Loaded Dogma

I buried my prediction of the first Australian recession in decades in a post back in May , because I wasn't quite sure it would com...

An excellent if highly cynical piece on yesterday's Reform Summit by Liam Hogan in the Guardian: The one thing I would not have e...

Another budget has been and gone . Instead of the steaming turd that was the last budget, which was largely blocked by the Senate, this t...

When I first started taking interest in Australian poliblogs a few years ago, my first thought was that the Club Troppo web site sounded...

I am still reading a lot of poliblogs in between childrearing, just not posting much. I really should learn how to do shorter posts. In...

As a poliblogosphere, Australians probably pay less attention than is warranted to British politics and too much to American politics whe...

One of the great things about Twitter is that sometimes you have random conversations you never thought possible. One such this evening h...

Following on from Alan Moran's sacking from the Institute of Public Affairs  for anti-Islam tweets, John Quiggin sticks the knife in ...

- ASADA have convinced Cronulla Sharks players to take a plea deal to admit guilt over the Stephen Dank drug saga, which means they only ...

Stephen Koukoulas is  on his hobby horse again  about Glenn Stevens and the RBA not being loose enough with monetary policy. In his unoff...

Brad DeLong has a regular series of Honest Broker posts, where he tries to frame an argument not necessarily in both-sides-do-it centrism...

I was retweeted by Brad Delong today for linking to  Stephen Koukoulas' latest missive  on the results of the current Liberal federal...

Regular Catallaxy Files commenter Fisky - a combative chap who is nonetheless prone to sudden brain farts like his panicked  Malcolm Turn...

The Liberal Democratic Party released its alternative budget today in the Fin, amid about as much fanfare as the alternative Tea Party v...

Laurie Oakes continues to be one of the better connected journos inside the Canberra bubble, and this piece is obviously a straight sten...

RMIT economics professor Sinclair Davidson got his head on 7.30 the other night, attacking the government from the right on its debt le...

Do we have a name for the unprecedented period of uninterrupted growth that Australia has experienced since the Hawke/Keating era, which ...

I am always fascinated by the market economies built inside multiplayer computer games to exchange virtual goods among players, and the r...

- On one hand, we have the right saying that the market will decide so we don't need anti-discrimination laws  to prevent gays having...

Another week where I'm hard at work on my other commitments, so only time for a short roundup. Not that I'm trying to compete wit...