The pragmatic climate policy for Australia?
What should Australia do about a slowly warming world? Join a small group of European countries who have more permits to sell than their own...
A cool vid showing what a complete package the Beatles’ sound was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S7QxOllK0VU
Perspectives on bushfires.
I remember the great bushfire in Canberra of 2003. I had only arrived with the family a week before and had just rented a nice...
Behavioural genetics: should we be worried?
Eugenics got a bad name after the second world war. It got associated with pseudo-scientific theories under which people at the bottom of the societal...
What’s the difference between a tabloid TV reporter and a tapeworm?*
Tabloid TV – it’s one of modern life’s little irritations but, thankfully, one that’s easily avoided – unlike Melbourne’s Myki system, the rococo convolutions of...
Media plumbs new lows: SHOCK!
A tweet took me to this article from Time World. And it had a panel of articles 'from the web' at the bottom, each with nice...
Arthur Sinodinos on Brand Loyalty, Team Spirit and Party Discipline
Brands, brands, brands! Teams, Teams, teams! They infest Australian political commentary these days the way gondolas infest Venice. Right now, for example, the challenge for...