Monthly Archives: March 2006

Morris QC on royal commissions

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Ken Parish

I’ve known Tony Morris QC for a number of years as webmaster of a very useful legal site called Lex Scripta. More recently he attained national fame and then notoriety as the Royal Commissioner investigating events at Bundaberg Hospital involving … Continue reading →

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Help! I think I’m turning Democrat!

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Ken Parish

I’ve been regularly monitoring opposition and minor party media releases over the last fortnight or so. That’s the sort of boring person I am, sadly. But it’s brought me to a few conclusions I think are important, and I’m going … Continue reading →

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Old Commissioner Cole isn’t a merry old soul

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Ken Parish

Only last week I was speculating about why Terrence Cole QC hadn’t sought an extension of his terms of reference to enable him to make substantive findings and recommendations about the conduct of Ministers and public servants in the AWB … Continue reading →

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Thank Jevons

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen

[photopress:jevons1.jpg,full,alignleft] As a practiced poster, I now find myself spinning inane puns for my headlines, like any good subbie. Be that as it may, I happened upon an interesting post by our Troppodillian friend and sometime colleague Rafe Champion over … Continue reading →

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Dark matter, dark energy and black hole singularities: all solved! (Maybe)

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen

Sometime Troppo commenter Gaby sent me this amazing article from New Scientist. DARK energy and dark matter, two of the greatest mysteries confronting physicists, may be two sides of the same coin. A new and as yet undiscovered kind of … Continue reading →

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Iraq the model – but model what?

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Ken Parish

Tim Dunlop posts on the situation in Iraq, and it doesn’t make happy reading. No doubt RWDB readers will dismiss it as just another piece of lefty defeatism, but others might care to consider the facts on their merit in … Continue reading →

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Death by a thousand volunteers

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen

 What is the collective noun for volunteers? Well I’m just starting to recover from swarms, of them, whole irritations of volunteers. There were fifteen thousand of them! I first encountered games volunteers in Sydney. Not having encountered them before it … Continue reading →

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