Today’s Guest Hoyden is regular commentor Grendel, who normally blogs about coffee over at Cafe Grendel, and who has just taken up poliblogging at new group blog Distinctly Disgruntled, where this post was originally published. There are a number of… Read More ›
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
You want soundbites, Australia? Here, we gotcher soundbites right here.
The Australian Election 2010 Infographic
Some inconvenient facts to dispel right wing misinformation
Elections and volunteering
what I’m particularly interested in is GetUp!’s call for volunteer activists to be part of GetTogethers aiming to coordinate local action within their electorates, focussing on 3 main issues for the 2010 Federal election
QFT: Waleed Aly on what really drives the population debate
…so much of this “population” debate is really about the crap nature of services and infrastructure in the outer suburbs of our cities
Threads of Doom and the lurch to the right
While my wonkish side is partly thrilled to see so many people critically engaged with public policy for once, for them to come to it from a place of disappointment, suspicion and resentment over a previous incomplete understanding of the system is far from ideal.
2010 National NAIDOC Poster
The artwork depicts an Aboriginal mother who is an ‘unsung hero’ leading her children through example, showing that actions can speak louder than words.
Asylum Seeker Fact Sheet and Myth Buster
Helen posted a link to a fact sheet from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in one of the LP comment threads. The fact sheet is in PDF format, making it un-indexable by search engines and inaccessible to some readers with disabilities, so I have transcribed it below.
Quote Of The Day: Julian Burnside
“at the current rate of arrivals it would take about 20 years to fill the MCG with boat people”
Another special day I missed: World Refugee Day
As an expression of solidarity with Africa, which hosts the most refugees, and which traditionally has shown them great generosity, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 55/76 on 4 December 2000.
Anna Bligh channeling Joh?
Joh on steroids, actually – I doubt he even dreamed of stamping out public profanities:
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