By Mark Bahnisch on February 8, 2010
The first Q&A for the year features Kevin Rudd and an audience of yoof in Old Parliament House (no doubt screened according to approved Abetz principles to include quotas of Young Libs, LaRoucheites, etc). I won’t be liveblogging it, because [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged facebook, Kevin Rudd, Larvatus prodeo, liveblogging, LP, Q&A, Qanda, social media, twitter |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 28, 2009
Not to be outdone by The Australian, Quadrant has launched its own series on the left. This time with non-leftists writing it… And writing about the Australian‘s articles. Jason Soon, for instance, along the way to arguing that social justice [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Derrida, Gary Sauer-Thompson, ideology, Jason Soon, Julia Gillard, Larvatus prodeo, left, LP, postmodernism, Quadrant, Quadrant Online, social democracy, social justice, The Australian, the left, What's Left |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 2, 2009
I might have mentioned in passing here, and I know I’ve said on Facebook, that I’ve become interested lately in exploring some themes which don’t really seem to fit into the LP space, and also in a more personal form [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, Feminism, Life, Masculinity, Media, Religion, Sociology, The Web, Urbanism | Tagged Angelus Novus, atheism, Blogging, blogosphere, Brisbane, BrisCulture, Catholicism, Creative Brisbane, cultural studies, Feminism, gender relations, Larvatus prodeo, LP, Mark Bahnisch, masculinism, online, place, radical catholicism, Religion, social, Sociology, spirituality, St Mary's South Brisbane, Urbanism, web 2.0, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 16, 2009
Today is LP’s fourth birthday! So if you’re feeling in a nostalgic mood, or if you weren’t around way back when, you can check out the first two posts or have a look at a snapshot of where we were [...]
Posted in Blogging | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, Larvatus prodeo, LP, National Library, Pandora archive, political blogging |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 4, 2008
There’s been a lot of discussion sparked by the Productivity Commission report into Parental Leave about “middle class welfare”. Because the PC also made recommendations about the baby bonus, and therefore there have been predictable calls to share the dosh [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Government, Health, Howardia, Immigration, Industrial Relations, Parenting, Policy, Poverty, Women | Tagged baby bonus, Catholic social justice statement, Economics, Feminism, George Megalogenis, howard government, Industrial Relations, John Howard, Labor, LP, neoliberalism, paid parental leave, parental leave, parental leave report, pension, political economy, Poverty, productivity commission, robert menzies, Rudd government, social justice, social policy, Sociology, welfare policy, welfare system, workplace equity |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 15, 2008
I wasn’t the only person to notice on Friday night that Possum, The Poll Bludger and Andrew Bartlett (among others) popped up on a new blog platform at Crikey. One take on this move from Duncan Reilly – writing at [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian blogosphere, australian media, Blogging, Crikey, Crikey blogs, independent blogosphere, Larvatus prodeo, LP, media analysis, political blogging, sociology of blogging, sociology of media, The Poll Bludger |
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