The future, eventually, will find you out

“It is becoming unprecedentedly difficult for anyone, anyone at all, to keep a secret. In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner.

What future for nuclear?

Judging from the extraordinary outpouring of editorial anguish over the Australian Greens’ cautionary uranium mining policies, it seems we might have hit a nerve. Ranging from simple name calling to paranoid hysteria, one thing missing has been any analysis — any at all — of why we…

An open letter to uranium investors

Dear potential investor,

As you consider the wide range of places to put your hard earned cash as the Australian economy stages its tentative recovery, there are a couple of things to keep in mind about the uranium boom.
Firstly, the boom is…

Hung Parliament an opportunity to turn our face to the sun

The historic and unusual election result of 2010 is an opportunity to hit the ‘reset’ button on the climate change debate and turn it in a more productive direction.
Whether we like it or not, it is this generation’s challenge to…

The hitchhikers guide to net filtering

“Does it worry you that you don’t talk any kind of sense?”
~ Agda, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe

Every couple of months we get the opportunity to hold a discussion directly, on the record, with…

Government lights fuse on radwaste campaign

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s proposed ‘solution’ to our sixty year radioactive waste legacy has lit the fuse on a major confrontation between the Australian Government and everyone else.
Prior to the 2007 election, Labor lied to Northern Territory locals…

Reviewed to death for a 10c piece

The Government has been strongly criticised this year for rolling out massive policy initiatives without properly thinking through the costing and institutional frameworks required to make them work. The $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) and the home…