La Vie Parisienne
Exciting trash news from the world of vapid celebrity – Paris Hilton is engaged to a rich dude called… Paris. In reporting this dispatch, The Sydney Morning Herald sums up Ms Hilton’s achievements in life (which pale into insignificance compared [...]
Identity Politics
There’s a glaring inequity in the decision to allow $10000 of income from non-farm sources not to be taken into account when paying the equivalent of welfare benefits to drought affected farmers. Anyone on Newstart begins to lose payments if [...]
More on The Politics of Po/Mo
Continuing the theme and the related one of the politics of cultural studies, I love this quote from Edward Said: To read most cultural deconstructionists, or Marxists, or new historicists is to read writers whose political horizon, whose historical location [...]
Unfashionable Elitism
When I was walking down Merthyr Road to get some lunch yesterday, I noticed that the Retro Bar here in leafy inner-city New Farm has a “Free Schapelle – Boycott Bali” poster in its window. I was frankly a bit [...]
Go Maroons!
Lateline has just featured an interview with Queensland Senator-elect Barnaby Joyce from the National Party [transcript should be up in a few hours]. Joyce earlier backed up comments on Howard’s IR legislation by Queensland Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg: But Queensland [...]
Welfare Blues
I’ve been thinking about the debate over welfare, which began with the Budget, and has continued with the claim that the IR reforms will create employment for those currently excluded from the labour market. The argument about minimum wages and [...]
Not a Problem in Australia
With Blair’s latest morals crusade being against teenage pregnancy, a sexual health expert has blamed reality tv: It is not often the august agencies of Her Majesty’s government have to bother themselves with the heavy-petting antics of ITV’s Celebrity Love [...]
Culture of Life? II
The latest from the culture wars: The diagnosis was certain. Her fetus did not have a functioning brain. Even on the slim chance it would be born with a beating heart, the baby would die within days, or hours. It [...]
Music Meme
Thanks to Conversant Studios for passing the musical baton to me. Total volume of music files on my computer 324mb because I recently bought a new computer and got broadband and have only just started storing music on my computer [...]
With Friends Like These…
Miranda Devine weighs into the Corby case: The family dynamics bolstered an impression of Corby which has emerged throughout her seven-month ordeal, that she is the dutiful third daughter of a poor, loyal but relatively dysfunctional family; adored by her [...]
"Truth is a Signs System"
… According to Lefty Tim. There’s a sense in which he’s right, although he probably doesn’t know it. There’s no doubt that a postmodern epistemology has some defensible aspects, but as I’ve argued before, it’s not new and it can [...]
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