Labor leadership Roundtable we still have to have II
OK, the previous Labor leadership thread is getting unwieldy, so here’s a new one. Kevin Rudd has resigned as Foreign Minister, saying that without the confidence of the Prime Minister his position was untenable, and that he would return to [...]
An effective malaria vaccine!
This is amazing – a (partially) effective vaccine for malaria. The full scholarly article on the Phase 3 clinical trial is here. In short, the vaccine reduced the incidence of malaria amongst vaccinated children by about half. It’s not a [...]
The backdrop to Gillard’s carbon price compensation announcement
Is anybody (who’s interested enough in politics to read a blog like LP) in the least surprised by the latest tidbit of information about the carbon price? The idea of households receiving compensation for the impact of a carbon price [...]
Quick link: Garnaut climate change review – update paper 1
The first public document from Ross Garnaut’s updating of his original review – addressing the question of “Weighing the costs and benefits of climate change action’’, is out tonight at 6pm. The public lecture introducing the update is booked out, [...]
Pssst! That's our lecturer! In the Susso queue!
This morning’s media reports that the Opposition now intends to support the Federal Government’s intention to bring back the Susso for several categories of welfare recipient including those on Newstart Allowance. The use of the term “Susso” is not mere [...]
Net censorship zombie rises again
So reports ABC news. In short, it appears the government intends to require ISP’s to block sites on a blacklist, including: “sites containing child sex abuse, bestiality, sexual violence or detailed information about how to use drugs or commit crimes.” [...]
Tsunami warning – cancelled
From ABC News: The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a series of tsunami warnings for the east coast of Australia in the wake of an earthquake which struck off the coast of New Zealand. The warnings are available at the [...]
Droids? No, we want clone warriors!
The Defence White Paper spent considerable time discussing “cyber warfare” – the idea that in the future, wars would be in part fought by teams of hackers attempting to mess with the other side’s computers. Peter W. Singer argues in [...]
Recession update
Last November, we had a fascinating discussion about the then-impending recession’s effects on the LP readership community. Six months on, the macroscale picture in Australia is not great, but not as calamitous as it might have been either. Despite a [...]
Free Corey Delaney!
Well, not really, but I hope the charges possibly laid against him are substantive ones and not just related to being an idiot. (It’s difficult to tell whether he has in fact been charged and if so, with what offence [...]
Tis that time of year
Yep. It is Grand Final weekend. Where all the hopes and dreams of the season are put on the line for the glory of the victory lap. Saturday sees Port Adelaide up against Geelong in the AFL Grand Final. I [...]
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