The latest re-energised idea to emerge, again, as a part of the federal government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy is the Very Fast Train idea.

Seems our Gerard has been hiding his light. He's a qualified psycho-therapist.......apparently.

Conservatism in this country is still smarting at being slapped in the electoral face by Australian voters 18 months ago.

This is disturbing, and displays graphically the purchasing power within the fuel marketplace now held by the two grocery giants.

You have to wonder what this fellow is so afraid of to be making ass-hat statements like this.

I'm singularly unimpressed by the PM's entry into the 'sphere, with this post in The Punch.

Fascinating Op-Ed in today's Australian, centred on the event of the day, the week in fact. The 40th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing and the first footprint on the lunar surface.

Tolerance is an admirable trait in any individual. It takes many forms. Religious, political, ethical, moral, behavioural and doubtless variants thereof.

I’ve just read through Kevin Rudd’s latest essay. My second exposure to the statistically prolific Rudd in writing – well, third if you count his recent blog on Climate Change. I have to admit that as with his February essay in The Monthly, I skimmed the final two ‘chapters’ having been worn down by the rhetoric, self-promotion and simple overload of data.

We in Queensland, who are older enough, all know who Tony Fitzgerald is and what he did in the 1980’s.