By Kim on September 1, 2010
[Via Nicholas Gruen] Anyone who wants to automatically equate Catholicism with homophobia really should read Kristina Keneally’s fine speech to the New South Wales parliament, explaining why she is casting her vote in favour of a bill allowing same sex [...]
Posted in NSW Government, Parenting, Policy, Relationships, Religion | Tagged Catholicism, conscience vote, homophobia, Kristina Keneally, NSW parliament, Paul McLeay, Politics, Religion, same sex adoption, Speech |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 21, 2010
If this election proves anything, it proves that both parties have taken the notion of polling driven strategy to ever greater heights. Once, policies were road tested via focus groups to guage their acceptability and to refine selling points. Now, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Government, Immigration | Tagged ALP, asylum seekers, Coalition, debate, East Timor, Eureka Street, Federal Election 2010, focus groups, Frank Brennan, humanitarianism, Immigration, Julia Gillard, Labor, Lowy Institute, Media, political communication, Polls, refugees, regional processing centre, Speech, Timor-Leste |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 4, 2010
LBJ used to tell a story about an old Southern Senator who, depressed by the repetitive politics of race baiting and populism, yearns to return to his state one last time to give a “good old Democratic speech”. Today, Gordon [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Politics | Tagged Citizens UK, conservatives, David Miliband, electoral system, fairness, first past the post, gordon brown, ideology, Labour, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, marginal consituencies, New Labour, Peter Mandelson, socialism, Speech, tactical voting, Tories, Tory party, UK election 2010, youtube |
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 Kim on March 30, 2010
So, it wasn’t just me that noticed a prime piece of fear mongering occupying the front page of Brisbane’s Sunday Mail (now with new editor!): <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/files/2010/03/29-03-2010-10-50-17-AM1.jpg" The image of the paper’s Sunday cover comes courtesy of Crikey:
Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Politics, Polls, Race | Tagged asylum seekers, boat people, border protection, civil rights, Crikey, debate, dog whistling, economic policy, great health debate, headland speech, human rights, humanitarianism, Immigration, John Howard, Lilley, News Limited, Newspoll, Policy, public opinion, refugees, scare campaigns, shopping centre, Speech, Sunday Mail, temporary protection visas, Tony Abbott, Toombul, tpvs, Wayne Swan, xenophobia |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 8, 2010
Former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull spoke in the House of Representatives today, in debate on the reintroduced CPRS bills. Bernard Keane has a full wrap at The Stump. From Keane’s coverage, it appears that Turnbull devoted most of his time [...]
Posted in Climate change, Politics | Tagged Climate change, climate change policy, cprs, ets, Malcolm Turnbull, parliament, Speech, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 17, 2009
Matthew Knott at Crikey‘s climate change blog, Rooted, will be live blogging Kevin Rudd’s Copenhagen speech from 8pm AEST. Go here to read.
Posted in Blogging, Climate change, International, Politics | Tagged Climate change, Copenhagen, Crikey, Kevin Rudd, live blogging, liveblogging, Matthew Knott, Speech |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 4, 2009
I noticed a comment on Facebook that Obama’s speech at Cairo University to the Islamic world isn’t yet posted on the White House website. I checked and at the time of writing, it isn’t. But it’s up on Al Jazeera [...]
Posted in International, Middle East, Politics, Religion, Terrorism, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Bible, Cairo, Cairo University, Islam, Middle East, Muslims, peace, Politics, Quran, Religion, Speech, Talmud, Terrorism |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2009
Folks might recall some discussion about the law of defamation when the spurious photos alleged wrongly to be of Pauline Hanson were published during the Queensland election campaign. As promised, Legal Eagle and Skepticlawyer have put together a guide to [...]
Posted in Ethics, Law, Media, Politics | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, defamation, Ethics, Law, malice, Pauline Hanson, Speech |
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