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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Peter Costello writes it as it is
March 30, 2011 – 7:43 am
Peter Costello in his Age/SMH column on NSW The Arbibs, the Roozendaals, the Della Boscas, and Bitars were good at one thing: they were good at briefing journalists and giving out media stories. They revelled in being described as powerbrokers, which gave them a willing audience of journalists always prepared to butter up a source [...]
Garnaut on electricity – regulatory reform the key
March 29, 2011 – 5:00 pm
Ross Garnaut has warned that flawed regulation is partly responsible for Australia’s surging cost of electricity, and called for a regulatory overhaul to minimize the limited impact of a carbon price on electricity prices and energy security. In his final updated paper on the climate change, dealing with the electricity sector, Garnaut has noted that [...]
Majority not blaming God
March 26, 2011 – 4:03 pm
Americans are a religious lot – most of them believe in a personal God who is in control of everything that happens in the world – but a new survey finds that Americans are more likely to attribute the increased severity of natural disasters to global climate change than to signs of apocalyptic biblical prophecy. [...]
Polls find no last minute swing back to Labor
March 26, 2011 – 3:26 pm
The findings of the last of the four major pollsters was published in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning and still no sign of better news for the NSW Labor Government. Nielsens figures are pretty much in line with those released by its peers earlier in the week.
Some good news in last 24 hours but nuclear situation still serious
March 25, 2011 – 9:30 am
With Richard Farmer down in Melbourne to give a speech, he’s asked me to give the latest update on the Japan nuclear crisis. Although the nuclear situation in Japan remains serious, there has been some good news in the last 24 hours. The best news seems to be that technical issues at the plant are [...]
Iodinine-131 in Tokyo’s water above the safe level for infants
March 24, 2011 – 8:33 am
The Tokyo Metropolitan Water Office says that levels of iodine-131 in tap water at a purification plant were found to be above the limits for drinking water for infants but below the level for adults. The Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare, has requested that tap water in Tokyo is not used as drinking water [...]
Bob Brown’s bitch is not a good look for Tony Abbott
March 23, 2011 – 9:10 pm
If you really dislike Julia Gillard you will see nothing wrong with this picture: If you are like most of the swinging voters I have observed from behind the one way glass over the years you will be quite turned off by it. Tony Abbott is running a great risk by associating himself with the [...]
So we have boat people problems
March 23, 2011 – 8:22 pm
More than 15,000 people have arrived on the island since January. A naval vessel is being used to ship boat people to the mainland. The UN refugee agency says tensions are rising between migrants and the local population and there is “chaos and disorganisation”. Barefooted migrants can be seen wandering through the streets looking vainly [...]
Deniers
March 23, 2011 – 8:03 pm
Goodness knows what I was doing last night but I can vouch for my brother’s Blockies 2007 Shiraz Mataro Barossa Valley being a top drop. I have been taken to task by Noble Wasp for getting my Google figures wrong on my denier search. (See his very polite comment at Seven Million References are Offensive). [...]
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