With low unemployment, low inflation and 20 straight years of economic growth, the Sydney Morning Herald's Jessica Irvine is astounded at how so many Australians are carrying on as if they live in a debt-wracked European basket case. Younger Australians have never seen a reces...

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How aged care reform slipped off the media agenda: "Confronted with a major policy initiative that, while affecting millions, offered little potential for partisanship or prurience, the media was a little flummoxed". Mr Denmore, The Failed Estate . The limits of citizen journa...

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In a speech at the Institute of Economic Affairs , Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey announced the the end of the age of entitlement. He followed up the speech with an interview for the ABC's Lateline . At Billablog, Hockey's speech inspires a song while Patricia at Cafe Whispers pe...

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Twitter's a great medium for sharing links and short comments. And since that's pretty much what I've been doing with Missing Link Friday it raises an obvious question -- why not take Missing Link to Twitter? So I thought I'd give it a go: @donattroppo. Let me know what you th...

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Classical liberals and social justice: "many defenders of private economic liberty suffer from a malady that I shall call social justicitis . Social justicitis , as I use that term, refers to a strongly negative, even allergic , reaction to the idea of social or distributive j...

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Why don’t women patent? "In Why Don’t Women Patent? , a recent NBER paper, Jennifer Hunt et al. present a stark fact: Only 5.5% of the holders of commercialized patents are women." Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution . Innovation and inequality: What effect do now products and...

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A commodities boom can temporarily boost government revenue, says Malcolm Turnbull . Mostly that's a good thing. But when governments respond by making non-temporary changes to the budget, we have a problem: If, rolling in a big cyclical surplus, a government were to cut incom...

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The Lord's Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony have been in the news for years (here's a 2006 story from the ABC's Foreign Correspondent ). But this week the issue went viral thanks to a video by advocacy group Invisible Children . With help from celebrities like Rihann...

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A failure in the realm of ideas: It's crisis as usual for the left. Despite the global financial crisis, left of centre parties are struggling in the polls. Francis Fukuyama puts it down to a "a failure in the realm of ideas" arguing that: "The left has not been able to make a...

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The view from America: "the plot has thickened like barbie sauce and Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott is the happiest man in Australia." Aaron Goldstein, The Spectacle Blog . Gillard government a policy free zone: "Now that the Rudd agenda has mostly been passed or abandoned,...

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We save for the future by building things: "As a society, we save for the future by channeling resources—steel, electricity, human labor power—into the production of things that last a long time rather than things that are more perishable." Matthew Yglesias, Moneybox . Investi...

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Conservatism "thrives on low intelligence and poor information", writes George Monbiot who reports the results of, a recent study showing that "prejudice tends not to arise directly from low intelligence, but from the conservative ideologies to which people of low intelligence...

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A Twitter randomised trial: "I have a confession to make", writes Andrew Leigh , "I’m a twitter-sceptic." But in keeping with his evidence-based approach to decision making, Andrew Leigh MP is embarking on a one month randomised trial. @aleighmp Why libertarians need to talk w...

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Katie's Australia Day - Brazilian style! Food blogger Katie Quinn Davies' Australia Day recipes. Australia Day from afar: "One of the most surprising things for me to experience out of Australia was people saying–even in the American South!–Australia’s really racist, isn’t it?...

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The Jericho amendments: At Grog's Gamut Greg Jericho checks out the Australian Public Service Commission's new guidelines for public servants engaging in public comment. Some of the principles are "so obvious or dumb as could only be written by a public servant", says Jericho,...

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The missing liberals: Why is there no liberal party? Because there are so few people who support both economic and social liberal causes, says Andrew Norton . Andrew cites data from the 2010 Australian Election Survey. Dr Watson vs Dr Ludd: With access to huge databases, exper...

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Beyond soundbites: "There’s so much potential for political parties, who are more and more thought to be hollow, soulless things, to allow their MPs to show what they actually believe in and engage with people. Soundbites were useful when someone else controlled how much time...

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Missing link is taking a vacation. See you next year! The destruction of the tea: What did the original tea party patriots stand for? Alfred F. Young looks at the history behind the Boston Tea Party . Are Slaves Growing Your Fair Trade Cotton? Matthew Yglesias links to a story...

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The Humbling of a Pretty Girl: When model and fashion writer Lauren Scruggs walked into a plane propeller the paramedics didn't think she'd survive . "With the lacerations on her head and the skull fracture, we thought there would be significant brain damage", said one. At Zer...

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Lending is the right model for ebooks: Joshua Gans asks "If lending is the appropriate mode for books, then how would the business of publishing look if it is built around lending rather than ownership?" Why journalists need Twitter : Often maligned as quick chat for empty hea...

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White Ribbon Day: "In an afternoon in Montreal on December 6th 1989, a man massacred 14 of his female classmates. From this horrific action, a nation was brought to the forefront of an issue that had been severely underreported for too long." Lip Magazine . "White Ribbon Day p...

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Put it up to eleven: "The entire media is shouting ALL the time because they're worried that if they pull back on their Tube Screamers their highly compressed copy won't be heard over all the other sources of distraction", says Mr Denmore . We reject your demand for demands: T...

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Un-occupy: Nearly 70 students walked out of Greg Mankiw's economics class at Harvard on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Harvard Crimson's Jose Delreal , "The walkout was meant to be a show of support for the 'Occupy' movement’s principal criticism that conservative econo...

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Moving backwards? Opposition leader Tony Abbott's project is "oriented to the past rather than the future, and it seeks to reinstate the past by projectively erasing the present", writes Mark Bahnisch . Bringing back tram conductors: The Greens want to bring back Melbourne's t...

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A winner-takes-all-society will fail: America's top 1 per cent might have the best educations, the best doctors and the best lifestyles, but their fate is bound up with how the other 99 per cent live, writes Joe Stiglitz . Harry Clarke agrees : "the inequality threat to the su...

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The Occupy Wall Street Movement is growing: "The challenge for those of us who believe in market economics is how to restore business legitimacy", writes Peter Shergold . The top one per cent: "One of the most striking successes of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been the...

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Seen any great blog posts recently? Written something you want to share? I'm a bit tied up today so this week's missing link belongs to you. Post your links in the comments thread.

