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By Kim on September 7, 2010
… and urges the country Indepedents to support Tony Abbott. The story is here. Pearson’s main issue seems to be the Queensland Wild Rivers legislation, which Brian wrote about recently. As the article notes, this intervention comes on the back [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Indigenous | Tagged Bob Katter, chris graham, country independents, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Indigenous policy, Noel Pearson, overland, wild rivers |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 13, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/rudd-sorry-apology.jpg" align=left When Mick Dodson was announced as Australian of the Year, I made this observation: [It] might also be a good idea to take some sort of stock on how the whole “Bridging the Gap” thing is going [...]
Posted in Activism, Indigenous, Media, Policy | Tagged anniversary, Apology, bridging the gap, closing the gap, Crikey, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous policy, Jon Altman, Kevin Rudd, Media, Mick Dodson, SBS, Sorry Day, stolen generations |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dobson.jpg" align=left Indigenous activist, academic and co-chair of Reconciliation Australia Professor Mick Dodson has been named “Australian of the Year”. This award makes an interesting contrast with the selection by The Australian of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and Bart Cummings. [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Indigenous, Politics | Tagged ALP, Australia Day, Australian of the Year, bridging the gap, Indigenous issues, Indigenous policy, Invasion Day, Labor, Mick Dodson, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
By Kim on October 15, 2008
I have to confess at the outset that I haven’t read the report – I am really busy with work at the moment and I simply don’t have time (or energy when I do have time), but I wanted to [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, andrew bartlett, Christopher Pyne, Culture Wars, Glenn Milne, history curriculum, History wars, Indigenous policy, Jenny Macklin, kevin donnelly, Labor, Marni Cordell, national curriculum board, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, NT intervention, NT intervention report, NT intervention review, Rudd government, stuart macintyre, Warren Mundine, welfare policy |
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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