Month: July 2009

Labor History – http://bit.ly/ZlRVE – new site launched by the ALP. Under development but already has some rare video items. # Big show of little consequence for Rudd's political future – http://bit.ly/TtOmL – Michelle Grattan on the irrelevance of the ALP Nat.Conf. # Passion bypass as men in suits rule – http://bit.ly/uNFQN – Annabel Crabb… Continue reading Twitter Updates

RT @annabelcrabb: Sorry about lack of tweets from ALP conf …They were pumping some sort of sedative gas through the place and I succumbed. # RT @annabelcrabb: Will try to do better tomorrow. Taking sturdy mask, a rope and something to keep me awake… # RT @annabelcrabb: …Like the fear of a second Rudd term.… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Theo Theophanous, the Victorian Labor MP against whom rape charges were dismissed on Friday, has announced he will retire from Parliament. # Theophanous has bowed to the inevitable because there were moves to deny him pre-selection whatever the outcome of the court proceedings. # Theophanous will remain in Parliament as a backbencher until the state… Continue reading Twitter Updates

And That's Not the Way It Is – http://bit.ly/24xR09 – Frank Rich looks at Walter Cronkite and the failures of his media successors. # @PeterBlackQUT I tuned in towards the end – you were loud and clear. I had trouble signing up to the UStream chat and then you logged off. in reply to PeterBlackQUT… Continue reading Twitter Updates

JFK and the Unspeakable – http://bit.ly/VN1EG – Oliver Stone offers a view of why the death of Kennedy still matters. # @trevoryoung There's another page view… nice talking to you at the tweetup last Thursday. in reply to trevoryoung # Harry Evans, Clerk of the Senate, says the Australian Parliament is the "weakest" in the… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Australian Electoral Commission has released a redistribution proposal for Queensland, creating a new seat named after poet Judith Wright. # The new seat of Wright will take Queensland's tally to 30 out of 150 seats in the House of Representatives. # Wright will be in South-East Qld, drawing bulk of its voters from existing seats… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Coalition of the willing – http://bit.ly/2mpHJ9 – A very sound review of "Liberal Rule" by Peter Brent. # RT @mumbrella: Big media move: Sunday Tele dep ed Helen McCabe moves to ACP's Australian Women's Weekly as ed-in-chief http://bit.ly/15d7V5 # RT @BernardKeane: Harry Evans giving a lecture on the role of the Senate tomorrow at 12.15… Continue reading Twitter Updates

A whole day without tweeting… a mini-hiatus… # Saw a forensic pathologist talking about her work tonight – very interesting. She averages two autopsies a day. # Forensic pathologist's joke: Q: What's the quickest way to a man's heart? A: Through the chest with a sharp instrument. # @stuarthorrex Last 3 tweets: Warren Mitchell, Andrew… Continue reading Twitter Updates

ABC Local Radio is broadcasting the 1969 Moon landing audio as it occurred – ON NOW. # Listen to Moon Landing audio as it happened exactly 40 years ago – ON NOW – http://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/ # Man First Walked on the Moon Exactly 40 Years Ago NOW… # RT @SBSNews: At this exact moment in 1969,… Continue reading Twitter Updates

Big meeting today with @kirsty_wilson and @Chris_pinkapple today. Watch Chris talk about her "thermometer" theory here: http://bit.ly/AiBZl # 40th anniversary of moon landing coming up: look at what President Nixon would have said if disaster struck – http://bit.ly/ar1Ul # There is nothing new in point-scoring over China: http://bit.ly/dkh1t – Phillip Coorey with some political history… Continue reading Twitter Updates