Happy new year in 2009 from LP!
From all at LP, may you have a 2009 full of undiluted malt scotch grade fabulousness and may your resolutions be made with resolve! <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/340242116_890692cad5.jpg" Photo of Brisbane NYE fireworks courtesy of monkeyc.net at Flickr – reproduced under a [...]
The media and the motivation to blog
At Ambit Gambit, Graham Young riffs off a comment made by Jay Rosen on Twitter: You know why there are bloggers, @Newshour? Because there is “safety first” reasoning in news. People get sick of it and take up their pens.” [...]
The vigilance of (il)Liberalism never sleeps
Probably one of the most laudable steps taken by the Rudd government has been the attention given by Senator John Faulkner as Special Minister of State to cleaning up the electoral system. Admittedly, this isn’t one of the funky and [...]
Eyeless in Gaza
Hilzoy has something pointed to say about the “pornography of destruction” engulfing the Gaza strip and adjacent areas of Israel: One of the many things that makes the Israeli/Palestinian conflict so utterly dispiriting is that it’s impossible to think of [...]
Lazy Sunday! (post Christmas edition)
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? And indeed since Christmas Eve? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! The New Farm festivities kicked off with a [...]
Not Hollywood, Paul and what to watch over summer
For many Australians the local film industry is made up of movies like Strictly Ballroom, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Australia. The documentary Not Quite Hollywood celebrates lesser known works that are regarded as “genre cinema”. Movies that contain ample ample [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Melbourne: No bad buskers allowed?
Now, I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord, But you don’t really care for music, do you? If Leonard Cohen was a busker in Melbourne would he be dismissed as a talentless singer by [...]
Happy Holidays Buon Natale from LP!
Happy Holidays by =vividlight on deviantART
Abolishing sedition
Cross-posted from No Right Turn Three years ago, the Australian government passed draconian sedition laws as part its knee-jerk response to the “war on terror”. Now, Kevin Rudd is planning to repeal them: The Howard government’s controversial ban on sedition [...]
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