Failing state
Monday, 1 August 2016 The Australian state 1 comment
As usual in Australia, race remains too central to the state to expect any sort of clarity on it.
Lifestyle
Monday, 16 March 2015 The Australian state 10 comments
The idea of shutting down remote communities because they are economically unviable is, of course, rubbish.
Whitlam
Wednesday, 22 October 2014 Political figures, The Australian state 18 comments
It’s perhaps for the best that Gough’s not around to see the hash they’ll make of it.
A hollow debate
Monday, 7 April 2014 The Australian state 21 comments
The government has tried to use libertarian arguments to nullify and roll back a piece of anti-racist legislation but has nowhere to take it back to.
Review: Mark Latham’s Not Dead Yet
Monday, 29 April 2013 Key posts, State of the parties 26 comments
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.
Top end upended
Monday, 27 August 2012 State and federal politics 43 comments
Far from being “out of it” some politicians have been working hard to make the remote communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland practically avant-garde.
Caught in a racial trap
Thursday, 26 January 2012 Key posts, The Australian state 68 comments
How do you change racial provisions in the Constitution when the entire infrastructure of land rights is based on it?
Culture war bores collide
Tuesday, 4 October 2011 The Australian state 55 comments
Racial/cultural separation, or whatever you want to call it, remains embedded as ever in the centre of our body politic
Where the problem lies
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Media analysis 15 comments
Tanner and Megalogenis may take pot shots across the media-political divide but ultimately it comes down to voters as the problem.
Rights and wrongs
Tuesday, 1 September 2009 The Australian state 10 comments
While the right and left have argued over the nature of the punishment, what we have seen with the intervention is a denial of a basic right in front of the law to be judged whether to receive the punishment in the first place.