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By Kim on March 3, 2010
I don’t know what qualifications you need to be a public intellectual. I think you get such a gig because readers of The Age have voted for you, or something. But apparently playwright Louis Nowra is one. In 2007, he [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Media, Politics, Women | Tagged anti-feminism, Bad Dreaming, ben naparstek, Feminism, Germaine Greer, literature, Louis Nowra, Media, misogyny, Sociology, The Female Eunuch, The Indpendent, The Monthly |
By Kim on August 21, 2008
Well, as I noted on another thread about Germaine Greer, I’ve bought and now read On Rage. I’d like this post to stick to discussion of the merits of her arguments, which I continue to think has been something largely [...]
Posted in Culture, Disasters, Feminism, Howardia, Indigenous, Policy, Race, Sexuality, Women | Tagged Bob Katter, Book review, child sexual abuse, Germaine Greer, hunter gatherer societies, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, Judy Atkinson, Marcia Langton, Melbourne University Press, Noel Pearson, NT intervention, On Rage, political journalism, race relations, rural suicide, Sociology, Stolen generation, welfare policy, Writings |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 16, 2008
As a bit of a follow up to the discussion of Germaine Greer’s latest book On Rage here, I was interested to see Gary Sauer-Thompson observe that most of the reaction (and there’s been tons of it) to her writing [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Indigenous, Masculinity, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged Germaine Greer, hunter gatherer societies, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, NT intervention, On Rage, political journalism, Sociology, Writings |
By Kim on August 15, 2008
In the wake of discussion of Andrew Forrest’s proposal for the creation of 50 000 full time jobs for Indigenous Australians (discussed here at LP) and Germaine Greer’s remarks on the continuing force of history in shaping Indigenous responses to [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, Ethics, Health, History, Howardia, Indigenous, Politics, Poverty, Race | Tagged Andrew Forrest, Cape York, closing the gap, education policy, Germaine Greer, indigenous education, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, Jenny Macklin, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, mutual obligation, Noel Pearson, NT intervention, On Rage, Sociology, welfare policy, Writings |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 14, 2008
Occasional guest poster at LP, Marcus Westbury, is on Q&A tonight – ABC1 at 9.30pm. Let’s hope he can get a word in between the pompous comedy stylings of Greg Sheridan, and the litterateur/Macquarie Bank shill Bob Carr. Germaine Greer [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Feminism, Film, TV, Video etc, Indigenous, Media, Policy, Race | Tagged ABC television, Bob Carr, Germaine Greer, Greg Sheridan, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous policy, Leigh Sales, Marcus Westbury, NT intervention, Q&A, Qanda, Tony Jones, Writings |
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