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Monday Message Board
I’m travelling, so posting will be light to non-existent for a while yet. In the meantime, another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. As usual, civilised discussion and no coarse language. Lengthy side discussions to the sandpits, please.
Tornado strikes, vultures gather
Rescuers are still digging children out of a collapsed school, but warmist are already trying to turn…
Abbott rises, publishers weep
Tony Abbott has remade himself and rebuilt his shattered party, taking it to the brink of victory in September. But the publishing class,…
Kiwis save like Swan can’t
Luke Malpass of the New Zealand Initiative compares…
Mamamia, what a failure to disclose
How to disclose when you’re not disclosing: Jamila Rizvi @JamilaRizvi Editor at @Mamamia, columnist at @CosmopolitanAU, optimistic realist,…
2GB tonight
On with Steve Price from 8pm. Listen live here. Talkback: 131 873. Listen to all past shows…
The Imaginary Budget Emergency
The Opposition Leader’s reply to the Budget gave some hints about Coalition fiscal policy. Cuts, more cuts, and a few extravagances. Ben Eltham on the debt and deficit myths that held it all together
Labor stays, business goes
New Bureau of Statistics figures show only half the businesses which started in the first full financial year of the Rudd Government are still…
Coal Is Killing India's Poor
Big Coal wants you to believe that fossil fuels will lift India's poor out of poverty. Gaurav Jagdish, who recently boarded a coal ship in QLD, knows the poor are usually the last to benefit from coal
Uni Efficiency Cuts Are On Trend
Where will the Budget cuts to higher ed hit hardest? Not at the managerial level. Vice-chancellors have been waiting for another opportunity to make internal cuts, writes Raewyn Connell
No Advantage And No Courage
Foot people, boat people, plane people? The way asylum seekers arrive in Australia now determines how they're treated. It's an indictment of an entire political class, writes Michael Jones
We're Too Polite to be Racist
When did racism become a question of good manners? Mistaking racism for a lack of courtesy doesn't help anyone, writes NM News Therapist Zoe Krupka
What is Abbott up to?
Max Gillies Smith thought the Abbott budget reply a series of stumbles. These include the promise that peoples “fortnightly budgets will be under less pressure as electricity prices fall and gas prices fall and the carbon tax no longer cascades [...]
We must stand up for our rule of law
The rule of law - and respect for it - is what makes ours the kind of society which attracts refugees and offers safety:
From the streets of Muslim Sweden
Muslim immigration isn’t quite working out in Sweden. The latest example: …
Aren’t they, though?
Don’t defend. Attack: The Conservative Party board has rejected a call for an investigation into whether Tory co-chairman Lord Feldman
Cattle in national parks
Should government allow 25,000 cattle to starve or does it allow them to graze (until the next wet season) in protected nature reserves where they will certainly damage the natural environment? If this is an accurate way of posing the issues – I am unsure that the choices are as stark as this – there is [...]
BBC admits: a “standstill” in global warming
The BBC concedes what The Age still can’t:
Gary Johns: end the New Racism
I’ve written how the “stolen generations” myth - a product of the New Racism - is killing…
Why won’t the ABC admit its staff lean Left?
Why is the ABC so determined to deny that truth - that the vast majority of its journalists lean to the Left? Is it embarrassed…
