Comments threads - polite discussion please
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Monday 25th February 2008, 9:26am
I've been somewhat troubled recently by the growing tendency of some commenters to launch personal attacks, use the comments threads as venues for spurious cricitisms, and turn the threads into quite unpleasant and personal arguments.
This blog, and its vibrant comments threads, are intended as a venue for constructive discussion for important issues. Discussions can, of course, become heated at times - that's only natural.
But the kind of behaviour noted above has the consequence of limiting discussion by turning people away. That is not in any of our interests.
I would ask everyone, please, to read the Comments Policy and consider it whenever contributing to the blog.
Thank you.
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Well done Christine on your
Well done Christine on your solid performance on the SBS Insight programme. It is very encouraging that most players are sensing the urgency of the need for change. The programme did have the effect of demonstrating the difficulty of altering the existing infrastructure. There was much emphasis on building better in the future, but that does nothing for everything that already exists. And it is everything that already exists that has created the problem. Building new better at this point will have a neglible effect on the problem in the allowable time frame. The only thing that will make a measurable difference in the next 20 years is to change our fuels. Todays demonstrations outside NSW parliament house clearly demonstrate that the public are more in tune with the situation than our decision makers are.
Far too much has been made of the effect that increased power prices, resulting from a switch to renewable sources, would have on peoples budgets. The more than doubling of petrol prices over the last ten years has done nothing to pinch off economic growth. People have coped with that very well. And the same would happen with power. From an industrial point of view electricty is only small change in the operation of most businesses. There are some for whom doubling of power prices would have an effect, but there are many mechanisms for coping with that.
Very interesting and helpful
Very interesting and helpful post.
I add your blog in my Google Reader! ;)
Hmm, I think you´re
Hmm, I think you´re absolutely right about the "fuel change" policy but will it (eventually) do any good? anyway Im adding your blog in my favorites right away :-)
Community Television
I would like to thank the Greens and Senator Ludlam in particular for moving a motion that the government immediately allocate digital spectrum and funding for community television license holders.
For eleven years Community TV has been told that they "won't be left behind" in the transition to digital broadcasting.
Community radio in Melbourne has had spectrum (bandwidth) allocated along with funding at a time when there is no switch off date for analogue radio and the price for a digital radio still remains high.
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