John Howard..non-core to the core…

With much deference to Tim Dunlop, it would be remiss of us not to observe EX PM John Howard’s latest running commentary on all things political after he promised not to do so.
Mr Howard, who addressed students at the Gold Coast’s Bond University today, said the Coalition had struggled with public perception.
“Any government that’s been in [...]

RBA cuts base rate by 1%

In a shock move, the RBA has cut the base rate by 1%.
Will be interesting to see how the markets and the major banks react to this.
joni

Global Meltdown…is the end of the world nigh?

John Howard predicted last year that ”a Labor government would result in madness and mayhem!”
However, I doubt even Mr Howard could have predicted the global economic meltdown that is transpiring before our very eyes, and obviously nor is it the cause of a change of government in the little old backwater of Australia.
The Australian share market [...]

Marginally Angry

Now this really gets me annoyed at politicians.
A story on the front page of the SMH tells how the Federal Government (specifically Rudd and Swan) told NSW that they would not get any federal money for the North West Metro project because there we no votes in it. This is because the area that [...]

HiPER Activity

A new experiment at a laboratory near Oxford in the UK, hopes to harness nuclear fusion where the amount of power generated is more than the power used to sustain the reaction. The story in full is here at the UK’s Telegraph newspaper.
Fusion differs from fission in that it is the combination of atoms to [...]