Queenslanders may be united when it comes to State of Origin football but up north there is growing discontent about the way Brisbane governs. Maverick federal independent MP Bob Katter is in the news again with discussions on forming a new political party. This is on the back of his nation stopping actions last year in deciding which side of politics he would support after the hung election results. History editor Glenn Davies reflects upon the source of both his and Bob Katter’s strong sense of independence — the community of Charters Towers.The source of Bob Katter’s independence
Posted On Tuesday, 31 May 2011 By admin. Under Australian history, Queensland Tags: 2010 federal election, A Thousand Miles Away. Geoffrey Bolton, Alex Douglas, ARA, Australian independence, Australian nationalism, Australian republic, Bjelke-Petersen government, Bob Katter, Bob Katter Jnr, Bob Katter Snr, Boulia, British Empire, Campbell Newman, Charters Towers, Coalition, Edmund Kennedy, F.C.B. Vosper, Federal Independents, Gang of Three, Glenn Davies, Goanna, goldfields, Gulf of Carpentaria, Independent politicians, Independents, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Dunmore Lang, Kennedy, Kevin Rudd, landed gentry, Liberal party, Mareeba, Mt Isa, Mt Isa Council, National Party, North Queensland, North Queensland secession, North Queensland Self Government League, Northern Territory, Pacific Ocean, Queensland, Queensland Government, Queensland Parliament, Redgum, Regent Theatre, Rob Oakeshott, Robbie Katter, Rockhampton, rural Queensland, Russel Ward, Separation League, Shane Knuth, The Australian Legend, Tony Windsor, Vaughan Johnson
Queenslanders may be united when it comes to State of Origin football but up north there is growing discontent about the way Brisbane governs. Maverick federal independent MP Bob Katter is in the news again with discussions on forming a new political party. This is on the back of his nation stopping actions last year in deciding which side of politics he would support after the hung election results. History editor Glenn Davies reflects upon the source of both his and Bob Katter’s strong sense of independence — the community of Charters Towers.Fukushima meltdown – Caldicott says Japan may become uninhabitable – media silent
Posted On Tuesday, 31 May 2011 By admin. Under Environment, Media Tags: Arnie Gunderson, Chernobyl, concentrated media ownership, Crikey, David Donovan, Dr Helen Caldicott, Financial Times, fuel rods, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima meltdown, Germany closing nuclear plants, Haruki Madarame, Helen Caldicott, Huffington Post, Japan, Japan nuclear diaster, Japan uninhabitable, Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission, Japanese nuclear safety regulators, Mark Willacy, media silence on Fukushima, meltdown, Naoto Kan, President Jefferson, Professor Christopher Busby, Radiation, TEPCO, Three Mile Island, US radioactivity, Vivian Norris, Ziggy Switkowski
Dr Helen Caldicott says that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has the potential to make Japan “uninhabitable”, yet the mainstream media in Australia continue to ignore the crisis. Managing editor David Donovan reports.Abandoning science obstructs understanding
Posted On Tuesday, 31 May 2011 By admin. Under Religion, Science Tags: Albert Einstein, Douglas Adams, King Solomon's Temple, Life the Universe and Everything, Molten Sea, pi, Pythagoreans, religion, science, Tony Backhouse, Werner Heisenberg
Tony Backhouse says, "People may never know the answer to "Life the Universe and Everything" but abandoning science obstructs understanding".Climate change denial with the Galileo Movement – all the usual suspects
Posted On Monday, 30 May 2011 By admin. Under Environment, Republic Tags: Alan Jones, Andrew Bolt, Barry Everingham, Bob Carter, British American Tobacco, Climate change denialists, Crikey, Galileo Movement, global warming, holocaust deniers, Ian Plimer, Jackson Wells, Lord Monckton, royal yacht Britannia, the Church of Scientology, The Exclusive Brethren
The Galileo climate change denialist Movement has a predictable set of far right-wing supporters and the same Australian PR company that promoted the fake Lord Monkton. Barry Everingham reports. Parliamentary Republics outshine Constitutional Monarchies in the Global Peace Index
Posted On Monday, 30 May 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: ARM, Austria, comparing republics and monarchies, constitutional monarchies, Finland, Global Peace Indiex, most peaceful countries, parliamentary republic, Publius, statistics, Swaziland, Switzerland, world peace
The Global Peace Index provides yet more evidence to confirm the superiority of Parliamentary Republics over Politician's Monarchies. Publius reports.Norman Lindsay in America
