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The technology world has just lost another giant, though one without the towering public persona of Steve Jobs. If you’re not actually a programmer, you’ve probably never heard of Dennis Ritchie. But the vast majority of software you use was [...]
Ocean heat content and Earth’s energy balance
In Climate clippings 46 I thought the most important segment was the last, on Deep heat. I don’t think it attracted a single comment. To recap, the world’s oceans have a total mass of 1.37 billion gigatonnes of water. A [...]
Ed Miliband’s centre-left: not drowning, waving
Party conference season here in the United Kingdom has come and gone during the last few weeks; the Liberal Democrats kicked off in Birmingham, followed by Labour in Liverpool and the Conservatives in Manchester. There was much grumbling in the [...]
The LNP’s dirt files
The other day, I wrote about Campbell Newman’s botheration and bluster in the face of demands that he fully declare his pecuniary interests. The Bligh Labor government, the opposition declaimed, was preparing the ground for a “summer of sleaze” and [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Desaturated Santa (aka Brody Qat) at the 2010 San Francisco’s annual SantaCon gathering. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Where to with asylum seeker policy?
The issue likely to cause the Gillard Government the most difficulty this week is asylum seeker policy, which is due to be voted on in the House of Representatives tomorrow. It seems the votes of cross-benchers Tony Crook and Rob [...]
Woohoo!
The package of 18 bills that make up the Clean Energy Future package just passed the House of Representatives. The final vote was 74-72, with the steel assistance package passing 75-71 with the additional support of Bob Katter. Amidst the [...]
Campbell Newman’s glass jaw and wayward Cairns candidate
I have a story in Crikey today on Campbell Newman’s travails. The Lord Mayor turned Opposition Leader outside Parliament has been on the back foot for over a month, displaying tetchiness over demands that he more fully disclose his financial [...]
My piece in The Drum on the plaintiffs’ motives in Eatock v. Bolt
After writing on the case of Bolt v. Eatock in a couple of posts, I had the good fortune to speak to one of the plaintiffs about their motivations in taking the case. To me, one of the most significant [...]
What’s next?
By the time Parliament rises for the end-of-year break, two things will most likely have happened: the Clean Energy Future package will have passed into law, and the amendments to the Migration Act to enable offshore processing will have been [...]
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