A lot has happened since the “Two cows” model of how the different “isms” run their economies first appeared. This is the latest instalment, which hit my email inbox a couple of weeks ago, updated to take account of the GFC and the Euro crisis. The world economy explained with two cows SOCIALISM You have […]

Yes, I’m a man, and I vote, and somewhere around 49% of the over 18 year old population shares those characteristics, so why would the Prime Minister set out to regularly antagonise us? Picking on niche constituencies like billionaires, or dole bludgers, might be smart, but picking on a minority constituency so large it is […]

I went to school with Joe Richards, and nothing about “menu gate” surprises me. Even at 17 he was a colourful rogue, and made a great Major General in our 1974 production of the Pirates of Penzance. He was a complete ham, who a couple of years earlier had had similar success as the Duke […]

The IEA is hardly a left wing think tank. They advise governments on energy and are now warning that climate change poses a threat to the oil rig platforms in the North Sea. In an article by Tom Bawden in the Independent , the bigger waves and storms could add to the danger and expense […]

The bad news is we are cooking the planet by burning fossil fuels. The good news is we are running out of fossil fuels. end of story, no problems, right? — Except that the big money has now moved into fossil fuels, heedless of the bad news above. When the housing mess collapsed, searching for […]

Even the risk to workers in the NBN asbestos events would seem to me to be over-stated, let alone that to residents. Asbestos is a dangerous product, but huge numbers of us have experienced significant exposure to it without developing any signs of asbestosis. In the 60s and 70s I was Dad’s labourer as he […]

A new paper, lead authored by Australian Randall Donohue of CSIRO, could provide a new clue as to why global temperatures have stood still for almost a decade and a half. The paper finds that there was a more or less straight line relationship between the 14% increase in CO2 in the atmosphere between 1982 and […]

The idea that Tony Abbott’s decision to withdraw his support for the government’s proposed retrospective extension of public funding is somehow a plus for the government is bizarre, and demonstrates just why the government and its supporters are losing the Australian people. It’s being pushed by all and sundry. I’ve heard Mark Dreyfus hum the […]

I’ve had enough of our site being targeted by unethical SEO spammers who leave comment link spam in the comments on our forum. It breaches our forum rules, and it takes time to clean-up, which is a real cost. This isn’t just some junk generated by robots and scripts. You have to register to be […]

Well, perhaps just a few lives. Here is a positive development in what is rapidly becoming a game changer for manufacturing and health care, and this is just the start: BABY’S LIFE SAVED WITH GROUNDBREAKING 3-D PRINTED DEVICE THAT RESTORED HIS BREATHING A bioresorbable splint has been created and used for first time at the […]