Antipodean links
About an advocate of Jewish settlement in Australia rather than Palestine.
Independent IT contractors face some difficulties with tax law.
About the public arena dominance of the inner city.
“Dr Death” is currently in custody awaiting charges: he had a truly appalling career.
About the problem of commercial bullying. About “awards” for bad business practice.
Registering business names nationally is about to get much easier.
Suggesting Australian migration policy needs to be more opportunities, given future skill needs are not knowable.
An American take on Oz.
About GetUp!, which seems to be mostly public servants organising politically.
About being a political staffer.
And the smart thinking award goes to:
The Federal Magistrates Court acted after the girl, aged 17, called Australian Federal Police from her home while her mother was out, saying she had been booked to fly out of Australia against her will.
The girl, who cannot be named, wanted police to put her name on an airport watch list so she could not pass through passport control without triggering an alarm.
Who said watching TV wasn’t useful?
An Afghan refugee who killed his wife for taking this rights-for-women thing seriously gets sentenced to quite a long period in gaol.
Oz and Kiwiland doctors are considering providing “ritual nicks” as a “preferable” form of female genital mutilation. More.
Malcolm Fraser has left the Liberal Party.
The Greens as the new Country Party.
TonyA as ideas-driven communitarian.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner is not re-contesting his seat at the next election. Both sides are having candidate problems in NSW.
Kevin, the now former PM, and his entourage acting like domineering control freaks over the mining tax. Kevin’s track record went back to his days in Queensland public life. Alexander Downer being brutally revealing about K.Rudd:
The point is clear: people at the embassy had died, we needed to get the Indonesians onto the case to establish who the culprits were, we had to show support to the embassy staff at this time of crisis. It wasn’t about me and it certainly wasn’t about the shadow minister for foreign affairs, Mr Kevin Rudd. But for the member for Griffith it was about one thing: himself. …
It has taken an incredible three years for the Australian public to realise who their national leader really is. I sat with a Labor luminary having a late-night drink in June 2008. He turned to me and said: ‘Mate, one day the Australian public will grow to hate Kevin Rudd as much as I do.’ That day has arrived.
An economist’s take on changes in Oz political leadership:
It is noteworthy that their handling of the ETS was decisive in the demise of both Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull. The cynicism and opportunism of the Rudd-Turnbull ETS was one of the most shameful episodes in the history of Australian federal politics. It is testimony to the remarkable efficiency of the Australian political system that it is capable of so swiftly liquidating its own errors.
Pointing to Tony A’s election as Liberal Leader as the turning point. Where Kevin Rudd sits in the ranks of PM longevity.
Geoffrey Blainey gets stuck into the new book by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds on Anzac. But Reynolds has already demonstrated, like Manning Clark before him, that you can tell any story you like about Oz history, regardless of the evidence, as long as you have “good intentions”. About the problems with the History Wars”:
This is the sterile and superficial place that the ‘History Wars’ take us to. History, a complex, paradoxical and rich human thing, is reduced to a boring tale of ‘goodies’ versus ‘baddies.’ We should plunder history to give three cheers to our ‘team’, and boo and snarl at the icons of our political opponents.
Former Vic Police Commissioner Christine Nixon had a bad day at the Royal Commission. About her background.
Independent IT contractors face some difficulties with tax law.
About the public arena dominance of the inner city.
“Dr Death” is currently in custody awaiting charges: he had a truly appalling career.
About the problem of commercial bullying. About “awards” for bad business practice.
Registering business names nationally is about to get much easier.
Suggesting Australian migration policy needs to be more opportunities, given future skill needs are not knowable.
An American take on Oz.
About GetUp!, which seems to be mostly public servants organising politically.
About being a political staffer.
And the smart thinking award goes to:
The Federal Magistrates Court acted after the girl, aged 17, called Australian Federal Police from her home while her mother was out, saying she had been booked to fly out of Australia against her will.
The girl, who cannot be named, wanted police to put her name on an airport watch list so she could not pass through passport control without triggering an alarm.
Who said watching TV wasn’t useful?
An Afghan refugee who killed his wife for taking this rights-for-women thing seriously gets sentenced to quite a long period in gaol.
Oz and Kiwiland doctors are considering providing “ritual nicks” as a “preferable” form of female genital mutilation. More.
Malcolm Fraser has left the Liberal Party.
The Greens as the new Country Party.
TonyA as ideas-driven communitarian.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner is not re-contesting his seat at the next election. Both sides are having candidate problems in NSW.
Kevin, the now former PM, and his entourage acting like domineering control freaks over the mining tax. Kevin’s track record went back to his days in Queensland public life. Alexander Downer being brutally revealing about K.Rudd:
The point is clear: people at the embassy had died, we needed to get the Indonesians onto the case to establish who the culprits were, we had to show support to the embassy staff at this time of crisis. It wasn’t about me and it certainly wasn’t about the shadow minister for foreign affairs, Mr Kevin Rudd. But for the member for Griffith it was about one thing: himself. …
It has taken an incredible three years for the Australian public to realise who their national leader really is. I sat with a Labor luminary having a late-night drink in June 2008. He turned to me and said: ‘Mate, one day the Australian public will grow to hate Kevin Rudd as much as I do.’ That day has arrived.
An economist’s take on changes in Oz political leadership:
It is noteworthy that their handling of the ETS was decisive in the demise of both Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull. The cynicism and opportunism of the Rudd-Turnbull ETS was one of the most shameful episodes in the history of Australian federal politics. It is testimony to the remarkable efficiency of the Australian political system that it is capable of so swiftly liquidating its own errors.
Pointing to Tony A’s election as Liberal Leader as the turning point. Where Kevin Rudd sits in the ranks of PM longevity.
Geoffrey Blainey gets stuck into the new book by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds on Anzac. But Reynolds has already demonstrated, like Manning Clark before him, that you can tell any story you like about Oz history, regardless of the evidence, as long as you have “good intentions”. About the problems with the History Wars”:
This is the sterile and superficial place that the ‘History Wars’ take us to. History, a complex, paradoxical and rich human thing, is reduced to a boring tale of ‘goodies’ versus ‘baddies.’ We should plunder history to give three cheers to our ‘team’, and boo and snarl at the icons of our political opponents.
Former Vic Police Commissioner Christine Nixon had a bad day at the Royal Commission. About her background.