I was unaware until I read this article that until very recently, Iraq didn’t have its own country extension for the Internet.
According to the article:
In a sign of progress for the government, Iraq has secured the suffix “.iq” for its new Internet addresses. The government is in the process […] Continue Reading…
January 19, 2006 | Graham
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January 18, 2006 | Graham
Will this Cole inquiry get a different reception?
Terence Cole QC was the uncompromising head of the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry. He found evidence that fraud, bribery, corruption and stand-over tactics were endemic in the industry. No surprises there. For his troubles he was villified by the some in the union movement, as […] Continue Reading…
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January 17, 2006 | Graham
The Australian solution to Greenhouse
AP6 which just held its meeting in Sydney, is little more than a public relations exercise. Just like Kyoto. The solutions to earth’s problems are intractable. At the moment we are concentrating on moderating energy requirements by trying to limit carbon dioxide emissions per person. This is fraught, because […] Continue Reading…
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January 17, 2006 | Jeff Wall
A tragic story you won’t read in the newspapers.
The truly tragic resignation of Geoff Gallop as Premier of Western Australia – announced yesterday with great courage – has prompted me to write about another tragedy likely to have been due to a form of depression you won’t read about in the newspapers.
One morning last week a young […] Continue Reading…
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January 14, 2006 | Graham
Marine Lawyer speaks for himself on ramming
I’ve corresponded with Eric Wilson, the marine lawyer referred to in my previous post, and he is happy for me to post the contents of his email to me. It raises its own issues about how the media is dealing with this issue, and by extension, media conduct in […] Continue Reading…
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January 13, 2006 | Graham
Marine lawyer concurs – Nisshin Maru was rammed
An article in the New Zealand Herald was brought to my attention by a Greenpeace supporter who claimed:
The evidence does not show that Greenpeace is to blame in fact when the evidence was reviewed by a marine law expert from Monash University he said the whalers were to blame. […] Continue Reading…
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January 09, 2006 | Jeff Wall
The hypocrisy over the demise of Charles Kennedy.
If there is a strong whiff of hypocrisy in our air today then it has wafted all the way from the United Kingdom.
The demise of the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the UK, Charles Kennedy, is as appalling a piece of hypocrisy and total injustice as I have […] Continue Reading…
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January 08, 2006 | Graham
Wanted: a politician with the courage to be conservative.
Most Australians would be insulted to be called “conservative”, and while some Australian politicians, like John Howard, are conveniently branded as “conservative” just about all of them have a bias towards “progress”. But what happens when so-called “progress” becomes at best merely “change” or at worst “regress”? Name […] Continue Reading…
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December 28, 2005 | Graham
Another reader almost ‘fesses up.
Janet Albrechtsen appears to get some of her news from OLO. Or at least that’s what I infer from her latest article where she quotes Greg Barns.
Albrechtsen writes “Other critics include one Greg Barns, once a Liberal, then a Democrat, now politically homeless, who last week wrote that Australia […] Continue Reading…
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December 23, 2005 | Graham
Patriot Act should have been front page downunder
George Bush has been having some problems negotiating an extension of his Patriot Act through the US Senate. In the latest manouevres the Act has been extended, but just for one month.
Bush’s problem has been obvious for a while, and should have informed part of the debate on Australia’s […] Continue Reading…
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