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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 Guest Poster on January 15, 2010
Cross-posted from Skepticlawyer. Today my daughter was playing with her pink superball while my son was asleep (it’s small, so she’s only allowed to get it out while he’s sleeping). I heard her mutter to her toys while brandishing the [...]
Posted in Life, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Peacock, Bob Hawke, childhood, childhood memories, Gough Whitlam, History, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Mark Bahnisch, memories, Politics, skepticlawyer, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2009
Parliament goes into recess next week, after a sitting whose most prominent contribution to political discussion was the unruliness of question time (aside, of course, from the usual shenanigans of opposition disunity, which are now customary). Writing in Crikey yesterday, [...]
Posted in Media, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Athenian democracy, Bagehot, bernard keane, classical philosophy, eidos, forms, Gough Whitlam, jim cope, keating government, Kevin Rudd, liberalism, opposition, parliament, Paul Keating, Plato, question time, Rudd government, rudd rage, speaker, westminster democracy |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 6, 2008
Picking up on Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens’ remarks about “borrowing to invest” and not being afraid of a deficit if there are good policy outcomes to be had, eight prominent economists (including a couple of blogging ones) have written [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Environment, Industrial Relations, Markets, Middle East, Policy, Sociology | Tagged economic management, economic policy, economists, eight economists, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Gough Whitlam, Industrial Relations, infrastructure bank, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Nicholas Gruen, open letter, policy process, Politics, public policy, Rudd government, super, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
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