Gummo Trotsky
Guest post by Rachel Hills: 4 articles I'd like to read about the spill
Rachel Hills writes: Yesterday Australia swore in its first female Prime Minister. She’s also our first atheist prime minister, and our first prime minister without children. So yays. She’s done a good job in her first 24 hours. More interesting to [...]
Should gas fired power be part of the transition to green power? Guest post by John Davidson
I first met John Davidson, a process engineer who has worked in the construction and mining industries around Australia, at the Brisbane hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy last year. Soon afterwards I suggested he might do [...]
The Amateur Technocrat VII
Experiment, Observation, Econometrics The blogosphere’s a fun place isn’t it? Always throwing up a post somewhere where the argument is so irritatingly and egregiously wrong that it niggles and niggles at you until the only way to get rid of [...]
Kelly's World
ON the first day of campaign 2007 John Howard and Peter Costello sought to dictate the terms of this election, the formula they have used with success since their 1996 victory. They have made the correct move. This is not [...]
Lies, Damned Lies, and National Unity Agendas
Under the Coalition, Australia is a different country from what it was under Labor â?? less apologetic about its past, more confident about its future. Weâ??re better able to appreciate the modern Australian achievement â?? a nation that, despite its [...]
Heigh-ho the Dairy-o…
… a-hunting we will go! Australia’s nice people have found themselves a new quarry this week. This time the unfortunate vixen is Clare Edwards, a 20 year old single mother who recently advertised in the Subiaco Post for a sperm [...]
Through the Looking Glass Darkly
Ever get the feeling that the world has turned totally arse-about? That’s the impression I get from the coverage, and comment, on Peter Phelps’ stoush with David Kelly last week at a public meeting in electorate of Eden-Monaro, currently held [...]
Guest post by Mr Denmore: The Failed Estate IV – For Whom The Poll Tolls
By Gummo Trotsky on June 15, 2010
Regular LP commenter, Mr Denmore, is contributing a series of posts about shifts in the media and journospheres in the context of this year’s federal election. Mr Denmore has extensive professional experience in the media, and we trust you will [...]
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