Former State Secretary, now Senator Elect Mark Arbib has a frank, Op-Ed in the Oz today about Nelson’s fuel excise stunt. It’s politically sharp as well as taking a big picture policy perspective:
Interestingly, this populism reflects an international trend in the way conservative political parties have raised the white flag on sound economic management.
Mr Nelson has […]
There are altogether too many progressives with warm and fuzzy feelings toward John McCain for my liking; for a man who is anti-gay rights, anti-choice, and pro-war he get much too easy a ride from the left. Even worse, these rose coloured glasses are leading some people to believe that McCain is actually going to […]
I blogged a while back about Boris Johnson’s promise to introduce public, online mapping of crime data to London.
From the Tories’ Policy Document provided:
As our new regime spreads more crime information into the public arena, we expect people will want to create their own crime maps on the web of their own neighbourhood. That will […]
I try to avoid flogging dead horses as much as possible (Brendan Nelson excepted of course), but Scott McClellan’s new book is more than a little amusing.
As The Economist summarises:
Mr McClellan admits that many of the things he said at his press briefings turned out to be “badly misguided”. He says that matters of state […]
There was an interesting post at TechPresident earlier this week discussing a recent article in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology advocating a useful way of thinking about how successful Open Source Government. As TechPresident describes it, the paper argues that policy makers who want to ‘make government more useful, more accountable, and more […]
I’ve blogged in the past about the unique role that the Blogosphere plays in Malaysian politics in the context of the nation’s voluntarily muzzled MSM.
On the back of the role the medium played in the last Malaysian election, the Deputy Prime Minister has now recognised the influence of the blogosphere in the Malaysian media ecology:
Najib […]
I’m a bit disappointed to be on the other side of the world for the inaugural Politics and Technology Forum (sponsored by Microsoft) – there’s the potential for an interesting discussion here.
That being said, I thought there were a few odd things about the forum.
Matt Bai isn’t a bad key-note speaker, though as the guys […]
The blogosphere has had a look at the evidence for the Government’s decision to introduce Fuel Watch and has given it a tick:
Peter Martin looks at the econometric modelling undertaken by the ACCC and concludes:
The Cabinet probably made the right decision in deciding to adopt FuelWatch in the face of what we now know was […]
I enjoyed Greg Sheridan’s article on the Indonesian Finance Minister, Sri Mulyani Indrawati in The Oz today. It was a neat reminder of how far Indonesia has come and how close our relationship with our neighbours has become in practice.
Indonesia these days is doing a bit better than we commonly realise in Australia. Economic growth […]
Brendan Nelson is at it again:
“The Prime Minister has misled the Australian people,” the Opposition Leader said.
“He has falsely led Australians to believe, as he ran around Australia as a cross between Crusader Rabbit and some South Park character … that he would relieve the pressure on Australian families.”
What does this even mean? How many […]