Politics, economics, law and life from a 'radical centrist' perspective, defined by Noel Pearson as "the intense resolution of the tensions between opposing principles"
Art Life, The Excellent reviews, images and discussion of Australian visual arts - highly recommended
Barista David Tiley’s blog is one of Jen’s and Ken’s favourites. David is Melbourne-based and blogs about politics and the arts and has lots of visual material.
The Morning After Chris Boyd is a sometime MSM critic who writes on theatre
Theatre Notes Alison Croggon’s blog is probably Australia’s foremost theatre blog, with consistently challenging posts and lots of links to other theatre blogs
Wicking, Colin Wicking is a sometime Troppo contributor and long-time editorial cartoonist for the Murdoch-owned Northern Territory News and Sunday Territorian
Daily Flute Gun Photoshop cartoonist now frequently published in the SMY and New Matilda, Flutey is also an incisive political commentator in his text blogging
Hyperidian Bannerman A just-discovered delight that has joined my “must check daily” list
Leigh, Andrew Econmist and social policy researcher at ANU (and frequent MSM op-ed writer), Andrew used to post at the Imagining Australia blog (for a while with his co-authors of the book of the same name), but has now launched his very own self-titled blog. Highly r
Merkel, Robert I’ve only just discovered Robert’s blog, although he’s been a longtime valued commenter at Troppo. He knows lots abut nuclear power and energy issues generally.
Vee Lives in country New South Wales, more or less centrist to slightly left of centre
Veni Vid Blogi Phil was formerly Brisbane based but has recently moved to Rockhampton
Economics and public policy
Catallaxy Files Group blog featuring Jason Soon, Rafe Champion, Heath Gibson, Kodjo and occasionally Helen Dale - libertarian flavour with lots of Austrian economics and a rough-and-tumble comment facility
Kalimna Harry Clarke is a highly regarded economist with mostly conservative views but a strong and principled interest in global warming (seemingly a rarity among right wingers for reasons I don’t even begin to understand).
Leigh, Andrew Econmist and social policy researcher at ANU (and frequent MSM op-ed writer), Andrew used to post at the Imagining Australia blog (for a while with his co-authors of the book of the same name), but has now launched his very own self-titled blog. Highly r
Martin, Peter Well known media economics correspondent
Norton, Andrew Andrew is a well-known libertarian CIS economist and public intellectual, former ministerial adviser to a failed Howard government Education Minister, and escapee from Catallaxy
Quiggin, John Venerable University of Queensland professor of economics, John is a pioneering Australian blogger and a persuasive advocate of a moerate left-leaning approach to economics and politics.
Quiggin, John Venerable University of Queensland professor of economics, John is a pioneering Australian blogger and a persuasive advocate of a moerate left-leaning approach to economics and politics.
Rank and Vile Guido mostly focuses on Australian soccer
Road to Surfdom Tim Dunlop’s original blog, now functioning as a group effort during Tim’s News Ltd sojourn
Sear, Jeremy (aka “Anonymous Lefty”) Jeremy has given up trying to be anonymous, and is also blogging at a new temporary location after having his longstanding blog hacked and deleted by some moron.
Terry Sedgwick Inspired Photoshopping political satirist, I thought Sedgwick had left the blogosphere until I recently rediscovered his blog. Four stars.
Bagaric, Mirko Deakin University legal academic notorious for his advocacy of legalising torture (in some circumstances). Often seems more intent on courting controversy than on serious analysis of issues …
Balkinization US academic lawyers’ group blog started by Jack Balkin. Includes frequent posts by leading academic lawyers like Brian Tamanaha and Marty Lederman
Arts and Letters Daily Digests a wide range of articles across the arts and humanities generally (including politics). Detectable but moderate right-leaning bias in selection, but nevertheless an excellent resource for finding quality material.
Arts Journal Digests articles concernign all areas of the arts, principally US focus but includes some Australian material
Black, Peter QUT legal academic whose blog mainly covers issues relating to the legal regulation of the internet and the media, but at times constitutional law issues and politics are discussed.
Climate Debate Daily As its title suggests, it digests articles concerning global warming. Like Arts and Letters Daily, this digest is primarily produced by NZ academic Dennis Dutton. Bias is manifested in treating pro and anti articles as equally weight or worthy, which is
Human Nature Daily Digests articles on human biological topics generally and especially cognitive science
Jurist Contains original articles on legal topics, mostly collated and rewritten from MSM sources, as well as an aggregated RSS feed picking up a number of law-related feeds from around the world
SciTech Daily Review Digests articles relating to science and technology generally
Wired Original IT/geeky material plus digests other geeky news
Oz Politics election blog Bryan Palmer (the rest of his Oz Politics site is also worth browsing, especially for high school (and even university) students of politics or legal studies
Psephos Adam Carr - claims to be the largest, most comprehensive and most up-to-date archive of electoral information in the world, with election statistics from 175 countries.
After Grog Blog Tony the Teacher mostly blogs very entertainingly about sport and media, and only occasionally about politics with a very mildly rightish slant
Ambit Gambit Group blog co-ordinated by Graham Young, a former Qld Liberal Party apparatchik and founder of the excellent Online Opinion website
Andrew Landeryou Frequently defamatory and unpleasantly vindictive, but sometimes comes up with good material and even genuine news “scoops”
Catallaxy Files Group blog featuring Jason Soon, Rafe Champion, Heath Gibson, Kodjo and occasionally Helen Dale - libertarian flavour with lots of Austrian economics and a rough-and-tumble comment facility
Currency Lad A Brisbane-based historian with a conservative catholic orientation, CL is always provocative and worth reading
Heard, John Right wing gay Catholic blogger. Sounds weird? You’re right.
Kalimna Harry Clarke is a highly regarded economist with mostly conservative views but a strong and principled interest in global warming (seemingly a rarity among right wingers for reasons I don’t even begin to understand).
Man of Lettuce Adrian the Cabbie rarely writes about politics. His blog is mostly about his experiences as a Sydney taxi driver, one with a fine and rare ability to write superb “Naked City” vignettes about his experiences. Highly recommended.
Norton, Andrew Andrew is a well-known libertarian CIS economist and public intellectual, former ministerial adviser to a failed Howard government Education Minister, and escapee from Catallaxy
Oz Conservative Mark Richardson is a deeply conservative blogger who mostly writes about family and gender roles from an ultra-traditional perspective. I sometimes wonder whether he’s sending up RWDB views, but apparently he’s for real not a caricature.
Politically Homeless Andrew Elder is a lapsed Liberal because he’s a classical liberal who didn’t see eye-to-eye with the capital C conservatism of John Howard
Tim Blair Australia’s leading Right Wing Death beast blogger, with the largest audience of any Australian blog. Tim is a long-time journalist with various MSM publications, and one of the early entrants to Australian political blogging. Always provocative.
Sport
After Grog Blog Tony the Teacher mostly blogs very entertainingly about sport and media, and only occasionally about politics with a very mildly rightish slant
