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I'd not seen this before - though many better travelled Troppodillians will have. For those that have not - you read it first on Troppo! With the company slogan ruling out evil things, Google continues (so far) to do good things.

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A terrific lecture by Robert Manne on 'Reconciliation' is to be heard and/or downloaded from the Hindsight program on the ABC website. I've heard it previously, so it's not that new, but it's a good listen if you have the time.

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When the stuff about Kevin Rudd's heart broke I thought 'well here we go again'. A bit of quasi dirt. Now it seems like a reasonable assumption that the government knew of the revelations and encouraged them. Of course it's entirely possible that they didn't. But on form you'd...

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Thank you all for your comments on my earlier posting ("why the electorate may want change") which sought to explain the apparent willingness of many swinging voters to switch sides. I argued then that it cannot be due to substantive policy differences: they exist (on industri...

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Doubts have started to emerge today about the resilience of Kevin Rudds leadership in polls. Liberal Party sources confirm that doubts do exist, which has led to intense speculation among some parts of the media as to whether the ALPs ability to project an air of confidence ha...

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Former Territory Labor Opposition Leader and Keating government Minister Bob Collins has died in Darwin at the age of 61. Whether from the bowel cancer he had suffered over the last couple of years or from some other cause is yet to be revealed. I knew Bob Collins very well in...

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I reproduce below the gist of my letter in today's Australian in the hope that it will elicit some opposing comments on why the electorate may want to replace the Howard Government Letter follows. Imre Salusinszky (misled by hatred, 20/9/07)) forgets that there are at least as...

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Just as I'm praising him to the skies , uberjournalist Paul Krugman, not content with two fantastic columns a week, gives us a blog as well . And having discovered it, what is the first post I read on it? Krugman summarising the very point I drew attention to. That he has a su...

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Visit Grodscorp to suggest a caption The federal election is absorping more than its share of attention in Ozblogistan, and is certain to do so for the next two months. For those who care, there is feast of psephology at Poll Bludger, Simon Jackman's Blog , Peter Brent's Mumbl...

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Over at Lava Rodeo, tigtog posts about an advocacy site put together by American-inspired and left-leaning lobby group GetUp! and an assortment of greenie groups "advocating placing your vote according to candidates records on climate change." Tigtog laments the lack of any an...

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Australian Mateship is the name given to the practice of referring to a person as mate when you cant remember their name.

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I taped last Wednesday night's LNL and only listened to it last night. Download the mp3 file and be amazed. Do it NOW! The file will disappear tomorrow night.

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The article below began, in my mind at least, as a post. Then thinking that it might be worth putting the effort into it to make it read pretty well, I spent some time on it and sent it unsolicited to Crikey! They prefer stuff they've asked for or that you've pitched, and they...

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Australian Policy Online asked me to tidy up the post I put up a while back on Child Poverty - Take a Bow Brian Howe. For the record and to enable anyone who wishes to offer further comment, I've done so here . Readers can download a Word file from the APO site. Thanks to Pete...

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I remember as a young bloke reading an ad for a Holden FJ that was nearby for $3,000. I rang the seller and then jumped in the car to look at it. Unfortunately even back then three grand only bought you a rustbucket FJ that is up on blocks. I ended up buying a 1962 EJ Holden i...

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Crikey it seems has a need for 'balance'. What else would explain the quality of (at least some of their) right leaning correspondents. Below the fold was today's effort by the redoubtable Alan Jones and John Howard fan Professor Flint. It is not very good. That a former diplo...

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Well no doubt this has been around the net for months, but this is the first I saw of it. Prediction markets, ready go go on the net - well pretend ones - with token bets. These guys could make a lot more money - and we'd have better markets - if you could bet real money. But...

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Some people think that Paul Krugman should get the Nobel Prize for his economics. I disagree. It's not that good - though a prize a year, often shared beteween the architects of various fields means that the field is likely to narrow down over time - they'll be scraping furthe...

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The Book Show picked up the theme of blogging today . I'm a complete fan of the Book Show - how they pump out 40 odd minutes of good content each day beats me. Ramona Koval is a good sort - good fun to listen to. Unfortunately, like so many MSM encounters with blogdom, it was...

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