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Spoken like a true utilitarian: "If we really want the greatest happiness of the greatest number, we should be electing psychopathic, Machiavellian misanthropes", writes Roger McShane (via Will Wilkinson ). I love you so much ... that I'm going to ruin your life: Tigtog on the...

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Is gender equality driving down the price of sex? Women trade sex for resources, argues psychologist Roy Baumeister . "Historically, women have restricted each other's sexuality in order to make the price of sex high". Roy Baumeister's bad economics: Baumeister's theory is "no...

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Spoiler alert! "New research by psychologists Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt shows that people enjoy stories more when they already know the ending." Hollie Nyseth at Citings & Sightings . Will Wilkinson has a new blog: It's at Big Think and it's called The Moral S...

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Even geeks need to be polite: Geeky men with poor social skills might be frustrated by their lack of success with women, but frustration is no excuse for abusing women who say no to other geeks. So if your life revolves around a geeky activity where women are scarce, Skepticla...

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Beer: Who has the best beer? Chris Bertram isn't sure ... but it's not the Welsh. The fatosphere: Fat acceptance blogs can improve health outcomes according to a recent study. Sunanda Creagh reports . Why inequality is like cholesterol: Matt Cowgill and Mark Bahnisch discuss a...

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Paul Lockyer & quality journalism: Paul Lockyer's "documentary on the Queensland floods this year was just simply outstanding", said Laura Tingle last month . The veteran ABC journalist was part of her top 10 quality journalism sources in Australia. In April Alan Knight wrote...

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A modest proposal for debt ceiling reform: It's spending on Medicare that's driving up the deficit, writes Noah Millman. So at the American Scene he suggests replacing the debt ceiling with a ceiling on Medicare spending . Austerity and Social Protest: Governments might not be...

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Progressive politics without unions? "If you want progressive policies, the comparative historical evidence suggests it’s very helpful to have a strong labor movement" writes Lane Kenworthy . But in the US unions are weak and getting weaker. Is there an alternative strategy? N...

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Furry Fandom: Anthrocon is the world's largest convention for people fascinated with humanlike animal characters. Held in Pittsburgh, the 2011 convention attracted more than 4,500 'furries' , some of them dressed as their favourite characters. Canadian blogger and fantasy auth...

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Don't post crap! Troppo readers were up in arms about Rafe Champion's post on the Monckton and Dennis climate change debate . Rafe wants to know "how the warming lobby and Greens managed to inflate a possible temperature increase of a degree or two over the next century into t...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday: inequality, McMansions, education, brown coal and flaming kittens. Inequality: Why don't Australians complain more about wealth inequality? According to David Neal at The Conversation it's because most of us underestimate how unequal the dis...

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Joshua Gans can't imagine how staff and students at The Spot would be blocking the toilets with paper towels. It turns out that the problem may be caused by toilet ' nesters '. As commenter Alister explains "students and/or staff are using paper towels as seat-liners." And, as...

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"I arrived with fellow baboon researcher Monica yesterday night, after a fairly smooth trip starting in St. Louis and passing through Atlanta and Johannesburg." That's primate biologist Kenneth Chiou writing about his trip to Pioneer Camp outside Lusaka. Chiou has been bloggin...

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"Marian Evans was enraged by the suggestion that the scenes and characters in her early books were simply transcribed from life", writes Adair Jones . "... the assumption that the work was drawn from life was not an affirmation of her talent for realism, but a denial of her cr...

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Does poverty deplete willpower? At This Field is Required, Pamela Stubbart muses over a recent article in the New Republic . When money isn't enough. At Larvatus Prodeo, Brian links to a recent column by Ross Gittins and starts a discussion about poverty and social exclusion....

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In this week's Missing Link Friday, bloggers remember Sydney book seller Bob Gould, US blogger Mark Perry explains what's up with manufacturing, Andrew Norton examines a new poll on attitudes to welfare, and various writers complain about the dismal state of politics today. Re...

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Judith Sloan vs the environment. If you're trying to reach Judith Sloan and she won't pick up the phone it's probably because she's still in the shower . Blue Milk writes : "Last week I had to compose an embarrassing email to the library explaining that I had lost their copy o...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday bloggers discuss slutwalking, teenage pregnancy, the demise of the book, typical Australian incomes and the problem of men who don't work. Sex, lies and slutwalking . Slutwalking is what happens when "when the political passions of the second...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday: fat, feminism, fair pay, philosophy and more. The death of Obama? Catallaxy's Samuel J spots an unfortunate typo at the Australian . The dogs of war: "We sent 79 commandos to get Osama bin Laden — and one dog", writes Ezra Klein . Cutting th...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday: a British conservative blames women for inequality, Australia's PM celebrates the dignity of work, Americans argue about health care spending, and the Freakonomics blog reveals the damaging environmental impact of medical marijuana. Is femin...

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In the UK, the coalition government is taking an axe to spending but it hasn't abandoned a commitment to fairness. At least that's what Nick Clegg and Iain Duncan Smith argue in a recent opinion piece for The Telegraph : Our welfare reforms are intended to help people get on,...

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I love newspapers and read lots of them. But I don't love any one newspaper so much that I'd pay hundreds of dollars a year to read it online. The kind of package I could be persuaded to pay for would be a subscription to a bundle of my favourite newspapers and magazines. But...

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The crisis in Japan has dominated the media over the past week. With the earthquake and tsunami over, many bloggers turned their attention the unfolding disaster at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi and its implications for the future of nuclear energy. It's n...

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I haven't had time to put together the usual Missing Link post today. So I'll turn it over to you. If you've read something enlightening, thought provoking, amusing or annoying that you'd like share then go right ahead. The comments thread is open.

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In this week's Missing Link Friday: bloggers complain about talkback radio; Andrew Bolt shares a bizarre political fantasy; and, tacked on the end, the usual list of other interesting stuff. Angry radio The whole point of talkback radio is to get the audience emotionally engag...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday: Why Ross Gittins doesn't want to hear you complaining about the high cost of living. Is there a connection between free trade and disability? Just how deluded are Americans about inequality? Who's to blame for American ignorance about climat...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday: Are conservative Christians the only oppressed minority not protected by university diversity policies? Bill Muehlenberg thinks so. An anonymous poster to Menzies House risks a Joe Klein experience . And Ayn Rand's sacred text, Atlas Shrugge...

