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No slowdown in warming

As Tony Abbott spreads the “global cooling” conspiracy, more evidence demonstrates that temperatures are going up and up.
A report by the World Meteorological Organization says that recent years are on track to be the hottest on record:

The decade of the 2000s is very likely the warmest decade in the modern record, dating back 150 years, [...]

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Media beat up, part I

I recently had a debate with a friend about new media versus old media. One of the points I made was that journalists at major newspapers and TV stations are just as likely as PR spin doctors and politicians to be pushing a line. Furthermore, I argued that journalists “beat up” stories to get copy [...]

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Opposition IR Shadow Minister cut from Reith cloth

Workforce Daily has a few interesting takes on Eric Abetz’s elevation to the IR portfolio as part of the new Opposition Shadow Ministry. (No link unfortunately, as it’s an email newsletter).
Abbott:
Abbott praised Abetz for his “long-interest in employment issues and his record of standing up for the rights of employees and small business in the [...]

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Going local – social networking for politicians

While there’s a million and one articles on the internet about how Obama built his success on social networks. There are fewer articles about how local candidates’ campaigns used social networking to promote their candidacy. I’ve previously written about one instance of a local campaign – the governor race in Virginia – using text message [...]

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The Cameronisation of Turnbull

Recently, Turnbull went to visit David Cameron, the very successful UK Tory leader.
Cameron has been extremely successful in transforming the unelectable Tories to a forward looking, “progressive” conservative party. He has turned areas of traditional Tory weakness into strengths.
Two examples showcase this: Cameron’s opposition to the British National Party and his framing of climate change.
The [...]

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