There is controversy about climate change...  Yet, the serious scientists in both camps have clearly established that the surface of the earth has been warming up...

This warming is estimated at a certain amount (0.1 degrees C average) per decade (now around 0.2 degree C) for the last 150 years... Gus' present estimate is for a full one (1) degree C increase for the next 10 year. I could be wrong, but considering the sun is awakening and El Nino is about to come back, I may be right.

This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was written by Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee. He is now called Lord Coe.

A national union figure has confirmed that Julia Gillard's leadership was discussed during an election battle plan meeting attended by a number of Australia's most powerful union and factional heads.

Contrary to denials by ACTU chiefs, a powerbroker who attended the high-level talks in Melbourne on Tuesday told the National Times that there was discussion of Kevin Rudd resuming the prime ministership.

The Magna Carta forced King John to give away powers. But big business now exerts a chilling grip on the workforce

Chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon has reiterated his comments that political leaders who are unpopular are unlikely to survive.

Mr Fitzgibbon said this morning that he still believed Prime Minister Julia Gillard had time to turn her dire polling numbers around.

The ALP has been attacking the Greens and talking about Labor values.  Here’s how the Prime Minister described Labor values in a speech last year. She said: