Friday’s breakfast meeting between Rudd and the Labor State Premiers suggests Howard may have another potent weapon to shift voters away from Rudd.
Labor is in power in every state in Australia, and with the possible exception of South Australia, is almost uniformly seen as incompetent and corrupt. The only […] Continue Reading…
February 12, 2007 | Graham
Keep the bastards honest – another reason to vote Howard.
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February 09, 2007 | Graham
Flannery of the Overflow
Posted for William York with particular apologies to Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson
I HAD written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him on the Murray, years ago,
He was boating when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
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February 07, 2007 | Graham
Quantum mechanics and entrepreneurs
It’s 107 years since Max Planck first theorised quantum mechanics, but it’s only lately that people appear to be applying it to all sorts of non-physical fields. I recently wrote about research where it was hypothesised that causation could run both forward and backwards drawing on quantum mechanical understandings.
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February 07, 2007 | Graham
Climate change could work against Rudd
You wouldn’t think it from yesterday’s question time, but global warming could be a bigger political problem for Rudd than Howard. Howard is currently being criticised for appearing to suggest that the link between CO2 and climate is still unproven. That may yet be the case, but it is […] Continue Reading…
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February 06, 2007 | Graham
Putting heart into fast food
I was recently very critical of a Cancer Council NSW study into fast food advertising. The award of Heart Foundation ticks to some McDonald’s meals puts the study into more trouble.
McDonald’s has paid $330,000 to the Heart Foundation, and nine of its meals have qualified. Before anyone suggests the […] Continue Reading…
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February 05, 2007 | Graham
IPCC ought to be feeling the heat.
Imagine the outcry if BHP published the executive summary of its results, but kept the accounts under wraps for another couple of months. ASIC and the stock exchange would both issue notices, financial journalists would release thunderbolts from their op-ed columns and the shares would take a tumble, […] Continue Reading…
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January 31, 2007 | Graham
Liberal “Coalition deal” disenfranchises voters and party
The “Coalition deal” accounced yesterday whereby Liberal Parliamentary Leader Bruce Flegg undertakes not to lead the Coalition, even if his party has more seats than the National Party, destroys the Coalition’s chances of winning the next state election.
At a time when Beattie government mismanagement is obvious and everywhere, the […] Continue Reading…
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January 29, 2007 | Graham
What’s wrong with Marist College Ashgrove?
Kevin Rudd’s charm offensive is designed to fill-out the detail of Kevin before John Howard does it for him. 90 second ads are part of this. Because they are long they say to us that they are deep, not shallow. This isn’t a glib pitch for Rudd, this is […] Continue Reading…
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January 22, 2007 | Graham
Move over Einstein for Augustinian physics
Augustine is the most influential of the early church fathers. He solidified early Christian belief just prior to it becoming the official religion of the Roman Empire. He was also a strong influence on the Reformation, with much of Luther’s theology being based on Augustine. Now it seems his […] Continue Reading…
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January 16, 2007 | Jeff Wall
Sir James Killen and the politician he admired most of all…
Of the numerous friendships Sir James Killen had during his long political career, the most interesting was that with the colleague he admired above all others, Sir Robert Gordon Menzies.
I have written elsewhere that my late friend lamented the almost total absence of any contact with Malcolm Fraser in […] Continue Reading…
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