Monthly Archives: November 2007

Shock: Port Phillip Bay Not Level

Dramatic photos from The Age this morning show Melbournes enormous Port Phillip Bay on a tilt.     Readers were witness to the astonishing spectacle of giant cruise liner Sun Princess apparently motoring uphill to berth at Station Pier. There was no … Continue reading

Posted in Humour | 10 Comments

The Howard Years (Condensed)

A collection of useful words arranged in satisfying ways for the benefit of future historians. (Also beneficial when faced with drunken red-faced Howard-Huggers at Christmas parties over the next month who embarrass the host by rudely asserting that Mr. Howard … Continue reading

Posted in Politics - national | 37 Comments

Dave by a bee’s foreskin?

Bryan “Ozpolitics” Palmer on the state of play with counting in doubtful seats as at 8:24 this morning: The ABC Computer now has Robertson on the doubtful list (previously a Labor gain) after the pre-poll votes went in the Coalitions … Continue reading

Posted in Politics - Northern Territory | 7 Comments

Missing Link après le déluge edition

Miss Haversham refuses a proposal from Terry Sedgwick 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad I was nearly going to call this the Year Zero … Continue reading

Posted in Missing Link, Uncategorised | 11 Comments

Howard’s legacy

If John Howard were to summarise his legacy, he would emphasise economics. As he claimed in the election, Australia has a strong economy with low inflation and low rates of unemployment. With the benefit of asset sales and budget surpluses, … Continue reading

Posted in Economics and public policy, Politics - national | 13 Comments

The fiscal challenge: The column

Here’s the column foreshadowed in a previous post as published today in the Fin. I was only given 500 words, so whether or not you find it sweet, I had to keep it short. Fiscal Problem – what Problem? Its … Continue reading

Posted in Economics and public policy, Politics - national | 39 Comments

Downtime, unplanned and planned

The site thoughtfully decided to drop off the line when I wasn’t available (it’s quantum locked) to look at it. It seems to be a DNS thing and we’ve changed uplinks for now. Unfortunately a simultaneous glitchiness at out wiki … Continue reading

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