Realism about high-speed rail
Super-high-speed version: Australia has better things to do with $100 billion than building a high-speed rail line. It's all summed up in this exchange from the ABC...
Is destroying illegal ivory a really bad idea?
Governments around the world have in recent years destroyed their seized stockpiles of illegal ivory, egged on by the World Wildlife Federation which believes it...
The need for Internet speed
Apparently Labor doesn't intend reverting to the full Fibre to the Premises ("FTP") version of the National Broadband Network it previously championed if returned to government later...
Forecasting: the (Open) Road Ahead
Below the introduction to a piece in The Mandarin today. We shoot the breeze about who’ll win the next election or footy match. Virtually none of it helps...
From the High Court: We decide who comes here and if not, by the number they are known
From the High Court, 2002 Barrister Geoffrey Johnson: Well, your Honour, if it is of assistance, the practice in the Federal Court…has been to call...
Evidence-based policy making – Part One: The problems
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="400"] A stupid diagram - the kind of thing we can't get enough of here at ClubTroppo. And remember "Reflect, revise and...
Reserve Bank’s Homer Simpson timing of its board meetings comes under fire: SHOCK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo2cP0j5lYk Your correspondent was once very rude about one of Australia's better institutions though now rather complacent - the Reserve Bank - pointing out in 2012...