By Mark Bahnisch on January 9, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland Liberal National Party leader Lawrence Springborg – often accused by his Labor opponents of being a policy free zone – was quick out of the blocks on Monday, making an announcement about trail bike tracks. [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections, Transport | Tagged amalgamation, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Brisbane, Coalition, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mal Brough, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Liberals, Queensland Nationals, Queensland politics, South East Queensland, trail bikes, transport policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
This post provides space for a continuation of the discussion on the previous thread about the Israeli attacks on Gaza. As a discussion starter, there’s a wealth of interesting commentary at Open Democracy. Paul Rogers looks at the current situation [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Foreign policy, Imperialism, International, Law, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, USA, War | Tagged Bush administration, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration, Open Democracy, peace, violence |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
A few blogospheric things going on – it’s good to see Hoyden About Town nominated for the Weblog Awards – in the best midsized blog category. Here’s where you can vote. I haven’t paid a lot of attention to these [...]
Posted in Blogging | Tagged Australian Blog Awards, Best Blog Posts, blog awards, Blogging, blogosphere, Club Troppo, Hoyden About Town, On Line Opinion, Weblog awards |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
Apparently it’s now the question on everyone’s lips – apropos of the Keith Windschuttle Quadrant hoax. “Sharon Gould” was the pseudonym used by a hoaxer who submitted an egregious article embodying “outrageous propositions” about GM research and splicing human genes [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Media, Politics, Science | Tagged Alan Sokal, Blogging, blogosphere, Crikey, Don Arthur, hoax, Jason Soon, Kath Wilson, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, margaret simons, Media, melaleuca, Quadrant, Science, sharon gould, skepticlawyer, Troppo
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
Well we’ve had almost a week of 2009 so it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a 32nd open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat this year so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, *specifically 2009* [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Levity, Life, Music | Tagged Condemn it!, condemnation, Hold Time, M. Ward, Music, new album, new year, Video |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
I wrote in an earlier post about the “summer of culture” feature at New Matilda. Ben Eltham has now wrapped up “the state of the cultural nation” with a thoughtful essay integrating the various pieces with some broader thoughts on [...]
Posted in Culture, Policy | Tagged 2020 summit, arts funding, Australia Council, Ben Eltham, Creative Australia, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, innovation, New Matilda, Peter Garrett, Rudd govermnent |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
On the first thread here about the Israeli attacks on Gaza, I was struck by this comment in an article linked by Rob: Even when development and enlightenment stare them in the face, their instinct is to destroy them pretending [...]
Posted in Blogging, Crime, Disasters, Ethics, History, Imperialism, International, Law, Middle East, Nuclear, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism, War | Tagged Arabs, attacks, categorical imperative, Cold War, conflict resolution, Ethics, Farid Ghatry, Gaza, global sociology, Hamas, Hizbollah, humanism, humanitarian war, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, peace, peace movement, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, responsibility to protect, RTP, Sociology, UN, universalism, universals and particulars, War |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
As Obama’s liberal supporters wait uneasily for January 20 to find out whether he really will use his post-partisan stance as a sweetener to implement progressive policy, Crooked Timber blogger and political scientist Henry Farrell has published a rather fascinating [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged barack obama, Blogging, blogosphere, deliberative democracy, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Farrell, internet activism, Jurgen Habermas, new media, partisanship, political blogging, political participation, political science, political sociology, public sphere, social media |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2009
The former Dear Leader has received his reward – something a little more prestigious than the weirdly named awards from obscure right wing think tanks he spent some time trotting over to America last year to collect. John Howard will [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, first term, George W. Bush, howard government, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, medal of freedom, Media, polling, possum, psephological analysis, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2009
An enterprising hoaxer – claiming to be acting in the tradition of Ern Malley – has published a spurious article on a scientific topic in Quadrant with the aim of demonstrating that Keith Windschuttle would print “outrageous propositions” which accord [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Science | Tagged Alan Sokal, Crikey, Ern Malley, hoax, ideology, keith windschuttle, margaret simons, Media, Quadrant, research, Science, sharon gould |
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