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Mar. 31, 2020 / Gordon Price

Normality in Melbourne: How They Took a Coffee Break

In a lane of course.  It’s a Melbournesque scene, and you have to know where to find it.  Apparently the…
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Feb. 24, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia: Emergency? What Climate Emergency?

Gord Price will be in Australia for the next month.  Follow his coverage here and on Instagram (gordonpriceyvr). More evidence…
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Feb. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia: Crisis? What Housing Crisis?

Gord Price will be in Australia for the next month, Instagramming and podcasting his way across the country.  Follow his…
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Feb. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia: Right-wing Irrelevance in a Time of Trauma

Gord Price will be in Australia for the next month, Instagramming and podcasting his way across the country.  Follow his…
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Feb. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Harper Strategy Fails in Australia

When Prime Minister Harper visited the Arctic on one of his several trips – once for 16 days – the…
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Feb. 18, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia in a Time of Trauma

For the next month, I’ll be in Australia, returning to the island continent for the 11th time, and to the…
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Jan. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

Climate Change and its Costs

For our sceptical commenter (under whatever name) who believes “this blog now ventures into far too much into far-away natural…
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Jan. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

Climate Change: The End of the Harper Strategy

Time has run out for the Harper Strategy on climate change. I like to give Stephen Harper credit for this…
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Dec. 26, 2019 / Gordon Price

An Image for Our Times

Amidst the Australian bushfires – an image too sad to seem real:  a firefigher and a koala, watching their forests…
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Feb. 19, 2019 / Gordon Price

Thoughts Down Under at 42 Degrees

Australian friend Peter Berkeley, who thought climate change was a concern back in the 1990s, now has a farm in…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

Is the Need for More (Sydney) Housing Supply a "Myth"?

Lots of coverage of John Rose’s report on “The Housing Supply Myth” in Vancouver. Thomas Beyer sends along this article…
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Nov. 19, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Another peril of walking

From the Auburn News, a western-suburbs paper in Sydney, about a survey conducted by Guide Dogs Australia: “almost half of…
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Nov. 19, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Street Art in Oz

A totally unscientific survey of mural trends in New South Wales: I didn’t see a single “pictorial” mural, like the…
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Nov. 13, 2017 / michaelkluckner

An App to rat on your neighbours

Many Sydneysiders appear to be using a phone app, Outware’s Snap-Send-Solve, to “dob in” their neighbours, mainly about parking infractions.…

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