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In view of another recent decision by the federal government to standardise its office documents inline with the Microsoft OOXML document format, this announcement looks a lot like window dressing, particularly when you consider this part of the circular which says Procurement decisions must be made based on “value for money‟. Procurement decisions should [...]  what Australians are being asked to do by their own government is to adhere to a closed format and pay an American company for the privilege of doing so. via iTWire – OOXML kerfuffle similar to that of 2007. Conroy today gave further proof that it’s the business of government to protect vested interests who pay them enough money. The money extracted in terms of license fees from free-to-air TV is now a bargaining chip. The list of high profile professional sports is a money spinner for free-to-air and their symbiotic relationship with various [...] Remember when the west was sitting on a high moral horse and criticising mainland China for its repressive internet policy? How Google suddenly accommodated China’s political censorship? Well the free internet is dead in the west as well. Attacks shut down WikiLeaks. Sadly the so-called 4th estate seems to have lost the plot when it comes to [...] Coles Myer are one of the giants in the retail market space so using their muscle to strong arm the government is hardly surprising but it does raise a serious question. How long before taxes become something only the poor end up paying? Let’s look at this idea. Myer says they are losing sales to online [...] Yeah. The garden state has ripped out the growing green weeds and decided to plant fresh roses. As someone a couple of hundred klicks north of the border I am somewhat bemused by the outcome, especially given the good result for the ALP in Victoria last federal election. I wont miss Brumby, he was very [...] While Ian Verrender is pondering how Aussie Banks can continue to satisfy the essential capitalist prerequisite of ever increasing profits so as to keep shareholders happy he happened to lapse into disclosing a commonsense truth that is rarely uttered in the public domain. The uproar from the community and from politicians about our banks has been [...] The current profit results for the four big banks in Australia are looking very healthy thankyou so the recent announcement by lenders to increase their mortgage interest rates above the basic rate required by the Reserve Bank was bound to result in much gnashing of teeth and chest thumping. Leading the rage was the Liberal’s [...] The dominant paradigm today is that economic growth is both virtuous and necessary if we are to sustain living standards. This is taken to mean human longevity, alleviation of hard work, relative freedom from disease, more big screen TV’s and definitely more cars. Yet the systemic problems that emerge from a capitalist mode of organised activity [...] Call me picky but Hartcher is guilty of some wild speculation here – China has learnt well from the blunders of Japan and America My waning interest in mainstream reporting notwithstanding I have noticed a few articles recently along the lines of the west is doomed, China and India (in particular) are going to swamp us [...] |
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