The things you see when you don't have time to blog. I've been sounding-off to colleagues for a couple of weeks now (references available on request) every time the government spends another piece of the "surplus" to stimulate the economy...
The things you see when you don't have time to blog. I've been sounding-off to colleagues for a couple of weeks now (references available on request) every time the government spends another piece of the "surplus" to stimulate the economy...
Looking very Presidential indeed, Barack and Michelle visited the White House. What once was a three month lame duck interregnum has been condensed into an afternoon of niceties; there is no time to lose in addressing the problems the US...
Like the peasants and courtiers in Sleeping Beauty, the retainers, the lobbyists and bond traders will blink, shake themselves awake and find that the world has moved while they have been sleeping. Tomorrow (the US is a day behind Australia)...
Today is already Mischief Night. As a teenager, that was the time we ran around in packs doing really thrilling things like jumping out from behind bushes and hitting each other over the head with flour-filled socks. For the more...
The climate science is slowly blowing more and more holes in the IPCC anthropogenic warming case, but just as with any other bubble, the bulls are at their most vigorous just as their case starts to collapse. The result? You...
Now that Colin Powell has shown his hand in the US elections, it is time for me to return to my country of origin to exert my somewhat more modest influence. With my morale much boosted by the news that...
I'm speaking at the AEF conference in Canberra today on the subject of blogging and politics. Except that I've unlitaterally decided to extend it beyond blogging and to talk about the uses of the Internet in politics, with a few...
It's hard to overestimate the effect of Barack Obama's win. The photo below was taken on the premises of Jensen Bowers, which is where On Line Opinion subleases its office space, and its context speaks volumes about the reach of...
Today in Ipswich three Greenpeace activists were fined $500 each and ordered to pay damages between them for $23,000 worth of damage to a smoke stack at Swanbank Power Station. They had scaled the stack and painted the words "Go...
In The sad demise of ‘On Line Opinion’ Clive Hamilton writes: "What readers were not told is that Harris is a paid lobbyist for energy companies, that he has tried to change his Wikipedia entry to conceal the fact that...
According to the WWF Australians are consuming four times as much per capita as we should. "So Australians are among the biggest consumers of the world's resources. "The sustainable average round the world is probably about two hectares per person....
Kevin Rudd has declared war on "extreme capitalism", by which he mostly seems to mean obscene executive rewards. But you have to ask yourself what the unions have been doing. One of the consequences of the introduction of compulsory superannuation...
I just came across Joanne Nova and her The Skeptics Handbook. Joanne appears to be eminently qualified as a scientist, and a science communicator, having even occassionally stood-in for Dr Karl on ABC radio. She can't be dismissed as some...
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