Peter Campbell's blog

A letter to Robert Clark MP, copied to Premier Ted Bailleu. =========== Dear Robert Congratulations on winning government. I am howev...

Dear Minister Combet, I’m writing to urge you and your government to avoid giving the timber industries special conditions by creating mas...

Labor's policy initiative for implementing a high speed National Broadband Network arguably was a decisive factor in them forming minori...

When political parties lodge their "group voting tickets" with the Electoral Commission, their distribution of preferences reveals...

After a long sustained period of dramatically rising house prices in Melbourne, and across Victoria, the market seems to have flattened out...

Here is a copy of our domestic water bill for 2 February 2010. We have 23,000 litres of water tanks in Surrey Hills and are almost comple...

An historic deal that will end logging of Tasmania's native forests was reported today. Following lengthy talks between industry, unio...

We have recently seen the Murray Darling river system - Australia's greatest river system - drastically affected by reduced water flow d...

Premier John Brumby and the Victorian Labor government has just approved a new coal fired power station to be build by a Chinese company in ...

After hearing nothing from the National Party during the election, we have been treated to the unedifying spectacle of Barnaby Joyce and War...

Gunns has exited from logging native forests in Tasmania, and have stated that "native forest is not part of our future" and that ...

Negotiations are proceeding to form a stable government in Australia, with neither of the "major" (or "old") parties get...

Here is a list of "primary" personal computers that I have owned in order of purchase.  The evolution of the technology and specif...

The deepening of the shipping channel in Port Phillip Bay that ran from to February 2008 to November 2009 has been criticised for not having...

The 2010 Australian Federal election results are not yet finalised, but it appears that no party has enough seats (76) to form government on...

The Leigh Sales interview with Michael Kroger and Paul Howes on 20/8/2010 lacked balance in one very serious aspect.   We heard the Labor ...

The election campaign is now at end game. This election was Labor's to lose rather than Abbott's to win, and it looks like Labor m...

So now we have the new Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, launching Labor's election campaign less than a week before the election wit...

I visited Bali for the first time in September 2010 to go to the  Ben Wilson Bali Accelerator Kitesurf Camp . You can read about my experien...