Club Troppo

That's David Marr's verdict on the national song, and he asserts that many of his fellow best and brightest agree: EXTENSIVE soundings among delegates confirm I was not the only one who suddenly realised on Saturday morning as I was singing Advance Australia Fair that among th...

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I'm reading one of the better Web 2.0 books around instructively and amusingly called Here comes everybody which Peter Gallagher told me today came from Finnigan's Wake. I thought I was terribly clever when I discovered this book on the net within a day or so of it having been...

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I didnt want to let the Summit pass completely without sharing a few thoughts about it from an overseas Australian. Australians at home may be sick of the saturation media coverage of the 2020 Summit, but for many overseas Aussies these are exciting times. I cant obviously 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 Terry Sedgwick commits the ultimate act of Photoshop self-abuse 2020 Roundup Bernard Sl...

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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 Terry Sedgwick comes up with a strangely disturbing thought - the Bolter for Lord Mayor...

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The Fin asked me to write my summit idea up for them - so I did. 150 years after Adam Smith first expounded the miraculous way the markets invisible hand transforms private self interest into social prosperity, some economists argued that we could achieve the same result with...

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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, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Andrew Leigh summarises some of his favourite results from an ANU-run Governance poll . dr. fa...

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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, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian How dumb is Liberal Frontbencher Christopher Pyne? Asked and answered at North Coast Voices ....

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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, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Jacques Chester has scathing words for the Government's mealy mouthed excuses for formalising...

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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, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Australia is to get its first female governor general, with the announcement that Kylie Quenti...

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In an earlier blog, Mike Pepperday argued that equal opportunity programs enhance individual freedom - indeed that equality of opportunity (EP) is an essential pre-condition of effective choice and self-reliance. I instinctively agree with Mike. And I suspect most Australians...

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I don't know the ins and outs of gambling in Victoria. But I was amazed at the article by Stephen Mayne in Crikey! Victorian Premier John Brumby has acted to break the duopoly that holds licences to host poker machines in Victoria. Clubs will be able to bid for licences as wel...

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I read on that other (more illustrious) CT that Tom Lehrer turned 80 recently (on the 9th April). I guess most Troppo readers know him. I can't think of a greater talent for satirical music ever. Prodigious in quality rather than quantity - he performed 109 shows, and wrote 37...

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Hat tip Joshua Gans.

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Ructions in Boganville: the first Camden protest, back in November A keen follower of events in Camden, I didn't overlook the news that the Camden/Macarthur Residents' Group, led by that great community bridge builder Emil Sremchevich, has announced plans to hold more protests...

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Yesterday, BG picked up one thread of the "mega blog discussion" kicked off by Don Arthur. I want to pick up another. In the discussion on Arthur's post, BG and I seemed to agree that, apart from a firm safety net which encouraged able-bodied people to work, the social policy...

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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, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Gary Sauer-Thompson provides a health update on the Murray River. Darryl Mason discusses an un...

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Subject to my usual caveats , Kevin's next post on tagged money is below the fold. An efficient private/public transport market Over the last three weeks this series of posts have shown the utility of "tagging money" with information as a tool to help implement policy. My inte...

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In the recent mega blog discussion kicked off by Don Arthur, I ventured the opinion that "the truly remarkable thing is that the Gini coefficient of equivalised disposable income has only increased from 0.28 to 0.31 in the last 30 years of so." Given the underwhelming response...

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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, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Pavlov's Cat demanded a photo of Nicholas, Ken and James in swimwear to balance the ledger aft...

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