The News Limited distortion field, and Rudd-Gillard in historical perspective
The best commentary on Australian politics in Australia’s print media generally comes from its economics writers. But it seems that enough time in the News Limited reality distortion field can have you descending into Terry McRann-like partisan hackery disguised as [...]
Climate clippings 76
This week I’ve concentrated on the practical side of Climate change – mitigation and adaptation and the relevant policies. 1. China to cap emissions According to Giles Parkinson news reports from China indicate that the powerful National Development and Reform [...]
Gonski roundup
After the COAG meeting last Friday failed to yield an agreement with any state the question needs to be asked as to whether the Government’s Gonski implementation package will pass into legislation and how many states and other entities will [...]
European ETS
Last week when the European Parliament voted down a proposal to prop up the EU Emissions Trading System’s languishing carbon price by postponing the sale of 900 million emission allowances until the back-end of this decade the price fell to [...]
How low will they go?
You might recall that Julia Gillard kicked off her week in Western Sydney with an announcement of a new taskforce to combat gang crime at a cost of $64 million. If you read through her press conference, she emphasises open [...]
“Carbon tax” repeal: rhetoric and reality
On 4th April, Tony Abbott spoke to Craig Huth from Max FM in Taree, and was asked about the mechanics of rolling back Labor’s carbon trading plans should the Coalition win government in September. In keeping with party policy on [...]
Is Labor too big to fail? II
In comments on my last post, which cited Jonathan Green’s article about the potential disappearance of the Labor Party, Terry Flew pointed us in the direction of Dr Lindy Edwards’ analysis of contenting ALP ideological currents. Edwards’ piece is no [...]
Let’s talk about superannuation
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing” That, I believe, came from Jean Baptiste Colbet French economist and minister of finance [...]
#sos13 – Saving Our Senate
John Quiggin writes: Discussion over the Labor leadership, and the government in general, is now academic, in the pejorative sense of the term. Barring a shock on a larger scale than that of 2001, Abbott is going to win the [...]
Ferguson without class
The MSM has extensively reported Martin Ferguson’s statement, in his resignation speech, that “The class war rhetoric that started with the mining dispute of 2010 must cease. It is doing the Labor Party no good…”. The Murdoch press, and its [...]
First LP blogger in Parliament?
Anna’s extremely interesting dissection of the intersections of politics and social media is very timely, as I’ve been meaning to write about the fact that a long time commenter and one time Guest Poster on Larvatus Prodeo, Tim Watts, is [...]
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