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By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2010
A lot has been said about Tony Abbott’s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not [...]
Posted in Economics, Feminism, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Media, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged ALP, benefits, casual workers, Coalition, conservatism, employers, esping-andersen, federal minimum wage, Feminism, ideologly, ideology, income inequality, Labor, Liberal Party, parental leave, productivity commission, social policy, Tony Abbott, transfer payments, welfare policy, welfare state, Women, workers |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 8, 2010
Tony Abbott has chosen to mark International Women’s Day which is, to his mind, of course, all about “benefits… provided to families with children”, by announcing a policy for six months’ paid parental leave at actual salary levels, funded by [...]
Posted in Ethics, Industrial Relations, Media, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged big government, business, conservatism, ideology, International Womens Day, Liberal Party, paid parental leave, paternalism, patriarchy, Policy, statism, Tony Abbott, welfare state |
By Kim on February 22, 2010
Tony Abbott, we’re told, is “real”. Able to mix with the battlers (just like Joe Hockey, another product of the North Shore Jesuit Fathers, and just like yet another, Barnaby Joyce, the accountant in the Akubra), he’s “authentic”. Kevin Rudd [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged authenticity, Barnaby Joyce, battlers, Coalition, conservatism, Federal Election 2010, Geoffrey Barker, George W. Bush, ideology, Jesuit Fathers, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, North Shore, Policy, private schools, spin, symbolism, Tony Abbott |
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 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
Posted in Activism, Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, History, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Technology | Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Apocalypse, Capitalism, Climate change, climate change denialism, collective action, conservatism, contingency, Culture, disavowal, ecology, end of history, Energy, History, ideology, necessity, neo-liberalism, non-renewable resources, peak oil, Politics, resources, Science, Slavoj Žižek, the imaginary, utopia, world politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 22, 2009
A predictable response to the Copenhagen fail has been calls from Australian business for *even more* ‘compensation’ as a condition for continued support of the Rudd government’s ETS. I’ll save the domestic politics of the Copenhagen washup for a later [...]
Posted in Climate change, International, Policy, Politics, USA | Tagged Andrew Norton, behavioural economics, business, Climate change, conservatism, Copenhagen, corporatism, cprs, ets, Glenn Greenwald, health reform, ideology, Kevin Rudd, nudge, Obama, progressives, property rights, rent seeking, social democracy, US politics, vested interests |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 2, 2009
As a number of prominent Australian climate change scientists hit back at the increasing propensity of elements of the media and some politicians to engage in very high profile climate change denialism, no matter how discredited the ‘arguments’ they put [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Blogging, Climate change, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged Australian politics, barack obama, birthers, Climate change, climate change denialism, conservatism, Guardian, John Quiggin, Media, Michael Tomasky, political culture, political psychology, Republican party, United States politics |
By Kim on January 11, 2009
A couple of items which provide some food for thought: Firstly – Barack Obama does represent change from the era of the Bush administration. He is the limited change that’s possible within the logic of the current system. <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/spectrum.jpg" [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged Arianna Huffington, barack obama, Blago, conservatism, global financial crisis, inauguration, left and right, liberalism, political scandal, TARP bailout, US political parties, US politics |
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