Antipodean links
The Oz Army may be small, but it does try to be smart.
Trends in class identification: The curious thing about the apparent shrinking of the middle class is that it occurred while many of the sociological markers of the middle class, such as education and professional or managerial occupations were showing long-term increases.
Argument over water restrictions lead to a murder charge in Sydney. One of my objections to rationing is precisely its poisonous effect on relations between people.
A professor “explains” to his students why PM Costello would be a bad idea. Academics getting all upset at being personally attacked by Minister Joe Hockey. (I found the picture deeply disturbing. I used to work with John Buchanan and remember him as an earnest young chap.)
The next editor of Quadrant, replacing Paddy McGuinness, will be Keith Windschuttle.
Polling in NSW on State politics and Oz-wide on Federal politics provide a nice example of the difference a credible Opposition makes.
Ad campaigns for and against WorkChoices don’t seem to have been very effective.
Coverage of the great ear-wax controversy is bigger overseas than locally.
Peter Garrett being excessively something: TROUBLED Labor star Peter Garrett has admitted he was dumb to have told Steve Price the opposition would change its policies once it won power.
Mr Price, a right-wing Sydney shock jock, yesterday told listeners he had a discussion in an airport lounge with Mr Garrett in which the former rock star said Labor's "me-too" policies which mirror the government's would disappear once Labor won power at the November 24 election.
Today Mr Garrett reiterated his excuse, saying the conversation was "jocular" but admitted he had been dumb to have the conversation in the first place. You think? Michelle Grattan has the solution.
Trends in class identification: The curious thing about the apparent shrinking of the middle class is that it occurred while many of the sociological markers of the middle class, such as education and professional or managerial occupations were showing long-term increases.
Argument over water restrictions lead to a murder charge in Sydney. One of my objections to rationing is precisely its poisonous effect on relations between people.
A professor “explains” to his students why PM Costello would be a bad idea. Academics getting all upset at being personally attacked by Minister Joe Hockey. (I found the picture deeply disturbing. I used to work with John Buchanan and remember him as an earnest young chap.)
The next editor of Quadrant, replacing Paddy McGuinness, will be Keith Windschuttle.
Polling in NSW on State politics and Oz-wide on Federal politics provide a nice example of the difference a credible Opposition makes.
Ad campaigns for and against WorkChoices don’t seem to have been very effective.
Coverage of the great ear-wax controversy is bigger overseas than locally.
Peter Garrett being excessively something: TROUBLED Labor star Peter Garrett has admitted he was dumb to have told Steve Price the opposition would change its policies once it won power.
Mr Price, a right-wing Sydney shock jock, yesterday told listeners he had a discussion in an airport lounge with Mr Garrett in which the former rock star said Labor's "me-too" policies which mirror the government's would disappear once Labor won power at the November 24 election.
Today Mr Garrett reiterated his excuse, saying the conversation was "jocular" but admitted he had been dumb to have the conversation in the first place. You think? Michelle Grattan has the solution.