Recommended reading in strange times

Strange days in the federal opposition – strange days indeed.

Here are some links to good pieces I've found on the rss feeds. I’ll add to them as I find them.

• Current affairs and culture from insidestory.org
• Joe's deals within deals from The Goanna at The Age
• will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest from John Richardson at yourdemocracy.net.au
• Propositions on the Liberal right week of FAIL  at Larvatus Prodeo
• The Spillists at pollitics.com
• Swan urges Hockey to battle Lib sceptics - Swannie puts the in.
• Five signs the old guard are weaker than they look from The Piping Shrike
• Newspoll here and here calls it a bloodbath - the first of many polls over the next few days
• The front page of the 2009 Chaser Annual - The Email Eunuch
• Rudd hoses down early election talk from AAP / News.com
• Barny Rabble Joyce should read this:  Even before Copenhagen, the world is moving - from Tim Colebatchi on Farmonline.
• Who knows what a 13.1% swing in the primaries and a 39.5% swing in the two party preferred to the Greens in Saturday's byelection in the Labor WA State seat of Willagee means in the Federal context - but I'd bet it means something. From Anthony Green
• This is just plain weird : LNP leader calls for federal show of unity from the ABC
• The best Sunday media wrap-up from Richard Farmer at PoliticalOwl
• Libs in crisis: Sunday talk shows round-up from The Punch
• Conservatives scramble for cover from The Piping Shrike
• The Polls are out: Newspoll: 57-43; Nielsen: 56-44 at The Poll Bludger
• The Piping Shrike on Hockey: Damaged
• Fregus Green and Greg Picker at Fairfax's National Times put the lie to the ETS=tax line in Immoral, illegal and plain wrong to write off our emissions:  Australia's contribution to climate change is not negligible by any means
• Liberals floundering in chaos by Michelle Grattan in The Age
• D-day -1 Media wrap - The overwhelming media prediction is that Turnbull has had it from Richard Farmer at PoliticalOwl
• One of the principal reasons we need an ETS - to change people's behaviour: Aussie homes three times bigger than British
• Expect to hear Howard's lines to be repeated ad nauseam in coming days and weeks Kingmaker Howard gives Hockey his blessing by Tony Wright in The Age.
• The full deal on the Neilsen Poll at Pollytics

Can’t imagine my carbon footprint this week having has Sky News running constantly in the background.