At last, some semblance of rationality in the whole thing: http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/turkey-slappers-loveable-to-me/2006/08/01/1154198125653.html

Philip Ruddock, eat your heart out. Hope you read this article too, Helen.

John Howard does not want to be remembered as a Coward. Should he give up the Prime Ministership now, and should the Liberal Party lose the next election, he will be seen as the leader who cut and run to try and save his own reputation as the expense of the party’s. As Howard keeps saying, he will do whatever is “in the party’s wish,” and in their ( Read more... )

Two recent (ish... in the case of the second one) articles on the recent Israel/Lebanon conflict that are well written and easy to read... (the majority are so boring they're hard to finish, but these two are worth reading):

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19962861-2703,00.html

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id= ( Read more... )

A response to a Canberra Times article (which I can't find online anymore):

Dr Jenny Stewart's argument that the failure of governments to protect our manufacturing and agricultural industries is to the long-term detriment of our economy's structure is flawed ("Everyday heroes expendable for short-term interests of consumers", July 21, p13).

The ( Read more... )

I've decided to post more random stuff on here, so it doesn't feel like a complete waste. Actually, this will probably last about 4 days until I lose motivation. So feel free to ignore me.

What a sorry state we are in. Unemployment is low, economic growth is strong, there's a commodities boom -- but those bloody bananas are going to put it all down ( Read more... )

Lots has been written on the recent events in the Middle East, but this article is one of the better ones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1831149,00.html

and the only one I've read so far worth singling out (not that I've read many).

I thought this one was particularly good...


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Get your Bush away from my Merkel...

http://blogs.smh.com.au/newsblog/archives//005267.html

ewwh imagine what those kids would look like

Well, I haven’t updated in a while. And I’m a fairly boring person, so I’ll follow suit from a few other fellow lj-ites and review last semester / results. I was going to write nice useful reviews, but then holidays happened, and … well… some days it’s hard enough to be motivated to get out of bed, let alone write properly. Meanwhile…

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