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I like the Brisbane City Council idea of placing hire bikes around the city to be used as an alternative to trains, buses, taxis and personal automobiles, but has Campbell Newman for once got his timing wrong?
This photo, taken at the lower end of Edward Street suggests he has. […] Continue Reading…
Today 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.
In a sense we shouldn’t be surprised.
CSIRO is a world leader in wireless technology and last year was awarded a court judgement […] Continue Reading…
The SMH carries a story that literary magazine Meanjin is to become an online only publication.
I’ve mixed feelings about that.
For starters Meanjin shares a Queensland heritage along with OLO, with its name in fact deriving from the aboriginal name for the land where Brisbane is situated. So, along with […] Continue Reading…
Watching John Howard on Q&A tonight made me think about a few things. He’s certainly a class act and a cut above any subsequent Australian Prime Minister or Parliamentary Leader of the Liberal Party. But he comes from a political generation where a significant number of politicians from both […] Continue Reading…
PR professionals who are genuinely professional are generally very careful not to lie to journalists, or at least get caught out lying. It’s not so much a matter of professional courtesy, but necessity. A journalist who buys a lie damages their own reputation, and they don’t like that. Other journalists tend not to […] Continue Reading…
The Australian’s front page yesterday told us that ‘corporate leaders are stepping up’ to make sure the federal government isn’t overly influenced by ‘vested interests’. They want to protect our economy from ill-considered decisions.
BHP Billiton CEO Marius Kloppers’ call for a carbon tax may have set the cat among […] Continue Reading…
Rob 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, […] Continue Reading…
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 […] Continue Reading…
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.
Instead, what they got was micro-parties. Small cap representatives whose schtick is that they will do what […] Continue Reading…
It appears to be the case that the Victorian Government is topping up floodwaters around Goulburn.
Plug the Pipe, a rural group dedicated to opposing the Victorian Government’s North South pipeline put out this media release yesterday:
Whilst the entire Goulburn Catchment is suffering major flooding, Melbourne Water continues to order […] Continue Reading…