At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint
The AGE must have thought At Home With Julia was a doco, because they had an item about it in the News section today. “Slight it certainly was, but not fundamentally unkind – to the Prime Minister at least.” Er, [...]
Fantasy, politics and offshore processing
So, the Gillard government continues its bizarre negotiations with the Coalition over some legislative way to effectively overturn the High Court’s decision on asylum seekers, and revive offshore processing. A dire warning was provided to the Coalition by the Secretary [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Christopher Walken’s l33t skillz in song and dance. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Quick not-link: Australia’s biggest music funding body
…is the Australian Defence Force, according to some figuring by Brian Toohey in the Fin Review today.
The logic of Labor (and Liberal) leadership
In a post entitled “After Gillard”, John Quiggin writes: I think the return of Rudd would put the spotlight on Abbott’s total fraudulence, maybe even paving the way for the Rudd vs Turnbull election we should have had last time. [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: the first question is always cui bono? The second question is what’s really going on?
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!
What We Didn’t Blog Lately
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Peter Beattie for PM? Labor implodes?
In the wake of the asylum seeker decision by the High Court, federal Labor’s cup of existential angst is spilling over. The problem now with the ‘hold your nerve with Julia’ strategy is that her personal and policy performance appears [...]
Cosmic rays – again
There’s been a spate of articles claiming that a new CERN/CLOUD project paper shows that cosmic rays are the real cause of climate change: A major scientific study is casting fresh doubt on the theory of man-made climate change. In [...]
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