Next time someone tells you they have “copyright” over something, consider the possibility that you are allowed to quote from it anyway, and tell them to go jump. One large Australian government organisation tried to pull this sort of stunt on me just the other day - no joke
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That’s the title of my Fin piece on Thursday (over the fold). As happens more or less routinely, it attracted a letter from Des Moore, formerly prominent as a Treasury official, then a rightwing economist, and now a climate science delusionist. The SMH this weeked devoted a large article in its news review section to profiling Chinese businessman (but Australian citizen) Chau Chak Wing, Australia’s largest ‘foreign’ donor to our political parties over the last decade (not online, but there was also this news story ). They claim that ‘unease about foreign donations is growing’, but that l egislation to ban them is stalled in the Senate. I’ve recently been looking at this issue from the perspective of NGOs, because this bill would also ban foreign-sourced donations to NGOs if the money was to finance political expenditure such as expressing views on candidates, parties, or election issues. But it was only one of several possibilities: HT: Megan McArdle Peter Martin is the economics correspondent for Australia’s two leading newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . He blogs at peter martin’s blog , peter’s picks and twitter . Heard a few days ago that California is in severe financial strife, and is literally dishing out IOUs instead of payments. I would suggest the problems stem directly from their great experiment with democracy. Citizen initiated referenda have been long touted, but short on fulfillment In May an Indian student, Sourabh Sharma, was bashed by a gang on a Melbourne train. The attack sparked a massive wave of publicity in both Australia and India, with claims that Indian students were victims of racism. At the time, I pointed out that CCTV cameras had caught the gang in action and that the attackers who appeared on camera didn’t appear to be Anglo. Here’s an eye opener……… I read a paper linked by ClimateAudit.com which describes a finding by a statistician, David Stockwell about a widely circulated paper suggesting AGW was getting worse. Stockwell strongly asserts that the paper applied “wrong” statistical smoothing in a non linear data series. What’s the problem with that? Here’s an eye opener……… I read a paper linked by ClimateAudit.com which describes a finding by a statistician, David Stockwell about a widely circulated paper suggesting AGW was getting worse. |
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