Comment - Manus Island Election Communication$ Plan

In the past 10 years, 964 asylum seekers have died at sea while trying to reach Australia by boat, according to a recent Australian Crime Commission report.

With this in mind, the only advantage I could see for asylum seekers from Rudd’s Manus Island Plan, is that it is so unattractive, it would actually deter them from making that dangerous journey.

Yet in the two and half weeks since Rudd’s announcement, 1765 asylum seekers have arrived in Australia by boat.

Damning Verdict on Stimulus - Adam Creighton

Adam Creighton for The Australian - 13/07/13 

 

IF the economy stumbles, then clearly it wasn't big enough; if it continues to grow, then obviously it worked. Proponents of so-called Keynesian fiscal stimulus, such as Kevin Rudd, enjoy a superficially unassailable argument.

Diplomacy of the Rudd resumption: insert foot in mouth, offend everyone, fail on policy - Ross Fitzgerald

Ross Fitzgerald for The Australian - 13/07/13

THE return of Kevin Rudd to the Labor leadership signals the return of a PM obsessed with the media and manipulating the daily message, coupled with manic work practices that alienate his colleagues and the public service.

The Facts About Fracking

No attributed author. The Australian 13/07/13

In Queensland, coal-seam gas supplies about 90 per cent of the state's natural gas and fuels about 15 per cent of the state's electricity generation.

Julia Gillard: Where did it all go wrong? - Katharine Murphy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/julia-gillard-where-go-wrong

Gang-rape shame could drag India into 21st century - Libby Purves

www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/gang-rape-shame-could-drag-india-into-21st-century/story-fnb64oi6-1226545829569

Our Political Bankruptcy Demands a Renewed Political Idealism - Phillip Blond

http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/08/13/3566932.htm

Rise and Fall of US Underclass - Greg Sheridan

Greg Sheridan for The Australian - 04/08/12

WAYNE Swan's lecture, inspired by the economics of Bruce Springsteen, had its share of solecisms, such as not acknowledging New Jersey's economic resurgence after the troubles of the 1970s.

Menzies' Forgotten People - Nick Cater

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/menzies-forgotten-people/story-e6frg6z6-1226362808246

Size Matters When it Comes to the the Public Sector - Judith Sloan

Judith Sloan for The Australian - 21/01/2012

ONE of the problems of organising a large conference or meeting is that decisions have to be made well ahead of time. In setting a theme, it is difficult to predict what will be the most important topic at the time the event actually takes place. 

Michael Buerk on the Durban Climate Summit

Transcript of part of a podcast by veteran BBC correspondent, Michael Buerk - 16/12/11
Source: http://www.thefifthcolumn.co.uk/ 

Climate Debate Daily

This website posts articles arguing both sides of the climate change debate.

http://climatedebatedaily.com/

Rudded: the knack of being all things to all people - David Burchell

David Burchell for The Austraian - 31/12/2011

ONE icy Canberra winter's morning some 18 months ago, in the sepulchral quiet of one of Parliament House's lonely stone courtyards, a bewildered-looking Kevin Rudd conducted one of the strangest press conferences ever seen. 

What Would Margaret Thatcher Do? - Charles Moore

"My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.” Thatcher in 1981

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203518404577096341880141300.html

Offences Against One's Self - Jeremy Bentham

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/bentham/index.html

Same sex marriage is not the political province of socialist parties - Cassandra Wilkinson

(Sets the record straight on the political parentage of the the right of individuals to love as they please. Reasoning though that a liberal's support for not restricting same sex relations should be effected through active support for same sex marriage, is quite a stretch)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/same-sex-marriage-is-not-the-political-province-of-socialist-parties/story-e6frgd0x-1226224353203

Lust, Caution - Greg Callaghan

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/lust-caution-as-addiction-to-online-pornography-grows/story-e6frg8h6-1226126673876

Apple Cult Really Makes Me Shudder - Hugo Rifkind

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/apple-cult-really-makes-me-shudder/story-e6frg6ux-1226123118856

The Archbishop of Canterbury's speech to the House of Lords following London Riots

http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2152/archbishop-speaks-in-house-of-lords

Back and forth, on legal and moral grounds - Neil James

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/back-and-forth-on-legal-and-moral-grounds/story-fn59niix-1226113610339?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAustralianOpinion+%28The+Australian+%7C+Opinion%29

On Obamaville's Main Street It's All Bumps On The Road To Recovery - Mark Steyn

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/on-obamavilles-main-street-its-all-bumps-on-the-road-to-recovery/story-e6frg6ux-1226077283006

Nation Building Works - David Brooks

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/opinion/31brooks.html?_r=1&ref=davidbrooks

Female Chauvinist Pigs - Ariel Levy (Introduction from her 2006 book)

http://www.ariellevy.net/books.php?article=2

Raunch Culture Drowns us all in a Sea of Sleaze - Angela Shanahan

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/raunch-culture-drowns-us-all-in-a-sea-of-sleaze/story-e6frg6zo-1225833112141

Stoic Philosophy and the Profession of Arms - Michael Evans.

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2010/1-2/stoic-philosophy-and-the-profession-of-arms