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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Debate should be free – as long as you are viewing my ads

October 30, 2009 – 5:49 pm

Andrew Bolt, two weeks ago: Against my self-perceived duty to allow as free a discussion as possible, there is my ego and my self-interest in protecting my reputation. Andrew Bolt’s site, today: When it comes to the possibility of traffic leaving his web site, it seems Andrew’s “ego and self-interest” trump his “self-perceived duty”.

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Tagged | Comments (18)

Scientists not as smart as you’d think

October 30, 2009 – 11:30 am

The latest Australian Research Council grants were approved this week by Science Minister Kim Carr. Noted scientific researcher Andrew Bolt has taken a look at the recipients’ projects and discovered that the bulk of Australia’s researchers haven’t cottoned on to the best way to guarantee yourself an easy funding stream.

By Dave Gaukroger | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Comments (55)

What the asylum seeker debate should be about

October 30, 2009 – 8:06 am

I wrote this at my old blog a year ago. I stand by it. It looks like some conservatives are keeping a weather eye on Australia’s territorial waters, as they prepare for an influx of illegal immigrants in the wake of changes to the mandatory detention policy. Apparently we are up to three boats bringing [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Redux | Tagged , | Comments (33)

Weekend talk thread

October 30, 2009 – 7:05 am

Let’s kick the weekend off a little early with a fresh open thread to discuss the weekend’s news and activities. Remember that the links to the current open threads are always available in the sidebar to the right of the page – except when the site breaks and the sidebar disappears. We’ll update with details [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Open threads | Comments (50)

The Daily Tele – Peddling outrage instead of justice.

October 29, 2009 – 11:59 am

The Daily Telegraph are feeding off the grief of a family and trying to undermine the justice system in New South Wales as they peddle their latest outrage of the week. The decision by the NSW Parole Authority to release one of the men who was convicted of the murder of high profile heart surgeon [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Posted in Daily Telegraph | Comments (19)

Get off my roads

October 29, 2009 – 9:27 am

Miranda Devine has a few new entries for her list of things that annoy her: Cyclists who think they have any right at all to use the roads (can’t they just use the occasional bike paths I sometimes whisk past, and walk the rest of the way?), and therefore inconvenience drivers like her. Non-productive, “frivolous” [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Miranda Devine | Comments (62)

Compare and contrast

October 28, 2009 – 12:30 pm

Fear the Muslims! 16 of 17 terrorist groups are Islamist … The rise of yet another Islamist terror group suggests there is something in Muslim or Arabic culture peculiarly susceptible to the call to violence. Just check again that list at the first link: even without al-Shabaab on it, 16 of the 17 terrorist groups [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Andrew Bolt | Tagged , , , | Comments (57)

Off the Planet

October 28, 2009 – 10:11 am

Janet Albrechtsen uncovers shocking evidence that our leaders are about to sign us up to a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT: Of course, there is no final treaty as yet. That is what they are hoping to finalise in Copenhagen. But there are 181 pages that make up the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change dated September [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Posted in Janet Albrechtsen | Comments (19)

Trends in temperature

October 27, 2009 – 2:57 pm

I lost track of the climate change discussions we were having a couple of weeks ago and only just rediscovered a comment from last week that I wanted to respond to. I thought I’d launch a new thread since (i) the last post is pretty deeply buried now and (ii) there’s a new story from [...]

By Tobias Ziegler | Posted in Redux | Tagged , , | Comments (44)

A grain of truth – a shovel load of fertiliser

October 27, 2009 – 12:02 pm

The bulk of the Australian media have failed to cover the fact that the Rudd government is trying to censor what the opposition can say about them and are even trying to stop people from being able to read Hansard according to The Daily Telegraph’s Piers Akerman. UNDER the Rudd Labor Government’s new rules, it [...]

By Dave Gaukroger | Posted in Piers Akerman | Comments (10)