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 [...]
Autonomous vehicles and the end of the private car
Driverless cars are coming sooner than you probably think – so let’s have some fun speculating about the implications.
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 [...]
Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]
Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
Domestic aviation and a carbon price
Carbon pricing and rising fuel costs might make domestic air travel more expensive, but by how much?
Melbourne Urbanist on the HSR Phase 1 study
Melbourne Urbanist’s Alan Davies has had a quick look at the phase 1 study of Australian high-speed rail
Quick link: air pollution and infant mortality
Harry Clarke links to a statistical study of the effects of air pollution on infant mortality in California. While some pollutants have been reduced to levels at which it is no longer possible to detect any effect on infant mortality, [...]
Never mind the pork…
…feel the long-term trajectory. There’s already a great deal of insta-reaction to the Clean Energy Future online – you can try Climate Spectator or Crikey for some analysis if you like. Or you could start by reading the actual policy [...]
Quick link: The High Cost of Free Parking
American economist Donald Shoup has figured out just how large the societal costs of crazy parking policies – both on-street and off-street – are.
A quick reminder: Tony Abbott talks out his arse
Just popping in to remind you all: whenever Tony Abbott says anything about the effects of a carbon tax, it’s most likely wrong. At the bottom of this article is more scaremongering rubbish: Touring the Ford factory at Geelong, Mr [...]
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