By Guest Poster on July 27, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
Posted in Australiana, federal election 2010, Foreign policy, Immigration, International, War | Tagged Afghanistan, asylum seekers, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Foreign policy, human rights, identity, leaders debate, phil lynch, Thinking Points, Timor, UN Security Council, values, War |
By Kim on May 16, 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban the Burqa. The French National Assembly looks set to agree. Despite all the blah about ‘Western values’, women in the West also have issues with compulsory sexualised visibility. The claim that this regulation of dress [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Fashion, Feminism, International, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Women | Tagged ban, burqa, choice, Feminism, France, identity, Islam, Liz Conor, National Assembly, Nicolas Sarkozy, secularism, sexualisation, values, visibility, West, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 1, 2010
Karen Brooks’ post on Tony Abbott’s now infamous interview with the Women’s Weekly is the best piece I’ve read about its implications. Read it here.
Posted in Media, Parenting, Politics, Sexuality, Women | Tagged daughters, Karen Brooks, Religion, Sexuality, Tony Abbott, values, Women, Women's weekly |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010
Tony Abbott gave an Australia day address in Melbourne last night (a few days early, but what the hey…). The Shorter Tone? Immigrants should adopt Australian values and that Mufti character was dodgy; A big population is good, but John [...]
Posted in Howardia, Immigration, Politics | Tagged asylum seekers, Australia Day, boat people, Federal Election 2010, Immigration, John Howard, Tony Abbott, values |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2009
As a conclusion to his series provoked by The Australian‘s “What’s Left” op/ed fest, Guy Rundle has proposed a positive vision of the future from the left. [For my previous LP posts on this theme, see here.] I’ll post the [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, democracy, end of history, futures, global financial crisis, globalisation, Guy Rundle, ideology, justice, left, Markets, Marxism, neo-liberalism, phenomenology, political culture, political imaginary, political philosophy, political theory, post-capitalism, sensibility, social democracy, social imaginary, socialism, Sociology, The Australian, Third Way, utopia, value, values, What's Left, Zizek |
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 Kim on December 6, 2008
When John Howard’s government announced funding for school chaplains in public schools, then Education Minister Julie Bishop (remember her?) claimed it was all about instilling “values” in the kiddies. Apparently, the fruits of the program have exceeded expectations: GOD has [...]
Posted in Education, Howardia, Religion | Tagged Christianity, church and state, Culture Wars, evangelicals, John Howard, Julie Bishop, public schools, Religion, school chaplains, school education, secularism, values |
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