Gillard’s Next Government: Katter backs Coalition, Windsor, Oakeshott back Labor
Editor. Picture: of Julia Gillard
07.09.10 9:55 am
Bob Katter backs Coalition. Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott back Labor. Labor 76, Coalition 74.
MIS: One of the final dominoes falls over. Forestry blames GFC for loss
Michael Bennet, The Australian
07.09.10 9:11 am
ONE of the last of the listed managed investment schemes has fallen over, with receivers and managers appointed to Willmott Forests.
It’s the GFC, says loss-making Forestry Tas ...
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Pete Godfrey: Conversion is still going on ...
Devil: Letter from Concerned Scientists
Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick, Dr. Collette Harmsen, Dr. Peter McQuillan, Dr. David Obendorf, Nick Fitzgerald BSc (Hons). Grad Dip
07.09.10 8:53 am
The report has identified that these intact forests destined for logging are occupied and used by a number of listed threatened species including two species of marsupial carnivores - the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and the Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyrus maculatus maculatus). We support a key recommendation of the report to place high quality threatened species habitat into secure reserves to ensure long term stable habitat conditions for species most at risk.
TCT: Shock finding: threatened species and development can co-exist ...
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Afghanistan: the supposed threat to national security
Max Atkinson
07.09.10 2:32 am
A majority of Australians, as in the UK and most other countries, want the troops out now. There is concern at the loss of lives, an increasing sense of failure, and grave doubts about the rationale. Perhaps the most forthright criticism is that of former lieutenant colonel and senior intelligence analyst Andrew Wilkie, who exposed the ‘cherry picking’ of intelligence reports on Iraq; he believes the national security argument, like the Iraq WMD claims, is based on lies.
How plausible is the official case?
Election 2010: how Denison confused the nation
Dr Kevin Bonham
06.09.10 1:08 am
There is already much comment about whether Wilkie can retain his seat next time around, a good example being all this rubbish by Glenn Milne. The truth is that Wilkie’s election depended on primary vote defections from all three parties, on both Green and Coaltion preferences, and on Labor stuffing up both their candidate selection and their pre-campaign. With a very thin margin, if we just replay the tape with the Labor Party actually awake (decent candidate and big campaign), the seat automatically returns to sender anyway. And furthermore if Wilkie went with the Coalition he would probably have annoyed both the Greens who preferenced him ahead of Labor, and the ex-Labor supporters from the northern suburbs whose defections to his cause were critical. As far as I can determine, those whose preferences Wilkie relied on to beat Labor (including those who gave him their first vote) were probably split fairly evenly between the major parties. By going with Labor he may very well have irritated the Liberal voters who supported or preferenced him, and some Libs may well be seething with disgust about that at the moment and saying all kinds of silly things.
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