Club Troppo

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Liberal politician Sophie Mirabella and demon spawn imagined (and explained) by Apathet...

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Last Thursday I rang a phone number to book a taxi. It isn't the normal number. It's the mobile number of Neil the taxi driver. Neil is a good fellow and many years ago - when I was at the Productivity Commission - I became aware of Neil's service. He runs a 'ring' of taxi dri...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Worst of Perth wonders about the values of all the bogan talkback ranters harassing Hen...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Suggest a caption (via Terry Sedgwick ). Thank God for those activist judges on the Sup...

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'One of my closest friends is Turkish, and she won't have anything to do with Muslims, OK?' Camden Council has finally voted on the Quranic Society's development application, and has unanimously voted against it . We now have to wait and see whether the applicants will appeal,...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Random photo from Flickr - page 1 of 72,701 hits for "teenager". Is this more or less "...

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I've just spent two hours finding stuff for Missing Link because other team members (except the arts ones) didn't have time. However I've now discovered that the arts section, while full of great material, is also full of extraneous formatting code that will need to be strippe...

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Here's a column I've just written published today in the AFR. The Gruen Transfer Those with an unusual surname have to get used to spelling it. No its not Gluner. Not Glueball or Grewbie its Gruen G-R-U-E-N. The compensation is, your name identifies you or a family member pret...

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My ten year old son is in trouble. Last week his sports teacher, Mr Bryan said to his class "stand up if you've been a bad sport". Alex returned home having stood up. He then confided to his mother that he hadn't been a bad sport, but he thought he had better stand up to be su...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Exclusive Club Troppo investigation reveals another Henson peddling kiddie porn. Where...

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The following paragraph is an abstract of the paper "The Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders" by Keith Finlay Since 1997, states have begun to make criminal history records publicly available over th...

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The super-rich aren't super-smart says Ezra Klein . While it might be comforting to believe that that income differences represent differences in knowledge and skill, it's just not true: The massive gains in wealth in this country are apportioning to a small slice of rich peop...

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In a speech on May 19th, Tim Flannery reportedly proposed, as a last-ditch solution, the mass depositing of sulphur into our atmosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the earth, thus counter-acting the greenhouse effect of increased amounts of CO2 in the air. The spe...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Lauredhel gives a hand to an aptly named blog called Photoshop Disasters . Paul Norton...

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ABC news story this afternoon: Northern Territory Police believe a woman found dead at Mindil Beach last night may have been assaulted in the hours before her death. Police received a report at 11pm that a woman was lying on the beach unconscious and bleeding from the mouth. P...

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