Julia Gillard has called an election for 21 August 2010. I must confess that I’ve been pretty down about politics the last few weeks. What particularly depressed me was Labor’s ill-conceived plan to palm asylum seekers off to East Timor. It showed the same ad hoc ‘policy-on-the-run’ approach that KRudd’s regime had shown before. It [...]
I attended a religious school for the first three years of High School. I’m afraid that it went in one ear and out the other, because I didn’t even realise that Jesus was God according to Christian doctrine until I was about 25. I have a fantastic ability to be able to switch off during [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australian internet filter, Children, Free Speech, Internet, Law, Religion
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Tagged Australian internet filter, censorship, Julia Gillard, Religion, Sex, stephen conroy, violence
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I can reveal that Dr Jeffrey John, the openly gay but celibate Dean of St Albans, has been blocked from becoming a bishop once again. He has not been chosen as the next Bishop of Southwark. Liberals will be dismayed that the Church has lost its nerve – but there is no reason for evangelicals [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in England, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Philosophy, Politics, Religion
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Tagged Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury, Catholic Church, church of england, crown nominations commission, gay and lesbian, gay priests, Jeffrey johns, jonathan wynne-jones, pope benedict, rowan williams
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There are a few interesting posts around the place today, so I thought I’d just do a round up: HeathG at Minimal State wonders if GetUp! will get into trouble with copyright law as a result of its political satire video (which lends from various Hollywood blockbusters). I hope not, the video is rather funny, [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Blogging, General, Intellectual property, Law, Politics
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Tagged copyright, copyright law, Immigration, Law, lawyers, link round-up, people smugglers, psychic octopus
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[Cross-posted at The Fortnightly Review of IP and Media Law - please check this excellent resource out] In a follow-up to my post on cyber-bullying, the Australian government are intending to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) in an attempt to deal with the phenomena of cyber-bullying and “sexting”. 1. Current provisions of the [...]
Bettina Arndt wrote a piece in the SMH the other day which Paul Norton at LP has described as a “Bondi cigar“, and I must say I’m inclined to agree with Paul’s assessment. Jason Soon alerted me to the piece in the first place, and I must say I’ve stolen his heading for my post [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Children, Feminism, Law, Marriage, Motherhood, Politics, Public Policy
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Tagged Australian politics, Australian Prime Minister, Bettina Arndt, Children, choice, Cohabitation, de facto marriage, Divorce, family law, Feminism, Julia Gillard, Marriage, Motherhood, prime minister, relationships, sexism
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The thing that has been fascinating me about the last week in politics is the evidence of the herd mentality (psychologically speaking). The herd doesn’t move direction until one person breaks ranks, and then suddenly everyone is following the new direction. I’m talking, of course, of the sudden political demise and dethroning of KRudd. A [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Media, Politics, The Left
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Tagged 7:30 Report, australia, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Australian Prime Minister, David Marr, Herd mentality, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, leadership putsch, Media, Politics, prime minister, swearing
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Heath Gibson reminded me in a post this morning that we have a renewed opportunity to persuade the Labor party to drop its ridiculous bid to impose net censorship. As he notes, because of the change in leadership, the party can now back away from previous policies without losing so much face (as it has [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australian internet filter, Internet, Law, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Technology
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Tagged Australian internet filter, freedom of speech, internet filter, Julia Gillard, Law, policy, psychology, Technology
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This is going to be a longer and much sharper post than I had originally intended. What first came to mind was an open letter to the new Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, pointing out a simple £50 million cost saving to the welfare bill, but then yesterday the new coalition government handed [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Law, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Taxation
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Tagged budget 2010, coalition, conservative party, deficit, disability, disability living allowance, DLA, employment support allowance, Iain Duncan Smith, incapacity benefit, welfare
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According to the Herald Sun yesterday: An artist has been paid $10,000 to float 10,000 paper planes in Victoria’s State Library. Ross Coulter wants to track “thought patterns” in the La Trobe (Domed) Reading Room by releasing the planes from balcony “stacks”, and will use a Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship to pay for the project. [...]
