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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.
From what I can tell from the morning’s newspapers the proposal [...] Continue Reading…
It’s couched in neutral language, but the Institute of Physics, with an international membership of 36,000 physicists has expressed serious doubts about the objectivity, methods and outcomes of the published results and staff from the Hadley Centre for Climate Research Unit.
This is significant, because in the corrupted world of [...] Continue Reading…
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. [...] Continue Reading…
It is apparently much easier to show sympathy to abstract stolen generations when you bear no responsibility than it is to those for whose hurt you share corporate and personal responsibility. [...] Continue Reading…
Adele Ferguson wrote in the SMH (Feb 17) that at least 40% of the biggest companies in Australia pay no tax.
That must mean they aren’t profitable, since profits gets taxed, don’t they?
But the tax man is going after them, which makes you wonder how long this has been the [...] Continue Reading…
Could riding a push bike be a superior way of controlling blood pressure? [...] Continue Reading…
I could have asked Marina Orlova (who always reminds me of Grishkin), but a friend in Chile posed the question and I suspect found the answer which will do me, unless someone else can come up with an even better theory. The question? What is the origin of the [...] Continue Reading…
Lucien Leon lectures in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and made this animation which he calls a “poltoon”.
It’s clear what he thinks of Tony Abbott, but what is he saying about Kevin Rudd. Was that Mahler that his imported car was playing on the stereo?
Lots of people I know are either still pouring their money into super or leaving it for another few years until it recovers the losses of the past year or so. One friend told me just the other day that this was her strategy, in preference to paying off [...] Continue Reading…
From the Institute for Public Accuracy, a new twist on lobbying. I quote their message, it is a logical next step for those who have seen the doco The Corporation:
“Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal [...] Continue Reading…