Friday Frolyks

I just thought I’d get an open thread up for the weekend for any general discussions that anyone wants to have.

I will be busy over at Blog Renovations – my next task is trying to get the logo sorted out.

Haveagoodone everyone.

NSW schools and solar panels

I have tried to find details of the story on the innertubes, but for the life of me cannot find one.

Last night on ABC News, they had a story that the NSW schools cannot install the solar panels promised to be funded by the federal government because the NSW government will not allow the installation. The story (I think) was saying that the NSW government wanted a single point for all contracts.

Does anyone know any more about this? or can anyone find the story?

Arrogant and inexperienced

I heard this morning a story on ABC radio about someone being “arrogant” and “inexperienced”. I thought, gee, the news about blogocrats II is certainly getting around. But it seems that the comments are from Wilson Tuckey and are directed towards Malcolm Turnbull.

The deep divisions in the Opposition over an emissions trading scheme have been laid bare for all to see, with outspoken Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey labelling his leader “arrogant” and “inexperienced”.

Oh dear – this is not good for Turnbull. But who will take over if he goes? And doesn’t all this attention on the opposition let the government off the hook?

This is where we will be soon.

www.blogocrats.com

Update 23 June: our Joomla database is up and running, now I have to configue it etc. But in the mean time you can try our first poll for the new site. Go Here. Note that the menus and homepage are not configured yet.

Australians React to Jakarta Bombings

Cross post for Global Voices:

Australia: Jakarta bombings bring personal reactions

Kevin Rennie

Liberals Rule, OK!

Tonight on SBS there is the first of a three-part series on the Liberal Party called “Liberal Rule: The Politics that Changed Australia”. Poor Gerard Henderson in todays SMH is very upset about the balance that the program gives, calling it “a shocker and a disgrace”. Oh – poor diddums. He says that the program “gave considerable time to left-wing commentators but censored all contrary views” (my emphasis).

But Gerard leaves his funniest line for the end of the article:

Unlike the Labor Party, the Liberals do not take their history seriously.

I was having some breakie with the bf this morning at Australia Square and that line caused an immediate (and embarrassing) guffaw from me. Or was it a chortle?

Anyway – the program is on SBS tonight at 830pm.

Update on blog

Hi everyone,

I have been making very good progress on blogocrats II, but it will take a while until I get the new version sorted. Hopefully we will have a better site for us all, which will include some of the things that we have been missing (numbered comments, cleaner interface). It is taking a lot of my spare time to configure the new site (well, to play with the configuration) – so the number of posts from me on here will not be as prolific as before.

But, like Arnie, we will be back.

Technical details: For the nerds amongst us, we will probably be moving to a Joomla based CMS.

reb’s hiatus.

I’ll be taking a hiatus from Blogocrats for a while.

I’ll be continuing to post at the gutter in the interim. There’s a weekend open thread there now if anyone’s interested.

Live long and prosper.

Lord reb (WCP)

Apologies

Apologies for the lack of posts. We hope to be back soon.

My toughest post yet.

Child Sex Abuse.

When it might involve someone you know.