On a day dominated by the media attempting to beat up a story about NSW Premier Morris Iemma taking time off to spend the school holidays with his young children, another story got hardly any traction. Both stories tie into… Read More ›
elections
“best argument against democracy is 5 min conversation with the averag VOTER sa winston churchil who was aktualy not bad and looking at colection of numskuls oiks roters bulies and cads of st custards he may hav a point.” ~ Nigel Molesworth esq, the goriller of 3b
NT Plan Read ’ems: “white man’s burden”, Howard’s poll plunge, and reactions from Pat Turner and Lt Gen Sanderson
Here are your Northern Territory Aboriginal “emergency plan” read ’ems for today! I’ve included excerpts, but do read the whole articles for context and elaboration. Mark Lawrence: The white man’s burden: Howard’s attack on Aboriginal self-determination Excellent post on the… Read More ›
1Q: Is there merit in governments playing catch-up politics?
Tim Dunlop’s blogging experiment, One Question, has the third round happening. (For full details see Tim’s original post.) The current question is this: the government is accused of playing catch up politics, but is there some merit in such an… Read More ›
Who do we trust more to Do It Right?
I said this in comments on a previous post regarding the NT Indigenous Emergency Plan, and I want to expand on the theme, as it feels like some electoral scales may have fallen from my eyes. I really want all… Read More ›
Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup.
Further to tigtog’s post Howard’s Wedge, several blog posts that you may not have stumbled across on the usual round of Ozblogistan trackbacks and read ’ems. The fabulous brownfemipower cuts through all the bullshit in her post “abusing into goodness”:… Read More ›
1Q: How relevant are motives in assessing the public policy stance of a politician or commentator?
This week’s One Question is from Harry Clarke, who writes in an earlier post: In assessing testimony in a court of law motives are important. Elsewhere they are less so but they pervasively affect our attitudes. Some have argued that… Read More ›
1Q: Does the country really change when the government changes?
Updated to change name of post (this interblog round robin will all use the same post title to aid searches) Tim Dunlop is introducing a new feature where a round-robin of ozbloggers will respond to a question on a current… Read More ›
3000 votes: Boot Howard out of Bennelong
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 ›
Stuffed-head blogging
I’ve got a cold that’s making concentrating difficult, and I’m having a bit of a down in the dumps reaction to having concentrated so hard on fundamental feminist theory the last few weeks while getting the basic FAQs for the… Read More ›
Fact-checking Speedogate
As I posted over at Larvatus Prodeo, the media has fallen down on checking the Speedogate story. Despite John Watkins’ press release about how Peter Debnam’s state of undress has become an “international scandal”, all he could reference was a… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 