Foot Down on FTAs?

Have you ever wondered where Australia has got free trade agreements? As talks start with Korea, it is worth considering that all of our FTA partners are members of APEC (with the exception of the Gulf States).

ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA
Singapore-Australia FTA
Thailand-Australia FTA
Australia-United States FTA
Australia-New Zealand [...]

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Jindal vs Obama in 2012?

Is this the saving face of the Republican Party?

Indian-American, Rhodes scholar, Governor of Lousiana, and a state health secretary at the tender age of 24, Bobby Jindal upsets every stereotyping apple cart. For the 2012 GOP nomination for president (if he runs early) Jindal in the complete antithesis of Sarah Palin.
He is already setting his [...]

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QLD Election Called

Surprise, surprise Bligh has finally called the QLD election.
Green has released his regular seat-by-seat analysis.
Here is the pendulum. There are a swag of seats on low margins for the ALP. I’ll give you my tips soon.

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Abbott on Rudd

Here’s Abbott’s response to Rudd’s shameful article.
He’s spot on with this one. He’s soooooo spot on he seems to have borrowed everyone one of my few points!
I argued:
The metamorphosis of Kevin Rudd is complete. The man who styled himself an “economic conservative” complete with Gold Coast-esque development in the background, at the end of 2007 (read: [...]

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Where has Mr “Economic Conservative” gone?

Wow … how things can change over one short year.
The metamorphosis of Kevin Rudd is complete. The man who styled himself an “economic conservative” complete with Gold Coast-esque development in the background, at the end of 2007 (read: relax friends, I’m Howard not Keating), has now become, according to his recent effort in The Monthly, [...]

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Surprising Economic Growth in Africa

It’s an amazing and little known fact that there has actually been significant economic growth going on Africa in recent years. Usually referred to as a development basket case, many African nations are surprisingly outstripping their international counterparts. There is definitely a story in this.
I heard about this while listening to lecture by Fareed Zakaria [...]

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Any Brave Labor Punters?

Except from today’s Crikey:
Bazza odds-on favourite
WHEN a state, such as NSW, has fixed four-year terms of government, you’d think that running a book on an election that will not be held until March 2011 was a bit ambitious, but that hasn’t stopped Sportingbet Australia’s Michael Sullivan from having a go. Sullivan opened his betting sheet [...]

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UChannel Academic Podcasts

Just a quick plug to those who want to get there hands on quality academic podcasts from around the world. Try Princeton’s UChannel. Looks interesting!

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A Rational Look at Global Warming

I’m on the record as recognising the reality of climate change in the 21st century. As a result I am throughly disappointed when I so rarely see very serious and legitimate discussion of climate change in the media. Inevitably the ‘discussion’ sits somewhere between bumper sticker slogans and thinly-veiled hysteria.
The most popularly demanded response is the amorphous call for ’action on [...]

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Kevin Ellis for Coogee

 
I snapped this archive shot on my last visit to NSW Parliament House. The last Liberal to hold Coogee – Kevin Ellis. How about reviving the slogan “Vote against Socialism-Communism: Vote Liberal”?

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