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By Anna Winter on July 25, 2010
Recent polling suggests that WA is getting much better for the ALP. The resolution of the mining tax and the ALP’s attempts to smooth over the asylum seeker issue are probably part of the reason for this. I think it’s [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Religion | Tagged ALP, atheism, Don Randall, Julia Gillard, Latika Bourke, Polls, religion and politics, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 31, 2010
At Eureka Street, John Warhurst has written a piece about Tony Abbott, Santamaria and the Liberal Party. The illustration (reproduced below) is interesting for all sorts of reasons: <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/abbott-pope1.jpg" The article Tony Abbott penned for the Weekend Australian colour [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Australian Catholicism, B.A. Santamaria, Barnaby Joyce, Bob Katter, Catholic Church, clerical child abuse, Democratic Labor Party, DLP, economic policy, Eureka Street, John Warhurst, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, National civic Council, political behaviour, political catholicism, political culture, political sociology, Pope Benedict, Queensland Nationals, religion and politics, religiosity, secularisation, Speech, symbolism, the movement, Tony Abbott, World Youth Day |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 5, 2009
The first few days of Tony Abbott’s leadership have seen a concerted effort by the conservative commentariat to decry any criticism of his reactionary policies on women’s rights and social issues as ‘anti-Catholic’. A number of points need making about [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Sociology | Tagged ALP, anti Catholicism, Cardinal Pell, Catholic Church, Catholicism, catholics, catholics in politics, Christopher Pearson, Culture Wars, DLP, George Pell, groupers, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, political culture, Pope Benedict, punditariat, religion and politics, sectarianism, secularisation, social justice, Sociology, the movement, theology, Tony Abbott, Vatican II, victimology, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 30, 2008
Writing in Salon, Gary Kamiya describes the near hysteria to which “movement conservatives” are reduced in confronting a likely Obama victory: …typical of the Limbaugh-inflected (or infected) movement as a whole is the apocalyptic attitude of right-wing columnist Mark Steyn, [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Feminism, Foreign Elections, History, Media, Polls, Poverty, Race, Religion, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged American history, American politics, Andrew Cockburn, arthur schlesinger, barack obama, blogosphere, Book review, cable television, Culture Wars, evangelicals, FDR, Fox news, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gary Kamiya, John McCain, nixonland, religion and politics, religious right, Richard Nixon, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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