What is the true value of a national broadband infrastructure? That’s a big ball of string to unravel, or perhaps it’s a tangle of fibre optic cables. At the very least, it is in the eye of the beholder. Are there some who think Australia doesn’t need world’s best […] Continue Reading…
April 17, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Greedy for Broadband
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April 14, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Hp, Hp Hooray for FttP!
The Rudd Government seems to have done something appropriate, and we should be getting a top of the line model for broadband. Fibre to the Premises should break the twisted copper grip Telstra has on fast internet. It might also open the door to wider use of microwave and […] Continue Reading…
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April 13, 2009 | Graham
Madonna and Child in the mind’s eye
I was playing with my son and looking at Google Earth. We went from discussing how Vikings navigated the inland waterways in Russia all the way from the Baltic to the Black Sea, to Mercator projections, and twisting and turning the globe.
So, low and behold, what did I find […] Continue Reading…
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April 04, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
R U Non-Linear?
Of course you are. Nearly everything is non-lnear, including the intricate braiding of water tumbling from a faucet, if you have ever observed that in fascination. If your heart is healthy, this means it displays subtle fluctuations around a stable pattern, rather than machine-like rhythm. Such patterns, like the […] Continue Reading…
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March 25, 2009 | Graham
Congratulations to our new great and powerful friends
Anna Bligh has just announced her cabinet, and contrary to my expectations it is fairly adventurous. No appointment is probably more adventurous than the appointment of my new local MLA, Cameron Dick. It’s very rare for a parliamentarian to be elevated straight to the ministry.
Not only is Cameron my […] Continue Reading…
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March 23, 2009 | Graham
Wrap-up Queensland election
(Cross-posted from What the people want). Every pollster, including us, was saying that Labor was in trouble in the Queensland election. The predicted swing was in the realm of 7 percent. From what you can tell, internal ALP research also seems to have supported this. In our last poll […] Continue Reading…
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March 23, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Creamin it in Canberra
Perhaps cognitive dissonance is a necessary element of our psyche. Our delusions help us to maintain our sanity. A friend suggested I read his copy of ‘Straw Dogs’ by philosopher John Gray. Gray says the Tasmanian Aborigines were so incapable of comprehending the English ships that they could […] Continue Reading…
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March 14, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
A Card Game You Don’t Want to Play
Have you seen Casino Royale? Not being a James Bond fan, I only saw it last night, partly drawn by Daniel Craig’s resemblance to Vladimir Putin (but Craig is so much better looking.) It was certainly entertaining, especially the amazingly choreographed violence.
A crucial scene revolves around a poker game […] Continue Reading…
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March 10, 2009 | Graham
Newspoll and Galaxy agree – LNP ahead
(Cross-posted from What the people want) The Australian reports today on Newspoll research which puts the Liberal National Party in a small lead over the ALP. It’s not up on Newspoll’s site yet, but it confirms Galaxy and our own findings.
Most notable movement in the figures appears to be […] Continue Reading…
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March 09, 2009 | Graham
Labor heading for slo-mo pile-up
(Cross-posted from What the people want). Voters are bored and disillusioned with Labor – that’s the basic reason that the Liberal National Party looks likely to achieve at least a minority government after this year’s Queensland state election.
It’s an “It’s time†election, but one where there is little sense […] Continue Reading…
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