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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt shares this story written by a young gay woman in 1985: Until about a year ago, I was very quiet about my sexual orientation... I often didn't understand the sexual jokes made by my colleagues… the people making the jokes thought that we all felt th...

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This week's Missing Link features reactions to John Birmingham's column: Why is fat such a fractious issue? Then there's a miscellaneous collection of links on topics like the flood levy, the property market, inequality and race. The F word John Birmingham sees himself as a to...

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This week we're stealing a few links from the Profligate Promiscuous Strumpet before moving on to a couple of stories from the US blogosphere. The theme is motherhood. So that's what they're for! "Why does a woman breastfeeding in public cause such alarm among some people", as...

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Are older women a threat to productivity? Does higher education educate? Can you trust Google's ngram viewer? And why are there so few Filipino restaurants? These are just a few of the questions raised in this week's links. Food Last week Richard Tsukamasa Green wondered Why a...

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You've read about the floods , you've given to the flood relief appeal and now you need a break. So instead of talking about the distribution of water, let's talk about the distribution of income. Thanks to Christopher Joye it's been a hot topic over the past week. People are...

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Missing Link Friday is back. And to start off the new year, here's a short quiz. Follow the links to check your answers. 1. When the Japanese look at the moon, they don't see a man, writes Catallaxy's Ken Nielsen . According to Nielsen what do they see? A. A lotus root B. A ra...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday -- a former Costello adviser compares Australia's tax and welfare system to a platypus (follow the links to find out why), Tyler Cowen starts a debate about inequality in America, bloggers worry about the demise of serious political journalis...

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Last of the year. We're going into recess until after New Year. BTW We'll be doing Best Blog Posts again in conjunction with Online Opinion. I'll post a more detailed notice later today. Sinclair Davidson on Oakeshott's peddling "rumour" that govt colluded in sinking Xmas Isla...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF0USo9vaGw I've decided to start posting the Missing Link Daily Twitter production here as a daily digest. Note that I cover "alternative media" (non-MSM fairly loosely defined) as well as blogs. Feedback welcome. Anyway I'll be suspending it fo...

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This week at Missing Link Friday -- bloggers tangle with the Wikileaks story, Ad Astra expresses his disappointment in Tony Abbott, Mr Punch falls victim to political correctness and the War on Christmas continues. Tangling with the cables guy A lot of bloggers are writing abo...

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In this week's Missing Link Friday -- a brilliant idea for reforming the education system, old people, advice about grey hair and the need for teeth 2.0. Skinner Box kids "I was just thinking about schooling and I had a most brilliant idea", writes Joseph Clark . "If students...

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This week's Missing Link Friday looks at who's to blame for the toxic waste in your garage, asks whether car drivers and Tasmanians are paying their way and investigates the latest public policy fad -- social investment bonds. Help! Rich guys in top hats are filling my garage...

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Cheating students, immortal hamburgers, housing nutters and a cunning plan to improve the affordability of Grange Hermitage, all feature in this week's Missing Link Friday. Lies, lies and more lies Joe Hockey is an expert at deception, writes Ad astra at The Political Sword ....

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It's Friday. And that means it's time for another Missing Link Friday. This week Bill Muelenberg explains why letting teenage girls bring other girls to school formals may encourage bestiality, an Australian conservative argues that female empowerment is a plot to disempower m...

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Here's this week's Missing Link Friday. One for the country Don't stop at two, says Mark Richardson. "to have stable population growth you need a large percentage of couples to have 3 children to make up for those having none. Limiting families to 2 children won't work." At Oz...

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Welcome to Missing Link Friday -- a quick tour of a few of the issues Australian bloggers have been following during the week. Will it become a regular feature? Let's see. I'll be running this alongside Ken Parish's new reader-driven Missing Link where you get to share your fa...

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This article by Stephen Bartos first appeared in the Public Sector Informant magazine, published with the Canberra Times today. This version has been slightly edited, primarily to include links. Government Information It was two steps forward, one back for access to government...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Nationals bitch slap ALP and LP in Gippsland . Ralph Buttigieg finds good news for Bren...

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While some members of the Missing Link team have subscribed their selections and others have done so partially, others (where are you arts people?) haven't done so at all. They're no doubt as flat out as I am with work commitments. In my case it's finishing exam and essay mark...

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Thursday's Missing Link over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Andrew Norton bids farewell to the Australian De...

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Wednesday's Missing Link over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian A Committee in the Coalition-dominated Senate g...

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Tuesday's Missing Link over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Daily life in Afghanistan Gary Sauer-Thompson , L...

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Monday's Missing Link is over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Ralph Buttigieg, believing Brendan Nelson's day...

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Friday's edition over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian I think the second one is LBJ but who's the third? Jim...

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Thursday's edition over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian John Quiggin and Gary Sauer-Thompson look at the stat...

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Wednesday's edition over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Tim Dunlop notes the AMA's bailing out of backing/pa...

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Tuesday's edition over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The Missing Link team feels that we should complete th...

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Monday's edition over the fold. A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian (From Worst of Perth ) Can this gallery expect a visit...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Phillip Toledanos new book Phone Sex (July 2008, Twin Palms) takes us into the boudoirs...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The hero. The leader. The god by Alexandre Kosolapov (via the Stumblng Tumblr ) Gary Sa...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian We should be thankful for the small mercy that Tim Blair at least doesn't seem to belie...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Should we be worried? (via Boing Boing ) Lauredhel and Fiona Reynolds discuss the absur...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Luvvies, but not Albert Finney playing Hamlet ( via Laura ) The inaugural downunder fem...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Terry Sedgwick notes the loaded language in this headline announcing the predictable le...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian One for nostalgic codgers like me (KP) - Paul McCartney performing "A Day in the Life"...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian via Larvatus Prodeo Tim Blair has been doing some sleuthing on the rumours that Kevin R...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Apathetic Sarah imagines John Macarthur as a supporter of Camden's charming Kate McCull...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Liberal politician Sophie Mirabella and demon spawn imagined (and explained) by Apathet...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Worst of Perth wonders about the values of all the bogan talkback ranters harassing Hen...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Suggest a caption (via Terry Sedgwick ). Thank God for those activist judges on the Sup...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Random photo from Flickr - page 1 of 72,701 hits for "teenager". Is this more or less "...

