How can every human being on the planet not spend their days being puzzled about pretty much everything? Every day I ask myself questions like: How does that work? Why did that happen? Who was responsible for that? What was the purpose of that? Where did that come from? Constantly, one or more of the [...]
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Ignorance is strength
Posted in Education, Media, politics, tagged australia, australian election, Climate Change, conservation, creationism, education, elections, george orwell, history, media, public schools, religion, science, television on January 30, 2012 | 21 Comments »
La même chose
Posted in Economics, politics, tagged America, australia, David Cameron, economy, elections, Maggie Thatcher, monarchy, Republicans, tony abbott on January 22, 2012 | 9 Comments »
It’s one of those historic events that still, 630 years on, resonate with modern times and make your blood run cold. In 1381 the so-called “Peasant’s Revolt” led by Wat Tyler massed tens of thousands of poor people protesting the new “Poll Tax” which, like our GST, made poor people pay as much tax as [...]
Fit to print
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australia, Climate Change, education, elections, media, media inquiry, newspapers, press council, television on November 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Much talk about the Australian media inquiry lately, and the inquiry into Murdoch’s activities in Britain. Calls for regulation on the one hand, outraged reaction about government control of a free press on the other. Fairfax Media chairman Roger Corbett said limits on media would be a ‘terrible mistake’. The Right emerged blinking from Think [...]
That’s Entertainment
Posted in Media, politics, tagged America, australian election, Brendan Nelson, elections, federal election, julia gillard, kevin rudd, malcolm turnbull, media, television, tony abbott on October 16, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Long long ago, as the oldest of my Watermelon friends may just remember, there used to be talent competitions in community and media. At Eisteddfords performers performed, judges judged, winners grinned, losers were praised and encouraged, audiences applauded loudly in appreciation. Then the geniuses who produce tv programs decided this was all wrong. In the [...]
Odds on
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australian election, Carbon Tax, economy, elections, federal election, infrastructure, julia gillard, media, television, tony abbott on September 25, 2011 | 7 Comments »
There is a curious political narrative (I could write a book on curious political narratives) beloved not just of journalists but of political commentators, supposedly a much more serious breed of political observer. A discussion will be under way about, say, leadership questions, or the date of next election, or the winner of a bye-election, [...]
Home on the ocean wave
Posted in Media, politics, tagged australian election, elections, john howard, julia gillard, media, newspapers, tony abbott on July 29, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The other day, as evidence of News International’s unconscionable behaviour towards ordinary people emerged, followed by growing public anger about the corruption of judicial processes, the links between journalists and police, and the involvement of Murdoch and friends and family in the political world, questions about possible similar activities in Australia were raised. It was [...]
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