http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2006/press.html

Congratulations to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank (the inventor, and first implementor, of 'microcredit,' respectively).

I am heartened that this year's Peace Prize has been awarded to someone who has made a huge difference on the lives of the poors, and created a system which can ( Read more... )

Well well well. Monday 9th October 2006 marks the date when Telstra was finally sold (most of it anyway, if you don’t count the Future Fund).

Despite all the government bungling over the past few years, oodles of regulations and enough farcical comedy to make Basil Fawlty blush, we’ve finally joined the modern world. This will be the day we look ( Read more... )

Our economy is booming. We must make the right decisions now to maximise the benefits Australia receives from it ( Read more... )

Why oh why is the most arrogant, heartless, opportunist and dishonest person in Australia our Attorney-General?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/torture-debate-chief-justice-lays-down-law/2006/10/06/1159641533690.html

A sign of things to come in Australia, perhaps?

Editorial Desk; SECTA
The War Against Wages
By PAUL KRUGMAN
764 words
6 October 2006
The New York Times
Late Edition - Final
25
English
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.
Should we be cheering over the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has finally set a new record? No. ( Read more... )

Well, it's taken up too much of my time, but I handed in that Rhodes thing today.... glad to get it out of the way! It's way too rambly and pretty boring but hey it's done.

http://xalciene.tripod.com/RhodesPeninsula.pdf

(the not-as-boring bits start on p15)

Never was there a (wo)man who wrote so elegantly, appealingly or more common-sense on architecture (or any other topic):

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/elizabethfarrelly/

YOUNG people are materialistic, optimistic and "untroubled by ideas". They aim for a car, job, house, and kids. They confuse globalisation with global warming, and show little interest in matters outside their own material welfare. Even the university students are neither "intellectuals nor contemplative".

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the- ( Read more... )

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/judges-sex-lies-and-videotape-saga/2006/09/29/1159337309011.html

some good old immigration-judge-in-sex-romp-scandal humour

Kevin Donnelly (The Australian) has a valid point about the neglect of current events and specific skills in geography syllabuses across the country, but we should not seek to replace existing syllabuses solely with the teaching of biophysical processes. Geography itself is an interesting and diverse discipline, spanning the applied and social ( Read more... )