Liberals implode
I've just found out from Twitter that the Liberal shadow ministry has imploded with mass resignations late this afternoon.Those who have resigned are Abbott, Minchin, Abetz, Parry, Mirabella, Smith, Johnson, Fifield, Mason, and Cormann. They have quit the frontbench over emissions trading scheme with Abbott refusing to rule out a future leadership tilt. So the Conservatives are attempting to takeover the Coalition and shift the Liberal Party further to the right. Is Malcolm Turnbull toast? Will he agree with the Government to guillotine debate on the CPRS in the Senate and to push the vote through tonight. Or will there be no

Open Australia
I've been interested in the ideas surrounding, or flowing from, Government 2.0. One of these was Mashup Australia, which was designed to provide a practical demonstration of the benefits that open access to public sector information can provide. I've been curious about how this could help improve my blogging by providing me with greater information. One example of the potential that can be unlocked when government information is unlocked by pulling together data sets in new and innovative ways is Open Australia, which I stumbled upon yesterday. This is a vo

high drama in Canberra
There is a huge gap between Rudd's rhetoric on the necessity for an ETS to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and decrease the rate of global warming ---- a "fundamental existential question for the future''----and his actions in delivering a revised GPRS. This is the politics of buying off the sqwaking opposition to an emissions trading scheme. The Rudd/Turnbull ETS primarily supports the coal fired power stations, the emission intensive industry, and a host of other industries. It protects jobs and ensures that coal-fired electricity generators keep producing electricity, but it does little to reduce green

media wars
The economic reality is that as advertising revenues slump and circulations of printed newspapers continue a long decline, the newspaper industry is being forced to consider new business models, if they want to survive in the new media landscape shaped by digital technology. The challenge that the Internet poses is that it is destroying the financial base of reporting and it is also dismembering the public that the press has long had. It is possible that the national broadsheet media (NYT, the Guardian

Mike Rann + all that sex
Bomshell!. Big sex scandal rocks Adelaide. Watch the video. Tabloid heaven. It's a political crisis in SA for a premier who campaigned on family values. Malicious and sensational says Rann. Rann