Spotlight the Spin
What are the talking points being trotted out this week? What do they hope to distract us with? What line do they want us to buy? What have they been sitting on especially to quietly slide out during the normal distractions of our weekend?
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend?
Let them see…
Visual communication is generally thought to be inferior to verbal and written communication. But sometimes the lack of respect given to the visual as a means of communication gives it a power that more respected means don’t have. The Obamas and the Kennedys provide an interesting example.
Saturday Salon
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Climate clippings 25
Sea level risk worsens: Need for greater urgency as Arctic ice melting faster The ice of Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting faster than expected and could help raise global sea levels by as much as one [...]
The alternative vote (AV) referendum
Here in the United Kingdom the nation is waking up on Thursday May 5th, the day of the alternate vote (AV) referendum and some would say, judgment day for the political career of the Liberal Democrat Deputy PM Nick Clegg. [...]
Wayne Swan’s budget and austerity politics
Over at The Drum, I’ve had a stab at explaining why Wayne Swan has felt compelled to promise an austerity budget full of cuts. It’s not easy to work out – because I think the government is prisoner to its [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Sky in Motion, a time-lapse video of “spectacular juxtapositions between Earth and sky” over photogenic landmarks in Greece.
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
The Victorian State Budget: “What the…?”
In the Victorian State budget brought down yesterday, the Baillieu government was keen to tell us that we were in for austerity in education spending – they’re aiming for over $300 million in cuts in the next 4 years “in [...]
The left, culture wars, Anzac Day and the royal wedding
Over at The Drum, veteran culture warrior Dr Kevin Donnelly proclaims: …recent events like the celebration of ANZAC Day and the Royal Wedding and it is clear the left has definitely lost the culture wars and that generations of Australians [...]
Quick link: Wilson on Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow
I read Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow on the weekend. I had it in mind to write a review, but Jason Wilson’s done such an excellent job, there’s no need. Go read.
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