Could Vivian Alvarez receive $2 million damages for her wrongful deportation? According to this morning’s ABC Radio National Law Report former HREOC Commissioner and Federal Court Judge, Marcus Einfeld, believes she could, at a rate of $1,500 per day (net of GST?). This story in the SMH suggests it […] Continue Reading…
May 16, 2005 | Graham
Who votes for you anyway?
What big idea would you pitch to the Prime Minister and the Premier if you were caught in a lift with them for five minutes? That’s the challenge put to me, and a number of other panellists, by Eidos, “a consortium of Queensland universities, government and non-government agencies or […] Continue Reading…
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May 13, 2005 | Graham
Beazley’s first step on the way back
Beazley’s budget reply is better economics than the government’s budget, but more to the point it is better politics. Howard holds government in Australia by assembling a coalition of the well-off and the working poor. The last group tend to vote Labor, and continue to do so at […] Continue Reading…
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May 11, 2005 | Graham
Best budget analysis
The best budget analysis I’ve found this morning is not in the pages of the daily broadsheets, but rather in two documents prepared by Saul Eslake, the ANZ’s Chief Economist. His Budget Report (pdf 88kb) starts like this:
Budget 2005-06: The Magic Pudding
In a post election year there was […] Continue Reading…
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May 09, 2005 | Graham
Blair has solid Antipodean result
Scale the British election results back in size to what they would have been in an Australian context, and you can see just how impressive Tony Blair’s third win really was. There are 646 House of Commons seats in Britain versus 150 House of Representatives seats in Australia. […] Continue Reading…
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May 08, 2005 | Ronda Jambe
Under the Moruya Moon (1)
Moruya is a pretty but unremarkable town on the New South Wales south coast. It sits on the Moruya River, where a concrete bridge marks the entry to a small town centre. Slowly it is changing in ways typical of much of the Australian east coast. While inland regional […] Continue Reading…
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May 08, 2005 | Graham
Anthropophagai anyone?
I have a problem with the inhabitants of Tuvalu and Kiribati spruiking their imminent demise from greenhouse related climate change. I have an even bigger problem with the uncritical way in which these claims are reported.
Latest example comes from ABC Radio National’s Saturday Breakfast. Reporter Alexandra de Blas, […] Continue Reading…
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May 06, 2005 | Graham
Dinosaur extinction a result of geo-sequestration?
I’m not particularly well-qualified in biology, finding it much less interesting than physics and chemistry when I was at school, so no-one should put much weight on this musing. In fact, this post was prompted by some comments I saw on someone’s blog (tell me which one and I’ll […] Continue Reading…
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May 05, 2005 | Graham
Lynton didn’t do it
Lynton Crosby is a great self-publicist. This morning on ABC Radio he was given credit for the 1995 Queensland State Coalition Campaign. There are a lot of things he has done, but that wasn’t one of them.
He’s not alone in getting undue credit for that campaign. After the […] Continue Reading…
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May 04, 2005 | Graham
HREOC to Howard’s aid
I’m sure it’s just coincidence, but Pru Goward, Federal Age Discrimination Commissioner and wife of John Howard’s biographer, is running a seminar on age discrimination in the workforce. Has she issued an invitation to Peter Costello to attend?
Pru will be speaking, as will Philip Ruddock. Ruddock could […] Continue Reading…
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