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By Kim on August 17, 2011
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
Posted in Featured, Film, TV, Video etc, Industrial Relations, Media, Politics | Tagged abc, abc news 24, Annabel Crabb, argument, balance, brendan o'neill, Bruce Baird, Godwin, IPA, Janet Albrechtsen, John Quiggin, Jonathan Green, left neo-liberals, neo-liberalism, Paul Howes, Peter Reith, qantas, reason, scott stephens, Steve Cannane, the drum, Tim Wilson |
By Kim on August 24, 2010
Tony Windsor had this to say on Q&A last night: TONY WINDSOR: Well, I think the media have got some degree of responsibility in relation to some of the things that went on, as well, but the – this is [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Federal Election 2010, Janet Albrechtsen, Media, media watch, Q&A, Qanda, roundtable, tony windsor |
By Anna Winter on December 18, 2009
So no doubt all you ladies out there have finally felt that you have permission to admit your passion for the love rug. “What about the Love Rug?” he demanded. “Can’t you lift your gaze?” (via) Emboldened by Ms Albrechtsen’s [...]
Posted in Levity, Music, Politics, Women | Tagged Janet Albrechtsen, liberal opposition, Liberal Party, mad monk, sabian wilde, Tony Abbott, women's vote |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 4, 2009
Jason Wilson has a spiffy piece up at New Matilda on the rise and rise (and fall?) of the “trollumnist” – the op/ed columnist who provokes for advertising’s sake. He instances Miranda Devine, David Burchell, Planet Janet and Catherine Deveny. [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Catherine Deveny, David Burchell, Janet Albrechtsen, Jason Wilson, Media, Miranda Devine, op/ed, opinion, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2009
As Kevin Rudd joined Gordon Brown in decrying “the false god” of “unfettered free markets” in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Janet Albrechtsen got her apoplexy in early, lamenting the fact that Kevin Rudd doesn’t read Hayek (apparently Ayaan Hirsi Ali [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, History, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Amartya Sen, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Capitalism, G20, GFC, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, gordon brown, Hayek, Janet Albrechtsen, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, London, Markets, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, neo-liberalism, political economy, public intellectual, public interest, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Institute |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 24, 2008
I kinda wish Kevin Rudd had never put his thoughts on Friedrich Von Hayek on paper, because had he not we’d have been saved some appallingly ill-informed “debates”. Although, if expert psephologist Janet Albrechtsen is right, Rudd’s articles on Howard’s [...]
Posted in Economics, History, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged alan wood, austrian economics, austrian economists, bank deposit guarantee, brutopia, collective action, economic policy, economic thought, Economics, epistemology, financial markets, free market, Friedrich Von Hayek, global financial crisis, historicism, ideology, Janet Albrechtsen, Kevin Rudd, Markets, Max Weber, methodensreit, neo-liberalism, philosophy of history, philosophy of social science, Rudd government, social action, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unintended consequences |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 21, 2008
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around here from time to time about the Rudd government’s proposals for ensuring merit based appointments to the boards of ABC and SBS, a matter of quite a deal of interest because of [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics | Tagged abc, abc board, alan fels, board appointments, Culture Wars, david gonski, Janet Albrechtsen, keith windschuttle, leneen forde, public broadcasting, ric smith, ron brunton, Rudd government, SBS, sbs board, selection panel, stephen conroy, Terry Moran |
By Kim on August 14, 2008
The other day when I was talking about the findings in the Essential Research poll about public attitudes towards banks and passing on Reserve Bank interest rate cuts, I linked to Janet Albrechtsen’s column in which she loudly denounced populist [...]
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Media | Tagged banking industry, Essential Research, interest rate cut, interest rates, Janet Albrechtsen, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labor party, media ethics, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, Peter Costello, political journalism, polling, populist bank bashing, reserve bank, Rudd government, Stephen Mayne, Wayne Swan |
By Kim on August 12, 2008
The details can be found at The Poll Bludger’s joint. Nelson’s down 2 points (within the moe) but no doubt that will start off another round of Costello fantasising, even if the audience for that sort of idiocy will be [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, Coalition, coalition leadership instability, Essential Research, interest rate cut, interest rates, Janet Albrechtsen, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labor party, Liberal leadership crisis, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, Peter Costello, political journalism, polling, populist bank bashing, reserve bank, Rudd government, Wayne Swan |
Even the devil sometimes speaks true? Rudd, Labor and the 2010 election
By Mark Bahnisch on December 23, 2009
We have it on good authority, that of St Thomas Aquinas, that demons and evil spirits can sometimes speak the truth. Now, I’m not saying that Janet Albrechtsen falls into either of those categories, but for once I was interested [...]
Posted in Climate change, Federal Elections, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics | Tagged Bob Hawke, COAG, commentariat, electoral strategy, Essential Research, Federal Election 2010, health policy, hospitals, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Janet Albrechtsen, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Peter Dutton, Politics, Polls, reform, Richard Farmer, Rudd government, Thomas Aquinas, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices | 50 Responses