Opinion Dominion

At least Fairfax is making an effort to deal with an important election issue. All the dirt on carbon is a pretty good explanation of the...

The very individual journey of novelists There's a nice, brief story here about the ways different authors work.  I hadn't read be...

Ben Eltham's summary of the last week in politics seemed pretty accurate to me. Insiders yesterday was great - George Megalogenis and D...

My mother turns 90 tomorrow, and a pleasant family gathering happened today at the aged care facility where she now lives. Her health held...

I have read about Live by The Sword somewhere before, but don't think I've mentioned it here. From its review in Literary Review ...

New film: "Planes": Crash landing | The Economist Sure, it's in the Prospero blog at the Economist, so it's not in the m...

Denser, Faster Memory Challenges Both DRAM and Flash | MIT Technology Review Given that I get along well with tablets that have only 16G m...

Ken Parish is a great writer at Club Troppo, who unfortunately does not post often enough. But here he is, doing a thorough take down of ...

You know what I think is sorely needed in the Labor campaign? A speech the equivalent of the Bill Clinton one in the Obama campaign, which...

The Wind Rises English trailer: The new Miyazaki movie looks haunting. Ooh.  Slate brings us news of a new Miyazaki film, which is proving...

No one can make Tony Abbott's climate plan add up, so he should do the maths | World news | theguardian.com Lenore Taylor makes some p...

Poor John Quiggin .  He runs a civilised blog; his economics seem to me to be about 300% more reliable than  the guff that comes out of Cata...

BBC News - Mouth bacteria may trigger bowel cancer Researchers say they have uncovered how bacteria may set off a chain reaction leading t...

Kevin Rudd rules out new coalition deal to form government | World news | theguardian.com As I criticised Tony Abbott for a premature ruli...