Monthly Archives: 2024-10

8 published posts from 2024-10.

Get <em>The Great Housing Hijack</em> Into Your Brain

Cameron Murray’s The Great Housing Hijack is self-recommending. You certainly don’t need a review of any sort to tell you to go read it if you have any interest in the peculiar case of the housing market. Nevertheless, here I supply my own review of sorts and extrapolate on wh...

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Posted in Economics and public policy

New clobber

As you can see we've adopted a new Wordpress theme. Many thanks to our web guru Tony Sarhanis. What do you think? I really like it, although I have one reservation. You can't scroll down the main posts column until the cursor gets to the bottom of the comments column. I suspec...

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Posted in IT and Internet

Orange Jesus Trump

Most people throughout the world (except dedicated right wing American Republicans) are contemplating with horror the very real possibility of Donald Trump being re-elected as American President next week. I share that horror, but not to the rather extreme extent being asserte...

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Posted in Politics - international, Climate Change, Immigration and refugees

Vale David Tiley

David Tiley was one of the early generation of bloggers in Australia, starting in 2003, approximately the same time as I started. I first met him at a blogging meet-up in St Kilda (where David lived) in about 2005. Blogging was much more social in those days, and there were fr...

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Posted in History, Media, Health, Personal

Minority government would be no bad thing

The common view from politicians and so-called experts is that minority government is dreadful. I don't agree. Nor, it seems, does former Rudd and Gillard ministerial advisor Sean Kelly. In an article in today's Age newspaper, Kelly says: [caption id="attachment_37261" align="...

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Posted in Politics - national, Democracy, Bullshit

House of Grief?

A few years ago I read a book by the iconic Australian author Helen Garner titled "House of Grief". It dealt with the trial and conviction of a man named Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three young sons Jai (age 11), Bailey (age 7) and Tyler (age 3) on Fathers' Day in...

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Posted in Law, Criminal law

Nuclear power - nirvana or nonsense?

The federal Coalition's adoption of a policy involving government-owned construction of 7 nuclear power plants around Australia has raised an argument that most people thought was over 30 years ago or more. Labor and the Greens are opposed to it, as are several state Liberal P...

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Posted in Uncategorized, Politics - national, Environment, Climate Change

Returning to blogging at Troppo

As longstanding readers will know, I was one of the founders of Troppo along with Nicholas Gruen and several others including Mark Bahnisch and Don Arthur. The latter two moved on to other things (Don was a research at the Federal Parliamentary Library last time I heard, a rol...

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Posted in Uncategorized, History, Health, Medical, Personal