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By Mark Bahnisch on November 2, 2008
One of the minor notes of the political narrative last week was Julie Bishop’s half-hearted fessing up to publishing a book chapter containing numerous instances of plagiarism under her name, though (in a move quite reminiscent of the Howard government’s [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Ethics, Julie Bishop, Liberals and Power, Louise Adler, Melbourne University Press, MUP, Peter Van Onselen, plagiarism, publishing, Tom Switzer |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mark-davis.jpg" align=left At one stage, having read a lecture by Mark Davis in Overland, I thought his new book was going to be an update of Gangland. I’ve just started reading The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s [...]
Posted in Anzac Day, Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, Australian culture, Australian history, Australian nationalism, Australian studies, battle of ideas, Book review, Culture Wars, egalitarianism, fair go, Gangland, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Mark Davis, Melbourne University Press, neoliberalism, Nettie Palmer, political culture, political ideologies, politics & government, Rudd government, social democracy, sociology of culture, The Land of Plenty, Writings |
By Kim on August 21, 2008
Well, as I noted on another thread about Germaine Greer, I’ve bought and now read On Rage. I’d like this post to stick to discussion of the merits of her arguments, which I continue to think has been something largely [...]
Posted in Culture, Disasters, Feminism, Howardia, Indigenous, Policy, Race, Sexuality, Women | Tagged Bob Katter, Book review, child sexual abuse, Germaine Greer, hunter gatherer societies, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, Judy Atkinson, Marcia Langton, Melbourne University Press, Noel Pearson, NT intervention, On Rage, political journalism, race relations, rural suicide, Sociology, Stolen generation, welfare policy, Writings |
By Kim on August 20, 2008
Here’s another don’t waste your $34.95 book review, and for many of the same reasons as Mark identified as failures in an earlier 2007 federal election tome from Melbourne University Press – Christine Jackman’s Inside Kevin07. If anything, Peter Van [...]
Posted in Advertising, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Federal Elections, Howardia, Media | Tagged ALP, Book review, campaign strategy, Christine Jackman, Christopher Pearson, Dennis Shanahan, Federal election 2007, Glenn Milne, heiner affair, Howard's End, Inside Kevin07, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Melbourne University Press, Mungo McCallum, MUP, News Limited columnists, Peter Van Onselen, Philip Senior, Piers Akerman, political journalism, political science, Polls, publishing, Writings |
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