“Reassurance Labour” and post-Blair social democracy
Globally, the centre-left is enduring a period of public weariness and dissatisfaction. In Australia, a relatively unpopular government battles on against a red-blooded Opposition Leader, with the spectre of a leadership context lingering unerringly in the background. Between Kevin and [...]
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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 [...]
Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at capitalising on hope
Doco examines how devastating disease became shiny pink marketing dream diverting donations away from organisations doing most of the work towards organisations with better PR. Is this the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?
Directing cancer research
Medical research, and cancer research in particular, is the recipient of charitable funding in a way that few other areas of research are.
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I’m still stressing out over the project I’m working on and various health matters that are annoying, time-consuming but OK-ish. John D has helped as always, but don’t blame him for the fourth one, the one on Rupert’s WSJ. Australian [...]
Clive Palmer not helping LNP
The big news in the Queensland state election campaign today, overshadowing as journos like to say even Kevin Rudd’s launch of Kate Jones’ new website and Anna Bligh and Campbell Newman’s trip to flood ravaged Charleville, is an “extraordinary” press [...]
Disability funding ‘aspirational’ for Tony Abbott
John Howard invented ‘core’ and ‘non-core promises’. Now Tony Abbott has gone one up on his mentor. In a speech to the National Press Club yesterday, the Opposition Leader included Medicare dental funding and the National Disability Insurance Scheme under [...]
Renewables in Germany – a paradigm shift or just a muddle?
On solar PV installations the laurels go to Germany. They installed 3 Gw of solar PV in December alone, compared with 1.7 Gw in the US for the whole of 2011 – and at roughly half the price. This is [...]
Talking about a(n Education) Revolution
With apologies to Tracy Chapman. The Gonski Review into School Funding is to report shortly, and yesterday an Essential Research poll found opinion split largely on partisan lines over the BER projects, but intriguingly with a much more favourable view [...]
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