Global online action against Conroy?

March 31, 2009 in Rants & Raves
Tags: ACMA, activism, ALP, Australia, Australian Communications and Media Authority, democracy, ECD, electronic civil disobedience, federal government, freedom of speech, human rights, Internet, Kevin Rudd, Liberals, No Clean Feed, online activism, political activism, political parties, politics, Stephen Conroy, technology, transparency

There is a rumor floating around that the current protests about the Government’s Clean Feed scheme will be stepped up a notch. Apparently a growing number of die hard online activists within Australia and globally are becoming restless with Senator Conroy’s unpreparedness to dump the scheme.

The footy is back!

March 25, 2009 in Rants & Raves
Tags: AFL, All Blacks, ARU, Australian Football League, Australian Rugby Union, Brisbane, comments, football, footy, Geelong Football Club, GFC, Melbourne, New Zealand, opinion, QRU, Queensland, Queensland Reds, rugby union, sports, Victoria, Wallabies

Please Note: this post has nothing to do with politics, climate change, political parties, or other such party apparachik stuff. It’s about sports…yes that’s right, sports. I’m pretty stoked that the footy is back (ie Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and the other footy Australian Football League (AFL))!

LNP bloodbath begins

March 24, 2009 in Elections, Rants & Raves, Thoughts
Tags: ALP, Australia, ballot box, Barnaby Joyce, democracy, Greens, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, Liberals, LNP, Mal Brough, Nationals, party machines, political parties, politics, Queensland, voters, voting

There will be some that will use the Liberal National Party’s staggering loss on Saturday (21/03/09) as a good reason to split the party. Merged party supporters must be cringing at the months coming with hardliners like Mal Brough champing at the bit to pull the party apart. Lawrence Springborg was a spent force the first time he ran as leader of the Liberals, let alone the front for the new Liberal National Party. And as some commentators have already noted the merged party was really the Liberals taking over the much more successful Nationals.