ICAC head court test challenge Vanda Carson The Daily Telegraph March 23, 201312:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share 0 ICAC commissioner David Ipp displayed bias by failing to disclose discussions he had with the government about whether to grant or refuse a mining lease for the Mt Penny tenement, a court Continue Reading →
Sad sorry joke but nobody’s laughing The Daily Telegraph March 22, 201312:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share 3 GOVERNMENTS can be many things: right-wing or left-wing, good or bad, hard or soft. The best ones are often a combination. But the federal Labor government is no longer any of those things. Continue Reading →
Gillard prepares for frontbench shake-up ABCUpdated March 23, 2013, 9:59 am tweet Email Print Prime Minister Julia Gillard is working on drastic changes to her frontbench after losing four experienced ministers in the wake of a botched attempt to unseat her. Chris Bowen, Martin Ferguson and Kim Carr , and will join Simon Crean on Continue Reading →
22 March 2013, 6.35am AEST Grattan on Friday: Demoralised Labor faces bleak future An extraordinary orgy of self-destruction has left Labor looking a shambles, with Julia Gillard now facing a reshuffle and an almost impossible task to get her government into fighting form for the September 14 election. Nearly three years ago, Kevin Rudd was Continue Reading →
Can Intraplate Earthquakes Produce Stronger Shaking Than at Plate Boundaries? Mar. 20, 2013 — New information about the extent of the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake rupture, which occurs in an area with many small and discontinuous faults, may support a hypothesis proposed by other workers that these types of quakes could produce stronger ground shaking Continue Reading →
Warming Has Doubled Risk of Katrina-like Storm Surges Published: March 18th, 2013 , Last Updated: March 18th, 2013 808 560 185 1 Print Permalink RSS Andrew Freedman By Andrew Freedman Global warming has already doubled the risk of Hurricane Katrina-magnitude storm surges in the U.S., according to a new study published Monday. The study, which Continue Reading →