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Canning is a marginal seat with a deceptively safe Liberal Party majority due almost solely to the former member, Don Randall. If Labor can’t win this in a byelection there is something drastically wrong with them.
Not only are the numbers their way, but the Liberal Campaign looks decidedly bone-headed […] Continue Reading…
As I understand it, the ACTU case against Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon is not that he is biased, but that an average person might think he was biased.
Now I would have thought the only reason a royal commissioner should be stood aside is if there is a reasonable apprehension […] Continue Reading…
Australia apparently has met its greenhouse targets, but that’s not good enough for the Greens.
So I’ve done some digging to see what our performance on reducing emissions looks like, and it’s no worse than most, and better than some.
But pay special attention to the worst performing countries. They are […] Continue Reading…
Jamile Sabatini Marques is doing a PhD at QUT. She is from Brazil where she has held senior positions in the IT industry.
As part of her study Jamile is surveying entrepreneurs in the IT sector to see how aware they are of government innovation policies.
If you fit this description, […] Continue Reading…
By putting Zaky Mallah to air the ABC made a category mistake. They categorised an existential threat to Australia as being just an ideological disagreement.
They are not the only ones making category mistakes about terrorism and terrorist organisations, and until we sort them out our response to Islamic State, […] Continue Reading…
I’m not sure how this works, but the University of Western Australia decided it couldn’t accept federal government money to host Bjorn Lomborg’s Australian Consensus Centre, but it is happy to host a lecture by Peter Singer, a man who advocates infanticide, eugenics and bestiality.
Lomborg’s sin was apparently to […] Continue Reading…
JFK died so young that it is hard to realise that he was one of the generation that defined itself by the Great Depression and WWII. If he were alive to day he would have been almost 98.
At his funeral they played Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings Op11.
They framed […] Continue Reading…
For Australians war is something we have always travelled to. We are unlike almost any other nation in this respect. It is something implicit in our celebration of Anzac Day. The battlefields of all these wars are somewhere else.
But thanks to the modern age of mobility, war has come […] Continue Reading…
Anyone who understands physics, which excludes many prognosticators on climate change (yes, I’m thinking of you @beneltham*), understands that the oceans drive the climate.
So it was always a bit of a stretch to think that the plateau in global temperatures of over the last 18 or so years was […] Continue Reading…
The shooting of a young black male in Ferguson, and the ensuing riots, is generally portrayed as a racist event, but depending on where you stand, the racists can be white or black.
Verbatim Theatre is a genre where you take the actual evidence and lay it out in front […] Continue Reading…