Antipodean links
Paddy wagon as shagging wagon.
A Senator making it clear that he will ask the questions.
About the Left sensibility with links to a series of articles on what it is to be Left in Australia in 2009.
ABC newsreader argues that the burka should be banned. I always have mixed feelings on this one: my libertarian instincts war with revulsion at the noxious ideas of female subordination the burka represents.
Who has been in government where from 1920 on. About the decline of the National/Country Party.
NSW is particularly likely to have State and Federal Governments of opposite political persuasions.
Trends in Tasmanian politics since 1972.
Ross Gittins on K.Rudd’s latest essay effort.
About who taxes and who spends in the Oz federation.
30th boat of unauthorised immigrants intercepted since change in policy.
Images of Sydney dust storm. More. About past dust storms.
Suggesting we are getting better at managing drought and worse at managing bushfires. The Interim Report of the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission. Of the over 1200 submissions received the largest category, 485, were on fuel reduction/DSE/prescribed burning, 340 were on planning & local government, 276 were on causes & circumstances, 64 were on roads. (Submissions could be on more than once category). About bushfire warnings:
A system meeting these requirements will be expensive to set up and maintain. It will also suffer steady degrade if a few years go by with no major fires. … the first priority for fire authorities should be to optimise the bushfire resilience of towns and communities - in particular reducing areas of heavy fuel within and adjoining residential areas, making houses and road verges safer, setting up local community refuge areas and maintaining a program of regular mild burning in hinterland forests. Secondly, they should be telling people that it is quite likely they will NOT be warned and that they must themselves take responsibility for finding out what is going on and having a sensible plan of action, including evacuation to a safe place well before a situation becomes remotely dangerous.
NT indigenous ALP Minister resigns from the ALP.
A Senator making it clear that he will ask the questions.
About the Left sensibility with links to a series of articles on what it is to be Left in Australia in 2009.
ABC newsreader argues that the burka should be banned. I always have mixed feelings on this one: my libertarian instincts war with revulsion at the noxious ideas of female subordination the burka represents.
Who has been in government where from 1920 on. About the decline of the National/Country Party.
NSW is particularly likely to have State and Federal Governments of opposite political persuasions.
Trends in Tasmanian politics since 1972.
Ross Gittins on K.Rudd’s latest essay effort.
About who taxes and who spends in the Oz federation.
30th boat of unauthorised immigrants intercepted since change in policy.
Images of Sydney dust storm. More. About past dust storms.
Suggesting we are getting better at managing drought and worse at managing bushfires. The Interim Report of the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission. Of the over 1200 submissions received the largest category, 485, were on fuel reduction/DSE/prescribed burning, 340 were on planning & local government, 276 were on causes & circumstances, 64 were on roads. (Submissions could be on more than once category). About bushfire warnings:
A system meeting these requirements will be expensive to set up and maintain. It will also suffer steady degrade if a few years go by with no major fires. … the first priority for fire authorities should be to optimise the bushfire resilience of towns and communities - in particular reducing areas of heavy fuel within and adjoining residential areas, making houses and road verges safer, setting up local community refuge areas and maintaining a program of regular mild burning in hinterland forests. Secondly, they should be telling people that it is quite likely they will NOT be warned and that they must themselves take responsibility for finding out what is going on and having a sensible plan of action, including evacuation to a safe place well before a situation becomes remotely dangerous.
NT indigenous ALP Minister resigns from the ALP.