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By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2010
Early this month, I contested the idea that this campaign was a boring race. It didn’t take long for that notion to be junked. But the perception that there’s no salient difference between the two parties has had a stronger [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Philosophy | Tagged Ben Eltham, campaign strategy, choice, Culture Wars, Deakinite liberalism, Federal Election 2010, ideology, John Howard, Julia Gillard, liberalism, libertarians, social democracy, social neoliberalism, statism, The Greens, Tony Abbott, welfare state |
By Kim on March 31, 2010
Barnaby hit the news last night with another one of his bon mots: SABRA LANE: And on the eve of the Productivity Commission handing down a report on water recovery in the Murray-Darling basin, he had this to say about [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Politics, Water | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Catallaxy, economic stimulus, farmers, libertarianism, libertarians, murray-darling basin, pipeline, productivity commission, toilet paper, Water |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
… and no, I won’t be posting a photo of Tony Abbott in any form of swimwear to answer that question. But it’s interesting to observe the blue thread that runs through all of Abbott’s pronouncements – a mindset that [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Economics, Elections, Howardia, Markets, Philosophy, Policy, Politics | Tagged Authoritarianism, classic liberalism, climate change policy, Coalition, conservatism, conservatives, dirgisme, economic policy, Economics, Federal Election 2010, free markets, Howardism, ideology, Liberal Party, libertarians, Markets, Nationals, neo-liberalism, paternalism, the state, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on November 19, 2008
The darling of the libertarians, Ron Paul, (and to be fair there were some lefties who flirted with his candidacy too) has come out of the closet post-election as a New World Order conspiracy theorist – World Government is Obama’s [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged barack obama, conspiracy theories, libertarians, Republican party, Ron Paul, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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