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By Mark Bahnisch on April 11, 2010
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, autonomy, Bligh government, capacities, capital, Carole Ferrier, commodification, communitarianism, communities, corporatism, decommodification, democratic socialism, ETU, GFC, global financial crisis, globalisation, governmentality, History, homgenisation, homogenisation, ideology, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Quiggin, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, managerialism, Media, neo-liberalism, New Labor, New Labour, nudge, Peter Beattie, political class, political culture, Polls, privatisation, QR, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Greens, Queensland history, Queensland rail, radical brisbane, Ray Evans, resources, Sociology, Sunday Mail, T. J. Ryan, The Greens, trade unions, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
Presiding as he has been over the Nationals-isation of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott might pause to consider one of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s bon mots: You can’t straddle both sides of a barbed-wire fence. The first stage of selling the Coalition’s [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics | Tagged 7 30 Report, Barnaby Joyce, carbon emissions, climate change denialism, Coalition, cprs, ets, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Nationals, political communication, retail politician, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 18, 2010
A number of the commenters on the earliest political memories thread recalled having been taken as schoolkids to see Her Maj, and a number of us also recalled weird little pledges and scratchy recordings of ‘God Save the Queen’ being [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Media, NSW Government, Politics | Tagged Auckland, Australia, childhood memories, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Kristina Keneally, monarchy, New Zealand, NSW Government, NSW Labor, Politics, Prince William, queen elizabeth II, Queensland, Republic, republicanism, school days, Sydney |
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 July 27, 2009
From today’s Crikey: There has been a certain feeling in the air of deja vu over the past fortnight in Queensland. The jailing of a former Minister, allegations that government was far too close to business, a government sinking rapidly [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Brisbane, Crime, Media, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Anna Bligh, anniversary, Armed Robbery Squad, Bligh government, civil liberties, CJC, CMC, corruption, Courier-Mail, Crime, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Gordon Nuttall, Griffith University, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, malfeasance, Media, police culture, political culture, Queensland police, Queensland politics, Quentin Dempster, Terry O'Gorman, Tony Fitzgerald, transparency |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
I’m planning at some stage in the reasonably near future to write a longish post about Anna Bligh’s prospects (and I wouldn’t comment on Mike Rann’s, not being a resident of South Australia, and thus I don’t think able to [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged 1983 federal election, 1987 federal election, 2006 Queensland election, 2009 queensland election, ALP, Anna Bligh, Bob Hawke, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Mike Rann, News Limited columnists, Newspoll, Peter Beattie, political analysis, polling, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, SA Labor, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/facade_i_by_phenomenologist.jpg" Photo credit: me. A larger version of the image can be seen here by clicking on full view once inside the gallery. The latest issue of Griffith REVIEW – Hidden Queensland – touches on a number of subjects [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, History, Life, Media, Photography, Queensland, Urbanism | Tagged 1980s Brisbane, ALP, Book review, Brisbane Writers Festival, Busted, Disruptive Influences, Edwina Shaw, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Goss government, Griffith REVIEW, Griffith REVIEW events, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Julianne Schultz, Kevin Rudd, Labor, magazine review, Melbourne Writers Festival, Peter Beattie, political culture, Queensland culture, Queensland history, Queensland politics, Raymond Evans, small magazines, Sociology, sociology of culture, urban sociology, Wayne Goss, writings Hidden Queensland |
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