It is really too early to be predicting election results, but with the Queensland election scheduled for the 21st March, there’s not much time left. So here is my “prediction”. The Liberal National Party should win 12 to 15 seats, all other things being equal.
Labor has effectively been in […] Continue Reading…
February 24, 2009 | Graham
Liberal Nationals should win 12 to 15 seats
Posted by Graham at 9:14 am |
Comments (4)
February 19, 2009 | Graham
The sun still shines downunder.
You frequently hear complaints that with all our sunlight Australia ought to be a leader in solar energy. They reached a crescendo about the time that Dr Shi Zhengrong was revealed as a billionaire after training at the University of Sydney and taking his solar research home to China […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Graham at 10:03 am |
Comments (4)
February 19, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Let’s kill the Carbon Pollution Reinforcement Subsidy
Beware the policy that has no opponents in high places. During the US elections it was a reality check when the financial crisis came to a boil, and instantly both parties were in complete agreement about the need for a bail out. Much less being said about the redesign […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Ronda Jambe at 9:02 am |
Comments (8)
February 16, 2009 | Graham
Anna4Qld
Anna Bligh’s been copping it because she had her website Anna4Qld built by an interstate firm at the same time that the site boosts Bligh’s “plan to protect Queensland jobs”. It’s this sort of parochialism that I hate about Queensland.
It’s a bit hypocritical of her to talk about Queensland […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Graham at 8:54 pm |
Comments (7)
February 13, 2009 | Graham
Government takes a second look at emissions trading
(Cross posted from What the people want)
The federal government appears to have been reading our research, or similar, on an emissions trading scheme.
According to The Australian Online
TREASURER Wayne Swan has asked a powerful House economics committee to judge whether the proposed emissions trading scheme is the best way to […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Graham at 5:22 am |
Comments (1)
February 13, 2009 | Graham
Queensland Labor’s “Don’t risk it” strategy?
(Cross posted from What the people want).
My local state member Gary Fenlon (ALP) has a message for me – “Keep Greenslopes in safe hands”.
The message presumably hopes to leverage the uncertainty that tough times bring, is consistent with the fact that Labor is regarded by voters as the best […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Graham at 5:06 am |
Comments (3)
February 12, 2009 | Graham
Another reason for winds to head south?
A few days ago I drew attention to work that suggested the Indian Ocean Dipole was responsible for causing drought in southern Australia . I contrasted that to a view from the Bureau of Meteorology that the change was caused by the hole in the ozone layer over the […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Graham at 10:13 am |
Comments (4)
February 11, 2009 | Graham
Irish joke?
The Northern Irish Environment Minister, Sammy Wilson, “has banned government television adverts in Northern Ireland warning of the effects of climate change”.
This might seem a little “Irish” on a couple of fronts. For it to make sense you have to realise that England has devolved power to Scotland, Northern […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Graham at 6:19 am |
Comments (12)
February 09, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Hoping for a tempest in my teapot
As Victoria is incinerated, as hundreds lie in hospital with horrible burns, as wildlife is decimated and the entire country mourns these losses….at this point perhaps the sceptics are saying, in the face of Australia’s worst ever natural disaster (so far) that thank heavens there isn’t any climate change, […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Ronda Jambe at 6:28 am |
Comments (6)
February 07, 2009 | Graham
Conservatives know how to put the slipper in
With bankruptcies up 125% in Britain, the Tories are hoping to take another out of business.
And they know how to put the boot into Gordon Brown.
Good example of how you can take one mistake and amplify it. Brown says he has “saved the world” and the Conservatives will never […] Continue Reading…
Posted by Graham at 8:34 am |
Comments Off on Conservatives know how to put the slipper in