Overflow Thread of DOOOOOOOOMMMMM
So it’s time for another Overflow thread, as part of our system for keeping other threads on-topic. There are Rules here. DO NOT treat this as an Open Thread – the #overflow has a very separate purpose: set apart for the more contentious side-discussions, to avoid disruptive thread-clutter that discourages other commentors. Off-topic chatty tangents belong on our Open Threads.
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!
Saturday Salon
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss almost anything* you like.
* with some netiquette exceptions
All local politics is global I
One of the interesting things, to me, about visiting Prague was talking to a number of local academics – at the Anglo-American University and the Institute of Industrial and Financial Management – about how globalisation was often viewed through a […]
Crisis or catastrophe? What will the IPCC say?
In sum, the dynamics of the global coupled human-environmental system within the dominant culture precludes management for stable, sustainable pathways and promotes instability. In other words, we’re f*cked! That quote was from here, linked from Christopher Wright. The quote was […]
Whimsy
Please share any bits and pieces that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Mr Abbott elected PM; Invents invisibility potion
There’s been a fair bit of comment today about Tony Abbott’s reluctance to appear in the media. Notable are Jonathan Green (who rightly derides the absurdity and immorality of the “hide the boats” strategy) and Dee Madigan, with whom I […]
Anthony Albanese for Labor Leader
I watched the first of three televised “debates” between Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten the other night. They will meet again in Melbourne tomorrow night and appear together on Q&A on Monday night. One of the interesting things about this […]
Mr Abbott and the Culture Wars II: Climate Change and civil society
One argument I made in my earlier post about Mr Abbott’s relaunch of the Culture Wars is that he won’t have noticed that civil society is stronger than it was in the Howard years. It’s not just “clicktivism” – there […]
Not the Shipping News: There was no landslide
Now that the election counting for the House of Representatives is done and dusted (with Clive Palmer’s 36 vote victory in Fairfax being the last outstanding datum of import; though see the interesting Senate races still undeclared), there’s been a […]
Merkel rules OK
I thought we might take a look at the outcome of the German elections on Sunday, partly because of how the results played out in the electoral system and partly because Angela Merkel is one of the more influential politicians […]