Saturday Salon
A weekly open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss almost anything* you like.
Christopher’s Crisis
Christopher Pyne said he was expecting a warm reception from education ministers yesterday. Seems it was heated to the point of being downright explosive. According to The World Today, Tasmanian Education Minister, the Greens Nick McKim, says Mr Pyne had […]
Simple graphs tell a big story
John D drew my attention to RenewEconomy’s Graph of the Day: Nine simple charts to explain the global carbon budget. The post was originally published at Shrink That Footprint. There’s been next to no discussion at either place, but in […]
Overflow Thread
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 (which is where off-topic discursive chitchat belongs) – the #overflow has […]
Numbers add up to keep Clean Energy Finance
This article from Climate Spectator tells us that shutting down the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will actually cost the government $200 million each year in lost revenues. The article refers to an article (by Laura Tingle) in the AFR. […]
Gonski gone
Kevin Rudd and I are on a unity ticket. There’s no difference between Kevin Rudd and myself when it comes to school funding. That’s Tony Abbott before the last election. “you can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly […]
Climate clippings 87
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes climate change. This edition picks up the […]
Climate change: reconnecting politics with reality
After the rally on Sunday 17 November Ben Eltham took a look at climate activism in the digital age and nominated climate policy as “the central battleground of 21st century politics.” Sooner or later, somehow or other, climate activism has […]
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
A weekly open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss almost anything* you like.
Hartcher on Rudd and Gillard
My attention was drawn to a series of articles under the heading The Meltdown by Peter Hartcher by Mark and then this post by John Quiggin. I thought them well worth a read, but found the links from Quiggin’s post […]