“I will quit smoking!” If you make a pledge to quit smoking, and then you smoke the next day, you have broken the pledge, but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have made the pledge in the first place, nor does it mean that you should discontinue your effort to stop smoking. A pledge is about [...]

Fraser Coast Councillor Sue Brooks intends to continue speeding because some speed limits are too low and sometimes driving above the speed limit is safer.

Looks like I was with the crowd last night watching the election coverage on ABC. There is no debating Kerry O’Brien is extremely talented, and I reckon Antony Green must prepare for elections for months.

Bob Katter used some very strong language about the plight of rural Australians. Very interesting result! #ausvotes “I can’t speak for the other independents, but as far as I’m concerned the gong goes to whoever [is going] to allow rural Australia to survive. “We’ve had 12 years of LNP [Liberal National Party] government – they [...]

I was reading an article today and got really depressed. (Azeem Azhar (2005). “Better and Faster than politics” New Stateman 18(878) p. 24.) Here is a snippet: The bottom of the pyramid is a new competitive business space, with new demands. If you want to sell toothpaste to an Indian villager, you need to know [...]

I haven’t blogged for over four weeks! I just don’t feel like I have anything to say at the moment. It is interesting how for the first six-months of this year I was really interested and willing to give some of my time to write on this blog, and then I just stopped. It is [...]

Joe Hockey was on Sunday this morning. He talked about Kevin Rudd and his regular appearance on Sunrise as well as the ‘outrageous’ amount of money the Labor Party will spend between now and the election in November. Joe tried to suggest that Rudd’s appearances on Sunrise are no longer appropriate because he is the [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Hicks case has finally been resolved and everyone is a winner! “It was a good result for Hicks because he finally has a date for release and a chance to be close to his family, although he will not earn a cent from selling his story to [...]

What he did… “… Hicks acknowledged that he trained with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and fought with its forces against US allies in Afghanistan in late 2001 for two hours and then sold his gun to raise cab fare and tried to flee to Pakistan.” (ABC article) + “Hicks admitted he had trained with al-Qaeda, [...]

The Honourable John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, 26 January 2008: “Australia Day has always been an occasion when all Australian celebrate the amazing country we live in. We gather together to celebrate the prosperity and the freedom of our country. “However, we forget that the land we now stand on has always been the [...]

Sydney Morning Herald: Classroom revolution as schools connected to world Mr Iemma plans to equip government schools with interactive whiteboards. The whiteboards would be able to show webpages and stored teaching material, as well as video-conference – to connect to universities and remote schools – and act as regular whiteboards. The plan would cost $158 [...]

Earlier this week the Prime Minister’s office revealed they were preparing a submission to review the rights of homosexual couples (ABC). Conveniently revealed during Syndey’s annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (the PM is a clever little fella), the laws would give citizens in same-sex relationships equal rights as people in heterosexual unions, in areas [...]