By Mark Bahnisch on August 31, 2008
Ok, so I’m totally not getting why anyone dislikes River Song. Can anyone enlighten me? Update: Particularly given the big hints about the nature of River Song’s relationship with the Doctor, I thought sending her off to a world where [...]
Posted in Feminism, Film, TV, Video etc, Parenting, Women | Tagged Alex Kingston, doctor-who, River Song |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 31, 2008
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! On Friday night, I went along with some friends to the opening of [...]
Posted in Art, Brisbane, Culture, Life, Photography | Tagged art openings, BARI, BARI festival, Brisbane Artist Run Initiatives Festival, brisbane powerhouse, Jugglers Art Space, Linda E, pasifika festival, Poly Toxic, Polynesian cabaret, Samoa, Samoan cabaret |
By Darlene on August 31, 2008
Image from Askville Last week local newspapers were filled with the very sad story of the suicide of an Australian actor. This man had apparently been suffering from depression, and in some of the photographs that appeared in the media [...]
Posted in Health, Women |
By Kim on August 31, 2008
[Via Boing Boing] I must confess the idea of listening to some music tracks to get myself in the mood for reading a particular book has never occurred to me. But it has occurred to William Gibson. Here’s his playlist [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Film, TV, Video etc, Music | Tagged Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Spook Country, William Gibson, Writings |
By tigtog on August 30, 2008
Bene mentioned last night a desire for some commentary on the cynically timed announcement of McCain’s running partner as Sarah Palin, so here goes: here’s a short bit from the LA Times, who sums her up as a risky choice [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Sociology, USA | Tagged biden, bloggers, core issues, dems, doubts, heaps, hyped, inexperience, la times, majorities, mccain campaign, million years, narrative, presidential campaigns, republican base, resentment, risky choice, sarah palin, tv debates, veep |
By Kim on August 30, 2008
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Saturday Salon |
By Robert Merkel on August 29, 2008
Obama has accepted the Democratic nomination. The full text (as prepared) should include a hat tip to Kevin Rudd – yep, the working families have made an appearance. For what it’s worth, there are some strange tropes in American politics, [...]
Posted in Elections, International, Politics, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Democratic National Convention |
By Paul Norton on August 29, 2008
The MSM is full of reports and commentaries praising Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard for taking on the teacher unions with their proposals for “a new national system of school transparency” based on publication of information and ranking of the [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Education, International | Tagged AEU, ALP, education research, education revolution, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, National Press Club address, OECD, political narrative, Rudd government, school education, schooling, teacher quality, teachers unions |
By Guest Poster on August 29, 2008
Earlier this week at New Matilda, I explored the growing problem of the media’s fascination with corporate-backed reports and surveys. There’s already been plenty of discussion here about the BCA report into emissions trading, and my colleage Ben Pobije put [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Sociology | Tagged BankWest, corporate funded research, fourth estate, housing, journalism, media scrutiny, pop demography, pop sociology, quality of life index |
By Kim on August 29, 2008
So, Barry O’Farrell and the Coalition rained on Morris Iemma’s privatisation parade. Now, the Dilemmster announces that he can still privatise the retailers and generation sites without parliamentary approval. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Iemma’s original argument some [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Ethics, NSW Government, Politics | Tagged ALP, Barry O'Farrell, Coalition, electricity privatisation, Labor, Liberal Party, Michael Costa, morris iemma, NSW politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 29, 2008
Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, History, International, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, battle of ideas, Blair government, Carl Schmitt, classical liberalism, Coalition, education policy, education revolution, governmentality, historical sociology, jacques derrida, John Howard, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Margaret Thatcher, michel foucault, neoliberalism, New Labour, political ideologies, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, school education, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of ideologies, state formation, Tony Blair |
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