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Is Eric Abetz or Mark Latham the spectre of WorkChoices?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by kimberella

To get a good handle on how the election is playing, your best best is to watch the first ten minutes or so of any commercial news channel (though Nine and Seven have a bigger footprint than Ten). Tony Abbott…

Tagged with: ACTU, Eric Abetz, Federal Election 2010, Neil Mitchell, Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices
Posted in elections

Ozonomics – Inside the Myth of Australia's Economic Superheroes

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Robert Merkel

The meme that the steadily growing economy of the last decade owes a lot to a) luck, and b) the Hawke-Keating reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, has been steadily propogating after, seemingly, starting out as a few grizzles in…

BB balance

Posted on April 23, 2007 by kimberella

It’s not only fascinating docos about Dolly that display the government’s creeping balance-isation of everything on tv. After the turkey slap stoushes of 2006, Big Brother 2007 is trimming its sails to the prevailing electoral winds. (Let’s not forget that…

Tagged with: Asshattery, culture wars, John Howard, Peter Costello, politics&govt, sociology
Posted in culture, levity, media, politics

Demography? Destiny? Decline of TEH WEST?

Posted on April 3, 2007 by kimberella

Since people on the other thread wanted to get all Spenglerian on me, perhaps a demography thread is timely, particularly with the release of Peter Costello’s latest Inter-generational report. Fertility, obviously, being his signature issue. I can’t put my fundamental…

Tagged with: gender & equality, Peter Costello, politics&govt, sociology
Posted in Economics, feminism, immigration, politics, sociology