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Perusing the wb as I sometimes do, I was heartened to come across this little snippet about YET another way Australia might reduce it’s dependance on coal powered electricity…but isn’t…YET.
Clearly the technology is available, it just isn’t being utilised, at least not to it’s maximum potential.
Clean, energy efficient, renewable energy from the sun, it is […]

Michael Noonan’s controversial and until now secret film footage that caused an international stir about the rights of people with disabilities has now been released to the public.  Noonan has given the footage to Brisbane’s Courier Mail who have put it on their website for all to see - “Film full of fuss goes online”
 
Here are […]

I was just alerted to a rather strange article in yesterday’s Australian entitled “Tribunal hit for Wikipedia ruling”. The article claimed that the Refugee Review Tribunal had been criticised by the Federal Magistrates Court for relying on Wikipedia to make a decision. The thing is - as should have been rather obvious - the site […]

On a related note, can I just say that the term “doctor’s wives” annoys the hell out of me? It’s completely patronising and sexist. - Bec
Are you, like Bec, pissed off by the use of that outdated, rather meaningless, sexist and offensive term “Doctor’s Wives?” Then why not check out this new offensive demographic descriptor:
John […]

AWA fairness ultimately up to employers: Hockey
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Mr Hockey says he cannot guarantee employers will obey the new law.
“As we’ve seen quite dramatically over the last few days, no matter what safety net you put in place it can be abused by employers either honestly or dishonestly,” he said.
“So no one can give any guarantees - […]

There is a new service to web-browser-users that makes googlemail and the like look positively primitive, called GHOST (Globally Hosted Operating SysTem). It’s a but tricky to explain, but it is a full desktop that runs inside a flash player (using OpenLaszlo technology) that you access from (say) an internet cafe. It’s still in […]

This week, hear about an inquiry into which form of renewable energy is bestest, or one seeking “the truth” about whether schools are actually any use. Another inquiry looks at some very scary changes proposed by the government regarding the management of the Great Barrier Reef. There’s also a chance to peer into the dark […]

openDemocracy.net - based in Britain, focusing on the world. Excellent independent resources on current affairs. It’s what the new media should be. If you’ve an interest in British affairs, check out their OurKingdom blog.
The campaign for a UK constitution is spearheaded at the website Unlock Democracy.
Before anyone started talking about the new media and web […]

I am no political scientist or analyst, however, so my interpretation of these terms may not be accurate, but really analyzing what “Left” and “Right” truly mean and what interpretation of these terms is more important is a discussion for another day, really
As the closest thing the world has ever seen to an expert on […]

I spent the last three days enjoying the rain. What have you been up to?
Cartoon pinched from Nicholson’s website.
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A small cryptic crossword with a lefty Australian bias in clue or answer, using tranformations commonly found in The Age.  Answers (spelt backwards) are near the bottom of this post.

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Across1. Tuberculosis: too much increases obesity and GDP. (11)6. Does Andrew Bolt, for example, punch cattle for a living? (11)8. Upper House consumed after only three […]

Because could we really be bothered writing a bunch of new articles over the next couple of days? Bring up any topic, the good ones will of course be ripped off and recycled into future articles.
To kick discussion off over this Easter long weekend:
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or […]

Interested in issues of third world development? Check this online flash game out.
I scored 1285.
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Over at Catallaxy Jason Soon has been talking about “Fascism and the left“, another recent discussion focused on the supposedly left sounding program of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
To be clear, Jason doesn’t say “fascists were lefties thus lefties are fascists”, I doubt be could ever commit such intellectual fraud no matter how strong […]