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Penguins cause moral panic at the post office!

By Mark Bahnisch on October 22, 2009

Australia Post, which has been one of the many distributors for the excellent series of orange Popular Penguins, last week decreed that three titles could not be sold through their outlets – Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, [...]

Posted in Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged Australia Post, banned books, Books, Writers & Writing, censorship, Delta of Venus, History of Sexuality, Jessica Au, Lolita, Meanjin, michel foucault, Popular Penguins, Spike, Vladimir Nabokov, Writers & Writing | 81 Responses

A People's Bank for Australia?

By Mark Bahnisch on July 8, 2009

A number of economists, including the blogosphere’s own John Quiggin and Nicholas Gruen, today released a letter in Canberra calling for a new enquiry into the financial system. [See the hyperlinks for the text of the letter and commentary from [...]

Posted in Economics, Markets, Policy, Politics | Tagged Australia Post, banking, banks, bernard keane, competition, Crikey, economic policy, financial system, GFC, ideology, John Quiggin, lending, neo-liberalism, Nicholas Gruen, Rudd government, Wallis Inquiry | 47 Responses

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