Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a white tiger spotted in a field in Hedge End, Hampshire. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Live cattle exports
This contented cow image from an ABC story is the converse of what I gather was shown on Four Corners last week. We didn’t, couldn’t watch it, but the images have been appearing all week in regular ABC TV news [...]
Starving masses not actually starving?
A provocative piece from Foreign Policy magazine by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo claims that “global hunger” is fundamentally mischaracterized: Are there really more than a billion people going to bed hungry each night? … What we’ve found is that [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing! What are the media spin tactics du jour?What are the talking points being trotted out this week?
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!
Katter’s Australian Party launched
Katter’s Australian Party was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission in Brisbane on Friday afternoon, promising to support small business and families. That’s what greeted me with my muesli this morning. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Mail, Mr [...]
A chance for a mature conversation on mandatory detention?
For a while now the Opposition have been gunning for an inquiry into the administration of asylum seeker detention facilities, presumably to embarrass the government over recent problems. The Government said it was a stunt. Now the Opposition has its [...]
Quiggin on the Murray-Darling parliamentary committee report
Less buybacks, more engineering works – that’s what the forward to the House Standing Committee on Regional Australia report on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan recommends, in a nutshell. The Australian Conservation Foundation is unimpressed to say the least. John Quiggin [...]
Climate clippings 29
Take a look at where we are heading This was linked on a previous thread, but I want to emphasise that 2010 saw the worst ever carbon emissions. There’s a link in that article to five scenarios of temperature change [...]
Farewell to the Space Shuttle
Just watched Endeavour‘s last landing at the Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis is just getting settled on the launching pad ready for the last-ever Shuttle mission in July.
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