August 29, 2010 – 11:25 am
…you just feel disappointed in your countrymen. Like today. I happened to click on this awful little story in The Australian (reported in more detail at Perth Now): Aboriginal Liberal candidate Ken Wyatt has got [sic] hate mail from people who say they wouldn’t have voted for him if they had known he was indigenous. [...]
August 25, 2010 – 2:02 am
Julia Gillard is a childless 48-year-old unmarried atheist redhead who lives in sin with her hairdresser. She is also the first woman to become prime minister of Australia. Just in case you thought that might mean a new era had dawned, be assured that it is probably just about over. Not that Gillard had radical [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Economics, Environment, Feminism, Funnies, Law, Media, Politics
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Also tagged Australian politics, Bob Katter, Germaine Greer, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott
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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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Posted in Media, Politics, Society, The Left
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Also tagged 7:30 Report, 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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Did you ever play “chasey” as a child? If you ran around in the wild blue yonder, you were fair game for any roving pursuer, but usually, there was an area which was “safe” (in my school yard it was called “barlee“). If you were touching the “safe” tree, you couldn’t be caught. If someone [...]
The more I see, the more I’m disappointed with KRudd’s government. I confess that I had high hopes at the start, which was probably a mistake. One should never invest politicians with hope. There were a few things that really worried me from the start about the government – the love of “spin” over substance [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Politics
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Also tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, climate change, cynicism, ETS, insulation, Japanese whaling, kevin rudd, opinion polls, political advertising, scientific whaling, spin
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[Now cross-posted at Online Opinion - 21/5/10] There’s been a lively discussion at Larvatus Prodeo about the possibility that the French will ban the burqa. Of course, this follows on the heels of Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi’s suggestion that the burqa should be banned in Australia. Bernardi suggested that the burqa was not only a [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Feminism, Personal liberty
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Also tagged Australian politics, burka, burqa, Feminism, france, freedom of religion, islam, laïcité, Politics, Religion, secularism, Turkey, women
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April 25, 2010 – 10:25 pm
It seems to be de riguer for a certain type of journalist to write stuff on ANZAC Day saying that it’s a jingoistic load of crap celebrated by right-wing lunatics. Now, there’s certainly an element of society which seems to see ANZAC Day as a “glorious tradition”, and that tries to harness it to an [...]
April 17, 2010 – 10:28 am
Here in Victoria, the heat has been on former Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon and her performance during the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February last year. 174 people were killed and many houses were lost. Nixon retired from the post in mid-2009 to become head of the Victorian Bushfire Recovery and Construction Authority. [...]
March 21, 2010 – 12:02 pm
I was not brought up in any particular religious context. There’s not much standing on ceremony in my family. Still, if I ever go to someone else’s house, I try to make sure that I follow their traditions, whatever they may be. I just think that it’s the respectful thing to do. Secretly, just between [...]
February 19, 2010 – 2:16 pm
[Warning, if you are eating, do not continue reading this post.] I just had occasion to shiver all over with horror. You know, when something is so awful that you feel like your skin is crawling off your back? What could be so awful…? The cause of my horror was the article where Tony Abbott [...]
