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Real Australians from the award-winning Sentence Management Unit at Wolston Correctional Centre Now that the issue of Haneef's incarceration has been resolved, attention has turned inevitably to how the issue will affect Australians' voting intentions. I was struck by this rem...

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This is the best op ed length informative article I've ever read. It's 713 words. It's by Freeman Dyson and every sentence is worth a book, every paragraph worth a sub-discipline. It explains how Darwinian evolution was (yes - 'was') a special period of the earth's history pre...

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Nicholas Gruen looks distinctly dubious about the tucker at this week's "grogblogging" function in Brisbane. 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad No intro, let's cut straight to the guts. This (late yet agai...

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Just print this page out and turn up at Borders before the 2nd of August and get 30% of any 'full priced' book. Or that's what they say. If you want to buy more than one book, print out the corresponding number of coupons and if they tell you it's one book only, make a separat...

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Many of the comments on my previous posting have been about the monetary effects of budgets. While not dismissing the significance of money supply, I prefer to look at inflation in real demand terms and hence I like to focus on the Budgets effects on aggregate demand pressures...

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On ABC Lateline yesterday evening (25/7/07), the Prime Minister sought to offload any blame for the ugly inflation figures in the June quarter (up 0.9% for the quarter and 2.7% over the year in underlying terms) by pointing out that his government (unlike State Governments) ha...

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This is Andrew Bartlett's speech in the Senate upon the second reading of the Migration Amendment (Detention Arrangements) 2005 bill. The amendment itself is littered with the appearance of oversight and consistent process but none of it is compellable and the process can be h...

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Once again we're late with today's edition of Missing Link, but we do have a good excuse! Due to work pressures, Jason Soon is going on an extended Missing Link hiatus, and we've had to scope out a replacement. Stepping into Jason's shoes will be Peter Black, a contender for O...

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I couldn't help noticing this Reuters story at Fairfax Digital: BERLIN - A mysterious blonde has set pulses racing in Germany after walking into a petrol station wearing nothing but a pair of golden stilettos and a thin gold bracelet. Unlike the oz MSM, one of the advantages o...

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You may talk o' bat and ball An say Warneys great an all, An' pay omage to The Don just like yer mean it; But about that funny thing On yer head ol Dunga Gin Did yer get it cleared by Customs when yer brung it? cause weve got standards ere yknow Were not yer alf-baked bloomin...

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the BBC website alerted me today to the linked paper by my ex - Free University colleague Richard Tol, who is still an environmental economist but has become somewhat famous since. The paper and the i nterview makes fascinating and sobering reading. Let me give you some highli...

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A reminder that there's a bit of a 'do' on tomorrow night in Brisbane. At Hotel Bravo, 455 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley at 8 pm. A couple of maps are below the fold. If you'd like to come mbahnisch (at) gmail (dot) com would appreciate an email. See you there!

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One of the the many things that has been preoccupying me lately (and not leaving time for blogging) is that Jen and I have decided to make it legal and get married. It's the second time for both of us, so we're aiming for a comfortable rather than glitzy event. The wedding is...

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Those crazy westralians. Telling us t'othersiders we would starve without them . Plains of our pastures boundless, Seas of our rainbow'd pearl, Destiny is your breezes Liberty's flag unfurl! That they supported the eastern car manufacturing with tariffs on coal and iron ore! T...

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That graph is from the 2001 census . One of the problems in Australian politics is that everything is viewed from the national level. From Imagining Australia : If our Indigenous people comprised one tenth rather than one fiftieth of the population there would be widespread ou...

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Not such a fat issue this time - on this anniversary of the 1944 bomb plot - which is just as well - you'd all be read out otherwise. Still, there's been lots of goodness on the intertubes, and I'll pop a few recommendations up front before hopping into Missing Link proper. Fi...

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Here's a repeat of some stuff I've written here at least a couple of times - on each occasion provoking the usual Pavlovian responses of rent seeking. Crikey rang me and asked me for a comment on the Ford closure which is reproduced below. In the wake of the downsizing of Ford...

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I've posted over the fold a draft of a speech I'm delivering at a seminar being held tomorrow on indigenous policy in the wake of the recent Howard-Brough intervention in the Northern Territory. In part it's a more reflective version of the angry post I wrote here at Troppo on...

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