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By Kim on March 3, 2010
I don’t know what qualifications you need to be a public intellectual. I think you get such a gig because readers of The Age have voted for you, or something. But apparently playwright Louis Nowra is one. In 2007, he [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Media, Politics, Women | Tagged anti-feminism, Bad Dreaming, ben naparstek, Feminism, Germaine Greer, literature, Louis Nowra, Media, misogyny, Sociology, The Female Eunuch, The Indpendent, The Monthly |
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 November 21, 2009
I’ve commented before on the tendency to anticipate the anniversary of events, and everyone in the Oz media has been doing just that ahead of the milestone of two years since the election of the Rudd government, which falls on [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Federal Elections, History, Markets, Media, Politics, Queensland | Tagged anniversary, Economics, election, Federal election 2007, ideology, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, political culture, Queensland, Queensland politics, Queenslandism, Rudd government, shaun carney, statism, 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 July 25, 2009
[Via Terry Flew] In the wake of his essay for The Monthly, Kevin Rudd has written close to 7000 words for the Fairfax papers on the economy, claiming that the opposition’s approach is something akin to the Premiers’ Plan of [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Media | Tagged Climate change, cprs, economic management, economic policy, essay, ets, Fairfax papers, global financial crisis, Great Depression, Kevin Rudd, liberal opposition, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Premiers'Plan, Rudd government, shaun carney, The Age, The Monthly, Tony Abbott |
By Robert Merkel on May 27, 2009
One of the key points of Guy Rundle’s critique of The Monthly was the “limited roll-call” of writers regularly called on. It’s hard not to wonder whether the selection of 23-year-old Ben Naparstek is, in part, a reaction. Naparstek’s profile [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing | Tagged ben naparstek, Guy Rundle, morry schwartz, The Monthly |
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 February 18, 2009
Apropos of my post the other day on Karl Polanyi and “embedding the economy”, Andrew Crook has an excellent essay at New Matilda on the phony war over neoliberalism sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s musings in The Monthly.
Posted in Activism, Markets, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Crook, ideology, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Matilda, political sociology, Politics, social democracy, social market, social movements, The Monthly, trade unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2009
The current line from the defenders of the free market faith is that unfortunate failures of regulation were the cause of the Global Financial Crisis, and thus of the growing travails afflicting us in the real economy. Thus neo-liberalism, the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, USA | Tagged ALP, free markets, global financial crisis, ideology, income inequality, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, neo-liberalism, New Left Review, Peter Costello, Peter Cowan, political economy, Politics, Rudd government, social democracy, stimulus, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 3, 2009
In retrospect, the timing of Kevin Rudd’s essay in The Monthly [discussed in this earlier post] was obviously significant. There’s been a concerted messaging campaign going on for about a week to lead up to today’s stimulus package, which is [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged ALP, Coalition, global financial crisis, ideology, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, neo-liberalism, regulation, Rudd government, social democracy, state intervention, stimulus package, The Monthly, Warren Truss, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 1, 2009
I’ve made the point before that real incomes in the United States have been more or less stagnant since 1974. It’s interesting to see John Quiggin dissect the reasons for this in the latest of his series of posts on [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, class politics, global financial crisis, GOP, ideology, income inequality, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, middle class, nate silver, neo-liberalism, political economy, Republicans, Rudd government, social democracy, stimulus, The Monthly, trickle down theory, USA Election 2008 |
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