counting completed, the NSW Electoral Commission has provisionally declared the NSW State Legislative Assembly seat of Balmain for the Greens. There’s only a couple of hundred hotly-contested preferences in it, so a recount would appear likely. According to the [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Julia Gillard’s Whitlam Oration and ordinariness
There’s been some discussion on PM Julia Gillard’s inaugural Gough Whitlam Oration at the Whitlam Institute in the University of Western Sydney last night on another post, where it’s arguably off topic. But it probably does deserve a post of [...]
Libya: Realism, ideology and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
I referred in my last Libya article for The Drum (the final part of the trilogy, on democratisation, will be published next week) to the issue of Responsibility to Protect, a doctrine enabling the UN to take action when states [...]
Climate clippings 22
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 [...]
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