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I've just spent two hours finding stuff for Missing Link because other team members (except the arts ones) didn't have time. However I've now discovered that the arts section, while full of great material, is also full of extraneous formatting code that will need to be strippe...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Exclusive Club Troppo investigation reveals another Henson peddling kiddie porn. Where...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Lauredhel gives a hand to an aptly named blog called Photoshop Disasters . Paul Norton...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Paul Norton looks at the current cult of global cooling and lessons unlearnt from South...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Threats from certain Missing Link colleagues have resulted in a penis photo theme in to...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Robert Rauschenberg's Skyway (1964)(he died this time last week, but better late than n...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Reason 's Jesse Walker on the fate of the Spaghetti Monster (originally a comment on th...

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I've added a new Australian sports blogs category to TroppoSphere , with lots of great feeds kindly identified by Guido (whose new blog is one of those featured). I've also split the arts blogs category into two - "theatre, film, TV and visual arts" and "books, music and gener...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The California State Constitution protects gay marriage! See today's ML "law" section ....

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian A t-shirt every blogger should have, courtesy Will Wilkinson who argues (compellingly)...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The Budget It's Wayne Swan's first but it's Andrew Bartlett's eleventh . Robert Merkel...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian From Jeff at Rigorous Intuition . Like a fat kid eyeing off a doughnut, the inevitable...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian From Terry Sedgwick . It's a bit like the armadillo book that gave rise to the original...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Apathetic Sarah takes Julie Bishop's latest pronouncement to its logical conclusion App...

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As many of you know, I'm usually around Troppo for Missing Link purposes, and it's Missing Link that can take a great deal of the credit for Legal Eagle and I heading off on a new joint blogging venture . Jacques Chester - Troppo's redoubtable blog admin - can also take a bunc...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Holbein sketch of Lady Guildford (via Scarlett W Blue ) Apathetic Sarah notes that Quee...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Bernice Balconey , Kim and clarencegirl review Morris and Michael's most recent public...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Tim Lambert on the fallacy inherent in yesterday's umpteenth climate change denialist "...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Gummo's New-New Political Compass Apathetic Sarah anticipates an interesting judgement...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian From Terry Sedgwick Jason Soon points out how Craig Emerson has misrepresented Alan Mor...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Annie Leibowitz photo of 15 year old Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus (see items under "...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The Worst of Perth sculpts former WA Premier Geoff Gallop and yearns for his return in...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Mark Shorter's upcoming performance at MOP projects explores patriarchal modes of power...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The new Political Compass per Gummo Trotsky Kev Gillett believes the only effect increa...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Anzac Day march Ken Parish indulges in some refuting of Albrechtsen and if nothing else...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Graham Young points out yet another pointless quick-fix by the government and then offe...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian If you imagined that concrete "big things" at tourist spots were a uniquely Australian...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian 2020 Roundup Is it too late for Joshua Gans to get a guernsey in the Missing Link Wrapu...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Terry Sedgwick commits the ultimate act of Photoshop self-abuse 2020 Roundup Bernard Sl...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Terry Sedgwick comes up with a strangely disturbing thought - the Bolter for Lord Mayor...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Andrew Leigh summarises some of his favourite results from an ANU-run Governance poll . dr. fa...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian How dumb is Liberal Frontbencher Christopher Pyne? Asked and answered at North Coast Voices ....

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Jacques Chester has scathing words for the Government's mealy mouthed excuses for formalising...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Australia is to get its first female governor general, with the announcement that Kylie Quenti...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Gary Sauer-Thompson provides a health update on the Murray River. Darryl Mason discusses an un...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Pavlov's Cat demanded a photo of Nicholas, Ken and James in swimwear to balance the ledger aft...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Hmm. Can we engineer a feminism snark thread two days in a row, thereby consolidating ML's tit...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian This is an entry in a contest to match new products with old advertising visuals. Check out al...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Saint just doesn't see the funny side of this unofficially sanctioned Toyota ad : In as much a...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Brendan Nelson asks: " What is the suffering of the people who are evicted by banks, compared...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian To keep his hand in while he waits for the next election to bring on another season of bungled...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Andrew Bartlett reports on the Senate Inquiry into housing affordability : The first day of he...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Mark Bahnisch tries to avoid taking an obvious approach to the 2020 summit . Robert Merkel sho...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Petering Time is listening to Kevin and hearing a dog-whistle . Despite the end...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Derek Barry is unimpressed by the gimmickry of Earth Hour . Apathetic Sarah was...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Gary Sauer-Thompson is skeptical about whether co-operative federalism will imp...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian Lewis Holden relays suggestions of incrementally enacting a Clayton's Republic,...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Stephen Hill and Saint. Politics Australian RWDB JF Beck thinks this Guardian photo is typically misleading greenie propaga...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Andrew Bartlett puts the case for a "peoples' boycott" of the Beijing Olympics . It's a brave stance for a politician...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian John Quiggin responds to Ross Gittins' accusation that he and Nicholas Gruen didn't address the 'real reasons' for th...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Gam and Currency Lad both posted fitting tributes on the finding of the wreck of HMAS Sydney after 67 years. CL, howe...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian From Students for a Free Tibet - also see this CNN video Andrew Bartlett invites submissions to a Senate committee he...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Gummo Trotsky's Word of the Day (Expression of the Day?) is ex gratia , as in the ex gratia payments to carers that t...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Ken Lovell highlights the hijinks of a WA building industry employer : Given this long history of bastardry by builde...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Mary, Frederik and family as Bald Archy winners Peter Martin is contemptuous of media and Coalition scare-mongering o...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Terry Sedgwick continues his focus on occasional Coalition MP Mark Vaile The Currency Lad on the limits of Rudd's Bru...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Jim Fryar takes a libertarian look at (repugnant) police raids in Melbourne on the homes of terminally ill people con...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian via Terry Sedgwick Pommygranate summarises former Treasury Secretary John Stone's arguments on why John Howard was Au...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian via Bastards Inc John Quiggin rejoices in the Federal Government's decision to buy water from irrigaters and give it...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian The Victorian Government's big new land release won't solve the housing crisis if people can't get there, argues Jere...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian tigtog believes that a Federal Government scheme for national registration of medical professionals will help to weed...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Does D.S. stand for "diced and sliced" or ... ? Nicholas Gruen finds time off from zig-a-zig-ahhing to compare and co...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian David Tiley brings grossness into sharp focus with a post titled anyone seen Fido lately? Ken Lovell and Bridget Grea...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Yes I know some people whinge about excessive coverage of the Apathetic Youths , but this image about the Rudd govern...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Shaun Cronin regrets that there are as yet no grounds for sacking the NSW government : All Iemma is guilty of is gros...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian John Quiggin wonders whether it's time to give the B team a turn in New South Wales, and Australian Politics believes...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Harry Clarke admires the Garnaut interim report, and shows how the government's reaction to it conforms to a pattern...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian The main message of Garnaut's interim report , as John Quiggin sees it, is that: At this point, the risk of moving to...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Apathetic Sarah asks a difficult question: will Brisbane be stupid enough to re-elect Campbell Newman for a second te...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian RWDB J.F Beck notes that new PM Kevin Rudd is insightful enough not to piss off Brian Burke, while pissed-off 'lefty'...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian Andrew Bartlett was not surprised by the revelation that some of Howards ministers didnt know that WorkChoices might...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australian John Quiggin has a guest post by Bree Blakeman and Nanni Concu with a field assessment of the NT intervention, with p...

