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ALP News

Rescuing food for people in need

Jenny Macklin - Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs - Media Statement - 22-01-2010

New consultation on GST measures

Nick Sherry - Assistant Treasurer - Media Statement - 22-01-2010

Power sought over creeping acquisitions

Craig Emerson - Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy;, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation;, Minister for Competition Policy and...

Historic tax treaty with Chile

Nick Sherry - Assistant Treasurer - Media Statement - 22-01-2010

Quick action to stop strep throat

Kevin Rudd - Prime Minister Nicola Roxon - Minister for Health and Ageing Warren Snowdon - Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services...

EduPatents Feed Harvester

Importing content from Sakai 2 into Sakai 3 (take 1) « Lance's ...

Now that the Blackboard/D2L patent fight is over, I am taking down the edupatent feed harvester, which never worked particularly well anyway. Mostly...

End of an Era

Now that the Blackboard/D2L patent fight is over, I am taking down the edupatent feed harvester, which never worked particularly well anyway. Mostly...

Blackboard v. Desire2Learn Is Over

... Blackboard Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Desire2Learn in Canada. © michael.feldstein for e-Literate, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post...

Apple Countersues Nokia, Accuses Them Of “Patent Hold-Up”

If they owned the key innovations to wifi (which I believe are mostly Australian . edu patents in nature) then I would say they...

Sneak Preview: Sakai 2+3 Hybrid pre-alpha « Lance's Thought Stream

This video gives you the first glimpse of the hybrid integration between Sakai 2 and Sakai 3. This is a very early look and is...

Green Left Weekly issue #822

222 years of Aboriginal struggle

“Two hundred years [ago], we had all the country out there, we had freedom to move, freedom of access to all our sites”, Aboriginal leader...

Indian student attacks: Denial of racism will lead to more attacks

Deputy PM Julia Gillard’s different reactions to two media controversies say a lot about the denial of racism in Australia. After performers on the television...

An urgent appeal from the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund

Thousands may have been killed and tens of thousands left homeless. This is a moment in which your solidarity is of critical importance.

Haiti needs emergency relief, not military intervention — add your name to open letter

The “open letter” published below has been initiated by the Canada Haiti Action Network. CHAN is calling for individuals and organisations to add their names...

Haiti: A natural and human-made catastrophe combine

Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city...

ACTU - Latest News

Liberal plan to cut industry support would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs

A Coalition proposal to cut industry support to manufacturing would put the jobs of hundreds of thousands of hard-working Australians at risk and undermine the...

Investment in skills and infrastructure crucial to boost Australian productivity

Major investment in skills, training and infrastructure will be needed if Australia is to respond to the challenge of lifting productivity growth, say unions. Welcoming the...

Welcome news on jobs, but underlying problems mean stimulus must continue

A drop in Australia’s unemployment rate for the third month in a row is encouraging and may indicate that the peak has passed, but December’s...

Growing number of employers are recognising workers’ rights under new IR system

Rio Tinto’s decision to negotiate a new collective agreement for train drivers in the Pilbara iron ore region is a welcome sign that the Rudd...

Tougher action is still needed to rein in executive salaries and bonuses

Australia enters a new decade at risk of repeating the mistakes of the past few years unless tighter restrictions are imposed on executive pay packets,...


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Guy Beres

A prince visits a lazy, uncertain nation

He came. He saw. He kissed some kids and made some clucky old dames blush. He went home. Apart from the predictable lashings of sound and...

Public consultation: computer game classification

The Attorney-General’s Department is currently undertaking a public consultation process in relation to the lack of an R18+ classification rating for computer games. A discussion...

South Island, New Zealand

Lupins aplenty Lake Tekapo, sunset Mount Cook (Aoraki), New Zealand’s highest peak Lake Wanaka, New Years Day Leaving Milford Sound for Te Anau, a journey Ian McKellen has probably...

John Quiggin

An interesting reversal

Janet Albrechtsen, who previously endorsed Lord Monckton’s conspiracy theory that the draft Copenhagen agreement were designed to bring in a world government has backed away,...

