By Mark Bahnisch on April 10, 2012
As of today, Larvatus Prodeo will cease publishing: the blog began to wend its way through the online world on March 17, 2005, so it’s a very old beast in internet years. We collectively feel seven years is enough.
Posted in Blogging, blogosphere, Featured, Government, Life, Media, Policy, Politics, Site News, Sociology, The Web |
By Helen on April 1, 2012
The recent chin-stroking by various people regarding Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands of a vigilante crank is shameful. I was reminded of Maia’s commentary on the victim-blaming attending the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. (In an astonishing coincidence, both Martin and [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Law, Media, Race, Sociology | Tagged prejudice, stereotypes |
By tigtog on March 24, 2012
The polls will be closing shortly. The expected result, as no doubt everybody knows by now, is a massive swing to the LNP with only an ignominious rump left for Labor.
Posted in Media, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Queensland election 2012, roundtable |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 20, 2012
Cross-posted from The Wellhead As Kim Jameson reported, The Greens have ramped up the pressure on their key issue of Coal Seam Gas today, as the election enters its closing days. Similarly, Lock The Gate Alliance made an intervention around [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Environment, Featured, Food, Government, Policy, Politics, Polls, Poverty, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Basin Sustainability Alliance, behind the seams, citizen journalism, coal mining, coal seam gas, Condamine River, Councillor Ray Brown, Crikey, csg, Environment, interim expert scientific committee, Kim Jameson, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, murray-darling basin, Pandora Karavan, Queensland election 2012, renewable energy, roundtable, salt, Surat Basin, Water, Western Downs regional council
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2012
Crikey’s website is down today, so we’re publishing the latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams posts here. NB: You might like to consider donating to support the work of FAQ Research on our Coal Seam Gas project. The project [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Environment, Featured, Markets, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, behind the seams, coal seam gas, Crikey, csg, Darling Downs, David Granato, Economics, FAQ Research, jobs, Kerry Shine, labor party, Pandora Karavan, Poverty, Queensland election 2012, roundtable, social housing, social policy, Toowoomba North, Western Downs, youtube
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2012
Crikey’s website is down today, so we’re publishing the latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams posts here. NB: You might like to consider donating to support the work of FAQ Research on our Coal Seam Gas project. The project [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Featured, Media, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ABC Rural, Aidan McLindon, ALP, APPEA, behind the seams, Campbell Newman, coal seam gas, Crikey, csg, Environment, FAQ Research, greens, KAP, Katter, land use, Larissa Waters, LNP, Mark Bahnisch, Pandora Karavan, Policy, Queensland Country Hour, Queensland election 2012, rights, roundtable, Ruth Armstrong, Surat Basin, Vicky Darling
By Mark Bahnisch on March 14, 2012
Republished from today’s Crikey email with permission. Mark Bahnisch and Pandora Karavan of FAQ Research write: The Katter Australian Party anti-same s-x marriage ad has topped the charts as the most viewed and most discussed political advertisement of the Queensland election. As [...]
Posted in Lesbian and Gay, Politics, Queensland, Sexuality, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ad, advertisement, Aidan McLindon, andrew bolt, Barron River, behind the seams, Bob Katter, Brendan Fitzgerald, Cairns Post, Campbell Newman, civil unions, coal seam gas, controversy, Crikey, csg, Darling Downs, electorates, gay marriage, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, KAP, Katter's Australian Party, Kim Jameson, Luke Shaw, Nanango, North Queensland, Pauline Hanson, political advertising, Queensland election 2012, Queensland politics, same sex marriage |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 14, 2012
Crikey’s website is down today, so I’m publishing my latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams post here. In writing about the controversy over a number of Green peak bodies’ intention to test the limits of development approval for mining [...]
Posted in Economics, Environment, Photography, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged analysis, behind the seams, Christine Milne, Climate change, coal seam gas, coal seam gas well, communities, Crikey, csg, disadvantage, Economics, employment, energy market, Environment, evidence, fracking, globalisation, Mark Bahnisch, mining, Pandora Karavan, Paul Kelly, Policy, roundtable, social policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2012
As LP readers know, FAQ Research has partnered with Crikey to produce Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams, a major investigative media project shining the spotlight on the Queensland election campaign’s hot issue. We have already made one field trip to the Western Downs, interviewing, photographing [...]
Posted in Donation challenge, Energy, Environment, Media, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Chinchilla, citizen journalism, coal mining, coal seam gas, communities, Crikey, csg, Dalby, Darling Downs, Energy, FAQ Research, food security, fracking, journalism, Mark Bahnisch, Media, mining, new media, Pandora Karavan, photo essay, Queensland election 2012, Queensland politics, reportage, research, roundtable, Science, social media, Sociology, Tara, toowoomba, Western Downs, youtube
By tigtog on March 2, 2012
Gillard announces new ministry: obviously Bob Carr is the big story, but some of the changes in portfolio are also interesting.
Posted in Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, cabinet, Julia Gillard, roundtable |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 29, 2012
While, seemingly, the rest of the world was focused on each twist and turn of the Labor leadership shenanigans, the FAQ Research team was on a field reporting trip to Queensland’s Western Downs. Often we were on the road, driving [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Climate change, Donation challenge, Economics, Energy, Environment, Featured, Indigenous, Media, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Queensland, Science, Sociology, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged behind the seams, Bob Katter, boom, Brian Bahnisch, citizen journalism, coal seam gas, Crikey, csg, Dalby, Darling Downs, David Granato, DERM, Drew Hutton, FAQ Research, fracking, Indigenous, John Quiggin, Katter's Australian Party, Kim Jameson, Larissa Waters, Lock The Gate, Mark Bahnisch, Media, mining industry, new media, Pandora Karavan, Poverty, Queensland election 2012, queensland government, Queensland politics, Robert Merkel, roger jones, roundtable, Science, Sociology, The Greens, The Wellhead, Western Downs |