Tidbits

Hey all. Been a bit slow lately with posts - uni is starting to be a drag with assessments due in a week or so. Nevertheless, there are a few articles out there that are interesting enough for me to point out:

• Crikey publishes an email from Antony Green who anlyses the seat of Marrickville. His impression is that Labor will likely win over the Greens. He thinks the 2004 Fed result for Grayndler suggests the Green vote peaked in 2003. I disagree - there is definitely a mood for change in the area.
• Charles Richardson at Crikey notes the terrible human cost of the Coal mining industry and China. He doesn't go so far to say Nuclear is a prefered option but does say, " If anti-nuclear campaigners want to be taken seriously, they need to face up to the implications of continued reliance on coal." Richardson obviously has no understanding of anti-nuclear campaign. The anti-nuclear campaign is also ant-coal and that there should be a focus on renewable energy.
• An excellent article by Margo Kingston over at her blog Webdiary. It focuses on the first day of the Senate and how Lab and Libs voted for a very arrogant Paul Calvert for Senate President. Unfortunately, Kerry Nettle did not get the votes.
• Some more ALP critics at APO.
• This opinion piece by Joo-Cheong Tham at APO focuses on an issue that flew under the radar: the Liberal Party using taxpayer funds to advertise its IR policy.
• This link to APO is page where you can download a paper by Larissa Behrendt that outlines the Government's agenda to privatise Indigenous native title.

I think I will have to devote a post to Indigenous issues in the near future. I probably consider it my most favoured political issue and there are some very disturbing issues on the horizon - yes even worse than the abolition of ATSIC.