Youth radio station Triple J’s “Hack” Indigenous Panel yesterday had a look at the Howard/Brough Northern Territory “emergency” plan. The full mp3 is available here. Triple J’s Alice Brennan asked: “Who haven’t we heard from yet? The next generation of… Read More ›
race & racism
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 ›
Sex ed – the facts
Further to Lauredhel’s post about a UK judge’s strange views on the sexual precocity of a 10 year old girl, which became a discussion on young people and sexuality (and the negatives of viewing adolescent sexual experimentation through a lens… Read More ›
Fear, funding, and failure to listen: today’s indigenous news roundup
Today’s News Headlines: [Edited to add:] The two transcripts from tonight’s 7:30 report have just gone online: 7:30 Report: Police, military arrive in NT for intervention plan talks Journalist Murray McLaughlin reports an “argy bargy” with an officer from Minister… Read More ›
Aboriginal people “scared stiff”, and workforce challenges: more reactions to the Howard war on indigenous autonomy
Reactions are flowing in from various groups on the Howard plan to send in white forces to re-steal land and stamp out autonomy in Northern Territory aboriginal communities. A delegation representing 60 Aboriginal and community groups is today delivering its… 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 ›
Hating on “contextual” advertising
The way much online advertising is structured to respond to words used in text on the page, all in the service of consumerism, is often jarring. Fat-acceptance blogs, for instance, tend not to have such advertising (which would help them… Read More ›
More on Howard’s Indigenous Emergency Measures
Andrew Bartlett has the best response I’ve read so far, with David Tiley‘s a close second. Bartlett is hopeful that despite understandable cynicism about the effectiveness of measures proposed with such an intersection of cynical politicising and inadequate planning or… 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 ›
Howard’s Wedge
Or, as Kim has named it, Tampa 2007. Prime Minister John Howard has announced a sweeping authoritarian plan of managing indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, with the stated purpose of combatting the horrifying rates of child sexual abuse amongst… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 