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By Kim on April 21, 2010
The Australian Labor Party has long had a commitment to entrenching the protection of human rights, driven by a continuing tradition of legal liberalism associated with luminaries such as Gough Whitlam and Gareth Evans. Yet the ALP has also had [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Law, Policy, Politics | Tagged ALP, bill of rights, Cardinal Pell, civil liberties, Frank Brennan, Gareth Evans, Gough Whitlam, Guy Beres, human rights, human rights consultation, John Howard, Labor, labor party, legal liberalism, NSW Right, Policy, public consultation, robert mcclelland, Rudd government, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 16, 2010
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Blogging, Ethics, Government, History, Life, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ALP, biopolitics, Bob Carr, Capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, efa, electronic frontiers australia, expertise, Francis Fukuyama, freedom, governance, governmentality, ideology, internet filter, labor party, labourism, left, mark latham, michel foucault, neo-liberalism, New Labour, personal freedom, Policy, political communication, rationality, risk society, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, state labor governments, statism, stephen conroy, ulrich beck |
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 Mark Bahnisch on July 27, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Brisbane, Crime, Media, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Anna Bligh, anniversary, Armed Robbery Squad, Bligh government, civil liberties, CJC, CMC, corruption, Courier-Mail, Crime, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Gordon Nuttall, Griffith University, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, malfeasance, Media, police culture, political culture, Queensland police, Queensland politics, Quentin Dempster, Terry O'Gorman, Tony Fitzgerald, transparency |
By Robert Merkel on July 3, 2009
Ken Parish has an excellent post at Club Troppo about the excessive reach of the “anti-bikie” laws recently enacted by several state parliaments. The powers, and the lack of safeguards on using them, provided by the laws are akin to [...]
Posted in Crime, Law | Tagged bikie gangs, civil liberties, human rights |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 4, 2008
I was going to write a post last night about the demos in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention and the extraordinary levels of repression and police violence, but tiredness got the better of me. But never mind, tigtog’s been [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, Photography, USA | Tagged american election 2008, blogosphere, citizen journalism, civil liberties, freedom of speech, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Lindsay Beyerstein, photojournalism, police violence, political blogging, poor people's march, protest march, protests, Republican National Convention, state repression, US election 2008 |
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