Indian students, structural racism and service industry work
One of the debates we should no doubt be having about the spate of violent and racist attacks on Indian students in this country is around the conditions of service work in the less salubrious bits of the service industries [...]
Peter Spencer ends hunger strike
I’ve just heard that Peter Spencer has agreed to end his hunger strike. We can all breathe a sigh of relief about that. I would hope that farmer groups now leave the Spencer case to one side in pursuing their [...]
Google grows a pair?
Google. We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we [...]
Working class heroes
Without the mass production of iron and steel from the late C18 onward, there probably would not have been an Industrial Revolution. In turn, the massive expansion of iron and steel production in this period was made possible by a [...]
Everybody needs to know about my field of expertise
While I never had the chance to study them, I’ve no doubt that Classical languages are a worthy, fulfulling, and useful exercise for those that do. It’s a shame, then, that they have such poor promoters as one Dan Ryan, [...]
Was Mitchell Johnson's mother an agent of Cuban influence or a CIA plant?
My attention has been drawn, by Nick Dyrenfurth, to John Passant’s Marxist class analysis of test cricket and the political significance of the outcome of last year’s Ashes series. Time does not allow me the luxury of an extensive critique [...]
Peter Spencer's protest – 50th day
Peter Spencer’s protest has now entered its 50th day. We have followed it in some detail on the earlier thread which is very long, so it’s appropriate to consider where we are at in a new post. My own hunch [...]
In the LOOP
It’s the beginning of a new year, and Tony Abbott and his team are busy preparing to take over the world. It’s time for an LP competition. Explain in haiku, limerick, sonnet or cinquain what’s going on in the LOOP* [...]
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!
Lefties…
…Left-handed people, that is. Have you hugged one today? This thread is to enable discussion of an interesting point that commenter Katz raised in another thread, and which deserves a discussion all its own: “…the question is to what extent [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
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