Who knows? We might have an election date by the end of the week. UPDATE 2010-07-17: The election will be on August 21.
Politics
Energy Saving
There is a lot of talk about carbon prices and electricity prices going on at the moment and a study has just been released that says because an ETS wasn’t introduced the price of electricity is going to rise. So… Read More ›
Quickhit: internet filter on backburner
Sen. Conroy announced today that the mandatory filter is going to be put onto the back-burner until an independent inquiry has been held.
Threads of Doom and the lurch to the right
While my wonkish side is partly thrilled to see so many people critically engaged with public policy for once, for them to come to it from a place of disappointment, suspicion and resentment over a previous incomplete understanding of the system is far from ideal.
2010 National NAIDOC Poster
The artwork depicts an Aboriginal mother who is an ‘unsung hero’ leading her children through example, showing that actions can speak louder than words.
Asylum Seeker Fact Sheet and Myth Buster
Helen posted a link to a fact sheet from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in one of the LP comment threads. The fact sheet is in PDF format, making it un-indexable by search engines and inaccessible to some readers with disabilities, so I have transcribed it below.
Quote Of The Day: Julian Burnside
“at the current rate of arrivals it would take about 20 years to fill the MCG with boat people”
Strong support for decriminalising abortion
”Our findings challenge the belief that Australians strongly oppose women accessing late abortion.”
Endangered Sunday: BP = Brown Pelicans
Yet another threatened species put under even more threat from BP’s Mexican Gulf Oil Spill is the Brown Pelican, and BP is trying to sanitise the news you find online about the Gulf oil spill by sponsoring search term results
The Audacity of …?
Sometimes a picture doesn’t need a thousand words.
Hoyden About Town 