Today in Ipswich three Greenpeace activists were fined $500 each and ordered to pay damages between them for $23,000 worth of damage to a smoke stack at Swanbank Power Station. They had scaled the stack and painted the words “Go Solar” on it in July as a protest against […] Continue Reading…
November 04, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Nov 4, the day the buck stopped
Like the peasants and courtiers in Sleeping Beauty, the retainers, the lobbyists and bond traders will blink, shake themselves awake and find that the world has moved while they have been sleeping.
Tomorrow (the US is a day behind Australia) the US chooses a new President, and then the real […] Continue Reading…
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November 02, 2008 | Graham
Clive Hamilton and Tom Harris
In The sad demise of ‘On Line Opinion’ Clive Hamilton writes:
“What readers were not told is that Harris is a paid lobbyist for energy companies, that he has tried to change his Wikipedia entry to conceal the fact that he is or has been employed by the PR company […] Continue Reading…
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October 30, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
It’s almost Halloween but I’m not even scared
Today is already Mischief Night. As a teenager, that was the time we ran around in packs doing really thrilling things like jumping out from behind bushes and hitting each other over the head with flour-filled socks. For the more adventurous, an egg smashed in the hair was pretty […] Continue Reading…
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October 29, 2008 | Graham
Putting your ecological footprint in it
According to the WWF Australians are consuming four times as much per capita as we should.
“So Australians are among the biggest consumers of the world’s resources.
“The sustainable average round the world is probably about two hectares per person. So we’re using about four times more resources than we should […] Continue Reading…
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October 28, 2008 | Graham
More on climate sensitivity
The climate science is slowly blowing more and more holes in the IPCC anthropogenic warming case, but just as with any other bubble, the bulls are at their most vigorous just as their case starts to collapse. The result? You won’t hear references to the collapse around the water […] Continue Reading…
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October 23, 2008 | Graham
Unions have the power to check executive pay
Kevin Rudd has declared war on “extreme capitalism”, by which he mostly seems to mean obscene executive rewards. But you have to ask yourself what the unions have been doing.
One of the consequences of the introduction of compulsory superannuation was the establishment of industry super-funds with significant union representation […] Continue Reading…
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October 22, 2008 | Ronda Jambe
Why Colin and I will be voting for Obama
Now that Colin Powell has shown his hand in the US elections, it is time for me to return to my country of origin to exert my somewhat more modest influence. With my morale much boosted by the news that in the ACT the Greens now hold the balance […] Continue Reading…
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October 20, 2008 | Graham
Another global warming tipping point
I just came across Joanne Nova and her The Skeptics Handbook. Joanne appears to be eminently qualified as a scientist, and a science communicator, having even occassionally stood-in for Dr Karl on ABC radio. She can’t be dismissed as some sort of an outsider, and unlike many of the […] Continue Reading…
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October 11, 2008 | Graham
Getting blogged down
I’m speaking at the AEF conference in Canberra today on the subject of blogging and politics. Except that I’ve unlitaterally decided to extend it beyond blogging and to talk about the uses of the Internet in politics, with a few examples.
I’ll summarise the speech after I’ve delivered it, but […] Continue Reading…
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