Tax cuts the price of MacArthur Coal
The Prime Minister is saying that today’s Peabody bid for Macarthur Coal demonstrates that the Gillard/Brown “coal tax” has not hurt the prospects of the Au...
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Auto rip multiple audio CDs in OS X
So you want to rip your library of CDs to your computer. ITunes will automate this for you—loading and ejecting CDs as it fills up its library. But wha...
World Opera season programs
For opera devotees, fans, 'tragics' … etc., but mainly for myself, I've developed a synthetic RSS feed of news about Season events, tickets and subscri...
Century trends in Victorian temperatures
There are a dozen or so rural Victorian weather stations, of the 255 listed as reporting maximum temperature data to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, tha...
Investment barriers stuff-up China relations
No one I know seriously questions the importance of China to Australia's external balances, especially now in the trough of a recession. Nor can we have any dou...
Malcolm Turnbull on Chinalco’s bid for Rio
Malcolm Turnbull's wide-ranging speech to the Lowy Institute on the balance of power in Asia is thoughtful, well-aimed, and well-expressed. There is much to agr...
Website engine in new hands
I'm a fan of Burton Malkiel's analysis of equities markets; I invest mainly in indexes. Consequently, it's not all that often that commercial A&M actions th...