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Photo by yellowrubberduck on Flickr Nicholas Gruen mentioned many moons ago an idea for a useful feature for Club Troppo. Apparently Crikey used to run an occasional roundup of interesting publications from thinktanks and other more academic sources, but subsequently discontin...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australia Apparently Peter Costello is retiring from Parliament . As if anyone cared. The case of the Archbishop and Sharia Law...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Gilmae, Darlene Taylor and Saint. Politics Australia Right wing gay Christian blogger John Heard approves of the Rudd apology. Economist Harry Clarke doesn't, while Tim Bl...

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By abbietabbie on Flickr Yes, folks. It's been a longer wait than we'd intended, but Missing Link is back for 2008. And, just as Peter Cundall always says " That's your bloomin' lot " at the end of every episode of his gardening show, so too I'm not going to resist the temptat...

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Christmas isn't quite the same in the southern hemisphere, is it? (via Darryl Mason ) 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad We've been operating short-staffed here at Missing Link over the last 2 or 3 weeks,...

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Courtesy Tanja " Poligoths " Stark 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad This weekend edition of Missing Link has been produced by a reduced complement of James Farrell, Gilmae, Jim Belshaw and Ken Parish, wi...

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"With the Howard era over, we are about to engage a new family that we know little about, except that Theresa Rein is very rich and dresses like Count Duckula. In fact the entire family, with the exception of Ruddstar, likes to dress LOUD." (lifted from the Daily Telegraph) 1....

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad I was expecting the blogosphere to sink into a post-election/pre-Christmas exhausted torpor this week. On the contrary, almost everyone is firing on all cylinders, albeit...

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Miss Haversham refuses a proposal from Terry Sedgwick 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad I was nearly going to call this the Year Zero edition of Missing Link, but it would give people the wrong idea. I'm...

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What could be more appropriate on election day than to reproduce the last two of Jon Kudelka's epic series 101 uses for a John Howard ? Moreover, they're even ideologically balanced (well, almost). Speaking for myself, the best use I can think of for John Winston is as a crotc...

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Warney dressed as his mum for a new TV beer ad. What is it about beefy Aussie sporting blokes that makes them want to dress up in drag in front of the cameras? The boofheads at the AFL and NRL Footie Shows seem to think it's funny too. Courtesy Will at The Corridor (cricket bl...

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Gandhi's take on Miranda Devine's attempt to rescue fellow RWDB pundit Caroline Overington from her own ham-fisted effort at electoral rorting by the time-honoured RWDB gambit of labelling lefties "humourless". Nitpickers might observe that Miranda is actually a Fairfax Angel...

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Courtesy of Terry Sedgwick (where there are more orangutan policy images) 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Today's Missing Link predictably publishes a plethora of political content, but we also have ver...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad This edition of Missing Link compiled by James Farrell, Gilmae, Peter Black, Amanda Rose and Ken Parish with editing by the latter. What with the election campaign and al...

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A picture tells a thousand words (via Apathetic Sarah ) 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad We're running a day late again. My fault, but we'll still publish again late tomorrow (Friday). This edition compi...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad This edition of Missing Link is a couple of days late, owing mostly to Ken Parish's broken Dell PC (don't buy one, their warranty service is truly appalling). It was comp...

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Alan Moir on the election, via Apathetic Sarah . If Alan Moir is prepared to put his reputation on the line, and so is Alan Ramsay (despite having forfeited his spectacularly in 2004), why can't bloggers and blog commenters be as bold? In response to last week's challenge, a f...

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If you're not with us, you're against us. Thanks to Arleesher at Stoush.net . As was made clear in the previous edition, we don't discuss politics in the Introduction to Missing Link. Aussies prefer to talk about sport. On Election Day we watch TV all evening with the intent a...

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Not exactly home-grown art, but irresistible. Via Remember the West , original provenance unspecified. The News and Politics section is full of links on the election. But the Introduction to Missing Link is reknowned for its dignity and fair-mindedness, and not the venue for d...

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Wilcox on the McClelland Affair, via Ken Lovell Hard on the heals of the Sudanese Affair is the Pine Boxes Affair; between them the two have raised the fury of the Government's boo-squad to new heights, whether from outraged principle or from fear that the tactics may work. An...

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The Patriot, courtesy of Mark at Seeking Asylum Down Under If there was a topic of the week it was the Immigration Minister's decision that Australia will accept fewer African refugees, and the associated furore about Sudanese gangs. Andrew Bartlett reports on a forum of the E...

