Around the blogs

The Hive reflects on the Curran report and mention that the private secretary who referred to Curran as Parker's “right hand woman” is a very experienced professional staffer who would not have used that term lightly.

Poneke compares NZ's treatment of with 's treatment of Aboriginals. Short version is Australia really needs to say sorry.

Tyler Cowan at Marginal Revolution blogs on why he is not supporting .

Iain Dale blogs about being No 28 on the 50 most influential gay (including lesbian, bisexual) people in politics. He jokes that no one does a 50 most influential straight people in politics as one would run out before you make 50 🙂