Many of the commentators have been speculating that health will be the issue of the next election. I don’t think so. The health policy doesn’t blow the pink batts affair off the agenda, it reinstates it at the centre.

If Kevin Rudd doesn’t sort himself out pretty quickly he won’t be Prime Minister come Christmas. Either Tony Abbott will have done for him, or Julia Gillard.

I’ve revised this post. Looks like my reservations were well-founded (see original post below). The Bolivian media release on which the original post was based is a hoax. While the media contact might be listed as “Nicholas Buxton” which is the name of a high profile Anglican-priest-in-training in England, the email reverts to Doyle Canning, […]

(Cross posted from What the people want) Yesterday The Australian and The Courier Mail ran polls from Newspoll and Galaxy which said the Liberals would lose seats if they rejected Malcolm Turnbull’s position on an ETS. They claimed this on the basis of the public’s view of global warming. This commentary was unsupportable on the […]

Sydney is planning an urban farm. They haven’t decided where yet, but it will happen. And it will have more than just plants, as not all of us are vegetarian. Like Al Gore, I’ve cut way back on my meat, but for different reasons. Vegetarian spouse and laziness basically. But let’s talk turkey. Or at […]

The federal government’s stimulus package could have bought almost one million schools, at least if it had been spent in Bangladesh. Ethical Investments is one of the most consistent supporters of On Line Opinion through its onsite advertising. According to the media release that I have just received they have donated $140,868 to the community. […]

Last night we saw the film about the German 1970s terrorist group, ‘the Badder-Meinhof Complex’. At the start it said it was a true story, and the thread of events was believably jumbled and incoherent, so I assume it was a fairly accurate portrayal of the actual course of their attempts to change history. While […]

Dear Paul, Yesterday you published an article by Richard Baker about our decision not to run an article submitted to us by Lee Rhiannon, a Greens MLC from NSW. The clear implication of your article was that the decision was motivated by political bias. This open interview is designed to give you an opportunity to […]