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Visit Grodscorp to suggest a caption The federal election is absorping more than its share of attention in Ozblogistan, and is certain to do so for the next two months. For those who care, there is feast of psephology at Poll Bludger, Simon Jackman's Blog , Peter Brent's Mumbl...

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A few hails and farewells to kick off today's issue of Missing Link. Condolences to the family of Charles Murton, erudite proprietor of Diogenes' Lamp . Charles died after a lengthy battle with cancer, and will be remembered for his astute engagement with all comers across the...

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Names are de rigueur around Ozblogistan this issue, as sundry people riff on a piece by resident Age bomb-thrower and lefty Andrew Bolt alternative, Catherine Deveny. Nick Gruen and Legal Eagle got going with two thoughtful pieces apiece, while Darlene Taylor was in wholeheart...

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APEC and election speculation is clearly dominating bloggy concerns, and people are starting to get a tad silly with it all. The latest hacking victim is Andrew Landeryou , who joins his ideological opponent Jeremy Sear in having had his site hacked and blog nicked. Love em or...

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Well, I could bill this as the Andrew Johns druggie special edition, because Joey's turn at the Notting Hill Carnival has certainly made a few waves around Ozblogistan. As is often the case, Wicking managed to combine Johns' efforts with one of the stranger animal interest sto...

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We'll start with a community service announcement: The Australian Blogging Conference is to be held at the Queensland University of Technology on September 28 this year. Peter Black, one of the Missing Link crew, has put a considerable amount of time into getting it off the gr...

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First up, an apology for the lateness of this issue. I've been overdoing things at the Edinburgh Festival, with the result that Missing Link has suffered. Still, there's plenty of goodies here for your weekend delectation, so sit back with something drinkable and enjoy. I'll k...

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See, this Kevin bloke walked into a bar... Ozblogistan (like the MSM, but somewhat more cynically) got into Kevin's Komedy Kapers at a New York strip club big time, and spent (a fair bit of) time concluding it was a storm in a teacup, albeit a highly entertaining one. Some of...

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With any sort of luck, this issue of Missing Link will wend its way out to our subscribers via email, as Jacques slowly rebuilds the Troppo server using the dedicated equipment he's just bought on the site's behalf. Let us know in the comments if you received the email, and ho...

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Another day, another blogger... or, in this case, another member of the Missing Link crew. Ken Parish is leaving us temporarily (although he will be back, be assured of that). This means the Centrist Bloggers require a new custodian, and we'd like you to make gilmae welcome. A...

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Gam has been busy with Photoshop since JWH urged us all not to over-react to Australian soldiers getting pissed and dressing up in KKK outfits at Darwin's Robertson Barracks. 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and...

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Via Gummo Trotsky's Tugboat Potemkin This edition of Missing Link is not only a little late but also rather abbreviated. Writing and commenting about the Haneef case has consumed all my blogging time, so there is no coverage in today's edition of either blogs that we classify...

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Nicholas Gruen looks distinctly dubious about the tucker at this week's "grogblogging" function in Brisbane. 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad No intro, let's cut straight to the guts. This (late yet agai...

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Once again we're late with today's edition of Missing Link, but we do have a good excuse! Due to work pressures, Jason Soon is going on an extended Missing Link hiatus, and we've had to scope out a replacement. Stepping into Jason's shoes will be Peter Black, a contender for O...

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Not such a fat issue this time - on this anniversary of the 1944 bomb plot - which is just as well - you'd all be read out otherwise. Still, there's been lots of goodness on the intertubes, and I'll pop a few recommendations up front before hopping into Missing Link proper. Fi...

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Well, Mohammed Haneef and the Bail Dance... or not, as the case may be. It certainly got Ozblogistan going in a big way, with lots of lively commentary and legal input. For my money, bloggers really showed where they can do a much better job than the MSM, simply by being able...

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My apologies to all and sundry; the reason Missing Link is late is because yours truly got overconfident about getting over the dreaded lurgi, which I'm now paying for in spades. Missing Link will be up this afternoon, after I've been to the doctor (yes, me going to a doctor;...

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Housing and blogging, blogging and housing. Since we did some navel gazing in the last issue, I thought we'd better leave the blog v MSM stoush to the news and politics section, and bring housing affordability up to the top of this issue of Missing Link. This is such a juicy t...

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A bit of navel gazing never hurt anyone, and in this issue, various bloggers engage our (oftimes troubled) relationship with the MSM, along with the role of new communications tools. Particularly worthwhile in this context is Peter Black's ongoing examination of Facebook v oth...

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In an obvious bid for some inter-thread Missing Link stoushing, Amanda has decided to do her arts review as a series of links (or, alternatively - and more likely - I have seriously screwed something up). We are also down on some personnel, with Ken Parish still snowed under a...

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First up, some housekeeping. The Missing Link crew have added a new committee member, and we'd like y'all to welcome Legal Eagle to the fold. For those of you who've been following this illustrious publication, you'd know that Legal Eagle is a young mum, legal academic and (fo...

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Well, after my R v Hurley -imposed-hiatus, I'm back (thank Christ). Once again bringing the best of the blogosphere to you via the redoubtable Missing Link crew (if I ever make enough money, I'll be commissioning Hilltop Hoods to write us a theme song). I could have done witho...

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Mr Howard's new plan for NT indigenous communities, announced on Thursday, has overwhelmed other topics of debate on Australian political blogs. The question: has the PM finally summoned up the New Tampa his opponents have been expecting? tigtog thinks so , except that: Unlike...

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Arleeshar thinks new right wing Liberal candidate and David "Godfather" Clarke protege Alex Hawke is a scarey and soulless looking dude . The sheila looking at him seems to have a similar opinion ... Andrew Elder and Oz at Decomposing Trees don't think much of Hawke either. Th...

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Guido's take on Howard/Hockey's portrayal of Sharan Burrow and the ACTU reaching out to Australian workers 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad The second half of the week has been dominated by tit-for-tat e...

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Terry Sedgwick has the definitive word on the Paris Hilton in prison affair 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad A return to the Missing Link editing chair for me while Helen D does her judge's associate thi...

