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Laura Tingle’s article on the problem of News Corp for Gillard’s government in her Friday column of the AFR has provoked a fair bit of debate over at LP. At the heart of the problem lies two seriously conflicting notions. On one hand, the idea of any government “doing” anything about the so-called free press immediately [...]  Sorry but who are we kidding here? The cult of less? Predicated on owning two eBook devices and a laptop with no means of personal transport. Sounds perfect for New York, a place of 20 million people where the streets are too small to fit everyone at once and apartments extend to the height of small [...] Oops just watched a trailer for Unrivalled…urgh what is going on with the world or am I just some latte drinking trendy overeducated and underpaid, indulging in some romantic sensibilities? Lordy lordy be. It seems everywhere you have to have a position on something. Where do I stand on land rights for gay whales? Do [...] Margaret Warner from the PBS in the US has a story on the Pope’s reservations about the internet which apparently can also lead to “multiple forms of degradation and humiliation”. Think embarrassing Facebook fotos, maybe. But the Pope who is the leader of that wonderfully enlightened organisation called the Catholic Church (remember the inquisition) is obliged [...] I confess, I have a fascination with American big “P” politics where it seems that discussion about policy becomes intertwined with attitudes towards sex and race in the blink of an eye. Germaine Greer used the phrase “the personal is the political” but in a weird coincidence it seems that a native New Yorker Carol Hanisch [...] Interesting comments…you might notice that of the dozen posted so far those that seem to think the ACF and the rationale of the article represent an affront to humanity do not actually discuss the issues raised by the writer, ie carbon pollution, water availability and land use. Rather they focus on the notion that growth [...] This story arrived in my inbox yesterday and like all good headlines it did grab my attention but the more I read the story and similar related ones doing the rounds the more curious I have become about the source and its methodology. The source of the story seems to be a British based magazine called [...] Interesting… How to you defeat an idea? Shall we put two ideas in a ring together and see which one is victorious after a number of rounds? The two ideas can slug it out for the amusement of punters and the financial benefit of the promoter. But the metaphor is inadequate since a defeated idea can simply [...] Ms Devine has a habit of penning some enticing lines, I mean the topic of Gen Y and politics seems enticing as does her exploration of the Green Police ad that screened during the US Super Bowl but her article simply fail to deliver anything new. When Labor came to power in 2007 only the [...] A song by the wonderfully talented Tiffany Eckhardt tells me to shine today, something I’m sure Auntie Gertrude would agree with, my lack of illumination not withstanding, yet I am sorely troubled by two things that have surfaced on my screen in recent times. The first one I want to share is a job ad. I [...] |
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