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What To Do About A Boy Named Barrie 1 May 2011 | 08:07 pm
Dear Mr and Ms Cassidy, I’m writing to you with regards to your son Barrie. We here at Norbridge High School are increasingly worried about his lack of progress this year. As you are aware, he has ha...
Grundle, markets, and leftist rhetoric 24 Feb 2011 | 07:00 pm
Now, to echo some points by m’colleague Keane, we live in a profoundly individualist and atomised society, in which people build identity through media and markets. Everyone now realises that this cre...
John Roskam: W-R-O-N-G on Multiculturalism 19 Feb 2011 | 08:30 pm
The point about multiculturalism is it emphasises what divides us more than what unites us. It was a term useful when arrivals to Australia were basically from the same culture. Multiculturalism has n...
Cross posting a brain dump 14 Jan 2011 | 08:58 pm
…from Tumblr, so that people without a tumblr can comment. Politics, that word has many different meanings. The one many are most familiar with relates to party politics and trying to get elected. Un...
Earning a living in a world of free 28 Oct 2010 | 08:04 pm
This post is cross-posted from group blog Groupthink where i have started blogging. The vibe there is a bit different to the “space for long form thoughts” pseudo-motto i have for this space. I’ll pro...
Respect slipping, but for whom? 28 Aug 2010 | 01:12 pm
Laurie Oakes has a regular column in News Ltd publications on a weekend… Australians know that a deadlocked election has left the country without a government and the situation is serious. Australia...
Separating Reality from the Literal 27 Aug 2010 | 04:35 pm
Cross-posted this from my tumblr – i’m planning on making more use of the institute’s space so i thought i’d use this to blow the cobwebs off This morning i tweeted TBH, the line “Der! Australian pp...
Senate Estimates – A Primer 24 May 2010 | 07:50 pm
Senate estimates are back in session, for this week and the next. Basically this is a fortnight when the Australian Senate sits in its committees with the senior public servants appearing with their r...
Labor Phones It In 18 May 2010 | 04:48 pm
BREAKING: It turns out the Australian Labor Party isn’t just second rate when it comes to the question of its Prime Ministers being effective communicators in a time of election campaigning going forw...
A few scripted remarks 18 May 2010 | 03:27 pm
So, last night Abbott had a bit of a clusterfuck of an interview with Kerry O’Brien. The immediate reaction to that has basically been concentrated on Tony saying he’s loose with the truth/a liar/can’...
