Thursday, December 14, 2006

Messy Post.

Messy Post. (n). A collection of little bloglets that don't justify a post in their own right. Separated with headings.

ELECTION UPDATE.
Recounts have resulted in Greens now having 3 in the upper house, and DLP 1. Double-plus good news.

MONOPOLY:
Atwik, in 1903, a patent was applied for the board game Monopoly (The Landlord's Game), "with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants." Monopoly is supposed to make a social statement (I figured the only statement it made was that popular board games were all luck, no skill/strategy.) The history of Monopoly made it to Wikipedia's front page featured article.

Greens look to Governator
The Victorian Greens intend on introducing a private member's bill "modelled on initiatives by Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to dramatically reduce greenhouse emissions." Aspects of the Republican party seem to be more greener than our ALP leadership.

AWA stats
16% exclude all award conditions standard for the industry
64% remove leave loading
63% remove penalty rates
52% remove shiftwork loading

51% abolished overtime pay
a further 31% reduced overtime pay rates.
That leaves only 18% of the same or better conditions.

40% removed rest breaks
a further 29% reduced the entitlement to rest breaks.

46% removed public holiday payments
a further 27% reduced public holiday payments.

Lorax v Truax
The Lorax is a popular Dr. Seuss book.
  • Has been banned in some schools/libraries for political content.
  • Is on the Rage Against The Machine's reading list (which is where I stumbled upon it recently).
  • IIRC it's on the list of books sold by ReNew magazine.
The book upset the logging industry machine, which funded a children's book called the Truax - to, y'know, counter the work of the evil doctor. Description here sums it up. The logging industry continues to creep me out.

Google (what's left of the) Earth
We now have some nice overlays of logging in Tas/Vic, thanks to environment groups. The gigantic woodchip piles in Tasmania are horrendous, and the difference between areas logged a few decades ago, and those not logged in East Gippsland is striking.

Wilderness Society's overlay of Tasmania.
Victorian Rainforest Network's overlay of Victoria.

7 Comments:

At 6:39 pm, December 14, 2006, Blogger Sarah said...

I used to love the Lorax when I was a kid!

Obviously it turned me into a mindless greeniecommunileftist who favours the preservation of valuable ecosystems above the ability of logging companies to make a buck. I never thought of that.

 
At 12:24 pm, December 17, 2006, Blogger Larry Bonewend said...

Yeah, its a shame the logging/wood manufacturing industry didn't get a chance to de-program you - you'd be all mentally healed by now.

But, the damage is probably irreversable.

 
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