Taking responsibility, or being silenced?
I had been contemplating writing some posts about the South Australian election, coming up on 20 March. But it seems that if I am to do so, either on Larvatus Prodeo, or on my own blog, I must publish...
View ArticleNe bis in idem
Crossposted from No Right Turn. The above, which translates as “not twice for the same”, is one of the fundamental principles of modern law. Once you’ve been tried for something, and that trial has...
View ArticleA Word about Welfare
I was working on a longer post about the nature of the economic trap we find ourselves in, but the rhetoric following the rioting in England has forced a response from me. Forgive me if what follows...
View ArticlePrimary
Gillard supports primaries, as part of her desire to help the party grow and become “connected to the community”. Becoming connected to the community certainly sounds like a good plan, better than...
View ArticleTone
I was recently sent a review copy of Tony Abbott: A Man’s Man, by Susan Mitchell. As Abbott both fascinates and terrifies me, I was really quite pleased to have the chance to read it. Sadly, I didn’t...
View ArticleAbbott’s Horror Movie
A thread set aside for dooming and glooming over various announcements from our government-elect.
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What do the micro-parties mean? It’s not just about preferences
Crossposted from Sed Probate Spiritus It’s interesting, and significant, that most commentary on the election of an unlikely band of largely right wing populists to the Senate on Saturday fingers the...
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Momentum building for a contested Labor leadership election
Anthony Albanese hasn’t yet revealed his hand publicly, but the Fin Review reported this morning that the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister had told leadership aspirant Bill Shorten he planned to run....
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Remember
This is perhaps the first time a piece of Liberal negative political advertising actually worked on me. I had an immediate visceral reaction to it, a surge of anger at Rudd. But then also anger at...
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Factional Labourism: An Infantile Disorder
I don’t know about others, but a lot of Labor folk I know felt surprisingly good on Saturday night, and for a little while after the election dust had settled. It was refreshing to see Labor members...
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