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» 30/07/2012 4:52:39 PM Grim: I think it is a reasonable bet that most of the people who can't pass your "cit.....
» 29/07/2012 12:30:50 PM Grim: I am sure that you could pass the citizen test Grimm. But, if I had to choose I woul.....
» 28/07/2012 8:41:26 PM Grim: The US has used dictation tests and similar ploys to block Afro Americans from votin.....
» 27/07/2012 10:50:49 PM The US is a good add for compulsory voting. The optional voting in the US means that the e.....
» 25/07/2012 10:37:19 PM Grim: If someone doesn't want to allocate preferences that is their option. Votes should o.....
» 24/07/2012 6:31:59 PM This LP post discusses the factors that influenced the "unintended informal vote".....
» 23/07/2012 8:36:18 PM Under the current senate voting system you can either vote for one party above the line or.....
» 28/11/2011 9:26:40 PM If Scotties power consumption is 32,000 kWh the carbon tax will add only $736 to his bill......
» 9/05/2011 10:15:14 AM The carbon tax just doesn't stand up to any systematic check. Major problem with any syste.....
» 6/09/2010 6:07:43 PM We wasted the last parliament because all the effort was put into setting up an ETS. The r.....
» 17/08/2010 9:54:11 PM If coal fired was replaced by CCGT (combined cycle gas turbine) power generation related e.....
» 2/01/2010 9:39:43 AM You may be right about the area required for Europe - but I am not sure what this means in.....
» 1/01/2010 5:37:15 PM The discussion to date seems to assume that technology isn't going to advance by much. How.....
» 29/12/2009 3:38:46 PM The second airport sounds like the Brisbane tunnels - a civil engineering solution that ig.....
» 1/12/2009 4:23:00 PM There are a number of options for acting on climate change. These include comprehensive sy.....
» 30/11/2009 9:51:18 PM Part of what is wrong with ETS is that it set out to be a comprehensive system that would .....
» 16/11/2009 8:49:45 AM The irony is that if the government removed all the special tax concessions for super it c.....
» 12/08/2009 9:11:09 PM When I was the chairman of the Abscol policy committee in 1964 I personally knew the only .....
» 4/08/2009 1:48:01 PM A solar thermal/molten salt heat storage system stores heat before electricty generation s.....
» 3/08/2009 10:13:01 PM An interesting one, particularly the bits about the use of opportunistic storage from idle.....
» 3/08/2009 12:05:25 PM The statement "Since when did the kooris want to be farmers and entrepreneurs anyway......
» 27/07/2009 5:25:06 PM For most countries the clean power choices are importing clean power across their borders .....
» 20/07/2009 8:56:41 PM Examinator: I was thinking about heart attacks vs alzheimers rather than cancer, however, .....
» 20/07/2009 12:29:15 PM Would I be willing to pay $55,000 for an extra 6 months of quality of life? - YES. Would I.....
» 5/07/2009 10:41:01 AM Good questions Herbert. A few things to keep in mind: 1. The Australian per capita power c.....
» 29/06/2009 5:23:43 PM There is nothing in the rules that says that the only system we are allowed to consider ha.....
» 22/06/2009 12:35:30 PM This is certainly not an article aimed at the scientifically literate. The idea that we sh.....
» 16/06/2009 9:57:13 AM I switched from beef to kangaroo for health reasons when it became available in the superm.....
» 15/06/2009 9:58:06 PM Part of the problem is that we run our labour market in a way that means that unemployment.....
» 9/06/2009 1:50:17 PM skeptics should have a look at the Vostock ice core data. See: http://maps.grida.no/go/gra.....
» 2/06/2009 10:45:53 AM My problem with “punish the polluter”, “polluter pays” and similar emotional thinking is t.....
» 1/06/2009 3:24:41 PM Some of us spooked by climate predictions. Some of us are spooked by the risk that doing s.....
» 26/05/2009 3:29:11 PM A key part of the problem is that our culure has unconciously rejected the idea that ".....
» 25/05/2009 10:24:17 AM There are some topics that always seem to get taken over by a particular argument. For exa.....
» 23/05/2009 10:56:41 AM Recently, my wife gave a presentation on teaching method's during the morning of a profess.....
» 22/05/2009 6:40:00 PM Well said EVO3, whether you are thinking about social justice, global warming etc. over-po.....
» 21/05/2009 11:26:31 AM Well said spindoc. However, there are many things about the greenhouse science debate that.....
» 18/05/2009 12:31:13 PM You are right ALL, methane does oxidize to CO2 over time. (Wikapedia gives half life of 7 .....
» 17/05/2009 9:10:55 PM It is interesting to look at the Vostock ice core data for the last 400yrs. See: http://ww.....
» 17/05/2009 4:09:50 PM Malcolm Turnbull spent most of his budget reply complainung about the defict. However, if .....
» 16/05/2009 3:55:40 PM Part of the problem is the "what to do about climate change?" has been hijacked .....
» 13/05/2009 1:21:25 PM Sorry Quick response but, at this stage, pure electric cars are an expensive gimmick that .....
» 12/05/2009 12:00:15 PM Mike - The reason we should challenge ETS is that it providing the excuse for the governme.....
» 12/05/2009 10:12:30 AM To J. S. Mill. As a rough approx. the cost to revenue of all the super tax concessions is .....
» 11/05/2009 10:49:00 PM Somehow we have been conned into thinking that ETS is the best/only way to drive down emis.....
» 10/05/2009 7:10:59 PM Marriage patterns vary considerably around the world. In some cases they reflect differing.....
» 10/05/2009 11:29:31 AM Right on Stormbay. In addition, pensioners who have the cheek to try and earn a little ext.....
» 8/05/2009 9:33:54 PM As a rough approximation, if all the cost of superannuation tax concessions was diverted t.....
» 8/05/2009 9:08:47 PM The problem with victim-hood is that it takes away people's power. A dramatic example is w.....
» 7/05/2009 11:15:32 PM Some R&D is in direct response to economic pressure. However, in many cases economic devel.....
» 21/04/2009 12:29:27 PM Part of the problem is that we are being asked to support a system that is not the most co.....
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