Am I not redneck enough?
Hat tip to Fairfax Press cartoonist Cathy Wilcox for the title of this post, which first appeared in a cartoon she drew to accompany a story about Pauline Hanson’s plans to record a country music single. Pauline’s musical career never [...]
Vatican tells bishops to report abuse cases to police
The Guardian: Vatican issues detailed instructions to all bishops after criticism of Catholic church’s handling of paedophile priests Yep. Not actually that hard to do, in the end. So why did it take so long? Update: [by Kim] I’ve put [...]
Teacher bashing round #176838
Sheesh, election years can be depressing some times. If it’s not having the green lycra clad form of Action Man Abbott on the tv screen for 9 days in a row, or craven policy reversals on brown people in boats, [...]
Tell me something I didn't know already
It turns out that getting good quality childcare is critical in allowing mothers to work. This time, policy makers might just get around to believing it; the claim is based on a paper prepared by the Australian Treasury. Childcare key [...]
Asylum seeker fears and irrationality
Via Crikey, some tables from a recent Morgan poll on how asylum seekers should be treated: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/04/asylum21.jpg" <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/04/asylum11.jpg" In the latest Overland, Mungo MacCallum laments the turn to the right in the Rudd government’s border protection policy over [...]
Emotion's role in decision-making
On the latest Saturday Salon thread tigtog linked to an extremely provocative article by Bob Ellis on The Drum, wherein he compared the moral equivalence of the War on Terror in Afghanistan with the activities of pedophile priests, suggesting that [...]
Spotlight the Spin
A weekly look at stories various PR people tried to bury in the tail end of the news cycle before this last weekend. What are they hoping that we won’t talk about this week because “it”s old news” now? Let’s [...]
Ne bis in idem
Crossposted from No Right Turn. The above, which translates as “not twice for the same”, is one of the fundamental principles of modern law. Once you’ve been tried for something, and that trial has reached a final verdict (either to [...]
Explaining Bligh's privatisation push: Search Foundation forum
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
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!
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