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Now before you start screaming, and wondering what kind of drug is this stupid bastard on, let me take a moment to explain.

Yes, it’s true I have been mainlining schardenfreude and it’s heady stuff, the real deal, not that synthetic crap you’d score from some guy called Sir Rupert behind the dunnies at the Melbourne Club.

Happily, there are many more like me and it’s all due to the efforts of Tony Abbott.

You see without Tony Abbott, the Left in Australia would still be languishing somewhere in the 1990s.

WILLY: Don’t be so modest. You always started too low. Walk in with a big laugh. Don’t look worried. Start off with a couple of good stories to lighten things up. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it—because personality always wins the day.

Death of A Salesman, Arthur Miller

 

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From the AFR: UBS mining analyst Glyn Lawcock says…BHP, Rio, Fortescue Metals and Brazil’s Vale…want a “Goldilocks” price at which only they have the ­incentive to expand, new players cannot enter the market and their smaller rivals are locked in a desperate fight for survival. “The low cost incumbents at the bottom of the cost […]

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Sydney 2GB radio shock jock Alan Jones (born and raised in Oakey Queensland) on Brisbane radio station 4BC News Talk 19 January 2015:"Campbell Newman told me in my house that if he were to become premier, there would be no Acland stage three," Jones said on air."Campbell Newman lied to me. I have no reason to believe anything he's promising Queenslanders today."…"It's called prostitution ...

Why would the Indians be playing cricket in the first place? Presumably, because they can be criticized by an Australian cricketer and told to speak English.

An apparently trivial incident in the apparent scheme of things. I suppose that cricketers represent Australia because they are good players, not cultural ambassadors. Perhaps they are truer representatives than they imagine.

Last week I wrote that ISIS would attack Saudi Arabia this spring.  This week the opportunity to attack with a high likelihood of success arrived: The King of Saudi Arabia died today.  Unfortunately for the Saudi's, King Abdulla died before his Kingdom's gambit to gain control of ISIS paid off.   Here's what they were trying to do but failed to pull off in time:  

Morayfield is a marginal LNP seat to the north of Brisbane, covering Morayfield and parts of Caboolture, Burpengary and Narangba.

Labor’s Mark Ryan held Morayfield for one term from 2009 to 2012, when he lost to the LNP’s Darren Grimwade with a 14.7% swing. Grimwade holds the seat by a 5.6% margin.

The deal will provide Dyesol with provide 20-year plus sealing for its planned perovskite-based commercial PV products.

The US solar market has surged in the past year, and forecasts suggest it will continue growth in next two years.

Here’s the Westpac CPI forecast for next week: • Westpac is forecasting a meek 0.1%qtr rise (1.6%yr) in the headline CPI in the December quarter. • December is historically a seasonally soft quarter due, in part, to the further discounting of health costs, and pharmaceutical in particular, as more households cross the PBS threshold for […]

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Lying, Galaxy has chosen a hundred ‘undecided voters’ for the ‘People’s Forum’ tonight.  Since there is no-one undecided about Campbell Newman, they will just have to settle for a hundred who like him.

Battery price falls and equity issues around grid defection will be among the main issues to impact the market this year.

Australia has again courted controversy on the international stage, sending an embassy staffer instead of its energy minister to the annual congress of the International Renewable Energy Agency. Shades of Warsaw and its decision to snub the climate change conference - another international policy arena it seeks to avoid.