Jun 30
The Guardian, 26 June 2015
A senior Russian official has rejected calls for the establishment of a UN tribunal to try those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine last year. Deputy foreign minister Gennady Gatilov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying: “We are against it. We think it is not timely and counterproductive.”
Jun 29
Brisbane Times, 29 June 2015
Brisbane is set to buck a national trend and become the only Australian capital to escape declining median house prices in real terms over the next three years. But a BIS Shrapnel housing market outlook also warned of an impending oversupply of inner city apartments.
Jun 24
The Drum, 22 June 2015
A look at recent car sales figures suggests the economy is hardly motoring along, and that workers are yet to believe it's safe to again loosen the belt and make the big purchases.
Jun 24
Gizmodo, 12 June 2015
Russian photographer and urban explorer Ralph Mirebs just published one of the saddest photoseries on space exploration. He managed to get inside an abandoned hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where two Burans—the prototype space shuttles of the Russian space program—are slowly decaying in their burial crypt.
Jun 22
The Conversation, 22 June 2015
The recently released white paper on developing northern Australia ignores an elephant in the room: climate change. While the paper sees a bright future for the north (roads, rail, dams and food), without considering climate change we can’t be sure the north will even be liveable. The white paper also fails to take into account other environmental constraints such as water and soils.
Jun 22
WA Today, 22 June 2015
Tesla may have ambitious plans for battery technology for the home but it is also looking to upgrade its electric vehicle batteries, which will allow them to travel twice the distance they currently do. So what will be the implications for Australia? While Australia has generally been an early adopter of new technology, electric vehicles pose more of a problem. Anybody who has grown up in regional Australia knows that being the family taxi at weekends for children’s sporting events can regularly mean a round trip of more than 200km.
Jun 19
NZ Herald, 19 June 2015
California state officials released reports on Thursday detailing six accidents that involved self-driving car prototypes, reversing a policy that shielded details of how the next-generation technology is performing during testing on public roads.
Jun 19
Sydney Morning Herald, 19 June 2015
In 2008, as the oil price was rising to a new high of $US145 a barrel, New York-based energy guru Ed Morse issued a famous call. Oil was overhyped, he said, and would soon fall back below $US100. Incredible as it may seem now, his prediction was met with general disbelief. Morse had positioned himself right at the bottom of a forecasting range that topped out at an eye-watering $US200 a barrel.
Jun 19
Canning Accountability, 16 June 2015
Yes, Canning will be changed to a five ward, two councillor per ward local government area soon, although the Minister has yet to announce it (we just got the quiet word). It isn’t necessary, but its a small matter. We have other things to look forward to…
Jun 16
Brisbane Times, 15 June 2015
Dozens of 40-year-old Gold Coast high rise apartment towers built in the 1970s face million-dollar concrete cancer repair jobs similar to the $215 million in repairs needed by Brisbane's City Hall. In 2013 the 20-storey Iluka Surfers Paradise high-rise – built in 1972 – was demolished after concrete cancer destroyed the hotel's structural integrity.
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