Liam Getreu

A reason to vote Labor: In Tasmania, trying not to upset too many old people, Kevin Rudd said that under a Federal Labor government, he would allow “volunteer organisations could receive petrol vouchers, for example 120 vouchers of $25 each, and the organisation could distribute these to their volunteers to help offset petrol costs.” Pretty [...]

The worst kept secret in Australia is out: John Howard saw the Governor-General this morning, and we’ll be voting on the 24th of November. The next six weeks should be interesting, Howard seemed a bit withdrawn at his press conference to announce the election calling it his day of “accountability”. It almost sounded a bit [...]

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. How surprising. How disappointing. I guess it just proves that if you say something enough times, and enough people jump on the bandwagon it becomes true. How can you put climate change in the same breath as great people and ideas a Microcredit, Nelson Mandela, and Médecins Sans [...]

This is why all the global warming stuff scares me — proponents seemingly claiming that everything in the future depends on what happens with climate change.
Labor’s environment spokesman, Peter Garrett, yesterday described climate change as a “threat multiplier” that can further destabilise already unstable countries. [#]
Doesn’t that sound a little crazy? One problem will trigger [...]

The Sunday Age today had a big story about retail outlets flogging finance products to unsuspecting, probably financially insecure individuals. It all starts by luring customers into the store and offering them interest-free repayments, no repayments, no deposit; you know, all those loud and happy ads you see on TV for Harvey Norman and whatnot.
While [...]

An amusing error acknowledged by the New York Times a couple of days ago:
An earlier version of this article misstated the location of a 2005 sexual encounter between Stephon Marbury of the Knicks and a team intern. Mr. Marbury testified that it took place in his truck, not in the trunk of his car.
The Grey [...]