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#Syria roundtable 27 Aug 2013 | 05:09 am
A Syrian man who lives in Beirut, holds up a placard during a vigil in front the UN headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP / Hussein Malla via CTV News) Dedicated thread for d...
Soil carbon and direct (in)action 25 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Last week on the 7.30 Report we were treated to a debate between Mark Butler, the climate change minister and his Opposition counterpart, Greg Hunt, that just did not work. Leigh Sales tried a hard-ed...
Lazy Sunday 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what else did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
A disaster worse than Abbott as PM 24 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
If Abbott becomes PM on 7 September, chances are that the sun will rise again on the 8th, as it has since earth took its place in the solar system. That same sun, however, can do serious damage to our...
Weekly Election 2013 thread 24 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
In order to keep the Saturday Salon open thread as a 2013 Federal election-free zone, here’s a (belated) separate news-cycle week-ending roundtable where you can talk about the politics of the upcomin...
Saturday Salon 23 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss almost anything* you like. * Weekly Reminder: some comments are likely to be far more welcome as part of existing discussions e.g. there...
Youth vote with their feet 22 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
Laura Tingle in the AFR writes of youth apathy threatening Labor hopes. Only 3641 extra voters aged 18 or 19 have enrolled to vote in the September 7 election and only 21,787 aged 20 to 24. The Austr...
Checking the facts and no fibs 20 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
The first purpose of this post is to let people know where the ABC’s fact checking site is. I had to scout around to find it. One would expect it on their election site, but in fact it’s in the news s...
What should Rudd do now? 18 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
Rudd’s campaign for a Labor third term apparently stalling overall or slipping slightly, but reports of individual seat polling indicate significant swings against Labor. This suggests perhaps swings ...
Lazy Sunday 18 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what else did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
