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By Kim on August 17, 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the House of Commons in the aftermath of the English riots set the tone for a bizarre crackdown: Responsibility for crime always lies with the criminal. But crime has a context. And we [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Europe, Featured, International, Law, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged Axel bruns, benefits, Blackberry, Boris Johnson, civil disorder, Conservative Party, crackdown, criminal justice, David Cameron, evictions, facebook, Guy Rundle, law and order, London, london burning, Noel Pearson, Owen Hatherley, Race, riots, riots aftermath, sentencing, social exclusion, social housing, social media, social theory, Sociology, Tories, twitter, welfare policy |
By Kim on September 22, 2010
I’ve been wondering why Tony Abbott has to keep giving near identical speeches to “the party faithful”. It couldn’t be because (despite being, according to the Shanahans and Kellys of this world, teh best opposition leader evah) he didn’t actually [...]
Posted in Indigenous, Politics, Queensland | Tagged House of Representatives, Independents, indigenous communities, nick xenophon, Noel Pearson, parliamentary reform agreement, private members bill, queensland government, Tony Abbott, wild rivers, wilderness society |
By Kim on September 7, 2010
… and urges the country Indepedents to support Tony Abbott. The story is here. Pearson’s main issue seems to be the Queensland Wild Rivers legislation, which Brian wrote about recently. As the article notes, this intervention comes on the back [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Indigenous | Tagged Bob Katter, chris graham, country independents, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Indigenous policy, Noel Pearson, overland, wild rivers |
By Kim on August 18, 2010
One of the strange things about watching Tony Abbott on Q&A the other night is that he doesn’t actually appear to be a quick thinker. Any sort of question sees him raise his eyes to heaven in search of inspiration. [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Policy, Sociology | Tagged Federal Election 2010, national press club, Noel Pearson, Paul Keating, Tony Abbott, unemployment, welfare reform, working nation |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 25, 2010
Business Spectator reports: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will hold an ideas forum on Friday in much the same vein as Kevin Rudd’s famed 2020 summit. But he insists it will be more than a glorified photo opportunity. The roundtable is [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged 2020 summit, ideas, ideas forum, Noel Pearson, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
By Kim on October 15, 2008
I have to confess at the outset that I haven’t read the report – I am really busy with work at the moment and I simply don’t have time (or energy when I do have time), but I wanted to [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, andrew bartlett, Christopher Pyne, Culture Wars, Glenn Milne, history curriculum, History wars, Indigenous policy, Jenny Macklin, kevin donnelly, Labor, Marni Cordell, national curriculum board, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, NT intervention, NT intervention report, NT intervention review, Rudd government, stuart macintyre, Warren Mundine, welfare policy |
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 15, 2008
In the wake of discussion of Andrew Forrest’s proposal for the creation of 50 000 full time jobs for Indigenous Australians (discussed here at LP) and Germaine Greer’s remarks on the continuing force of history in shaping Indigenous responses to [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, Ethics, Health, History, Howardia, Indigenous, Politics, Poverty, Race | Tagged Andrew Forrest, Cape York, closing the gap, education policy, Germaine Greer, indigenous education, Indigenous policy & reconciliation, Jenny Macklin, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, mutual obligation, Noel Pearson, NT intervention, On Rage, Sociology, welfare policy, Writings |
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