By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
William Bowe has all the news on the shifting dynamic in the Senate. We know The Greens have won a Senator in each state, bringing them up to 9 Senators when the Senators elected yesterday take their seats on 1 [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged DLP, Family First, Federal Election 2010, Poll Bludger, Senate, Stephen Fielding, The Greens, Victoria, William Bowe |
By Kim on July 10, 2010
Paul Norton has already written at length on Bob Carr’s interpretation of Mark Aarons’ supposed revelations of some leading ALP left figures holding dual membership in the Communist Party of Australia (a claim, it’s important to note, that is flatly [...]
Posted in Culture, History, Politics | Tagged ALP, Angela Shanahan, anti-communism, Arthur Gietzelt, Bob Carr, communism, Culture Wars, Democratic Club, DLP, History, ideology, Julia Gillard, Labor, Lionel Murphy, Mark Aarons, NCC, paul norton, progressive politics, Rex Connor, Socialist Forum, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 31, 2010
At Eureka Street, John Warhurst has written a piece about Tony Abbott, Santamaria and the Liberal Party. The illustration (reproduced below) is interesting for all sorts of reasons: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/abbott-pope1.jpg" The article Tony Abbott penned for the Weekend Australian colour [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Australian Catholicism, B.A. Santamaria, Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, Catholic Church, clerical child abuse, Democratic Labor Party, DLP, economic policy, Eureka Street, John Warhurst, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, National civic Council, political behaviour, political catholicism, political culture, political sociology, Pope Benedict, Queensland Nationals, religion and politics, religiosity, secularisation, Speech, symbolism, the movement, Tony Abbott, World Youth Day |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 5, 2009
The first few days of Tony Abbott’s leadership have seen a concerted effort by the conservative commentariat to decry any criticism of his reactionary policies on women’s rights and social issues as ‘anti-Catholic’. A number of points need making about [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged ALP, anti Catholicism, Cardinal Pell, Catholic Church, Catholicism, catholics, catholics in politics, Christopher Pearson, Culture Wars, DLP, George Pell, groupers, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, political culture, Pope Benedict, punditariat, religion and politics, sectarianism, secularisation, social justice, Sociology, the movement, theology, Tony Abbott, Vatican II, victimology, Women |
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