In happier news than yesterday's post ( Read more... )

Sydney Morning Herald: Australia baulks at cluster bomb ban"Talks are being held in Dublin to thrash out a treaty that would completely wipe out the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions...blamed for killing and maiming thousands of civilians." Sounds like Australia's kinda thing, right? Apparently not. Apparently along ( Read more... )

Funny, but scary. Via etfb: http://www.netalarmed.com/

Mandatory internet filtering is coming to Oz... and we are yet to know how the scheme will be implemented so that, for example, it avoids the Scunthorpe effect (words containing 'naughty' sub-strings are banned); not to mention the old ( Read more... )

Thanks, Australia. This is my third? fourth? federal election, and FINALLY you voted the bastards out. Hopefully the new bastards will be less bastardly. GetUp has collated a list of promises made by various candidates so we can jeer loudly when they all turn out to be 'non-core'... (gosh, 11 years of Howard seems to have made me rather cynical!) ( Read more... )

I didn't get to be part of this in the end, but thanks to tigerdenbodu, here is the video of the flashmob singing 'Vote the Bastards Out' at various locations around Melbourne city ( Read more... )

The NTEU's summary of policies on tertiary education from the Coalition, ALP, Greens and Democrats.
NTEU Higher Education Policy Update
16 November 2007
This briefing note provides an update on new policies initiatives or details that relate directly to universities that have been released since the Federal Election was officially announced. It does ( Read more... )

Via mawaridihttp://www.howshouldivote.com.au/Read more... )

Courtesy of sjl: the AEC has released group voting tickets, which tell you where votes go for above the line Senate votes. There's a pdf for each state. Makes for some interesting reading - some of those preferences are not in the order I would have expected! Go check it out so you know exactly what you're doing on Nov 24th.

I missed World Blog About the Environment Day on Monday. But I figured it doesn't really matter - if my environmental posts haven't grabbed your attention yet, another one won't ( Read more... )

Grr. There must be an election coming up or something, as the Howard Government is using the race card to strike terror into the hearts of voters... again ( Read more... )