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Gus Leonisky's blogafter many years in the doldrums due to the oil monopolies...Electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan, new research shows.
the art of doing a lot when not trying...Only a few months ago Bill Shorten would have thought that if he won the election he'd be delivering same-sex marriage and a royal commission into banks early in his government. Now Malcolm Turnbull is bringing us both — in each case, his hand forced by a (different) group of rebel backbenchers.
pissing elephants in each others pockets?...Build it and they will come. The New South Wales government thinks this to be true – so much, in fact, that they are spending a minimum of $2.3 billion of public money in achieving their aim.
attrition, depletion and foggy bottom...
napoleonic revival
President Macron has revealed how EU leaders are planning to stop groups of human traffickers in Libya.
afraid the sheep might discover their fate is to go to the US slaughter house...RT Network’s press accreditation was pulled Wednesday following the Justice Department’s move to require that RT register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act earlier in November.
the defense rests...
After months of pressure from his own side of politics, the Prime Minister has announced a royal commission into the banking sector. Nationals senator Barry O'Sullivan, who was ready to introduce a bill forcing a banking inquiry, says he is happy the Government listened to its members, but another backbencher says Malcolm Turnbull had to be dragged "kicking and screaming" to the decision.
embracing same sex marriage in the house of god... with caveats...Nationals MP Andrew Broad has accused Malcolm Turnbull of ignoring conservatives in the same-sex marriage debate, saying there has been "a clear failure of leadership".
killer robots...
The tale of new technologies causing the death of work is the prophecy that keeps on giving.
it's not called the "white" paper for nothing...Beijing: The Chinese government has rebuked Australia for "irresponsible" remarks about Chinese island building in the South China Sea in its Foreign Policy White Paper issued on Thursday. The paper says the South China Sea is a fault line, and that Australia is particularly concerned at the "unprecedented pace and scale" of China's activities in the region crucial for shipping. read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-white-paper-irresponsible-says-ch...
walking on eggshells...My cartoons are “lazy plonkt”. I have been lucky. Very lucky. I count my weavings and duckings. I don’t believe in “blessings”... Understanding things has been my quest, though I still don’t understand much. One of my very good friend gave me a book. Lucky me. “The real impact of the book came from its example. Leonardo [Fibonacci] included a wealth of applications of mathematics to business and trade. These included conversions of money, weight, and content, method of barter, business partnerships, and allocation of profit, alloying of money, investment of money, and simple and compound interest.”
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