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Memorialising air disasters
Two bodies from among those killed on the Air France Airbus which disappeared on a flight from Rio de Janiero to Paris last week have now been pulled from the Atlantic Ocean. Although Brazilians and French made up half the [...]
A good news story about public hospitals and public healthcare
Last week I had surgery as a public patient in a public hospital in NSW. I’ve lived to tell the tale.
Sentiment
Yesterday morning, before the national accounts for the December quarter were released, I listened to a discussion on Sydney’s ABC 702 radio between Ross Gittins, George Megalogenis and compere Deborah Cameron, about the role of economics journalists in influencing “sentiment” [...]
Walk against warming
Next Sunday November 11 is the second Walk Against Warming, deliberately planned for two weeks before the election. There will be at least 50 walks across Australia. Sydney’s Walk Against Warming will kick off in The Domain at 1pm, with [...]
It’s the oil, stupids
To sum up, then: it was about the oil and it’s still about the oil. Crossposted at LP in exile., as comments here are closed due to our outage issues.
11 long years
From a collective of Australian musicians comes ‘The Howard Years’.
Once more with feeling
I received another personally addressed letter signed ‘Turnbull’ yesterday. Third in a week.
Eat less red meat, drink more red wine…
…or drink no wine at all, especially if you’re a woman with any breast cancer risk factors. That seems to be the gist of the latest health advice in relation to cancer and heart disease. Meat: The World Cancer Research [...]
Malcolm's environment 2
Another campaigning week, another personally addressed letter from Malcolm Turnbull. This one, I immediately noticed, managed to get the word ‘families’ into the opening line — Dear Ms, While Australia’s economy continues to grow, I know families continue to face [...]
Malcolm's environment
It’s a surprise-a-day campaign here in Wentworth. As everyone knows, this marginal seat is held by Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who was elected just three years ago. This hasn’t stopped him from warning us against the “dangerous inexperience” of [...]
Downing Street Memo II
A few weeks ago, on September 26, the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais published the transcript of a meeting between then Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar and US President George W Bush in Texas on February 22, 2003 — [...]
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