Oh no! We forgot our birthday! LP turns 5!
Yikes! Our fifth blogiversary was last Tuesday. That’s a long time in internet years. 7095 posts, 309041 comments and counting since March 16, 2005; thanks to all my lovely fellow LP bloggers, commenters and readers!
Crikey turns Ten: cheap subs
Crikey celebrated its tenth birthday yesterday. To coincide with the anniversary, you can get a discount annual subscription for $100 if you subscribe by midnight tonight.
Kevin Rudd two years on; Open thread
Today marks the second anniversary of the election of the Rudd government. No doubt thousands of words will be written to commemorate it. This is your opportunity to add even more!
Rudd and Queenslandism
I’ve commented before on the tendency to anticipate the anniversary of events, and everyone in the Oz media has been doing just that ahead of the milestone of two years since the election of the Rudd government, which falls on [...]
(Almost) a year after the end of the world
I think I’ve observed before that commemorations of anniversaries now appear to be anticipated days, or even weeks or months before the day in question falls. Whether or not this is a function of the desire to get in early [...]
Woodstock un-remembered
Another risible article from David Burchell marks the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. In attacking “the Woodstock moment”, he criticises “un-remembering” (what a horrible coinage), the putative sin of the Boomers (whoever they may be), and in the process indicts himself [...]
Something rotten in the state of Queensland?
From today’s Crikey: There has been a certain feeling in the air of deja vu over the past fortnight in Queensland. The jailing of a former Minister, allegations that government was far too close to business, a government sinking rapidly [...]
Guest post by Jeff Sparrow: The 2020 Summit anniversary
From today’s Crikey — Jeff Sparrow of Overland writes: It’s quite astonishing that the public figure who yesterday pointed out that the deadline for Kevin Rudd’s response to ideas from his 2020 summit had quietly come and gone was Peter [...]
A Sorry record?
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rudd-sorry-apology.jpg" align=left When Mick Dodson was announced as Australian of the Year, I made this observation: [It] might also be a good idea to take some sort of stock on how the whole “Bridging the Gap” thing is going [...]
Rudd one year on
Well, having opened a thread that perhaps proves that Ute Man is still out there but not actually supporting Emo Man, it behoves me, I guess, to have a bit of a say about the tenure of the Rudd government [...]
Open Rudd government first anniversary thread
I’m sticking to my no politics on the weekend rule, and have a busy day tomorrow, so I’m going to save up my thoughts on the first anniversary of the defeat of the Howard government and the election of the [...]
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