By Kim on November 17, 2008
Almost a year after the former Dear Leader lost the election and his seat of Bennelong, the ABC is “heavily promoting” (something of an understatement) The Howard Years. Will we never be quit of this man? Personally, I intend to [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Howardia | Tagged ABC tv, Fox news, John Howard, libertarianism, subprime mortgages, The Howard Years |
By Kim on October 2, 2008
Tom Switzer, former op/editor of the Government Gazette and the Opposition Organ and subsaquently Nelson staffer is a panelist on tonight’s final instalment of the ABC’s Q&A. Switzer famously proclaimed that the right was now winning the Culture Wars. Let’s [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics | Tagged ABC tv, Culture Wars, David Marr, liberal leadership, Peter Costello, Q&A, Qanda, Tom Switzer, Tony Jones |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
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Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism |
By Phil on August 25, 2008
Judging by this news item in the Fairfax media, tonight’s Four Corners warts and all profile of Malcolm Turnbull sounds like a bucket load of fun. In a profile on the shadow treasurer to air on the ABC’s Four Corners [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged ABC tv, brendan nelson, four corners, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2008
One of the rather egregious questions on last week’s Q&A asked the panel to comment on why there was no contemporary political fiction of the stature of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s. As with a lot of the queries posed on Q&A, it’s [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged ABC tv, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Australian literary fiction, Australian writers, Blogging, cultural studies, culture and taste, fantasy, Jeff VanderMeer, political fiction, Q&A, Qanda, science fiction, social class, Sociology, sociology of culture, Television, writers, Writings |
Muting a generation
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
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