Word of the Day: Popular
popular adj: compulsory, required by law. According to Annabel Stafford in today’s Age, the Federal Government is copping a bit of flak from Greens Senator Rachel Siewert, for awarding contracts for its new family relationship centres to Catholic or Christian [...]
A different message for Australia Day: saying SORRY via Google-Earth
Rudd’s Australia Day message may be fuzzy (and Howard’s is likely to be just as woolly), but this planned message will send a clear digital image over the intertubes for years to come: From a forwarded email doing the rounds [...]
Water, water, water
Suddenly water has become the hot new political issue for this year and politicians are scrambling over each other to be seen as the most pro-active and visionary after years of ignoring the issue. This morning Howard announced at least [...]
Rudd: the reviews are in
I saw the Kevin Rudd Australia Day ad when I was watching Nip/Tuck (ok, just shoot me). I was going to upload it to YouTube so we could review it here, but it appears that uploading commercials without explicit permission [...]
Fox confessor brings the flood
I just bought my tix for the Neko Case gig on Sunday night. Folks in Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne also have the opportunity to go see her play with a six piece band. Some might have caught her with [...]
Triangulation, the Third Way and new Labor – it's all in the rhetoric
From today’s Crikey: Mark Latham made some waves when he was elected leader by promising a ânew style of politicsâ?. Although Latham had previously written several fairly impenetrable analyses of Third Way-ism in several books, what this meant in practice [...]
Hardgrave's hard luck story
From today’s Crikey: While attention has focused on Amanda Vanstone as the biggest loser in the reshuffle, the demotion of Moreton MP Gary Hardgrave to the backbench is also worth commenting on. It’s rather derisory of the PM to say [...]
Branding the bear
Guy has an excellent post over at Polemica about Joe Hockey’s move to workplace relations: Effectively what the Prime Minister was saying is that there is a need for the Federal Government to be more deceptive in relation to WorkChoices. [...]
NSW Über Alles
NSW Opposition Leader Peter Debnam has decided that nationalism is what NSW needs. Bugger the water crisis, Pacific Highway, state of the economy as issues etc. And it will start with the kiddies: A basic test on Australian history and [...]
Militant Buddhism in Burma
Militant Islam is nothing new nor even militant Christianity but there are reports that the military junta in Burma is planning to wipe out Christianity. Human rights groups claim that the treatment meted out to Christians, who make up six [...]
Larvatus is a leftie!
Bryan Palmer has designed a politics quiz which actually asks questions appropriate to Australians. I’m not massively surprised by my results: Political outlook Your broad political orientation score is -65.4%, which equates to a ‘Left’ position Economic policy Your economic [...]
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