Category Archives Economics
Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia - Data only [Australian Bureau of Statistics]
Coal is the great danger as 'peak oil' approaches, scientist warns.. The most important question about peak oil - and the largest source of uncertainty in climate models - is whether the end of oil will usher in a century of coal. [Environmental Health News]
Disney Cartoon Mashup Explains Copyright Law. A Stanford University documentary film project, A Fair(y) Use Tale, weaves snippets of classic animated films into a short short in which Disney characters explain the basics of fair use and argue against longer copyrights. [Wired Top Stories]
Oil prices fall. WORLD oil prices dropped heavily overnight on news that US stockpiles of distillates had fallen lower than expected last week. [Herald Sun | Breaking News]
Bipolar nation: how to win the 2007 election. It took Labor a decade to realise that, in abandoning Keating, it had also surrendered its claim to the prosperity he had bequeathed Australia. By editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Peter Hartcher). [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles]
Carbon trading planned with US, China. Ballarat.yourguide.com.au - Sat May 19, 03:01 am GMT [News4Sites - Australia Economy]
Cash or culture?. Farrah Tomazin has an interesting piece in today’s Age on strategies to improve the performance of Indigenous children in Victorian schools, identifying a divide between those who say ‘change the school culture’ and those who say ’spend more money’. [Andrew Leigh]
Garnaut on the White Paper. The news is reporting that Ross Garnaut has savaged the Government’s White Paper on Climate Change Policy. For instance, from ABC news: Professor Garnaut says the Rudd government is aiming too low in its unconditional target of a 5 per cent emissions cut by 2020 and the policy announced this week will put the economy…