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By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2010
Naomi Parry reviews the reception (and content) of Keith Windschuttle’s new book at New Matilda: Late last year Keith Windschuttle released another book questioning the existence of the stolen generations. But this time, nobody cared. Very few people would be [...]
Posted in History, Indigenous, Politics, Race | Tagged Australian history, Culture Wars, denialism, Fabrication of Aboriginal history, History wars, Indigenous history, John Howard, keith windschuttle, Naomi Parry, New Matilda, robert manne, stolen generations, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 3, 2009
A truly bizarre editorial decision from Ben Naparstek, who occupies the chair at The Monthly, has resulted in the publication of a review of Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Julia Gillard by Christine Wallace, who is writing a rival biography of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged Allen & Unwin, ben naparstek, Book review, Christine Wallace, Crikey, Ethics, Gerard Henderson, Jacqueline Kent, journalism ethics, Julia Gillard, Kim Carr, Lindsay Tanner, Michelle Grattan, Penguin, publishing, review, robert manne, Sally Warhaft, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 28, 2009
As a sequel to my post on The Australian‘s series on the left, where I highlighted Guy Rundle’s take, I’m reproducing from today’s Crikey (with permission) his longer sequel to his take beneath the fold. Meantime, the Oz series meanders [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, History, International, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian Greens, BLF, Capitalism, CPA, Crikey, Culture, David Hetherington, GFC, global economy, global financial crisis, globalisation, globalism, greens, Guy Rundle, History, ideology, Labor, Labor Left, labour movement, Labour parties, left, liberalism, Maoism, Marx, McKenzie Wark, Meidner plan, neo-liberalism, neocons, neoconservatism, new left, Per Capita, political culture, robert manne, social democracy, social markets, social movements, Sociology, Soviet union, Sraffa, sweden, The Australian, the left, Tony Blair, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 29, 2009
There’s some very good coverage in Crikey today of the dispute which led to the resignation of Sally Warhaft as editor of The Monthly. Jonathan Green traces the ins and outs of the argument – which came to a crux, [...]
Posted in Activism, Books, Writers & Writing, Media, Sociology | Tagged Crikey, Culture, editorial independence, editorial standards, Guy Rundle, Jonathan Green, Kevin Rudd, Media, media cultures, news, robert manne, Sally Warhaft, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 17, 2009
There’s an interesting debate proceeding on a post by Jason Wilson at gatewatching on Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant [previous LP posts here]. I think there’s some useful clarification of some of the ethical issues in the [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, anti-communism, Cold War, Crikey, Culture Wars, David Marr, Ethics, hoax, Jason Wilson, John Quiggin, Jonathan Green, journalism, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, Media, media studies, political debate, Quadrant, robert manne, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 11, 2009
Years ago, I used to read Quadrant – incidentally before Robert Manne became editor, if I recall correctly. Back in the day, there was a sense that there was some sort of contest of ideas, and thus there was some [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged blogosphere, conservativism, cultural politics, Culture Wars, History wars, hoax, Indigenous history, John Howard, John Quiggin, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, left, little magazines, Pavlov's Cat, Quadrant, right, robert manne, sharon gould, wingnuts, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2008
Post of the day from Lyn Calcutt at Public Opinion. These guys have too much time on their hands? Or the most pressing public issues of the day are related to positions adopted in the late 1960s on Suharto’s crimes [...]
Posted in Levity | Tagged Culture Wars, Gerard Henderson, robert manne |
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