No-pain-no-gain: High-road-low-road
This post began as a comment on Paul's last comment on my "Mainstream Radical Centrists: Where are they?" column. Paul boiled down his response to this:...
Now is the time for complacency: Where are the mainstream radical centrists?
Australia's 'economic miracle' off the back of what might be called the 'reform period' which can be dated fairly neatly from late 1983 and the...
What I’m reading: Things about the Parthenon YOU WON’T BELIEVE!!
What is the meaning of the relief sculpture above? I recall when I was last on the Athenian Acropolis just over a year ago marvelling at the...
The death of newspapers: does it matter?
With Fairfax culling 120 journalists (in the wake of previous mass redundancies), Murdoch/News apparently contemplating more cuts, and newspapers in general losing money hand over...
More travesties of the proverbial: Law of the jungle edition
Keen readers of this blog will know that occasionally, just occasionally I identify a saying or concept which has somehow come to signify something close to...
Crowdsourcing credentials
I was at a PC function yesterday on 'disruptive technology' and said, in a rather crabby way, that I'd been talking about the significance of informing...
Proroguing Parliament, double dissolution elections and other constitutional delights
It appears clear that the Governor-General (acting on the advice of the Prime Minister as per Westminster convention) can under Constitution section 5 prorogue the...