Kevin Rudd's ideological manifesto
The Prime Minister has written a long essay for the next issue of The Monthly, excerpts from which are available on the web. Robert Corr extracts the telling quote: The time has come, off the back of the current crisis, [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Howard kills Republic… again
There’s a story in the News Limited tabloids today suggesting that any plebiscite for a Republic is to go on the backburner, because Kevin Rudd fears that there would be a voter backlash in economic hard times. Backbencher Mark Dreyfus [...]
A puzzling policy response to a tragedy
It’s difficult to know what to think about the human tragedy of the terrible event on the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne yesterday. I simply can’t contemplate what would possess somebody to (according to witness accounts reported in The Age) throw [...]
What comes after the Democrats? (And "new" Labor?)
In an earlier post riffing off the Katherine Wilson hoax on Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant, I made some comments about the absence of any real political force representing small l Liberalism, to the consternation of some commenters on the ensuing [...]
I won't add my condemn to your condemn XXXIII
Well we’ve had almost a month of 2009 so it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a 33rd open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this year so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, *specifically 2009* [...]
Bored with election speculation? There's always leadership speculation!
In light of the interminable Queensland election speculation – seemingly immune to confrontation with any actual facts – there’s some interest in a leak Crikey‘s Bernard Keane had from the LNP: In the wake of yesterday’s item on problems within [...]
Newspapers.biz
For anyone following the declining fortunes of the newspaper (and perhaps of journalism), there’s some interesting reading on the intertubes today. At Inside Story, MEAA communications director Jonathan Este takes a look at the trends – and the different strategies [...]
Didn't see anything – was too busy taking photos
This is a rarity – something genuinely cool from Microsoft. While Photosynth is apparently a couple of years old, it was new to me. The idea, in a nutshell, is to allow anybody to collate a large number of photos [...]
Alternative universe
Aside from running “news” stories that “couriermail.com.au readers” are shocked by Anna Bligh’s use of the government jet to fly to Townsville, the redoubtable News Limited ranks are continuing their early election frenzy at every available opportunity. Witness this piece [...]
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