Labor leadership 3
This post started out as a comment and grew a bit, so I decided to put it up as a new post. As a post it reads like a comment at times unfortunately, but here goes. We should perhaps begin [...]
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 [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: let’s dissect the PR and propaganda that aims to blow one’s own horn, bury one’s errors etc. What did they hope to bury in Friday’s news-dump? What’s really going on?
Gonski roundtable
This is the thread to discuss schools funding related matters arising from the release of the Gonski Report (Feb 20, 2011). *PLAYGROUND DUTY UPDATE* Hat-tip to Chris for finding the link to the report [PDF] before teh Google !
The Labor leadership Roundtable we had to have
… since the Saturday Salon thread is full of commentary about the apparently impending showdown between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. I think it’s apparent, as we’ve been saying here since January, that the “it’s all a media beatup” hypothesis [...]
Queensland State Election 2012 Roundtable
Anna Bligh went to visit Governor Penelope Wensley this morning to ask for Parliament to be dissolved, and the election campaign period has formally begun. The state votes on March 24. Please use this roundtable to discuss any aspect of [...]
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what else did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Climate clippings 67
I’ve used a random image for the featured image of this post. I was going to use the one that once was my gravatar (to the left) but the original is quite small and it came up fuzzy. Actually I [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: what resurrected shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines are being taken for another trot around the same old track?
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what else did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Climate clippings 66
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 [...]
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