Not forgetting the NT recolonisation
It’s a while since we’ve discussed this, and as an issue it’s largely being pushed to the sidelines by our very own presidential-style election campaign. However, Mal Brough getting heckled by the indigenous community in Darwin seems as good a [...]
Howard's Vision for Welfare
The Federal Government plans to extend a system where the welfare payments of parents in Aboriginal communities are quarantined if their children are not sent to school. Senator Ellison says Indigenous parents subject to the intervention could have all of [...]
Journos v bloggers, round #7890
From today’s Crikey email: As Iâ??ve observed many times both here at Crikey and in my academic work on blogging, discussion in the media about online politics is inevitably dominated by the tedious repetition of a few clichés (to the [...]
Just Another Routine Act of Gutless Bastardry
The members of Federal Cabinet might not be able to muster a single vertebra between them, but that didn’t stop some of them from conducting bastardry as usual while the phoney leadership crisis was on. Sharman Stone for example: Federal [...]
Forgotten Brisbane and fading Valley
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/forgottenbrisbane.JPG" The cityscape of our fine town is in constant flux, and often what’s buried by the reconstruction of the urban environment is not just memories and narratives which counter the traditional Quinceland theme of progress ever upwards but [...]
"The Quest for a Radical Centre": Noel Pearson sticks it to the Melbourne Left
After emerging from the Melbourne Writers Festival closing address tonight, a woman remarked to me that she’d never encountered such stillness at an event like that before. She was right; a hush met the initially soft and then increasingly loud [...]
A Rosa Parks Moment
In a landmark decision, the High Court has today upheld the fundamental human right to vote, finding that the Howard Government had acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally in imposing a blanket ban denying prisoners the vote. Last year’s legislative changes brought [...]
Against the tide
One of the most pernicious aspects of public discourse in the Howard era has been the theme of “elites v. the people”, exposed for the nonsense it is, as I pointed out, by Christopher Pearson’s use of it to slavishly [...]
A Conveniently Dead Scapegoat
Last week, Justice Gray of the Supreme Court of South Australia awarded $525,000 damages to Bruce Trevorrow, as compensation for his unlawful removal from parental custody. In his latest column, Andrew Bolt makes a surprising admission – Trevorrow was stolen: [...]
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