Labor leadership 3
This post started out as a comment and grew a bit, so I decided to put it up as a new post. As a post it reads like a comment at times unfortunately, but here goes. We should perhaps begin [...]
The Labor leadership Roundtable we had to have
… since the Saturday Salon thread is full of commentary about the apparently impending showdown between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. I think it’s apparent, as we’ve been saying here since January, that the “it’s all a media beatup” hypothesis [...]
Queensland State Election 2012 Roundtable
Anna Bligh went to visit Governor Penelope Wensley this morning to ask for Parliament to be dissolved, and the election campaign period has formally begun. The state votes on March 24. Please use this roundtable to discuss any aspect of [...]
Launching Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams tomorrow and field reporting
Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams is moving into very exciting territory. Field reporting from the Western Downs Early tomorrow morning we are leaving for a field reporting trip, starting at Jondaryan where there is a major protest action, and moving [...]
Climate clippings 67
I’ve used a random image for the featured image of this post. I was going to use the one that once was my gravatar (to the left) but the original is quite small and it came up fuzzy. Actually I [...]
Confessions of a greedy bank shareholder
Recently the Commonwealth Bank declared a record half-year profit of $3.576 billion, raising the usual chorus of protests about greedy banks, favouring shareholders over the interests of customers and bank employees. As a shareholder it does not give me any [...]
Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams – media project and fundraiser
As LP readers will know, many bloggers have been concerned for a long time about the quality of public debate around contentious issues. Many of these issues are ‘wicked problems’ – scientifically and socially complex, presenting real challenges to policy [...]
Ashgrove race tightening #qldpol
Friday saw a ReachTel poll showing Kate Jones gaining 3.4% on primaries in Ashgrove since January. According to ReachTel, Campbell Newman is still on 49% of the primary. However, it may be that because of the nature of the sample [...]
Climate clippings 66
New solar PV nanotechnology There have been so many developments in PV technology it’s hard to know which will be significant. Gizmag tells us about new material consisting of tiny hollow spheres, made out of nanocrystalline-silicon. The new material is [...]
Renewable energy for all
Most policy buffs suggest that governments should not pick winners in the renewable energy or any other field. Now there is a scientific reason for narrowing the choice – any energy source other than the sun and derivatives such as [...]
The IEA’s solar energy perspective
World-wide the shipping rate of solar PV has increased by a compound rate of 65% in the five years to 2010: The graph above showing the shipping rate of solar came from the International Energy association (IEA) which has recently [...]
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