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• Amateurish Farce: Peter Slipper Joins -- And Leaves -- Palmer Party

  
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  Reblogged from The Red And The Blue: CLIVE PALMERS United Australia Party was today shown up as the amateurish, unprofessional outfit it is, with news that parliamentary grub Peter Slipper had applied to join, was accepted, and then kicked out -- in five hours. The episode destroys any credibility the UAP might ...
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• WE MADE IT: 400(PPM)!!!

  
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  That is all of us. Everyone on earth. As in any common activity there a some slackers, some non-makers. The Chinese and Indians lately have picked up, assisted with imports of Australian coal. So, last Thursdays they recorded 400 parts per million of Carbon Dioxide gas in the atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory ...
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• SOCIO-ECONOMIC PARADIGMS

  
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  Joe Hockey, I imagine is pleading for a new paradigm that will make his budgeting more relevant to the world as it now has become. We can listen to two people, one who addresses his current paradigm, neoliberalism and the other who will address, “What it means to be human”. Firstly Professor Colin Crouch ...
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• Albo asks for my help

  
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  Regular readers will recall that I am on the hotline from our government members and they are always seeking my support for the important changes that they wish to make for the betterment of our country: Dear Iain, Labor people have always been champions for local community services. Roads and footpaths. Parks ...
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• The Truth About Asylum Seekers & Australia

  
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  Over the last year I’ve gradually compiled interesting stats regarding Australia’s asylum seeker intake. I thought I’d share them for easy reference the next time you have a xenophobic friend or family member ranting on Facebook. First and foremost – they are not “illegal boat people”. They are “asylum ...
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• The illusory promise of bacon

  
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  Another day and another Labor promise collapses into the ever widening maw of economic reality: click for source Perhaps we need to add a very simple perception filter for anything that Labor promises when they are standing at the pork barrel, namely unless the bacon is being handed out immediately don’t buy ...
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• FEEDING THE CHOOKS

  
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  These people are not even in the proper media. They are not from the touchstones tabloid images created by Rupert.The Institute of Public Affairs doubtless is all indignity. So here goes, The Headless Chooks: Don’t worry about the violent imagery – it cannot affect you. “Fired up and ready to go”, right. ...
  2 weeks ago

• A poorer world

  
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  A poorer world by Anthony R0bins In 1998 I spent 3 days on a boat, diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Truly amazing – a memory that will stay with me always. It was clear even then that the Reef was threatened by climate change and polltion. Now it is a disaster: UN warns Great Barrier Reef in danger The ...
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• Bernie Brookes: Forget taxes, you need more staff

  
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  This article originally appeared  online at The Age . Bernie Brookes, Myer CEO. Lucky thats not a wheelchair. Bernie Brookes, chief executive of Myer, has called it: DisabilityCare will divert millions from Myer’s coffers, because we’ll be coughing up extra at tax time for the levy to fund ...
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• ABC: A CASE FOR PRIVATISATION

  
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  Political leaders are not required to state there intentions or their beliefs, but more than willing to accept mandates. This is especially true of the the current leaders in Australia, and it seems more than likely that Tony Abbott will become prime minister with a hidden agenda, including it is supposed the ...
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• An Aussie Dollar Crash

  
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  In today’s episode of As the World Burns , we’ll look at why certain central bankers and politicians have the brains of un-evolved reptiles. It’s also time to be honest and direct about what Australia needs right now: a dollar crash . We’ll show you why, and what to do ahead of time. Australia, has ...
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• Australian Politics update: TEDx, Guardian, betting markets

  
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  I’m in Sydney this week prepping for TEDxSydney this weekend , which should be a blast. I’m talking about Politics and the Data Revolution, which will take in a review of some of the ways that the Data Revolution is reshaping political science research — and in particular — making that research incredibly ...
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• Clive Palmer and the plutocratic impulse

  
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  Ross Perot ran a one-man party, based on his software fortune, in 1992, thus ensuring the election of Bill Clinton. More recently, billionaire financial services broadcaster, Michael Bloomberg simply bought the mayoralty of New York with a massive outspend of his opponent, while Vegas property developer and ...
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• PLANNING FOR AFTER THE ELECTION?

  
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  The Opposition has  ” a plan ” that amounts to more of the same but more focused, competitive and stronger that keeps the environment in the rear view mirror. Tony Abbott presented his plan to Liberal Party candidates: Mungo MacCallum writing at the Drum sees problems for Tony Abbott with his key ...
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• Palmer’s political party – right idea, wrong person

  
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  (By Ray Dixon) Billionaire mining tycoon Clive Palmer has a habit of making grandiose announcements that keep us entertained. His latest being that he will stand for a Queensland federal seat in September’s election, declaring he wants to be elected Prime Minister. It matters nought, of course, to Clive ...
  3 weeks ago

• Not Leigh Sales job to save Labor

  
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  Reblogged from Drag0nistas Blog: I’ve written before that Twitter has become an unexpected school of politics, providing a unique forum for people with less knowledge of our civic processes to learn from those with more. When those discussions are taking place, Twitter is vibrant and ...
  3 weeks ago

• USYDs Spence backs Dalai Lama visit

  
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  This evening Sydney Universitys embattled vice-chancellor sent out this email to students: Dear students, As you will know, the proposed visit of the Dalai Lama to the University in June has been the subject of sensationalist and misleading media reports. Throughout discussions regarding the potential visit of His ...
  4 weeks ago

• Latte laughs

  
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  I have long been of the habit of referring to the inner city lefty trendies as “latte sippers”  its a somewhat sneering description that suggests that such individuals are dilettantes, posers and, well silvertail socialists, who actually despise the ordinary people their likes and aspirations and who have the ...
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• THE REPUBLIC: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT

  
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  It is strange to reflect now that the decisive issue, a major turning point, in the the republican debate during the Referendum was whether the head of state was to be appointed by the parliament or the people. If the Liberals win the next election on the balance of probability, the Leader of the Opposition and the ...
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• Labor, a love that dare not speak its name, thanks to Julia Gillard.

  
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  There is something rather Zombie like about the Gillard government as we traverse the days between now and September 14. They keep trying to pretend that they are still alive but we can all see the green tinge of putrefaction in their collective pallor and we can see the increasingly stilted gait as they go through ...
  4 weeks ago

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