A Committee to Protect Bloggers strikes me as a good idea.

Another dead Hero.
You’re already sorely missed Hunter.
Edit: a little more on the man can be found here

The world of Blogs keeps getting more interesting with a (Labor) member of the Tasmanian Parliament, David Bartlett, publishing his own Blog.

CorpWatch provide us with this interesting insight into the future world of Carbon Trading and the under Kyoto.
Firstly that world leaders, despite their commitment (or perceived commitment) to addressing issues of Global Warming, still put their faith in the market to contain it. Markets work on zero sum equations, so someone will necessarily loose [...]

More on Kyoto and climate change.

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) seems to have largely slipped under the radar in the Australian media but is quite significant for a few reasons.
The CAFTA is an expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has lead too, amongst other things, the displacement of indigenous peoples and the revoking of [...]

Here’s an interesting Federal Government press release: “Australia leads the way in tackling greenhouse gas emissions”
..If you say so

More on Industrial Relations: “The union movement’s peak council has warned that radical changes being considered by the Federal Government to the way minimum wages are calculated in Australia could confine national wage cases to the pages of history.”
Get angry people!!

Greenpeace have a petition to get Howard to sign the Kyoto Petition.
Needless to say this is a highly significant issue.

Doyle is surely the most irrelevant man in Australian politics. How he is the leader of a political party is beyond me.
He wants to sweet the streets clean of beggars for the Commonwealth Games for fear of being dubbed ‘the begging city’ by our international visitors. Not only is he completely devoid of [...]