Where’s Maxine? In Narromine

Yes, she’s still with us. In case you were wondering, Maxine McKew is alive and well and was sighted yesterday at Genaren Creek south of Narromine on official duties.

The job? Officially opening the Hillston to Eumungerie Regional Road Link, valued at $10 million, and then opening the upgraded Rotary Park sporting and recreation precinct and nine other community infrastructure projects in the region. Such is the lot of a parliamentary secretary.

Going green at the masters. The grass is green, the trees are green and so is the winner’s jacket. There could not be a more perfect setting for green image making than Augusta Georgia’s Masters Golf Tournament. And didn’t global oil giant Exxon know it. It used the American television coverage of the event to plug its green as green Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy.

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I read recently that Exxon was the second biggest funder of anti-science information in the United States so I am a bit sceptical about the message in the commercial that the company is concerned about spreading the science and mathematics messages to students but you can judge that for yourself.

Taking a trip. The truth has finally come out. Buried deep in the archives of the BBC all these years was the secret behind the regenerations of Dr Who:

How long before the Family First Party calls for this subversive program to be taken off Australian television screens?

Short and sweet. If all those Rundelian words are a bit much or a bit too left wing for you there is a short alternative. The London Daily Telegraph is providing an easy to watch and brief alternative.

Brumby’s dangerous course. Perhaps the Victorian Premier John Brumby has forgotten just how many Australians would like to see state governments abolished altogether. Attacking a Prime Minister who is far more popular than the breed normally is, is a daring tactic in a state election year.

Premier Brumby was at it again this morning accusing Kevin Rudd of trying to “hold the states to ransom” on health policy and comparing the Prime Minister’s negotiating style to that of former Queensland premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. To my mind that kind of criticism is a sure way of State Labor losing votes.