Posted On Sunday, 29 May 2011 By admin. Under Art Tags: A Tale of Two Cities, An Illustrated History of the Bulletin, Anthony Adams, Anton Otto Fischer, Argus Bookshop, Art in Australia, Australian art, Australian artists, Bacchanal, Beauties and the Beasts, Ben Abramson, Blanche Yurka, Bluebook, Cartoons Magazine, Century, Cheshire House, Collier’s, Columbine, Cry of the Werewolf, Daily Telegraph, Deborah Covington, Enter the Magicians, Fanfrolico Press, Fortune Magazine, Franz Von Stuck, Geoffrey Rush, George Mackaness, H. DeVere Stacpoole, H.L. Mencken, Harper’s Weekly, Heinrich Kley, Helen Mirren, Henry Lawson, Homage to Sappho, Homeward Bound, Hugh McRae, Idyllia, Illustration magazine, Isle of the Dead, J.R. Flanagan, Jack Lindsay, James Mason, Jane Glad, Jane Lindsay, Joan Collins, John Cleese, John Kirtley, John Merriam, John Newton Howitt, Kaiser, Keith Wingrove, Louis Irmo, Louis Stone, Madame Life’s Succession, Magic Pudding, March of the Scalliwags, Messalina, Model Wife, Mr. Gresham and Olympus, My Mask, New York, New York Times, Norman Lindsay, Norman Lindsay Oil Paintings, Out of the Dawn, Panama is Burning, Patricia Rolfe, Paul Stahr, Pen Drawings, Peter Newell, Petronius Satyricon, Portrait of Pa, Propertius in Love, Queen of the Mob, Redheap, Richard Ellie, Richard LeGallienne, Rose Lindsay, Roy Krenkel, Sam Neill, Saturday Review of Literature, Satyrs and Sunlight, Scribner’s, Sedon Thompson, Sirens, Sydney Bulletin, Sydney Morning Herald, Taxi, The American Book Collector, The American Mercury, The Antichrist of Nietzsche, The Art Digest, The Bulletin, The Cautious Amorist, The Cousin from Fiji, The Etchings of Norman Lindsay, The Georgics of Virgil, The Girls of Spain, The Journalistic Javelin, The Lone Hand, The Satyricon, The Weekly Newsmagazine, The World of Norman Lindsay, Time, To The Refined in Spirit, Unknown Seas, Urs Graf in Heaven, Virgil Finlay, Vivian Crockett, Women in Parliament
Louis Irmo talks about renowned, yet once controversial, Australian artist Norman Lindsay and his relationship with America.Resolving the CSG crisis through proper public participation
Posted On Sunday, 29 May 2011 By admin. Under Environment, Queensland Tags: AgForce, APPEA, Arrow Energy, Basin Sustainability Alliance, Bill Hayden, coal seam gas, community consultation, Concerned Landholders Roma North, CSG, CSG industry and potential environmental impacts, engagement processes, Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts: Power and Negotiation, Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry into Fraser Island, food security, Governor General, Great artesian basin, ground water, Jimbour Action Group, loss of agricultural land, Maranoa Regional Council, Origin Energy, public health, public participation, QDERM; Queensland Water Commission, Queensland, Queensland Environmental Protection Act, Queensland Farmers Federation, Queensland Gas Company, Queensland Government, Queensland Great Artesian Basin Advisory Committee, Queensland Murray-Darling Committee, Queensland Resources Council, Santos, Surat Basin Engagement Committee, surface water, Ted Christie, threatened species, Toowoomba RC, Western RC
The parties in the dispute over coal seam gas (CSG) have never seemed further apart. Distinguished environmental lawyer Dr Ted Christie, the author of 'Finding Solutions for Environmental Conflicts: Power and Negotiation', suggests a better way — a public participation process using multi-disciplinary problem-solving.The disintegrating Queensland property market
Posted On Sunday, 29 May 2011 By admin. Under Property Tags: Australian real estate, big 4 banks, capitalism, property market, Queensland, Queensland floods, real estate, Tim Badrick
The property market has never looked worse, says Tim Badrick, especially in South-East Queensland.Crackers #3: Fred Singer and the non-conserving neo-conservatives
Posted On Saturday, 28 May 2011 By admin. Under Environment, Investigations Tags: Abraham Lincoln, acid rain, AEC, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Andrew Bolt, Annabelle Crabb, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, astrosturf organisations, Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Environment Foundation, BAT, Big Carbon, Big tobacco, Bob Williams, British American Tobacco, Bruce Guthrie, Canada, Clean Air Act, climate change skeptics, Coalition, Coastal Guardians, DDT, Environment, EPA, Erik Conway, Exxon, F. J. Reynolds, Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, George C Marshall Institute, George W Bush, Greenhouse mafia, Greenpeace, Guy Pearse, Harper Government, High and Dry, Ian Plimer, John Howard, Landscape Guardians, Liberal party, Lord Monckton, Merchants of Doubt, MRET, Naomi Oreskes, National Parks, Nobel Prize, oil economics, ozone depletion, paralysis by analysis, Pepsi Grand Canyon fiasco, plain cigarette packaging legislation, political donations, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Robert Menzies, Ronmald Reagan, Rupert Murdoch, Sandi Keane, Sharon Beder, Solomon Islands, Spa Guardians, Star Wars, Stockholm Memorandum, Tobacco Institute, Tony Abbott, Ulysses Grant, Yellowstone, Yosemite
Brilliant exposé by Sandi Keane on Dr Fred Singer, a once prominent rocket scientist who used his fame to peddle dodgy science about, amongst other things, tobacco smoking and climate change.Parliamentary truants are failing democracy
Posted On Saturday, 28 May 2011 By admin. Under Politics Tags: Alby Schultz, Australian politicians sleeping, Australian politics, big tombacco, budgie smugglers, budgie smugglers. Tony Abbott, Federal politics, Fran Bailey, General Haig, Ian Macfarlane, John Forrest, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lib Dems, Liberal leadership, Luke Hartsuyker, Malaysia, Malcolm Turnbull, Mary Wooldridge, NATO, Opposition Leader, Opposition Whip, plain cigarette packaging legislation, Political truants, Tardis, Ted Baillieu, Tess Lawrence, Victorian politics, Villawood, Warren Entsch
Parliamentary Truants should be sent to Malaysia for offshore whipping...or Villawood. Same same, says contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence.
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