So Troy Buswell, the not-so-shiny new leader of the Liberal* Party in Western Australia, has got a pretty serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. You may remember Troy from such episodes as “Snapping open the Bra of a Labor Party Staffer… Read More ›
Politics
Wahmbulance to the white courtesy phone: sociological concern-trolling
Sociology Article of the Week: John H. Goldthorpe, Michelle Jackson, The British Journal of Sociology 58 (2007) (4), 525–546 “Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings” Couched in pseudo-rationalist arms-length language, this paper reads as a… Read More ›
PoCo A PoCo: Fifty Two Acts of Political Correctness
Babalon-93 has suggested that I expand my previous post, “Words Mean Stuff: thorny language”, into a Fifty Two Something series: 52 Something Choose something you would really like to do on a weekly basis and commit to sharing it with… Read More ›
Which way? I didn’t quite catch that, Boys-Club Buswell. Repeat, please? Which way should we go?
When’s the earliest the WA Labor Party can call an election? I doubt the Libs are likely to have their act together any time soon. Troy Buswell, former candidate for the leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party, has touched… Read More ›
Bernadette McMenamin trolling The Australian on internet filtering?
Did you catch the article “Filters needed to battle child porn”, by Bernadette McMenamin of Child Wise? The one in which she wrote stuff like this: It is beyond belief that some representatives of the Australian internet service provider industry… Read More ›
Lib wannabe busted: snaps open woman’s bra-strap in “party trick” in chambers
Troy Buswell wanted to be the leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party. Now, his “dream is in tatters”, according to a news.com.au report. Buswell has been dinged for snapping open the bra strap of a Labor Party staffer, in… Read More ›
Emotional Manipulation
Source: Tom Toles in the Washington Post
Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion
This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›
Welcome Marion Scrymgour!
[image source: SMH] It’s been a busy few weeks for under-represented groups in Australian politics, hasn’t it? My respect to Marion Scrymgour, who today became the first Indigenous Australian to lead a government. She is acting Chief Minister of the… Read More ›
Culprits
I’m seeing more and more variations of this argument lately, especially on American sites: World immigration is a direct response to abortion throughout Europe and North America. Workers from poorer countries are always going to come to replace our lack… Read More ›
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