Friday 5 February 2010
K-K-Keneally, what are you doing?
Now let me get this straight.
Kristina Kerscher Keneally becomes Premier of NSW and takes over the Twitter account of the abruptly ousted Nathan Rees.
In swift order she deletes all his tweets and begins what has to be a very desultory approach to digital communication using this account.
Two months later she decides to combine PremierofNSW with another languishing account under her own name, thereby completing the final act in extinguishing specific ownership by the premier and asserting personal control over the new KKeneally account so that the next NSW premier cannot do unto her what she did unto....
Go it right did I?
However, having abandoned the name PremierofNSW, K-K-Keneally put her foot in it and now a parody site is up and running under that title.
This parody site is probably more prolific than the artificial Keneally herself.
Thursday 4 February 2010
House of Representatives 4 February 2010: Turnbull rises to his feet today in latest CPRS debate
House of Representatives program for 4 Februrary 2010 here.
The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme being introduced for a third time is expected to take up part of the morning and all of the afternoon sitting.
Federal election campaign information 2010: Did Australia spend too much averting the worst of the Global Financial Crisis?
Compared to many other OECD countries Australia did rather well and appears to have been the first to bounce back and be considered economically stable again.
Leading the World Bank managing director Juan Jose Daboub to say that Australia can be a model for developing nations struggling to recover from the global financial crisis.
Conclusion? On balance the Rudd Government (whether by good luck or good management) successfully steered the country through a global crisis.
A skewed look at the pissant battle between two dodgy climate change policies
Wednesday 3 February 2010
South Australia backs down on Internet censorship during state election campaigns
AdelaideNow... had great fun publishing this after the Internet went wild.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Michael Atkinson has made a "humiliating" backdown and announced he will retrospectively repeal his law censoring internet comment on the state election.
After a furious reaction on AdelaideNow to The Advertiser's exclusive report on the new laws, Mr Atkinson at 10pm released this statement: "From the feedback we've received through AdelaideNow, the blogging generation believes that the law supported by all MPs and all political parties is unduly restrictive. I have listened.
"I will immediately after the election move to repeal the law retrospectively."
Mr Atkinson said the law would not be enforced for comments posted on AdelaideNow during the upcoming election campaign, even though it was technically applicable.
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Is this the view from your Northern Beaches unit? Mapping predicted seal level rise (6)
Is this the view from your brand new Northern Beaches unit?
Is your considerable financial investment safe?
This posts displays a current photograph and Google Earth mapping showing the effects of a 1 metre sea level rise on a residential area of the New South Wales coast, which would see the beach eroded and sea water possibly reaching some of the residential back boundaries during storm surges.The 2009 Federal Government report Climate Change Risks to Australia's Coasts contains a 'worst case' scenario involving a 1.1 metre sea level rise along the NSW coast sometime within the next 90 years.
Apology - due to a clumsy cut and past the wrong information initially appeared below the images. It has now been corrected.