Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]
2011 Melbourne Cup thread
It’s that time of year again. Post whatever you like about the Melbourne Cup – tips for Tuesday, anecdotes, trivia, deconstruction, equine sock puppets, fashion advice, hangover cures, etc.
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!
Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
Qantas industrial action thread
I notice that Saturday Salon is all about the Qantas industrial action and lockout now, so I thought it might be worthwhile to put a quick post up, a mere coat hanger if you will, on which to hang comments [...]
Is pokie reform a seat-changer?
In Yet Another ALP Leadership Speculation Article, Michelle Grattan claims that some “nervous ALP backbenchers” want to go back to Rudd, abandon pokie reform, and therefore immediately run to an early election which Labor will inevitably lose but will preserve [...]
Climate clippings 51
Environmental change and migration The British Government Office for Science has published a report Foresight: Migration and Global Environmental Change (Financial Times article here) looking at displacement and migration, both internal and transnational, due to environmental factors up to 2050. [...]
The impossibility of Tony Abbott’s project
In my piece for The Drum the other day on how there is a sense in which we are still living in the Howard Era, I made this comment about Tony Abbott: Tony Abbott promises a Howard restoration, flanked by [...]
Margaret Simons on the OPI investigation
Margaret Simons at Crikey summarizes the Victorian Office of Police Integrity’s report of an investigation of the dealings between the Victorian Police Association, former Deputy Commissioner Sir Ken Jones, ministerial adviser (and former police officer) Tristan Weston, and various Victorian [...]
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