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The Stump

Italy does the job on refugees

While the asylum seeker debate continues here, it is worth looking at approaches taken to refugees in other ‘developed’ countries.  Italy continues to set the pace when it comes to rich continues blatantly breaching human rights laws and putting refugees lives at risk.  They have reached an agreement with Libya – a nation with an [...] Comments (0)

Pollytics

New Pollytrend Metric – Phone Pollster Trend

We all know about our Pollytrend chart – where we build a rolling average of the most recent poll from each pollster weighted by sample size, then run an aggressive locally weighted polynomial regression through the results to give us an adaptive trend line. While Pollytrend is good for picking up medium term shifts in [...] Comments (18)

Croakey

Want to see a real food war? This is the stoush to watch

In case you missed it, there’s been a minor food spat going on at Crikey. When the nutritionist, Dr Rosemary Stanton, called for foods to be taxed according to their carbon footprint, this, predictably enough, got right up the noses of the Australian Food and Grocery Council, as well as their friends at the Institute [...] Comments (4)

Rocky & Gawenda

Strangers on God’s beach

There was a baptism on the beach this morning. It was a morning of lovely sunshine and cloudless skies, windless and warm, gently so, a spring morning and we could feel it, Rocky and I, the warmth of it and the lightness of it, Rocky running along the water’s edge towards the pier, stopping for [...] Comments (4)