Club Troppo

APEC and election speculation is clearly dominating bloggy concerns, and people are starting to get a tad silly with it all. The latest hacking victim is Andrew Landeryou , who joins his ideological opponent Jeremy Sear in having had his site hacked and blog nicked. Love em or...

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I'm not a soccer fanatic. But it's a nice game. In my limited experience, Ronaldinho is the most exciting player I've seen. Someone described this to me over coffee today and it wasn't hard to find on YouTube. Enjoy. And just since I saw it, there are some nice ones in the sec...

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"[T]he [Reserve] bank doesn't lift rates two months in a row, never mind in an election year. Glenn Dyer, Crikey, 5th Sept 2007

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Just following up on yesterday's post I managed to secure AFL tickets to Saturday's final between Collingwood and the Swannies, or - as Tandberg called them in one cartoon featuring Ita Butrose as one of their main supporters - the Thidney Thwans. Displaying some of the proble...

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Yesterday I received an email advising that Black Inc.'s excellent magazine The Monthly has begun publishing selected articles online for free access. I bought a 12 month subscription for my dad as a Christmas present last year. After reading some of the free access articles l...

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When I was a kid I was a master at getting into the MCG - squeezing through gaps left between those revolving door exits and the walls, wandering in when no-one was looking. These days on the right side of the law it's not much easier. Each week that Collingwood play in Melbou...

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Two of the most fashionable ideas in social policy thinking are coming together -- conditional welfare and early childhood intervention. Together they'll create a new supernanny state that fights crime, prevents teenage pregnancy, lifts employment and leaps rigorous cost-benef...

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The latest national accounts suggest that over the March and June quarters of 2007 there has been a surge in market sector productivity growth (market output divided by hours worked in market sector). The ABS tells us this is the result of an increase in market sector output o...

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The AIRC website reassures readers that: An employee who believes he or she has been unfairly or unlawfully dismissed has 21 days from the dismissal date to lodge an unfair or unlawful dismissal application with the AIRC. There is an application lodgment fee of $55.70. However...

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Where The Engineers Are looks at engineering in the United States, India and China under globalisation and the role economics, commerce and education have in the development of engineers. The paper discovered that the US and India were pumping out about the same number of Engi...

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If was only a matter of time before politicians retreated even from the 'doorstop' and handed out audio and video feeds for the media's consumption. I think I predicted this on Troppo somewhere in the dim dark past, if so I can't find where I did. In fact it's a bit unfair to...

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Watching this interview on Thursday night, as Paul Lennon explained that his job is to grow the Tasmanian economy and attract big investors; that he had no choice but to bend the rules to get the pulp mill approved in time; that 'the Greens are a political party in Tasmania op...

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A day or so ago I put up this popst to ask Troppodillians to suggest a foreign aid charity I could get excited about. Well there are plenty of charities that are exciting - one of which I forgot to mention in the original post was the micro-credit operation Opportunity Interna...

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Well, I could bill this as the Andrew Johns druggie special edition, because Joey's turn at the Notting Hill Carnival has certainly made a few waves around Ozblogistan. As is often the case, Wicking managed to combine Johns' efforts with one of the stranger animal interest sto...

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Commenting meaningfully on a High Court decision in which the Justices are yet to explain their reasons presents a distinct challenge for legal bloggers: THE High Court has ruled that a federal law banning all prisoners from voting is unconstitutional, after an Aboriginal inma...

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This webpage surveys the various products on offer to rip (a groovy word meaning 'record' I guess) streaming video and audio into files like MP3 files. I'm not too interested in video, but occasionally want to convert a streaming audio into an MP3 file. So in the very likely e...

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Many years ago I used to donate quite a bit of the money I donate to charity to Community Aid Abroad. It seemed like a good idea to try to combine charity and aid with some attempt to address some of the political causes of poverty. Empowering poor communities seemed like a go...

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The American innovation on English Constitutionalism was that there is fundamental law - expressed in the constitution - that cannot be ignored by the executive and cannot be statutorily pasted over by the legislative. The Americans called them natural rights and entrenched th...

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