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Global Guerrillas
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 01:39
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How will "civilized nations" deal with countries that use banned (nukes, chemical, bio..)? Given the trends underway, we're likely to see less of a conventional response than in the past. Not only is a conventional response potentially catastrophic -- as we saw when the Bush administration trumped up evidence of WMDs in Iraq and invaded the country in response -- it's not that effective. |
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 00:20
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North Coast Voices
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 00:18
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The Sydney Morning Herald 31 August 2013:
A Liberal Party candidate proposed a radical new policing system in which criminal suspects would be injected with satellite-trackable microchips shot from a ''high powered sniper rifle''.
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North Coast Voices
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 00:16
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North Coast Voices
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 00:15
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Letter to the editor The Northern Star 27 August 2013:
Can't go both ways
Can the Nationals be allowed out on their own? It is reported that, in a letter to Mr Albanese in late June this year, Mr Duncan Gay, NSW Minister for Roads and things, stated: "...NSW has received nearly $740million more than requested from the Federal Government..." for the Pacific Hwy upgrade. |
North Coast Voices
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 00:14
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Brisbane Times 1 September 2013:
A volunteer for the Liberal National Party candidate aiming to unseat former treasurer Wayne Swan was convicted and jailed in the United Kingdom for making hoax terrorist threats.
Matthew Carney, 28, has been an active volunteer in LNP candidate Rob McGarvie's campaign in the northern Brisbane electorate of Lilley.
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Grog's Gamut
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 21:21
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Blogging is like going to the gym. When you do it everyday it is easy to do it the next day. You get into a rhythm. But if you stop for a few days, suddenly getting back to it feels like a massive effort. And so I turn back over the day’s events and I wonder if I really took in much. I was working/writing for most of the day and I had the TV on the background, but it was a bit of an odd day in that I didn’t feel much need to keep my ear’s pricked in case anything interesting was said. |
Catallaxy Files
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 21:00
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you said it...
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 20:32
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Mark the Ballot
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 19:54
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Essential has released its latest poll data (recasting the four previous rolling fortnights as weekly data). While the pathway differs a little, the endpoint is in the middle of the pack. |
Café Whispers
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 19:25
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I’ve raised the white flag. Yes, there are still a few days to go and stranger things have happened but I’ve resigned myself to the horrible thought that Tony Abbott will be standing tall after Saturday night. |
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Café Whispers
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 19:25
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I’ve raised the white flag. Yes, there are still a few days to go and stranger things have happened but I’ve resigned myself to the horrible thought that Tony Abbott will be standing tall after Saturday night. |
Café Whispers
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 19:25
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I’ve raised the white flag. Yes, there are still a few days to go and stranger things have happened but I’ve resigned myself to the horrible thought that Tony Abbott will be standing tall after Saturday night. |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 19:24
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Why was there no Nielsen this morning, this pre-election Monday, for the first time in world history? Clearly it showed Labor on 50 or 51, and was therefore suppressed. |
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Monday, September 2, 2013 - 19:21
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 18:52
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Can somebody punch me up the Essential Poll, I can’t find it. Allegedly disastrous, it may I think show the intrusion of Cyclone Palmer and his preferences, half a million of them. If they go obediently to the LNP the result will be as it is, with Labor on 48. If, however, one in four of them drift to Labor, and they will have come from Labor (where else?) we will be back on 49, and competitive. And only a million and a half Undecided votes, out of 2.7, from victory. |
AusOpinion
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 17:13
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So, Saturday night promises to be (as per normal) a virtual cascade of numbers, graphs, diagrams, maps, and interviews with people you’ve probably never heard of. The purpose of this post to be a handy little primer – which seats are you likely to hear about, who are the players, why is it interesting, and what’s probably going to happen. Bookmark it to impress your spouse/parents/drunk friends with how much you know about the electorates everyone will be talking about. Corangamite Where is it? South-West of Melbourne in Victoria, including parts of Geelong |
The Melbourne Urbanist
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 16:43
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you said it...
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 14:38
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With sitting Labor member Kirsten Livermore retiring at the 2013 election, Capricornia will be an interesting contest, especially since the Rise Up Ratbags are standing a non-local nutter. Perhaps Paul Lewis thinks he can hide from the United Nations by staying on the Gold Coast , while presumably wearing a tin foil helmet.
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North Coast Voices
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 13:52
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The Guardian 1 September 2013:
Open warfare has broken out between the Liberal and the National parties with New South Wales National senator Fiona Nash joining her party leader, Warren Truss, in attacking the Liberal shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, for being “disconnected” from regional Australia.
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Andrew Leigh
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 13:03
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Below is a list of the polling places in the Fraser electorate, courtesy of the AEC website (which has volumes of useful information, if only you know where to find it). Election day polling places in the electorate of Fraser, ACT, 2013 Federal Election Opening times AINSLIE AINSLIE |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 12:54
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If Morgan is right, the current count, two party preferred, is this. Labor: 5,184,000. Coalition: 5,616,000. Undecided: 2,700,000. This was before the Labor Launch. If Labor get 1,590,000 of the Undecided, they win. If they get 50,000 of the Liberals who ‘might change their vote’, they win big. If 50,000 more of them, and the Undecided, change their minds, it is a Labor avalanche. It is hard to maintain one’s cheeriness, however, with polls, day after day, crushing good policies under mere assertion, with no reason to it. |
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 12:14
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As conflict in North Africa and the Middle East continues, Europe is experiencing an influx of refugees - many from Syria. Charles McPhedran on how the European Union has responded |
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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 11:40
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With a US-led attack on Syria looming, the international community's key priority must be to protect civilians, writes Amnesty International's crisis response co-ordinator Michael Hayworth |
Catallaxy Files
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 11:29
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Every few years, popular opinion flings us into the embrace of another economic theory. In 1971 we were all apparently Keynesians, and again in 2008 we were re-born as Stiglitzians. In more prosperous times we love Friedman and when totalitarianism rears its ugly head we heed Hayek, while growth nay-sayers warn about hyper-consumption and the limits of progress. With their contradictory recommendations for our economic wellbeing, could it be that economics is the cause of all our woes? |
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AusOpinion
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 11:15
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Looking at the ALP’s campaign over the last four weeks you could easily get the impression that the Coalition is coming into this election without any laid out agenda. Just last week the ALP went on attack about an apparent $10billion hole in the Coalition’s costings, and it seems like this week all focus will once again be on costings after the Coalition announced it would have it will have them all out by Thursday. |
Andrew Leigh
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 10:40
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I joined ABC666′s outside broadcast from Urban Roast cafe in Belconnen at 7.10am this morning, and spoke with Ross Solly about the campaign trail, the risks Coalition cuts pose to public and private sector jobs in Canberra, and what the parties’ policies say about their core values. Here’s a podcast. |
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Inside Story
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 10:25
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Too little, too late? A satellite image of the Great Barrier Reef.
NASA LABOR and the Coalition are promising an extra $200 million to tackle the agricultural pollution threatening the Great Barrier Reef. But unless they direct the money to the most effective actions to help the reef it could all be too little, too late. |
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire
Monday, September 2, 2013 - 10:24
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Most voters don't realise that public servants spend as much time killing off politicians' bad ideas as implementing their good ones. At election time there's no such oversight, writes Ian McAuley |
