Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’
Cultural disdain is about more than humour. It’s the new politics.
London burning IV: Tory authoritarianism triumphant
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the House of Commons in the aftermath of the English riots set the tone for a bizarre crackdown: Responsibility for crime always lies with the criminal. But crime has a context. And we [...]
The Global Village still has idiots
WA’s Attorney General wants to give parents legal rights over their children’s Facebook pages. Miranda Devine, in her typically careful way with words, describes social media as “barbarism, unleashing the worst elements of human nature, with no restraints” and quotes [...]
Social capital, social networking and the Brisbane floods
My colleague in several incarnations, Dr John Harrison, has a neat post on social capital and the SEQ floods at jmaced: The good thing is that communities with high levels of social capital recover from adverse circumstances faster than those [...]
Brisbane flood maps and up to date flood information
Latest updates for the flood situation around Brisbane.
Not the Twitter election
Malcolm Farnsworth has an excellent piece at The Drum on how claims that the 2010 federal election was going to be a Twitter campaign are very wide of the mark. I’d recommend reading the whole thing. If the premise is [...]
The Brisbane “town hall” meeting
The no doubt over-hyped “town hall meeting” at the Broncos Leagues Club at 6pm, featuring Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and 200 “swinging voters” picked by Galaxy will be televised live by ABC News 24 this time; and the online stream [...]
Tony Abbott on Q&A
Tony Abbott will be appearing on Q&A in a few minutes. Please use the comments thread to, well, comment on his performance. As usual, there’ll be lots of Twitter action, under the hashtag #qanda. NB: Discussion of Julia Gillard’s appearance [...]
Let Tony Be Tony (Boatphone edition)
Fresh from telling Barrie Cassidy this morning that the NBN’s favoured technology – “high fibre” – wasn’t the only way to deliver those intertubes, Mr Rabbit, according to Annabel Crabb on Twitter, is set to announce that he will have [...]
Live Tweeting the Swan/Hockey encounter on the 7.30 Report
Read LP’s tweets here. Update: Well, that was most unenlightening. Joe Hockey has seemed to be in a very grumpy mood all campaign, and he was allowed to get away with his usual bizarre contradictions. Swan’s lines on infrastructure and [...]
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