Goodbye, again
As of today Larvatus Prodeo will once again cease publishing. Long-time readers will know that the blog started out on March 17, 2005 and then ceased publishing from April 10, 2012 after a seven year run. We were conjured into […]
Deja vue all over again: the new NBN
Laura Tingle reckons the arrival of Turnbull’s NBN Strategic Review is deja vu all over again: The raw politics of this is that, no matter how much the Coalition can complain that it has been left to clean up a […]
Mr Abbott and the Culture Wars II: Climate Change and civil society
One argument I made in my earlier post about Mr Abbott’s relaunch of the Culture Wars is that he won’t have noticed that civil society is stronger than it was in the Howard years. It’s not just “clicktivism” – there […]
Guest post by Jesse Richardson: Thoughts from the CPD panel on “Pushing Our Luck”
MB writes: I’ve asked a number of the contributors to our discussion at Avid Reader around the CPD’s Pushing Our Luck to write up some of the themes and thoughts from the night. First cab off the rank is Jesse […]
Momentum building for a contested Labor leadership election
Anthony Albanese hasn’t yet revealed his hand publicly, but the Fin Review reported this morning that the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister had told leadership aspirant Bill Shorten he planned to run. This is undoubtedly the context for the extraordinary spray […]
NBN the American way
Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a population of some 170,000 lying 190km northwest of Atlanta Georgia has been through some tough times: The same mountains that provided Chattanooga’s scenic backdrop also served to trap industrial pollutants which caused them to settle over […]
The NBN thread we had to have: Malcolm Turnbull’s pomegranates
I’ve been spurred by this story to post a Roundtable thread on the Coalition NBN alternative: Malcolm Turnbull has used an anecdote about being half naked and covered in pomegranate juice to spruik the benefits of the coalition’s national broadband […]
Wikileaks cables, the ALP and the American Embassy
Wikileaks has uploaded a searchable database of US embassy cables from 1966 to 2010. Trevor Cook has excerpted some snippets which go to the factional machinations leading up to Julia Gillard’s ascension as Prime Minister, with various named “Faceless Men” […]
Sociological insights into social media in times of crisis
As mentioned in a recent post, I’m speaking tomorrow at an Eidos Institute Conference – ‘Social Media In Times of Crisis’ (details here). I promised to provide some speaking notes, so here they are. I’m in a session with Bernard […]
Is Labor too big to fail? I
The title of this post is adapted from Jonathan Green’s think piece – ‘Is the ALP really too big to fail?’ I suspect that posing the question this way is to put it the wrong way. Green hones in on […]
Eidos Institute Conference – ‘Social Media in Times of Crisis’
I’m one of the speakers at an Eidos Institute Conference in Brisbane at the State Library of Queensland next Thursday 4 April. It’s a very topical theme, and I think promises some very interesting and stimulating interchange. I plan to […]