Lazy Sunday!
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!
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Living capitalism freely
Steven Shaviro, who blogs at The Pinocchio Theory, has written an excellent piece on the Global Financial Crisis. Shaviro captures how capitalism is lived – and how it produces a demeanour of fatalism. He emphasises the way in which the [...]
"The Internet has not destroyed journalism"
It’s interesting to see some realism emerging in the media about the causes of the woes of newspapers and journalism as a profession. I can well recall speaking at a number of professional fora over a couple of years where [...]
Moshing between the flags – population growth, affluence and global mobility collide with biophysical finitude
With summer almost upon us, once again the surf life saving people are lamenting that increasing numbers of people are ignoring the “swim between the flags” message. Why, when considerable effort is put into campaigns to reinforce this message and [...]
Mean/ing
As Sophie Black says: “twits (myself included) love nothing more than tweeting their moral outrage and indignation about everything from Cheesybite to racism and everything in between.” Last night’s Red Faces skit? Racist. There is just far too much cultural [...]
Green on The Greens and Higgins
ABC election analyst Antony Green has a very interesting and comprehensive post up on the Higgins (and Bradfield) by-elections. Among his observations: Safe Liberal seats in Melbourne have never been as safe as the safest Liberal seats in Sydney. In [...]
Turnbull, Hockey or Abbott?
It looks rather like the Liberals are going with the Gadarene swine option. If Joe Hockey becomes leader, then no doubt it will be characterised as a “save the furniture” tactic. But how persuasive is a party that will have [...]
Political media FAIL
By Mark Bahnisch on October 8, 2009
Richard Farmer: No government this morning. For the first time since I have been preparing the breakfast media wrap for Crikey I could not find a story to list this morning that quoted a Federal Government Minister. The whole attention [...]
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