Cricket’s secret rule book
For anybody in any doubt that India now runs world cricket, the fact that the “Decision Review System” is not being used in the current Test series against Australia is instructive. Alone amongst the cricketing nations, India objects to the [...]
Foreign policy week: Uranium sales to India
It seems like this is foreign policy week – or, perhaps we’ll call it “fall into line with the USA” week.
The horse-is-bolted uranium sales debate
It seems that we are going another round of the “sell uranium to India” discussion, with “Uranium Breath” Martin Ferguson pushing for the policy to currently prohibits sales to India to be changed. You can take your pick of op-eds [...]
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Nearly two million people die prematurely each and every year due to indoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization (Full text (PDF)), virtually all in low and middle income countries. In terms of perhaps a more useful estimate [...]
We are not alone: The end of the Westminster model?
(Via Open Democracy) Patrick Dunleavy from the LSE has written a post on the decline of the “Westminster model”: For the first time in history, the Australian outcome means that every key ‘Westminster model’ country in the world now has [...]
Victoria gets on the coal truck to escape the Pacific Peso
A proposal to export to dry and export brown coal from Victoria’s Latrobe valley (discussed in this earlier LP post) is still up for consideration, along with a variety of other proposals to turn the stuff into everything from diesel [...]
Skipper, I have the conn…er…skipper?…able seaman?…work experience kid???
We haven’t had a warporn thread for a while, as the government’s Defence White Paper is still in limbo. But it seems that various bits and pieces are starting to emerge, so to speak. The ABC is reporting that the [...]
Mumbai terror attacks coverage from The Immanent Frame
There’s some fascinating stuff written on the Mumbai attacks by scholars of religion and global politics at The Immanent Frame – much better analysis from a blog with a specialist interest but also the ability to contextualise broadly than I’ve [...]
Cities, states, globalisation and warfare (and global sociology)
On a couple of reports on tonight’s tv news, I saw a citizen of Mumbai being interviewed who demanded the Indian government go to war with Pakistan. That set me to wondering what such a war – and God forbid [...]
Mumbai terror attacks: an anti-Hindutva motivation?
The Mumbai terror attacks are horrendous and to be roundly and loudly condemned. But, as with all events of this nature (particularly those which involve attacks on Westerners), inevitably there’s been a rush to inscribe their significance within a political [...]
Let's annex New Zealand
When talk of a sporting merger with our trans-Tasman cousins comes up, it usually relates to putting together a decent rugby team. But, at the moment, the Oceania cricket team looks like it’d be a hell of a lot more [...]
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