It’s not your call, Mark
If the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge thought he was going to make a definitive statement in the same sex marriage debate, he will […]
Politics
Power and revenge
When John Howard lost his seat in 2007 and Peter Costello decided to move to the backbench, Malcolm Turnbull, despite having been in cabinet for […]
How carbon pricing and a clear renewable energy policy were solving the trilemma – until Abbott came along
Turnbull has often shown poor judgement in politics, but his decision, or the decision that is being thrust upon him, to attack Labor over energy […]
Power to the people
Technically it would be harder to have a hot potato issue without electricity. Amongst other things, electricity makes it far easier to create the hot […]
Abbott headbutt stops nation
It’s the head-butt that stops the nation. Tony Abbott is nutted by Astro Funknukl Labe, a 38 year-old North Hobart DJ. Labe, a barista, bartender […]
The Intolerance of Tolerance: Tony Abbott’s Head Butt Episode
“This was a violent and criminal act, nothing whatsoever to do with the point of view of those of us who favour a yes vote.” […]
Maintaining privilege and hierarchy doesn’t allow for truth and empathy
In an article titled Inside the terrifying mind of Tony Abbott, Bernard Keane quotes a study from 2015 which looks into the psychological basis for […]
That’s the story of, that’s the glory of love
Fifty years ago, the film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner challenged social norms by exposing the discrimination faced by inter-racial couples. In those days, it […]
Benjamin Netanyahu, Penguins and the United Nations
“That’s why Israel’s policy regarding the nuclear deal with Iran is very simple: Change it or cancel it. Fix it or nix it.” (Benjamin Netanyahu, […]
Bernardi and Abbott: a shared pyschosis
And the week finished on a spectacularly self-mutilating note for the No side, with Cory Bernardi and Tony Abbott inadvertently exposing the dark spite at […]
Subsidies, blackouts and rising energy prices, but it isn’t renewables who are the culprits – the story of aluminium smelting in Australia
While the Coalition blame blackouts and rising energy prices on renewable energy and call for an end to subsidies, the real culprits are going unnoticed. […]
Right Wingers Playing the Victim
To be a right winger these days, you have to be good at playing the victim. Victim-playing defines the behaviour of right wingers from the […]
The standard that you walk past …
Income management isn’t new in Australia, what is new, is the current government’s ideological push to enforce neoliberal policies on an unsuspecting Australia. In 2007, […]
Conservative Civic Codes Revisited: Modernist Hegemony in Action
In a society without the mass trade union membership of earlier generations, eyewitness news services and film or blockbusters become substitutes for real participation. Can […]
The Demise of Civic Journalism: The Xenophon-Turnbull Deal
It was never spectacular, but the Australian mediascape is set to become duller, more contained, and more controlled with changes to the Broadcasting Services Act. […]