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King hit or own goal?
Sorry about the mixed metaphors.There is little doubt that Rudd’s ‘$10 billion black hole’ claim has not been knockout blow he was looking for and most of the media are seeing it as a sign that the election contest is […]
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Saturday Salon
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss almost anything* you like.
![Weekly Election 2013 Thread](http://web.archive.org./web/20140216154349im_/http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2013/06/Parliament-house-150x150.jpg)
Weekly Election 2013 Thread
In order to keep the Saturday Salon open thread as a 2013 Federal election-free zone, here’s a separate news-cycle week-ending roundtable where you can talk about the politics of the upcoming election.
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Sick seas
It’s over six years now since I wrote the post Sick seas 1: acidifying oceans based on Alanna Mitchell’s book Seasick: the hidden ecological crisis of the global ocean. I had intended to do a series of eight or nine […]
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Guest Post: Attack on Aboriginal Community in Broome
I’m not talking about a verbal or newspaper attack, a political attack or a funding cut. I mean that somebody threw a bomb out of a car at a group of people at the One Mile Community in Western Australia.
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Budget strategies conundrum
The liars and clunkheads who messed up the the LNP budget costings in 2010 have come up with a new strategy. If they don’t tell us how they are going to bring the budget back into surplus then they can’t […]
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Future renewables cost no more than fossil fuels
Back in May we had a look at the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) report on renewable energy futures in Australia to answer the questions, posed by the Greens, whether it is it possible to achieve a 100% renewables scenario […]
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#Syria roundtable
Dedicated thread for discussion of Syria and related Arab Spring/Middle East geopolitics in light of the recent massacre of civilians using chemical weapons and the international responses.
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Soil carbon and direct (in)action
Last week on the 7.30 Report we were treated to a debate between Mark Butler, the climate change minister and his Opposition counterpart, Greg Hunt, that just did not work. Leigh Sales tried a hard-edged questioning style, but unfortunately did […]
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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!