2010: The Year in Review
Due to an unforeseen technical side effect of the Federal government’s forthcoming internet filtering regimen, an online article reviewing the year 2010 has fallen into a wormhole in the intertubes, giving us all a glimpse of the year ahead. However, [...]
Living in a material world
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” — William Morris This year, my New Year’s resolution is that everything in my house must be either useful, beautiful, or both. [...]
I won't add my condemn to your condemn XLI (End of year edition)
Well, we haven’t condemned for ages, so it must be long past time again to condemn. Here’s a 41st open condemnation thread. What’s been worthy of condemnation in 2009? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need [...]
"Great new tax on everything"
The government has released modelling showing the effects of the CPRS on household incomes, demonstrating that many low income earners will, on average, be better off financially. Predictably, this disclosure has added fuel to the fire of complaints from the [...]
Remembering the Rhine Gorge
In the last days of September 2008 three of my siblings and I plus partners enjoyed a family reunion which began with a boat cruise down the Rhine from Basel to Amsterdam. In June I posted a collection of photos [...]
Saturday Salon (Christmas Edition)
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Happy Christmas from LP!
We hope you all have a wonderful, safe and enjoyable day! xo
CPD: Thinking Points on Climate Change
The Centre for Policy Development has released a new edition of its Thinking Points newsletter, on the topic of climate change. Miriam Lyons argues that “climate change is a problem which requires us to marshall the best of science and [...]
"Tower of hope" or vale of tears?
Since 22 November, that is 31 days ago, farmer Peter Spencer has been on a hunger strike on a platform part way up 100 metre wind monitoring tower, designated the “Tower of Hope”, on his farm “Saarhnlee” at Shannon’s Flat [...]
After Copenhagen III: The Domestic politics
As I observed in an earlier post, the instant response from Australian industry and business groups to the Copenhagen schemozzle was to call for a delay of the CPRS or yet more handouts in the guise of compensation. They’re unlikely [...]
Even the devil sometimes speaks true? Rudd, Labor and the 2010 election
By Mark Bahnisch on December 23, 2009
We have it on good authority, that of St Thomas Aquinas, that demons and evil spirits can sometimes speak the truth. Now, I’m not saying that Janet Albrechtsen falls into either of those categories, but for once I was interested [...]
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