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By Mark Bahnisch on October 18, 2010
I had mixed feelings last night about whether to watch the canonisation ceremony for Blessed Mary MacKillop on ABC News 24. In part, but not exclusively, those feelings related to the way the ceremonies would be covered, and I’m afraid [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged abc news 24, abc religion and ethics, Australia, canonisation, Catholic Church, Catholicism, christopher hitchens, hagiography, Jeff Sparrow, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Leviathan, Mary Mackillop, Mary of the Cross, Media, miracles, Nationalism, new atheism, On Toleration, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, power, protestantism, Richard Dawkins, scott stephens, social justice, Thomas Hobbes, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
John Birmingham writes in The Brisbane Times: I don’t know whether it’s the increasing numbers of gaudy little plastic flags sticking out of car windows, or the braying jingoism of furniture superstore and gym equipment megabarn advertising that all but [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Nationalism, Politics | Tagged Australia, Australia Day, flag, John Birmingham, Nationalism, Shakira Hussein |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010
Intriguing to see that Malcolm Turnbull is about the only Australian political figure who’s put Prince William’s visit into some sort of political context. Writing in The Times, the erstwhile Liberal leader puts his finger on a conception of Australian [...]
Posted in Australiana, Nationalism, Politics | Tagged Australia Day, Howardia, identity, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationalism, Prince William, Republic, republicanism, Rudd government, Times |
By Robert Merkel on January 20, 2010
Maybe it was all in the delivery, but Rudd’s Australia Day reception speeches were inspiring stuff, weren’t they? Productivity improvements to fund retirement incomes? I mean, who can hear a line like “by implementing microeconomic reforms to cut red tape [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, Politics | Tagged Australia Day, Kevin Rudd, Nationalism, productivity |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2009
I referred in an earlier post to Paul Kelly’s style of commentary – a mix of oracular pronouncement and portentous ponderings about the primacy of narrative. I actually read his March of Patriots a while back, and planned to review [...]
Posted in Australiana, History, Howardia, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Book review, Guy Rundle, History, Insiders, John Howard, march of history, narrative, Nationalism, Paul Keating, Paul Kelly, political history, reform, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2009
The Australian is running a series on defining the left (!), kicking off with a contribution today by Tim Soutphommasane. Soutphommasane is apparently the go to person at the moment for all things social democratic, having written a book arguing [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged agency, ALP, Amartya Sen, canon, capabilities, Culture Wars, Demos, egalitarianism, electoral politics, History, ideology, internationalism, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labourism, left, Lenin, mateship, narrative, Nationalism, New Labour, patriotism, Paul Kelly, political culture, political identity, political philosophy, political theory, Politics, Rudd government, social democracy, social inclusion, social justice, socialism without doctrines, Sociology, The Australian, Tim Soutphommasane, values, What's Left |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 28, 2008
The Mumbai terror attacks are horrendous and to be roundly and loudly condemned. But, as with all events of this nature (particularly those which involve attacks on Westerners), inevitably there’s been a rush to inscribe their significance within a political [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Developing world, International, Media, Middle East, Nationalism, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Terrorism | Tagged Al Qaeda, andrew bolt, attacks, BJP, Congress, Hindutva, India, Indian politics, inter-communal violence, international politics, Mumbai, Nationalism, pakistan, political violence, Religion, sectarianism, secularism, Shiv Sena, Sociology, terror, Terrorism, terrorism studies |
By Phil on August 18, 2008
One of the things that has given me the $hit$ watching Channel 7s coverage of the Olympics is the adjusted medal count; this thrown up when the “real” medal count doesn’t appear to meet early morning breakfast expectations. In Mel [...]
Posted in Nationalism, Sport | Tagged beijing olympics, channel 7, channel 7 olympic coverage, mainstream media, mel and kochy, Nationalism, Sociology, yum cha club |
By tigtog on August 1, 2008
Like Andrew Bartlett, I agree entirely with Andrew Bolt regarding the shameful weaseling by the International Olympic Committee regarding the whole idea of granting the 2008 games to the authoritarian dictatorship of China in the first place. crossposted UPDATE: It [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Ethics, Media, Sociology, Sport, The Web | Tagged andrew bartlett, andrew bolt, authoritarian, China, conroy, Culture, dictatorship, false positives, games, international olympic committee, internet filtering, intolerance, ioc, ISP filtering, Nationalism, Olympics, Sociology, sports&spectating |
By Gummo Trotsky on October 16, 2007
Under the Coalition, Australia is a different country from what it was under Labor â?? less apologetic about its past, more confident about its future. Weâ??re better able to appreciate the modern Australian achievement â?? a nation that, despite its [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Howardia, Immigration, Sociology | Tagged Coalition, Federal election 2007, Nationalism, politics&govt |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 27, 2007
Talk It Out reproduces the twenty questions from the new citizenship test which have been released and wonders: Now I may be too cynical, but I am not convinced that Australian-born citizens will be able to answer all these questions. [...]
Posted in Australiana, History, Howardia, Immigration, Politics, Sociology | Tagged History, Nationalism, politics&govt |
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