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The inversion of Australian democracy.In the Autumn issue of Meanjin.
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The last six years have shown that what asylum seekers have more to be concerned about is an insecure, out of control political class that targets the most vulnerable to make itself look in command. - Sovereignty“We will decide” was a phoney bit of Australian unilateralism made possible at a time of that phoney bit of US unilateralism, the War on Terror. - The New Regionalism How do you change racial provisions in the Constitution when the entire infrastructure of land rights is based on it? - Caught in a racial trap Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century. - The problem of the “political cycle”Essay and Book reviews
Latham is articulating a search for a new relationship of politics to society, based not on its representation, but on intervention on a degraded basis. You have been warned. Not Dead Yet by Mark Latham In reality under this complaint about the media lurks a political argument that is highly revealing about the mindset of the political class today. Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner Here is someone working for the ABC, from a Labor background as Hawke’s press secretary, who has written about the rise and fall of a Labor Prime Minister with all the distortions and omissions worthy of the most disingenuous right wing hack. The Party Thieves by Barrie Cassidy The most bizarre defence of the two party system comes over what for Megalogenis is the most personal – immigration. Trivial Pursuit by George Megalogenis Can Australian politics be that insubstantial? Confessions of a Faceless Man by Paul HowesTHE PIPING SHRIKE ON TWITTER
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Book review: Niki Savva’s Road to Ruin
Monday, 28 March 2016 Political figures, State of the parties 14 comments
Like a dead fish, a paralysed government soon flips upside down in the water. What is important becomes trivial and what is trivial takes centre stage. Lenore Taylor nicely points out how issues that the public cares about have been side-lined in favour of an issue about which the public does not, the timing of […]
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What we have here is the national security issue turned upside down. - The hole in the middle of national security The cave-in by the left was not because the left position’s in terms of numbers was weak, but because the leader was weak and the left leadership had to go all out to ensure that he wasn’t embarrassed. - Unity is death The first thing that should be dismissed is the idea that MPs should have a conscience vote on this, or any other issue. It’s rubbish. - EqualityRecent Comments
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