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The pollies have wheeled and dealed and changes have been made to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (formerly known as the Emissions Trading Scheme)...
Environment Victoria notes that the changes are both good and bad: the conditional-on-the-rest-of-the-world target is up to 25%, which is better than 15%, but still inadequate for 2040, and the ( Read more... )

For those interested in the Aus government's attempt to censor the Internet: you can watch the video and/or read the transcript of Minister 'for' Communications Steven Conroy's appearance on Q&A here'More than 2000 questions came in via email, SMS and from audience members, and virtually every one of them was opposed to the filtering proposal. A ( Read more... )

This is our chance to ask Senator Conroy to explain his plans to censor the internet ( Read more... )

Couldn't let today go past without commenting on the leak of the list of websites the Australian government wants to ban. It contains such terrible moral hazards as a dentist, a tour operator and a tuckshop management consultant - as well as more controversial inclusions: sites with information about euthanasia, religious sites, and Wikileaks pages ( Read more... )

One day, you wake up with a miniature person attached to you. The person says they'll be gone in nine months, but only after an extremely painful separation with potentially serious medical consequences. In the mean time, they will suck nutrients out of your blood stream, whether you have enough to keep yourself healthy or not. They will change ( Read more... )

So I've been meaning to write about our recent holiday, and the conference and associated reflections on academic networking, and the inaugration of Bam and what I reckon his speech meant ( Read more... )

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So many things to post about, so little time. I want to talk about the Garnaut recommendations, and this awesome book I recently read called 'Self-Made Man' (by Norah Vincent, in the Monash library, go get it if you are interested in the musings of a woman who impersonated a man in various situations and noted how people reacted to her), and the ( Read more... )

Back in January I posted about what a dumb idea compulsory internet filtering is. I wrote to Minister for teh Internets Steven Conroy, and finally received a response from the Department in June. The response boiled down to: Thanks for your letter, we appreciate your concerns, here is a paragraph about the legislation which totally doesn't address ( Read more... )