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Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute

Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute

By Mark Bahnisch on October 31, 2011

There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]

Posted in Economics, Featured, Markets, Policy, Politics, Transport | Tagged Adam Bandt, Alan Joyce, arbitration, Bob Brown, Fair Work Australia, FWA, greens, industrial dispute, Julia Gillard, left flank, nationalisation, Politics, qantas | 121 Responses

Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’

Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’

By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2011

Cultural disdain is about more than humour. It’s the new politics.

Posted in Culture, Featured, Politics, Race, Sociology | Tagged #boganmovies, #tightsarenotpants, Australian politics, Bogans, Chavs, civil disorder, class, cultural sociology, Culture, Culture Wars, David Nichols, distinction, humour, ideology, left flank, Liz_beths, london burning, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, Owen Jones, Pauline Hanson, Things Bogans Like, twitter | 211 Responses

The Left, the independents and “new politics”

By Mark Bahnisch on August 27, 2010

There was an interesting micro-debate on Twitter the other night between me, Tad Tietze and Jason Wilson, riffing off Dr_Tad’s scepticism about the “independents are our saviours” meme. That’s expanded on at much greater length at Left Flank. I’d thoroughly [...]

Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Bob Katter, Federal Election 2010, Guy Rundle, hung parliament, ideology, Jason Wilson, left, left flank, Media, neo-liberalism, new politics, Politics, Rob Oakeshott, Tad Tietze, The Greens, tony windsor | 33 Responses

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