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Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
WHAT A SURPRISE?
Sometimes what is euphemistically called “spin” does not work. In truth, in such cases the spin may be better...
2 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian..., South Asia
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
“POSIWID”
Let us suppose, as historian in their professional capacity do, that events have context. Expressed slightly differently this...
3 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian..., Peace, Terrorism...
 
Neil H
Neil H posted a blog entry
India and Australia, racist attacks or moral panic?
The paper ran a cartoon depicting an Australian policeman wearing a pointed white hood associated with the US racist group the...
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
PLANTING TREES
Who knows how the extraordinary levels of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere can be lowered, but it seems that planting...
22 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian..., Environment
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
CLIMATE POLITICS
Tony Abbott assumed today the leadership of the Liberal Party and a position of national leadership on the basis on climate...
38 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian..., Environment
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
CITY AND STATE
There must be a community here somewhere, but I have not found it.There are plenty of human beings. In some cases we do...
39 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian...
 
lessca
lessca posted a blog entry
Libs Playing Hockey With Turnbull
The Australian Liberal Party are rapidly going into melt down – a fairly typical scenario in Australian politics after...
40 days ago My Radical Blogs | Topics: Politics, Australian...
 
lessca
lessca posted a blog entry
Australian Politicians Looking Like Twits – Twitter And Facebook Used For Decision Making
It’s a sad day in politics when politicians start using Twitter and Facebook to help them make decisions. That is the...
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
LIBERAL MELTDOWN
In a day of historical importance in the history of Australian Party political history, prominent members of the Federal...
43 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian...
 
typingisnotactivism
typingisnotactivism posted a blog entry
Australian Senate Chokes on Carbon Bill
Senator Stephen ‘Peaked in Pre-School’ Fielding truly is the pubic hair stuck in the throat of Australian democracy....
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
CLIMATE COOKS, OPPOSITION MELTS, POLLUTERS PROFIT
Fun and games all round it seems.The contention is now held that climate scientists have cooked the books, even as the...
45 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian..., Natural...
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
CLIMATE CRISIS POLITICS
John Quiggin was somewhat irritated, even angry, with the climate “delusionists” (as I am) and so invoked a violent...
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
PROCESSING PROBLEMS
The Howard Government legacy on refugee policy lives on.For reasons that are not clear, the Rudd Government has allowed...
72 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian...
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
REFLECTIONS ON NEWSPAPERS AND SOCIAL TECHNOGLIES
To be honest, I have been having my problems with those who oppose the recommendations of the Human Rights Consultative...
91 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian...
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
HUMAN RIGHTS CHARTER
Now I am an “elitist”. Bloody hell! I have been called many things, mostly with a contrary meaning.The headline...
92 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian..., Human Rights
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
LIVING IN HISTORY?
I know our forebears happened upon these Antipodean shores in chains, as economic refugees or economic opportunists who saw and...
96 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian..., Philosophy, Social...
 
Duckpond
Duckpond posted a blog entry
THE ENEMY WITHIN
That bushfires are often lit by arsonists is a problem that has not been proactively addressed. The deterrent effect of...
102 days ago Duckpond | Topics: Australian...
 
Crabbit
Crabbit posted a blog entry
An uncouth boor for a prime minister
News.com.au - KEVIN Rudd has launched another expletive-laden tirade -- this time directed at Labor's factional bosses,...
 
Geoff
Geoff posted a blog entry
Fighting for the right to discriminate
As the law currently stands in Victoria, there is an exemption in the equal opportunity act to allow faith-based institutions...
 
Geoff
Geoff posted a blog entry
My new favourite Steve Fielding quote
Heard this on the radio yesterday at lunch. Found it pretty funny. Thought I should share.STEVE FIELDING: Look I think to get...