G’day Australia, Let me introduce myself. I am a primary producer. For my entire life I have been involved in primary production. I would like to think that this qualifies me as a professional in my trade. So what does my trade involve? Well firstly, I produce livestock. This makes me a whole host […]
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A producer’s view of animal rights
Monday, June 20th, 2011Greens follow GetUp
Sunday, June 19th, 2011It’s been a long time coming, but at last a major political party has copied one of the most effective fundraising tactics of GetUp. If you want to support the ad embedded below you can go to this page: It’s time the big polluters did their fair share, watch the ad and donate some of […]
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Australia as the last California
Friday, June 10th, 2011About a week ago the Economist ran a set of articles about Australia. No surprise that it gave thumbs down to our political leadership, dismissing Abbott as a tea party wannabe. Julia wasnt treated much better, but Keating received plaudits for opening up the economy. It was interested that they compared Australia to California as […]
Continue Reading...Make or break budget? Drop me a line.
Monday, May 9th, 2011Tonight’s federal budget is make or break for the Gillard/Swan government. They are close to written-off, but not quite. Ten years ago John Howard seemed headed for certain defeat, but dramatically changed direction during the Ryan by-election, taking a tax off beer and indexation off fuel excise. At the time the pundits criticised him for […]
Continue Reading...SAID HANRAHAN
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011with apologies and thanks to John O’Brien “We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan, In accents most forlorn, Below the tower with turning fan, One frosty Monday morn.
Continue Reading...Walk like an Egyptian
Sunday, February 20th, 2011Or a Libyan, a Tunisian, a Bahraini or a Yemeni…but don’t get shot. True colours of both governments and populace are now being revealed. The US is back-pedalling on support for repressive Mid-Eastern regimes. But shouldn’t they be crowing, as their avowed aim was to promote democracy? Well, perhaps not on the people’s terms, but […]
Continue Reading...Creamin’ it in Canberra
Monday, December 27th, 2010I hope your Christmas or holiday season has been as mellow as mine. Pleasant gatherings, abundant food and good wine, people you care about and of course, good conversation. Canberra post-drought is as good as it gets, at least to me. Sydney was wonderful for the day and the party I attended, but Canberra is […]
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Human Rights Awards, Chris Sidoti, Pauline Hanson and On Line Opinion
Sunday, December 12th, 2010Congratulations to Therese Rein, winner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s 2010 Human Rights Award, and all the other winners. It was particularly interesting to see the Internet get a look in with GetUp winning the Community (Organisation) Award. Other winners included Nina Funnell, an occasional contributor to On Line Opinion. You can […]
Continue Reading...CSIRO to NBN – just watch us innovate
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Today CSIRO announced that it had developed new wireless technology that allowed multiple users to download data at 12 Mbps without any reduction in the data transfer rate.
Continue Reading...Stable government mantra
Monday, September 20th, 2010Rob Oakeshott now says that he would like a Liberal as speaker. This is surely a disingenuous position. It’s payback for the Liberals being more aggressive in not wanting him as speaker than Labor. If the Liberals supplied the speaker that would put them one further vote away from government, unless they were to accept […]
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