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Well, I couldn't round up a theme this time, although - as usual - there have been some memorable bits of bloggy goodness. My personal post of the week is from Legal Eagle, who has a superb piece on Nick Cohen's What's Left? (A book meme that appears to have been started by Ia...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Well, it's not often we get Culture Wars, inter-blog stoushing, religion and grievous bodily harm all rolled into one, but today's issue of Missing Link highlights a memo...

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Well, thanks to some shilly-shallying about by your humble correspondent, it's been delayed. Admittedly there are a couple of outstanding bloggy conversations that I want to summarize (and they're still maturing tastily), but for the most part it's because both I and some of t...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad First up, an apology from the Missing Link crew for failing to produce a Monday edition. To make up for it, we've prepared a bumper issue for today, in the hope that y'al...

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Well, things have been a bit lively on the technology side, so no internal hyperlinks (and no wiki, alas). Nonetheless your faithful Missing Link Editorial team (tm) have done their bit to bring you lots of bloggy goodness to enjoy. Kicking off today's issue is a variety of di...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S. 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Well, the news in this issue of Missing Link is that News Ltd appears to have played lots of people for suckers. First, there was the story that some of the proposed cit...

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Jon Kudelka envisages Howard as Fred Flintstone and Bill Heffernan as Dino. Only trouble is that both look much too cute and loveable. Is Jon running out of inspiration? 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad...

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Mark at Stoushnet reflects on Heavy Kevy's alleged secret musings about re-introduing some form of AWA 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. The Yartz 3. Life and Other Serious Stuff 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad It's a rude shock returning to editing Missing Link, despite Helen...

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Is there such a thing as 'Budget Bounce'? Will Cossie's spend-up save the Coalition come polling day? Or is the budget something of a Curate's Egg - only good in parts? Welcome to Club Troppo's Budget Special Edition, where we round up the best blogospheric commentary so you d...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Industrial relations got Ozblogistan going this week, with some great stuff from across the political spectrum. That apart, there was some interest in the French election...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Two events captured Ozblogistan's collective attention: the ALP National Conference, and the World Cup Cricket Finals Fiasco. There were some excellent posts about both,...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Years ago, Alan Seymour's play tagged Anzac Day the one day of the year . For mine (SL) this year's day brought the best out of Ozblogistan. Kicking off a plethora of fab...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Terry Sedgwick had a camera secretly filming the recent meeting between Rupert and Kevie There hasn't really been a dominant theme in the blogosphere over the last few da...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Inevitably, the mass killing at Virginia Tech University in the US brought forth commentary from around Ozblogistan, much of it bemused by US gun laws or - alternatively...

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1. News and Politics Stuff 2. 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad Nothing grabbed Ozblogistan's collective attention over the weekend, although as usual there was plenty of good stuff. Once again we at the Troppo Cabal (tm) are delig...

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From Beyond the Fringe 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad This edition of Missing Link has been delayed until today (Friday the 13th) because I got carried away with my post on performance pay for teachers...

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If a (very large) tsunami hit Noosa - from FunkyPix2 (correction Beyond the Fringe ) 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S. 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad There wasn't any political issue as such that brought Ozblogistan out stoushing this...

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Artist's impression of Brisbane's proposed Northbank development, on which The Pencil Guy gives his thoughts (see under "life and other serious stuff") The wiki is playing up today, so no internal hyperlinks. And I only had time to insert one photo, liberated from The Pencil G...

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Could this situation (data/graph compiled by Bryan "Ozpolitics" Palmer ) be the reason why Peter Costello is somewhat hysterically claiming that the States are breaching an agreement they never made to abolish particular taxes, and that they are planning to raise the rate of G...

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Staunch defender of freedom and Minister for "DIC" Kevin Andrews lunges for a firm grip on "Roger Migently"'s gonads 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad The usual superbly diverse collection of blogospheric...

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Courtesy Daily Flute 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. Troppo Sports Stadium 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad The NSW election was the big 'news' over the weekend, although - in this humble scribe's opinion (SL) - it was slightly less interest...

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Courtesy of Daily Flute 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. Sportz 5. Mad, Bad, Sad and Glad This exciting and fun-packed edition compiled and edited by Ken Parish, James Farrell, Helen Dale, Jason Soon, Cam Riley and our new arts recruit...

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Another one from Daily Flute Monday's Missing Link is an eclectic mix of political and broader posts, as well as a couple of rugby league posts from Shaun Cronin. No dominant theme, but a wealth of good reading. Editors again are myself, James Farrell, Patrick Garson, Darlene...

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Courtesy of the great Daily Flute This is the second edition of Missing Link created by the collaborative method Jason Soon has christened the "hive mind" with a sly nod to hackneyed anti-feminist labelling. Using a wiki to compile a post like Missing Link certainly seems to m...

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Poster for International Women's Day via Kirsty at Galaxy of Emptiness Missing Link is now into yet another manifestation. The problem is that it's just too time-consuming for any one individual to read lots of blogs, even with the help of a feed reader, and then produce a dec...

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We're having hell's own trouble with the server at present, and when I posted ML last night I simply couldn't load up three You-Tube videos. So I'm trying again here. Here's Ron and Nancy's message on drugs - remastered to clarify some issues from the earlier screening in the...

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News and politics stuff In reporting Kelvin Thompson's resignation Tim Blair links to this lovely piece of blue baiting. Don't you just love it when people humiliate other people. I know I do. Tim Blair says that "Quite without meaning to, Tim Footman writes the perfect obit f...

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Tim Dunlop thinks this picture is just begging for a caption . He's run a very successful competition supplying one. Troppodillians please help out in comments, either identifying the best comment on Tim's site, or suggesting one of your own. Prizes - well if you're in Melbour...

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What is this object and who does Barista think should be using it? Just one of the things you'll find out from this edition of Missing Link. Well I can tell you that this Missing Link exercise is no pushover. It has probably grown a bit even since Ken started it, but itâs take...

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Once again, this isn't skepticlawyer's ML - it's Darlene Taylor's. Enjoy. Welcome to Missing Link 2: The Darlene Edition . Almost as good as Basic Instinct 2 , but without the aged sex symbol. This time I have busyness rather than technophobia to use as an excuse for lateness....

