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By Idiot/Savant on August 28, 2009
Crossposted from No Right Turn. In the run-up to the 2007 election, then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard decided to repeat his successful racial wedge tactics with Aborigines as the victims, declaring a “state of emergency” in Northern Australia, taking over [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Indigenous, Politics, Race | Tagged authoritarian, Culture Wars, human rights, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, intolerance, Kevin Rudd, racism, United Nations |
By Idiot/Savant on April 29, 2009
Crossposted from No Right Turn Whenever I look at Australian politics, I’m constantly reminded that the Australian Labor Party is neither as progressive or liberal as its New Zealand equivalent. I’ve had another such reminder today, with Kevin Rudd categorically [...]
Posted in Law, Lesbian and Gay, Politics | Tagged gender & equality, intolerance, Kevin Rudd, lesbian and gay rights |
By tigtog on August 1, 2008
Like Andrew Bartlett, I agree entirely with Andrew Bolt regarding the shameful weaseling by the International Olympic Committee regarding the whole idea of granting the 2008 games to the authoritarian dictatorship of China in the first place. crossposted UPDATE: It [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Ethics, Media, Sociology, Sport, The Web | Tagged andrew bartlett, andrew bolt, authoritarian, China, conroy, Culture, dictatorship, false positives, games, international olympic committee, internet filtering, intolerance, ioc, ISP filtering, Nationalism, Olympics, Sociology, sports&spectating |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 11, 2008
From today’s Crikey: During the election, I thought one occasion on which Kevin Rudd displayed a bit of passion was in his most wonkish interview of the campaign, talking to Tony Jones about the importance of the public service and [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Economics, Education, Federal Elections, Health, Policy | Tagged authoritarian, Federal election 2007, intolerance, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Peter Costello, politics&govt, Sociology |
By tigtog on January 10, 2008
Tim Dunlop yesterday wrote about moves from the Rudd government to undo some of the gag-clauses placed by the Howard government on government funding for charitable institutions, in which he quotes a neat summation of the policy from 2006 by [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Developing world, Ethics, Government, Health, Law, Politics, Women | Tagged abortion information, aid money, Australian Greens, authoritarian, brian harradine, charitable institutions, Culture Wars, Family First, gag clause, gag clauses, intolerance, Julia Gillard, Labor, labor legislation, liberal opposition, nick xenophon, politics&govt, social advocacy, Sociology |
By Phil on December 31, 2007
Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy said this today in what was obviously a New Years media dump that he hoped would avoid serious scrutiny. If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Media, Policy, Technology, The Web | Tagged authoritarian, intolerance, Labor, politics&govt, Sociology |
By Robert Merkel on November 20, 2007
One thing we talked about quite a bit before the election amongst the LP collective is drawing attention to the Senate contests. I don’t think we’ve done as good a job as we could have, considering its importance. Just to [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Federal Elections, Politics, Terrorism | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian Greens, authoritarian, Bob Brown, Coalition, Federal election 2007, intolerance, Sociology, war & conflict |
By Guest Poster on November 8, 2007
Guest Post from Lauredhel Crossposted from Hoyden About Town and also crossposted yesterday at LP in exile, but I wasn’t able to access LP to post it here until now! You may comment over at LP in exile while comments [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Federal Elections, Government, Health, Indigenous, Law, Politics, Race | Tagged authoritarian, Culture Wars, Federal election 2007, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, intolerance, politics&govt, racism, Sociology |
By Guest Poster on November 2, 2007
Please visit Jim’s blog Rage and Enthusiasm for a fully hyperlinked version should you wish to refer to any of the sources. Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, is simply not to be trusted on serious matters relating to human and legal [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Ethics, Federal Elections, Howardia, Immigration, Law, Politics, Race, Security, Terrorism | Tagged authoritarian, Coalition, Culture Wars, Federal election 2007, intolerance, Labor, politics&govt, racism, Sociology, war & conflict |
By tigtog on October 28, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Ethics, Federal Elections, Indigenous, Law, Policy, Politics, Race | Tagged authoritarian, Culture Wars, Federal election 2007, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, intolerance, politics&govt, racism, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 4, 2007
Paul posted recently on David Burchell’s column: And so in 2007 Labor has had, as it were, two successive sets of mistakes from which to learn. It has had to learn how not to take the bait from its opponents [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Federal Elections, Howardia, Media, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Australian Democrats, Australian Greens, authoritarian, Coalition, Culture Wars, Federal election 2007, intolerance, Labor, politics&govt, Sociology |
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