Tony Abbott's Ideas Summit
Business Spectator reports: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will hold an ideas forum on Friday in much the same vein as Kevin Rudd’s famed 2020 summit. But he insists it will be more than a glorified photo opportunity. The roundtable is [...]
TED; Aimee Mullins and her twelve pairs of legs
I’d been meaning to blog on this for such a long time. I sort of put it off, because… well, for all sorts of reasons. But I’ve been reminded of Aimee Mullins’ talk by the recent (and well deserved … [...]
Climate change denialism and the future of the right
With George W. Bush having a little over a week in office left to go of what has been a very long eight years, it’s timely to turn to the question of the long term implications for the political strength [...]
Guest post by Andrew Crook: The Grattan Institute – Centre for Ruddist Thinking
Republished from Crikey with permission. Since it was announced in April, barely a peep has been heard from the Grattan Institute, Kevin Rudd’s $50 million super think tank named after a street abutting Melbourne University. Headed by ex-McKinsyite John Daley, [...]




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