Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: what resurrected shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines are being taken for another trot around the same old track?
What to do about Julia and Kevin? Magical thinking and politics
We’re all very familiar, by now, with the refrain that ALP leadership stories are the invention of a hostile media. The media is not, indeed, friendly to Labor, and Bob Brown is surely right to say that Julia Gillard has [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
Where is Australia’s Joey Barton?
For the uninitiated, Joey Barton captains and plays midfield for the Queens Park Rangers (QPR), a newly promoted side in the Premier League. He enjoys a certain amount of infamy in British sporting circles; having worked his way up through [...]
Troppo’s Crikey group subscription
As he does every year, Club Troppo‘s Nicholas Gruen is organising a discount for people who might want to take out a group subscription to the fabulous Crikey. All the details are here, and I’d strongly encourage people to support [...]
University of Sydney survey of blog readers: Please participate!
Dr Peter Chen from Sydney Uni is surveying readers of selected Australian blogs for a forthcoming publication. When his survey is analysed, LP will also receive selected insights from the findings. Additional information about Dr Chen’s project can be accessed [...]
Talking about a(n Education) Revolution
With apologies to Tracy Chapman. The Gonski Review into School Funding is to report shortly, and yesterday an Essential Research poll found opinion split largely on partisan lines over the BER projects, but intriguingly with a much more favourable view [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: Cui bono? What’s really going on?
Spotlight the Spin
Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: blowing one’s own horn, burying one’s errors, resurrecting the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
It’s complicated
Because apparently the best way to counter simplistic, misguided arguments is by making different simplistic, misguided arguments.
Culture Wars: Self fulfilling prophecy time
The peak body representing Australian Universities has adopted The National Best Practice Framework for Indigenous Cultural Competency in Australian Universities. Not something, if you read the key points, I’d have thought should be overly controversial.
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