Guest Poster
Quick link: CEO of largest power company argues for change
This is a guest post by John Davidson, a retired engineer who comments as John D. Climate Spectator ran a summary of this fascinating interview with David Crane, the CEO of NRG Energy. NRG energy has more than 24 Gw [...]
Guest post by Jim McDonald: An open letter to Alan Joyce
Dear Mr Joyce, I have just received your Frequent Flyer message in which you “apologise” and then present the media spin and special pleading you have promulgated during the enterprise bargaining period. The fact is that your desire to break [...]
A Word about Welfare
Am I the only person who is thoroughly sick of the neoliberals and right-wingers carping on about the evils of the welfare state? It was, after all, they who invented it.
More distortions on the BER
The front-page article in The Australian on Saturday, July 9 under the headline “BER waste blows out to $1.1bn” is an example of the crap mentioned by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the National Press Club on Thursday, July 14.
Farewell Margaret Olley
Margaret Olley died yesterday. She was 88 years old. One of Australia’s most distinguished painters and supporters of young and emerging artists, Olley was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1991. She spoke openly about her efforts to overcome both alcoholism and then later in life depression…
Guy Rundle on Libya, the West and ideology
Reproduced from today’s Crikey by kind permission; previous related discussion at LP can be found here and here. The 10th anniversary year of 9/11 is proving a signal one in many respects. The Arab uprising began against rulers whose tenure [...]
Evaluating emission abatement programs: Guest post by John Davidson
John Davidson is a process engineer who worked in the construction and mining industries in various locations around Australia for many years. The great big lie that makes AGW deniers so influential is not their climate science distortions. It is [...]
Gough’s “nervous Nellies”; Kevin’s “panicking Pollies”
In this guest post, LP reader JohnL (who you might remember contributed this excellent takedown of BER myths) examines how sources can manipulate media coverage – in this case, with uncritical acceptance of “secret polling” data that presents those who [...]
Guest post by Chris Dickinson: Labor Cannot Stand Alone
In my last post here at LP, I caused an unexpected stir when I mentioned that the Liberal party only polled about 31% at the last election. There was a storm of comments to the effect that the coalition had [...]
Guest Post by @liz_beths: What is politics?
Cross-posted from Left Flank as a valuable discussion starter about the interactions between electoral politics, activism, and social movements. So what is politics? For most, politics is that thing that happens in Canberra and on Macquarie Street. That thing to [...]
Silencing the back bench: guest post by John Davidson
Barry Cohen had a depressing article on the decline of question time in yesterday’s Australian. His line is that question time should return to being “the forum for a backbencher to make a reputation” instead of allowing QT to be [...]
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