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By Kim on August 19, 2011
I’ve rarely seen the culture wars explained better than by Jeff Sparrow in this piece at The Drum.
Posted in Featured, Politics | Tagged Culture Wars, ideology, Jeff Sparrow, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, roundtable |
By Kim on August 17, 2011
I don’t know if anyone saw The Drum this afternoon? (And I don’t know if there are any audience/ratings figures for ABC News 24, but I’d be very interested if anyone does…) We had a panel composed of two ABC [...]
Posted in Featured, Film, TV, Video etc, Industrial Relations, Media, Politics | Tagged abc, abc news 24, Annabel Crabb, argument, balance, brendan o'neill, Bruce Baird, Godwin, IPA, Janet Albrechtsen, John Quiggin, Jonathan Green, left neo-liberals, neo-liberalism, Paul Howes, Peter Reith, qantas, reason, scott stephens, Steve Cannane, the drum, Tim Wilson |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 8, 2011
I intend to write on Erik Olin Wright’s important book Envisioning Real Utopias, but I thought it might be useful to make it a five part series, rather than the world’s longest blog post. I’d also like to have a [...]
Posted in Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Charles Fourier, Enlightenment, envisioning realistic utopias, erik olin wright, Hayek, imaginary, John Locke, Marx, Marxism, neo-liberalism, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, Popper, social change, social democracy, Sociology, Thomas Hobbes, utopia, utopian socialism |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2011
Titanic battles between good and evil are fantasies, and the debt ceiling crisis illustrates what can happen when the fantastic power of ideology prevails.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, debt ceiling crisis, GOP, ideology, libertarianism, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, Rand Paul, Republicans, roundtable, Tea Party, US politics |
By Kim on September 26, 2010
It’s interesting to contrast reports of two ALP reflections on the election result – one in Crikey on the thoughts of Victorian MP Martin Foley, and one in The Drum on a meeting of the NSW Right, penned by Glenn [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged abc, ALP, battlers, Crikey, Federal Election 2010, Glenn Milne, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Karl Bitar, Kevin Rudd, Labor, martin foley, neo-liberalism, Petrie, post-mortem, progressives, recriminations, swing |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 21, 2010
Peter Mandelson‘s memoir, The Third Man, was timed for maximum impact, being released just after the British election this year. Mandelson’s musings were condemned as unhelpful by the full gamut of UK Labour figures (including Tony Blair, who was perhaps [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Foreign Elections, Politics | Tagged Book review, British politics, David Miliband, gordon brown, herbert morrison, neo-liberalism, New Labour, Peter Mandelson, the third man, Tony Blair, UK election 2010 |
By Kim on September 6, 2010
Q&A tonight came close to living up to its pitch of unpredictability. The representatives of both wings of the political class – Nick Minchin and Peter Beattie – looked like going into meltdown as Christine Milne and Bob Katter, for [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, History, International, Media, Politics | Tagged agriculture, Bob Katter, cheap food, Christine Milne, De Tocqueville, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, food security, free trade, greens, hung parliament, John Stuart Mill, neo-liberalism, Nick Minchin, Peter Beattie, protection, Q&A, Qanda, Rebecca Huntley, tariffs |
By Kim on September 4, 2010
There’s an interesting article in The Australian today by Gabrielle Chan, looking at the rural discontent embodied in the rhetoric of the country Independents: The 2010 episode of “bush leverage” is a result of a backlash by conservatives against a [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, federal election 2010, Howardia, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, country independents, Culture, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, hung parliament, John Howard, Nationals, neo-liberalism, neocons, Paul Keating, Pauline Hanson, Red Ted Theodore, rural and regional economies, Sociology, the bush, The Greens, tony windsor |
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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 25, 2010
In my article for The Drum on Monday, I observed: What will be most interesting over the next few days and weeks will be whether the Australian commentary machine’s momentum finally switches – an actual event has occurred, but the [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010, Media, Policy | Tagged bernard keane, Economics, Federal Election 2010, globalisation, grand narratives, hung parliament, Media, neo-liberalism, Paul Kelly, reform |
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