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By tigtog on September 26, 2011
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Creativity, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Culture Wars, pop culture, roundtable, social justice |
By tigtog on September 2, 2011
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Creativity, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Culture Wars, pop culture, social justice |
By tigtog on August 14, 2011
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Creativity, Philosophy | Tagged Culture Wars, pop culture, social justice |
By tigtog on July 29, 2011
There are many interesting issues/events that LP doesn’t manage to blog about. Here’s a selection of topics we didn’t cover recently, but others did:
Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Creativity, Philosophy | Tagged Culture Wars, pop culture, social justice |
By tigtog on January 31, 2011
There’s been some discussion of the demonstrations, civil resistance and deaths on the latest open thread. I don’t know enough about what’s happening to provide insightful commentary, but here’s a thread for discussion.
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, International | Tagged democracy, Egypt, roundtable, social justice |
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 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 September 28, 2009
Not to be outdone by The Australian, Quadrant has launched its own series on the left. This time with non-leftists writing it… And writing about the Australian‘s articles. Jason Soon, for instance, along the way to arguing that social justice [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Derrida, Gary Sauer-Thompson, ideology, Jason Soon, Julia Gillard, Larvatus prodeo, left, LP, postmodernism, Quadrant, Quadrant Online, social democracy, social justice, The Australian, the left, What's Left |
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 October 16, 2008
Just before last year’s federal election, I read Neal Blewett’s Cabinet Diaries. The book is a good read, but I was also interested in reminding myself – in the dying days of the Howard Era – what a Labor government [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Markets, Poverty | Tagged ALP, economic management, economic policy, economic stimulus, financial crisis, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Neal Blewett, Paul Keating, pensioners, pensions, Rudd government, social justice, stimulus package, surplus, unemployed, welfare benefits, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 4, 2008
There’s been a lot of discussion sparked by the Productivity Commission report into Parental Leave about “middle class welfare”. Because the PC also made recommendations about the baby bonus, and therefore there have been predictable calls to share the dosh [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Government, Health, Howardia, Immigration, Industrial Relations, Parenting, Policy, Poverty, Women | Tagged baby bonus, Catholic social justice statement, Economics, Feminism, George Megalogenis, howard government, Industrial Relations, John Howard, Labor, LP, neoliberalism, paid parental leave, parental leave, parental leave report, pension, political economy, Poverty, productivity commission, robert menzies, Rudd government, social justice, social policy, Sociology, welfare policy, welfare system, workplace equity |
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