Yeah, you might have noticed already. I’m in a Truthiness mood tonight, as Stephen Colbert might say. Remember all the loud denunciations I copped from harry clarke (of organism fame), Tim Blair et al et al etc. Read more »
Yeah, you might have noticed already. I’m in a Truthiness mood tonight, as Stephen Colbert might say. Remember all the loud denunciations I copped from harry clarke (of organism fame), Tim Blair et al et al etc. Read more »
Crikey is reporting today that a leaked progress report demonstrates that the Northern Territory Intervention, now just short of a year old, is “a shambles”. It’s worth reading the full story, but it’s also interesting to note that Mal “who will think of the children?” Brough has admitted that the thing was cobbled together in 48 hours, as just about everyone suspected at the time. Read more »
It’s all over bar the shouting (make mine a bourbon) for Hillary. Meanwhile, Amanda Marcotte and Katha Pollitt look at the race/gender wars in the context of this year’s primaries at the LA Times.
Pollitt has the money quote: Read more »
… Or have we already had it?
Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans has called for a “great debate” about immigration.
Possibly because it doesn’t involve leaked emails from Malcolm Turnbull or struggling battlers on 150k losing benefits, coverage of the immigration decisions announced in the budget has been fairly sparse, with this piece by Paul Kelly something of an exception to the rule.
The long and short of it is that skilled migration and temporary working visas have been lifted to almost 300 000 a year, with more on the way. Add in international students and those on some forms of tourist visa and you have a very large boost to Australia’s workforce. Read more »
To mark the first anniversary of the NT intervention in Parliament, Rudd set out its achievements for the indigenous children of the Northern Territory;
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Hillary Clinton is right about one thing - the question is “where do we go now?”
A few weeks ago, a woman I know who lives in Indiana had a phone call from Hillary Clinton’s camp in the run-up to the state Democratic primary.
“I realise folks say it would be great to have an African-American president, but wouldn’t it be neat to have the first woman president in our lifetime?” (more…)
Last year Paul Norton wrote with some sadness and much asperity “Is David Burchell brain-dead?”
Referring to the particular column which prompted the post, Paul contrasted ex-communist Burchell’s stance with the positions taken by anti-communist Robert Manne thusly:
David Burchell’s column, by contrast, repeatedly trivialises left-liberal positions on those issues and complacently denigrates those who hold such views.
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