By Kim on October 31, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/285105855_b9b274148f.jpg" Image courtesy of Faborito – used under a Creative Commons licence Happy Halloween! Here’s some history about the meaning and significance of the night. Has anyone got any plans? Exciting Halloween themed parties? Going trick or treating? Spooky [...]
Posted in Culture, History, Life, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Halloween |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 31, 2008
We’ve had almost a week now of the press gallery writing about the alleged effects of the bank guarantee deposit on managed funds. With lots of alarums… Commentators who were praising Kevin Rudd a couple of weeks ago for “decisive [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Media | Tagged ALP, ASIC, bank deposit guarantee, credit card debt, economic policy, global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, managed funds, market-linked funds, mortgage debt, Rudd government, Sociology, Sydney University, Wayne Swan, Workplace Research Centre |
By Kim on October 31, 2008
Not the Sarah Palin campaign… or???
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign Elections, Levity, Race, USA | Tagged GOP, political satire, Republican party, sarah palin, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on October 30, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/gallipolilanding.jpg" Paul Keating has been speaking out again about Australian history:
Posted in Anzac Day, Australiana, History, Politics | Tagged ANZAC, Australian history, First World War, Gallipoli, Great War, History wars, Paul Keating, PJK |
By Robert Merkel on October 30, 2008
…unless you already know and like the answers you’re going to get. You’d reckon that the Opposition might have learned its lesson on that. It seems like they might need another one, given their response to the impending release of [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment | Tagged Andrew Robb, carbon pollution reduction scheme, cprs, emissions trading, Penny Wong, Ross Garnaut, Wayne Swan |
By Kim on October 30, 2008
So, the netroots thing has its role to play in inspiring enthusiasm and turnout, combating stoopid talking points, etc, etc, but what future for the liberal/left blogosphere in the States in the event of an Obama win? Michael Bérubé recalls [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections | Tagged barack obama, Bill Clinton, blogosphere, Clinton administration, left, liberals, Michael Bérubé, netroots, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 30, 2008
Writing in Salon, Gary Kamiya describes the near hysteria to which “movement conservatives” are reduced in confronting a likely Obama victory: …typical of the Limbaugh-inflected (or infected) movement as a whole is the apocalyptic attitude of right-wing columnist Mark Steyn, [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Feminism, Foreign Elections, History, Media, Polls, Poverty, Race, Religion, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged American history, American politics, Andrew Cockburn, arthur schlesinger, barack obama, blogosphere, Book review, cable television, Culture Wars, evangelicals, FDR, Fox news, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gary Kamiya, John McCain, nixonland, religion and politics, religious right, Richard Nixon, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By tigtog on October 29, 2008
So, I need to know a good pub in Sydney where I can hang around next week with some likeminded souls and watch the US election results roll in. Who’s got some suggestions? What would be the best time to [...]
Posted in Elections, Life | Tagged election results, pubs, wonkery |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 29, 2008
One of the longest bows I’ve seen drawn about the effects of the global financial crisis is this obituary (and not in elegiac style) for the 80s. And Gen X. Apparently because of Robert Zemeckis. And therefore Gordon Gekko. I [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, History, Markets, Music, Sociology, USA | Tagged 80s, 90s, cultural sociology, cultural studies, David Mekelburg, Demi Moore, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, global financial crisis, Gordon Gekko, Greed is Good, Jules, labour market, pop culture, Robert Zemeckis, Sociology, St Elmo's Fire |
By Guest Poster on October 29, 2008
Republished from yesterday’s Crikey with permission. The Australia Council, an organisation in almost constant flux, has again spun the bingo barrel and pulled out a new round of surprises in its funding announcements — this time in the theatre sector. [...]
Posted in Culture, Policy, Sociology | Tagged arts funding, arts policy, Australia Council, australia council theatre board, creative industries, cultural policy, drama, funding announcements, Jennifer Craik, la boite theatre, Major performing arts companies, make it new, polyglot puppet theatre, Sociology, theatre board |
All politics is local, but power is global
By Kim on October 30, 2008
The Guardian’s Comment is Free website and Soundings magazine are organising a series of debates on the theme of After New Labour: Who owns the progressive future?. Some of the contributions are making it online. After excoriating the “Third Way” [...]
Posted in Activism, Feminism, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged civil society, Comment is Free, Feminism, globalisation, international politics, left, New Labour, ngos, political sociology, power, social democracy, social movements, socialism, Sociology, Soundings, Third Way, Who owns the progressive future, Zygmunt Bauman | 21 Responses