Refuting Bernard Keane: It’s not all our fault
Bernard Keane stirred things up a bit over the last few days in Crikey, with a provocative claim made in a two part series that the malaise of contemporary politics was fundamentally the fault of us citizens. We’ve outsourced politics, [...]
Democratise or die: the future of the ALP
One of the ironies of the British election, as I noted at the time, was that a campaign and a result which seemed to portend an end to politics as usual brought forth a reactionary result – the coalescence of [...]
Breaking the privatisation addiction: Search Foundation Forum
I’m speaking at a forum organised by the Search Foundation on Saturday: Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push. There’s a great line up of speakers, including Professor John Quiggin, Peter Simpson of the Queensland ETU and Dr Patricia Ranald [...]
The No Clean Feed campaign
Alex White has posted on what he describes as soul searching in the campaign against internet filtering about its direction. White’s post is replete with useful links, and is well worth a read. He disagrees with the focus on censorship, [...]
After Copenhagen IV: What sort of climate change activism?
I made a comment on my previous post that the result (or lack of result) from COP is likely to be both discouraging to many activists and to provoke rethinking about strategy and tactics. In order to stimulate discussion about [...]
Twitter, blogging, social media and the Iranian election
There’s been a ton of discussion about the role of social media in the protests ensuing on the Iranian election. Two notable posts are those by Rosanna Ryan at ABC Online and my QUT colleague Terry Flew at his eponymous [...]
TED; Aimee Mullins and her twelve pairs of legs
I’d been meaning to blog on this for such a long time. I sort of put it off, because… well, for all sorts of reasons. But I’ve been reminded of Aimee Mullins’ talk by the recent (and well deserved … [...]
The Princess of Cleves v. Sarkozy
The French know how to do culture wars properly, and how to protest: witness this delicious story about the cultural and literary fightback against Nicolas Sarkozy from The Guardian.
Newspoll Monday: Labor 58-42
Newspoll’s out early today. Obviously the journos couldn’t wait to see how Malcolm Turnbull’s gambit of rejecting the stimulus package went. It may well be, as I suggested last night, that he had some similar private polling or a tip [...]
"Picking up the phone"
Folks might recall the criticism from Jason Wilson bloggers were subjected to over the Windschuttle/Wilson hoax. John Quiggin has written an excellent post in response to the implicit claim that bloggers are “lazy amateurs”. In so doing, he also highlights [...]
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