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Ray of sunshine on renewables in Australia
Good news for the environment: Australia is going to spend some of that “nation building” money on solar. Australia plans to build the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000...
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Left vs Right visualised
This big old visualisation from the accurately named informationisbeautiful.net really sums up the reason there are problems trying to satisfy such different mindsets. Left vs Right mindset on lots and...
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Solar panels on government buildings.. A first step.
Fantastic news that the South Australian premier Mike Rann announced that all government buildings in South Australia would, from July 2010, have solar panels soaking up the free photonic goodness...
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What if we are wrong about climate change?
My take on this has always been that we pollute far too much currently and although the science seems overwhelmingly in favour of man made global warming: does it really matter? Businesses will get...
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Chopping carrots more important than politics?
I seriously hope that this poll is just the internet having a laugh. It is possibly the only debate between the next possible PM and next opposition leader and because some moronic cooking reality show...
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Tony Abbott’s new stop the boats phone in action
I got an exclusive first run simulation of how Tony’s planned “Stop the boats” direct line to the navy would work. The idea is he’ll get a phone call from the navy to say yay or nay and then they turn...
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Beliefs in the election 2010
It’s worrying to watch Tony Abbott squirm out of questions about global warming and think that this man could be our PM if enough idiots vote for him. He’s said in the past that it is crap and he still...
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Bank fee whinging – A published SMH letter
Well, I got another letter published. This one’s on the witch hunt on bank exit fees (now that a bunch of people are overmortgaged to death). Unfair bank exit fees? Do owners allow tenants to break...
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Australian Christian Lobby’s prayer for prejudice in Victoria?
A response to the prayer for Victorian Election by the Australian Christian Lobby. Some context? These are a mob that campaigned for : Exemption to the anti discrimination laws so that Churches could...
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Opposition to Gay marriage is not tricky at all
I’d like to point out to the rest of the straight mob: there’s nothing “tricky” or “complicated” about supporting gay marriage. Would anyone claim it is a “tricky issue” or “tradition” that black...
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Problem isn’t wikileaks: it’s Government playing X-Files with people’s lives!
Australian Julian Assange acts as a whistle-blower (or some might say “grassroots journalist” as he has supplied half the papers in the world their week’s worth of headline stories) and now the US...
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Enough with “The Narrative” from Peter Hartcher
The SMH appears to be following Murdoch’s media in replacing political coverage with endless leadership speculation. Political editor Peter Hartcher for instance has added little to the SMH for months...
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Small government advocate Dennis Jensen learns a lesson on austerity
Oh this is gold. But first you need the background: Small government + family + free market eh? Let’s see what we can do to get you that! And by the way he’s a hardcore climate change denier. Guy...
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The Coalition have killed AusAID. Farewell 40 years of Aussie global mateship.
Sadly, the Australian AID organisation AusAID was killed off by the short-sighted austerity-holes in the Liberal party just shy of its 40th anniversary. Won’t be seeing this on many packages bound for...
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Simple guide to the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) benefits
So far this TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) trade negotiation has been held in secret and with zero accountability to the public. The Australian Government has said that it is keen to get it signed and...
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