The Budget: What's in it for...
Labor's 2013-14 Federal budget deserves a close look. First, an ALP video for the true believers: The Federal Budget in 3 minutes
Australia
Smart Growth = Constipated Cities
Smart Growth is a term of art. In the words of Wikipedia(tm), Smart Growth:
Another beach memory
We recently stayed at a beach resort on the south coast.
Paid Parental Leave v Income Splitting
Two things have come to my attention in the last 24 hours.
Disability Funding Triumph: Progressive Blogosphere Abdicates
This week we saw a major achievement in Australian policy - the bi-partisan acceptance of an increase in the Medicare levy to help fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme (DisabilityCare).
Spencer and Gillen's Extraordinary Online Legacy
Spencer and Gillen A Journey through Aboriginal Australia is a new website launched at Museum Victoria on 5 May 2013.
Coke and Carob
JULIA Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW today.
Of fact and fiction
Novelist Kerry Greenwood (the author of the Phryne Fisher books, now a successful TV series), has recently published a book on the Somerton Man mystery, Tamam Shud: the Somerton
Julia's Community Cabinet: Policy Sounding Without Fury
There were quite a few surprises at Julia Gillard's Community Cabinet on 17 April 2013, hosted by Norwood Secondary College in Melbourne's eastern suburb of Ringwood. Cabinet members held one-on-one interviews before a public forum that lasted over an hour. The government school is in the Federal seat of Deakin held by Labor's Mike Symons.
Thrilling News: James Price Point Saved from Gas Hub
James Price Point is a very special place. It has been the centre of a major dispute about where to put a LNG Gas Hub in North Western Australia.