Some coverage has been given recently to a report ‘leaked’  early September from the German military about the implications of peak oil.  The article by Stefan Schultz in Der Spiegel is: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,715138,00.html ‘Peak Oil’ and the German Government Now this discussion has moved from mailing lists to The Age business pages. Both are worth reading, both […]

Pity the poor voters who thought when they elected an independent “we the people” were getting someone who would act in our interest rather than theirs, unlike representatives of the major political parties.

The Greens have come out of this election mess smelling sweeter than the rest. The ALP pulled at least two wrong reins: not standing on their principles and calling a double dissolution over the emission trading scheme, and then axing their leader and replacing him with another slice of milk toast on climate change. How […]

The Liberals are running two different election day messages on their wrap. Does either work? How do they decide where to display it?

Her mind might dwell on Rudd, but he’s erased her from Griffith.

Julia Gillard proclaimed today at her first set speech of the campaign that this election would be a “referendum on services for working families”. Her first offering was a speech on a sustainable Australia in which she managed to wrap up an amazing number of campaign themes, and even attempt to wedge Tony Abbott. Bravura […]

Has GetUp decided that the budgie smugglers are a net loser for Tony Abbott? How else to explain their fascination with Abbott and the beach. First they were running billboard against his position on global warming by showing him on the beach in a pair of Speedos.

Robert Gordon Menzies was the last Australian Prime Minister not to make it to his first election as PM after winning the preceding one. Will Kevin Rudd follow in his steps?