hottest night

The previous record for the hottest December night in Sydney was set in 1868, when a minimum temperature of 26.3 degrees Celsius was recorded across the night.

advice from the elder

Telling Vladimir what to do would be like selling freezers to esquimos. But under the rahrah in the USA, one has to be aware that a new tack by the Trump administration does not mean that the USA has given up on trying to muck up Russia. Presently Russia is demonised for a) saving Aleppo from terrorists (true) and b) for having interferred with the USA elections (false) and other false indictments. 

In the mean time, what the USA cannot get by sanctions, distrust and petty sabre-rattling, the USA could get under the doonah in Moscow and tear the place apart for PROFIT. That's on the card...

trump's cabinet so far...

guignol

politics versus sciences

Turnbull & Morrison are Australia’s leading tax minimisation consultants, specialising in reducing the tax obligations of some of our biggest companies.

malcolm and malcolm

Malcolm Turnbull’s climate policy stance is “bullshit” according to his own searing assessment when Tony Abbott advanced similar ideas. That was back in the days when Turnbull let facts interfere with his decisions.

What are we paying the experts for?

Malcolm Turnbull has categorically refused to even consider an emissions intensity scheme because he wants to keep power prices lower and guarantee power security.

policy

not saving his bacon

man of the time...

Time magazine has named US President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year, citing the upheaval in American politics brought about by the election campaign and victory of the New York businessman.

turf wars

solution

zero clue

Don Watson wrote this article for the November Monthly, published in October. The Monthly seems to know what's what on average. Here the Monthly and Don Watson goofed. Lovely sentiments though la Woman was a catastrophe in waiting.