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Oh my gawd, itâs my first edition of Missing Link : Lighter, sillier and undoubtedly ridiculous. A bigger edition of Missing Link will appear later this week for your reading pleasure or otherwise. Thanks to Ms S Lawyer for her brilliant effort over the weekend. 'Oh I wish I w...

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Ken discovered that work kept him from fulfilling his Missing Link duties for this week, which upset him greatly but couldn't be helped. So that Darlene Taylor - next week's Missing Link custodian - isn't completely overwhelmed come Monday, I've compiled a weekend version. It'...

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Peter Martinâs take: 'Where's the power, where's the passion?' In my fitful hours of semi-sleep, the Google Reader has become the Google Rider, a monstrous amusement park feature that looks like a jolly good challenge, but reduces you to a disoriented and quivering jelly. With...

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How John Quiggin sees the climate debate Soon this process will be automated. Someone will program the Google Reader to choose the best posts of the week and string them together with hilarious banter. But in the meantime I'll persevere with the manual method. News and politic...

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Something to hate I had hoped that Helen would set a mediocre standard for the new crop of Missing Link debutants, but was severely disappointed. Hers will be a hard act to follow. News and politics stuff Howard haters were on the march this weekend. Hater-in-Chief Tim Dunlop...

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Well, in the couple of days since Wednesday, climate change and the Turnbull-Garrett debate moved to the forefront of Ozblogistan's concerns. Alas, the posts on the debate weren't as classy as some of the global warming pieces. This means I've forgone Missing Link's usual Sci-...

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Blogdom's Lazarus with a triple bypass is back on deck! As Ken pointed out a few days ago, doing justice to Missing Link was one helluva big deal solo, so he had to let it drop. Rather than have the whole thing wither on the vine, though, he figured a collaborative effort migh...

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I'm afraid I haven't been able to find time to complete Missing Link lately, despite squandering huge amounts of tiem tagging promising posts. I had hoped that using a feed reader would make the task easier, but in fact the opposite is the case. There are at least 150 new post...

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Andrew Leigh reckons we should adopt the Eureka flag as Australia's national flag. Nice idea, except that Howard would just use any such suggestion as a diversionary dog whistle ... Together with Wednesday's omnibus edition, today's Missing Link should provide readers with an...

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Today's Missing Link is a huge omnibus edition, partly because of the week's gap in publication of ML (for various reasons largely beyond my control) and partly because Google Reader allows me to cover more blogs more thoroughly. I'm still continually amazed by the huge volume...

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What with Troppo being down all weekend, I wasn't able to work on Missing Link , because I couldn't access my blogroll. However, once Jacques restored the blog to the land of the living, yesterday I set about logging all 150-odd blogs into Google Reader. I'd been meaning to do...

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Courtesy Daily Flute Wednesday's Missing Link is running a bit late. Maybe if I don't mention it they won't notice it's actually Thursday. As for Best Blog Posts 2006, Little Timmy Blair doesn't think much of it. The posts are too long, he reckons. The only real blog is a link...

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I've been meaning for a while to draw attention to cartoonist Jon Kudelka's excellent site 101 uses for a John Howard Today's Missing Link is a bit shorter than average (only 13 highlighted posts), partly because there haven't been as many posters as usual over the weekend and...

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Best Post Predictably, the blogosphere is full of posts about GW Bush's "Iraq surge" policy announced yesterday. At least, that's true of the left and centrist blogosphere. I can't find even a single post about it amongst Australian RWDB bloggers. Can anyone point me towards o...

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Bill Leak cartoon from the Oz As you may have noticed, Missing Link has been, well, missing for a week longer than planned. I have no excuse other than holiday season torpor. However, as Mark Bahnisch pointed out in a comment this morning, time, tide and the blogosphere wait f...

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What I should be avoiding at Christmas (but won't) It's getting increasingly difficult to compile Missing Link , what with so many bloggers announcing a Christmas hiatus. And it's been even harder this morning, because Google's Blogger service seems to have been playing up, ma...

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After watching a replay of a Geraldine Doogue interview with Heavy Kevy on Compass last night, I find it increasingly difficult to credit Amanda's and Chris Sheil's hypothesis (developed on this thread here at Club Troppo) that he has already endeared himself to the general po...

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Howard's End? Matthew Talbot Hostel for Homeless Politicians, as imagined by Aussie Bob at Road to Surfdom There hasn't really been any clearly dominant issue in the political blogosphere over the last couple of days. I suppose it reflects the onset of the Christmas silly seas...

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Victorian fires - Photo: Cameron Quinten, an Age reader The death of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Howard's citizenship test, the DLP winning two seats in Victorian's Upper House courtesy of ALP preferences(!!!), the latest Newspoll and the Victorian bushfires are...

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Smoke over Victoria as at Friday - I guess it was much worse by yesterday - image via David Tiley Touring around the blogs this morning reveals that there are quite a few who have stowed away the keyboard early for the Christmas break. Fortunately there are still lots who cont...

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No caption needed really ... There hasn't really been a particular obsession in the blogosphere over the last couple of days. A few more Rudd posts, of course, but it looks like bloggers might have joined the pollies in heading off for summer holidays. I certainly hope not, ha...

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Adrian the Cabbie photoblogs a truly dreadful Christmas decoration at Sydney's (usually uber-trendy) Double Bay Most readers won't be surprised to learn that Rudd, Fiji and the cricket are the most common blogosphere themes of the last day or two. I'm only extracting a tiny se...

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Looks like Rowen favours the Dream Team The Labor leadership spill result will be known by the time I post this (update - fairly predictably it's Rudd ), so there's no point in posting links to the predictably huge volume of blogosphere comment on Bomber versus Rudd. A couple...

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The Bomber among friends yesterday, but how many will he have in Caucus next week ? We'll add links here to developing blogosphere coverage ... Just in case you thought Wednesday's first Missing Link feature was a fluke and doubted that the blogosphere really does consistently...

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Sometimes being played for a sucker has positive but unintended consequences. My recent 'free' subscription to Crikey confirmed what I had always suspected. The average quality of their articles isn't crash hot, not when you consider how much they charge for a subscription. Th...

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