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By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
… and no, I won’t be posting a photo of Tony Abbott in any form of swimwear to answer that question. But it’s interesting to observe the blue thread that runs through all of Abbott’s pronouncements – a mindset that [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Economics, Elections, Howardia, Markets, Philosophy, Policy, Politics | Tagged Authoritarianism, classic liberalism, climate change policy, Coalition, conservatism, conservatives, dirgisme, economic policy, Economics, Federal Election 2010, free markets, Howardism, ideology, Liberal Party, libertarians, Markets, Nationals, neo-liberalism, paternalism, the state, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2010
Jason Whittaker has an article in today’s Crikey, which I’ve reproduced below the fold.
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Politics, The Web | Tagged Authoritarianism, Crikey, efa, electronic frontiers australia, internet censorship, internet filter, isps, Jason Whittaker, Kate Lundy, mandatory filtering, no clean feed, opt out, peter black, stephen conroy, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy |
By Guest Poster on October 23, 2009
Rewi blogs at Oqurum and this post was originally posted there. In an earlier post I briefly discussed the issue of civil rights in Australia, particularly as to how we justify infringing rights in order to deal with specific segments [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Law | Tagged Authoritarianism, Barnett government, Colin Barnett, freedom, police powers, surveillance, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 28, 2009
I’ve got a feeling that the mix of a seemingly random collection of crazy authoritarian policy ideas (covenant marriage, raising the pension age to 70, bringing back WorkChoices, the federal government taking over everything) and arrogant self-congratulation that appear to [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Politics | Tagged ALP, Authoritarianism, book, Labor, Liberal Party, News Limited, publishing, Tony Abbott |
By Brian on May 21, 2009
Via Counterpoint last week I heard about the new book by Paul Collier entitled Wars, guns and votes. Collier, an African specialist, is concerned about solutions rather than simply investigating problems. Discussing his ideas about solutions really requires reading the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Developing world, Environment, Politics | Tagged Authoritarianism, democracy, economic development, paul collier, power |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
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