I like this local initiative from some voters in the Prime Minister’s electorate of Bennelong, whose major slogans are: A Future without John Howard? It all hangs on 3000 votes. Just because Howard is the PM, doesn’t mean he has… Read More ›
culture wars
Broadly, conservatism vs progressives / social liberties vs authoritarianism / social justice vs elitist marginalisation.
Australian linguistocide, and antipodeal approaches to aboriginal education
I have a Google News alert set up for, among many other things, the word “aboriginal”. Yesterday, two contrasting stories dropped into my inbox. First, ABC News (Australia) reports that it’s indigenous people’s own darn fault if they’re unemployed and… Read More ›
Sorry Matters, and Assimilation
Over the past week there has been a huge amount of discussion in the femiblogosphere about dropping the defensive, domineering blustering and starting to listen to people of colour. Listening has got to be step one if there is to… Read More ›
Invisible Lesbians!
Over on Larvatus Prodeo, people have been discussing the “invisible lesbians” in (or rather, not in) the press photo of Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s brand new son. Cheney and Bush have all been carefully skirting press questions about their… Read More ›
Politicking While Female: Julia Gillard and the “sex class”
The ABC News reports today: Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has suggested the Government’s work place policies are not as popular as Labor’s because he is not as pretty as Julia Gillard. […] He says the Government’s poor poll results… Read More ›
Grrrr.
A fine rant from Amanda: Subsidized day care is murder – inspired by yet more US “pro-life” legislation against contraception that will result in increased abortion rates, the exact opposite of the fewer abortions they say they want. the notion… Read More ›
Workchoicesplace cases
Peter Lalor at the Australian‘s blogs takes a fairly standard potshot at our goverment deciding to rename the Orwellian Worckchoices scheme and then delivers a litany of cases of workers drastically disadvantaged by unscrupulous employers pushing the Howard government’s new… Read More ›
Oh c’mon, get angry at Hicks, c’mon!
The Daily Terror is desperately trying to get us all upset that Hicks is getting “perks” that the rest of us should view “with a mixture of anger, suspicion and displeasure” apparently. (Never mind that these “perks” are not anything… Read More ›
It must have been the uniforms
Todays guest poster is Ohmykozy, who lives with her family in Sydney’s western suburbs and doesn’t take crap from anybody Picture this: teenage girls out for the day, accused of shoplifting and taken aside by security guards wanting to ask… Read More ›
Abstaining from reality
A harrowingly detailed post from TerranceDC of The Republic of T (the post-title is his) about the way that AIDS education and prevention programmes worldwide, but especially in Africa, have been sabotaged by the Bush Administration’s insistence on not only… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 