Essential Report’s latest poll offers bad news for Labor, with voters backing delaying or scrapping the NBN, and delaying a return to surplus, over a one-off levy. The online survey was conducted last week before and after the Prime Minister announced a one-off levy to fund the $5.6 billion flood reconstruction effort. When asked about [...]
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Another reason not to vote Labor in NSW
January 30, 2011 – 7:06 pm
I have no way of knowing how many New South Wales voters swallowed an ecstasy tablet this weekend but it is bound to have been tens of thousands. I wonder what they think about the somewhat hysterical response of Premier Kristina Keneally to the partner of one of her minister’s being collared by police for [...]
Anonymous arrests shine a light on some (much) bigger issues
January 30, 2011 – 2:01 pm
Yesterday, the FBI finally took action in relation to the events around Wikileaks’s release of leaked diplomatic cables. So did the British police, working in concert with them. Only, it wasn’t Julian Assange hauled up for extradition to the US on charges under the Espionage Act, it was a group of teens arrested for participating [...]
Way now clear for an even earlier Irish election
January 30, 2011 – 1:56 pm
Ireland’s Fianna Fail led government is set to be put out of its misery even earlier than the recently announced 11 March election date. Both parliamentary chambers have now passed the Finance Bill implementing the economically crippling promises made to the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in return for the Euros necessary to bail [...]
A once great branch of a great party disintegrates
January 30, 2011 – 11:27 am
Calling it gross disloyalty would be an understatement. The actions of the New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally in advocating a lower flood tax for Sydney residents than other Australians takes disloyalty to party to a new low level. Labor’s Federal Executive should expel her from the party.
A long wait in store for many of the US unemployed
January 29, 2011 – 1:54 pm
Some growth is better than no growth but for the unemployed in the United States it will be a slow voyage back to what the country thinks of as full employment. The figures out last night from the Bureau of Economic Analysis had real gross domestic product increasing at an annual rate of 3.2 percent [...]
How the internet was taken down in Egypt
January 29, 2011 – 12:49 pm
James Cowie writes: Egypt Leaves the Internet – Renesys Blog: James Cowie on January 27, 2011 7:56 PM: Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes [...]
Further bad economic news for the UK
January 29, 2011 – 12:33 pm
With the fourth quarter GDP figures for the December quarter released earlier this week showing an economy already in decline, further bad news from the UK. Nick Moon, MD of GfK NOP Social Research, described January’s eight point drop as representing an astonishing collapse in consumer confidence. In the 35 years since the Index began, [...]
At least Indian newspapers think global warming is news
January 29, 2011 – 10:58 am
Australian newspapers tend to ignore predictions of the impact global warming will have on the country but in India there is a different perspective. That country’s leading daily The Times of India splashes this morning with a report from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, a government-funded research centre at Pune, that temperatures are set to [...]
What to expect from the year of the rabbit
January 29, 2011 – 10:45 am
The Year of the Rabbit is nearly upon us. What will it bring? According to Chinese astrologers it is likely to be “quiet, positive and inspiring” after a turbulent Year of the Tiger. Typically, Rabbit years are good for the Arts and culture, and apparently also for world diplomacy. Previous rabbit years: 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, [...]
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