By David Stephen Ayliffe My view of Matthew Guy, leader of the Victorian Liberal Party changed within minutes as I watched him address the party faithful with great courage and humanity soon after congratulating Premier Daniel Andrews on his amazing election victory. The realisation that his Liberal Coalition was decimated in the Victorian State election…
By Henry Johnston As the cameras scanned the room filled with the Labor faithful eager to welcome Premier Daniel Andrews on Saturday night November 24 2018, I noticed the citizenry’s remarkable diversity. Beaming African faces, men wearing the head covering of the Indian Sub-Continent, women with scarves I presume signify adherence to Islam, and smiling…
With the title of this piece, you would be forgiven for thinking it is just another article about women and women’s business from just another man. But it is not just about women … or men … it is about us … our relationship to each other … our individual gendered relationship to each other…
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Sometimes, interesting things go on in the background to the main ring event at Cirque du Scomo. The Herald Sun reported on the Senate committee looking into the AFP raid of a Home Affairs employee, over the Peter Dutton au pair leaks. The Australian Federal Police is facing the humiliation of being found in contempt…
Governments and ruling regimes tend to face revolution in the face of harsh hikes in prices. Margaret Thatcher’s rule in Britain was rocked by the poll tax. In France, the once enthusiastically embraced Emmanuel Macron has decided to leave the ground rich with challenges against his administration. The Yellow Vests, the gilet jaunes, have decided…
Tthe Victorian election has absolutely no implrications for the upcoming federal election. None! And it can’t be considered in anyway an indictment of the decision to dump Malcolm Turnbull. I know this, because as the results came in, any Liberal MP who had a media gig was pretty clear that this was a state election…
Early counting in Victoria shows a landslide to Labor in a total repudiation of Matthew Guy’s law and order platform which always felt uncomfortably like racial profiling. The highlighting of a crime by a Muslim individual and some poor behaviour by some teenagers from the Sudanese community was a tacky campaign that may have resonated…
Back in my frivolous days of attending a course on Archaeology as part of the Classics curriculum in a mature entry course at a local university, we – the class – were confronted with pictures of ancient Roman structures that included several strata of long retaining walls made up of medium-sized stones of uniform pattern.…
Professor Bill Mitchell’s blog, dated 22 November 2018, “Japan still to slip in the sea under its central bank debt burden” gives MMT advocates all the ammunition they need to present a case for greater fiscal participation in the economy. It signals quite clearly that government spending, not monetary policy (RBA interest rate management),…
Curiosity for the undiscovered last tribe, that tantalising moment when eyes are cast upon the previously unseen, remains the anthropological Holy Grail. But to do so would lead to the natural consequences that come with contact and invasion: the foisting of an alien divinity upon others, most probably a monotheistic Sky God, whose grammatically challenged…