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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...