Weekend reflections

It’s time again for weekend reflections, which makes space for longer than usual comments on any topic. Civilised discussion and no coarse language please.

Obama and the Banks

Given the Republicans’ success in painting the Democrats as the party of Wall Street, it was inevitable that the Obama Administration would announce some measures...

Public Opinion

funny that

Funny how Australia has gone very quiet on the Iraq war whilst the British are conducting an inquiry into it. The Chilcot inquiry embraces the...

America in decline?

If Barack Obama was elected to regenerate America --a politics of rebirth that has a strong Protestant salvation theme in it---then does the Republican Senate...

community cabinet in Adelaide: water

Federal Cabinet was in Adelaide last night at the Norwood Morialta High School in the marginal, Liberal-held seat of Sturt. This is the third community...

Larvatus Prodeo

Turnbull on Prince William, Australian identity and the Republic

Intriguing to see that Malcolm Turnbull is about the only Australian political figure who’s put Prince William’s visit into some sort of political context. Writing...

Haiti: Social and historical contexts

When disaster strikes, there’s always a reflex to suggest that politics is a dirty word, that humanitarian considerations trump any sort of consideration of the...

Tony Abbott: Dogwhistling towards destiny?

Tony Abbott gave an Australia day address in Melbourne last night (a few days early, but what the hey…). The Shorter Tone? Immigrants should adopt...


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SMH News Blog

Rudd's Bad for Good

Does it amount to just buying votes?

Malcolm's head case

Before leaving his "surgery" Dr Brendan Nelson has gifted the nation with his last professional diagnostic opinion on Malcolm Turnbull.

Who are we?

The Trade Minister Simon Crean is set to challenge the nation's marketing agencies to come up with a slogan, image or logo that best exemplifies...

INKCINCT Cartoons

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An Onymous Lefty

An outdated blogroll makes baby Jesus cry

I know it takes a while to open up the site admin and update the link to someone on your blogroll (say to change anonymouslefty.blogspot.com...

Please update your bookmarks/blogroll to anonymouslefty.wordpress.com

Yup, the move to anonymouslefty.wordpress.com has gone better than anyone could've hoped or expected.It's definitely a much better place to hang around than here. (Looks...

WordPress wins An Onymous Lefty

Introducing:anonymouslefty.wordpress.comYou know how everyone's been grumbling about the many flaws of Disqus? How it's slow, and the comment box is - ludicrously - at the...

Michael Moore - This Just In

Afghan villagers say civilians killed in raid

KABUL (AP) — NATO says four insurgents have been killed during a raid in Afghanistan, but villagers claim they were civilians.Protesters in the Qara Bagh district...

Doctors study link between combat and brain disease

The California neuropathologist who discovered damage in the brains of former professional football players has found similar damage in the brain of a deceased Vietnam...

Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds

• Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites• Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in reportMore than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high...

Barack Obama to hold 50 Guantánamo detainees without trial

As the anniversary of the deadline set by President Barack Obama to close the controversial prison passed, a task force led ...

Obama's unwanted anniversary: Gitmo

This is an anniversary President Obama would just as soon ignore.A year ago today, the new president signed an executive order to "provide the process whereby Guantanamo...

Crikey » Politics

Tales from a hospital in Haiti

In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, limbs are amputated and babies born in open air hospitals to avoid the aftershocks. Isabelle Jeanson of Médecins...

Victorian ALP at war over Kosky legacy

In the long lazy days of summer, you can always count on the Victorian ALP to provide some drama for political watchers as Canberra goes...

Abbott’s populist federalism pitch no silver bullet

Tony Abbott’s plan for Australia’s federal system amounts to a populist pitch, writes Paul Kildea. His ideas are bold and bracing, but they are no...

Clinton declares cyber war on China

Among buckets of saccharine rhetoric linking freedom and democracy, Hillary Clinton’s speech on internet freedom is a declaration of cyber war against China. ...

North polls, south polls: how the world votes in 2010

Not all countries shut down for January. Australia's politicians may be still on holiday, but the world's 2010 elections are already under way. ...