They might be more familiar with harvesters than hashtags, but a growing community of Australian farmers are embracing Twitter as a tool to communicate, particularly in light to the recent floods.
Lunatics do get fired up by politicians and the media and public figures do receive threats from psychos out there, Stephen Rowley of the blog site Sterow discusses in the context of comments made by Neil Mitchell and re-tweeted by Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy.
We need to leave Mother Nature alone, and stop loading the atmosphere with carbon emissions, so that more extreme climate events do not tumble down upon us with increasing frequency, writes David Spratt, co-author of the book Climate Code Red.
Tony Abbott's recent call for the government to scrap the National Broadband Network in order to fund floods recovery programs is oh so convenient, according to Group Think.
Julia Gillard's pleas for the insurance industry to consider ex-gratia payments to Queensland and Victorian flood victims is threatening to shine a light on some of the dubious practices of an industry famous for its cold-heartedness.
One of Australia's major property groups Mirvac stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars from the Brisbane flood, but so far there hasn't been a peep from the company or a query from the ASX or ASIC.
Premier Anna Bligh’s Royal Commission and media coverage appears to have given little, if any, explicit consideration of the role of climate change, writes journalist Graham Readfearn.
It was a surreal but heartening scene, seeing all these people work together for the common goal, writes Brisbane resident Ben Graham.
Just about every large destructive event -- be it flood, fire or cyclone -- has consequences on the prices of goods and services at the local level.
The Australian's ego continues to distort its coverage. Was there really ever any doubt that Premier Bligh would rightly set up an inquiry over the Queensland floods, and ask all the relevant questions?
