Consistent and Principled
Only 6 countries supported Israel’s right to construct a “security barrier” in a UN general Assembly vote. One of them was Australia.
Mr Downer commented saying ” the Government took a clear, consistent and principled position in the vote on the UN General Assembly’s resolution about the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling […]

The Federal Multicultural Affairs Minister – Gary Hardgrave – has today declared that Hansonism is dead and that the ALP were the reason for its rise. (see: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/27/1090693963128.html?oneclick=true.)
Why? Because “[t]he Labor Party created division in society, and cut people into tribes and funded them differently, and created a sense of resentment.”
I’m sure you all […]

God damn it!! Why won’t you people engage with me?!?
So… I was lucky enough to meet with Miriam Solomon the other day and we had an interesting discussion.
For me and my analysis of the world and its’ ills the problem is largely the mode of production (yes, I have a strong Marxist grounding). […]

God bless Bob Brown:
FED: Green collar jobs and a shorter working week, say GreensWednesday, 21 July, 2004
By Saffron Howden
SYDNEY, July 20 AAP - Promising “green collar” jobs, the Greens today said a 35-hour working week should be the cornerstone of any national employment strategy.
Greens’ Senator Bob Brown and Cunningham MP Michael Organ outlined their […]

Dear all. I just read this and feel the need to share it with you all. I’m sure many of you were aware of these practices but it’s interesting for two reasons. Firstly the severity of the situation. Secondly the authors awareness of his “americaness” and how he explains things accordingly:
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Those of you who enjoyed the Lawrence Lessig presentation I posted some months back will be interested in the following (taken from: http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9983163%255E15306,00.html):
Big FTA stoush brewing on copyrightJames RileyJune 29, 2004
A FULL-SCALE political stoush is brewing over intellectual property provisions in the Australia-US free trade agreement following the passage of enabling legislation last week.
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You know, you talk about the politics of eating meat and I get 10 to 12 comments per post, I talk about perhaps the most significant international relations issue of our time and I get “What are you worried about that for”. I talk about industrial relations which effects EVERYONE and I don’t get […]

The Thai-Australia Free Trade Agreement has been signed. And while the Thai PM was in town for the signing it has gone relatively unmentioned by the mainstream press or ‘civil society’ for that matter. This is presumably because, no matter which side of the fence you sit on, the Thai FTA is considerable […]

So thank you all for the invigorating debate that surrounded my last two posts. Nobody changed their opinions, nobody really learnt anything about the issue that they didn’t already know. If I may summarise the divide seems to lie between the moral stance of eating meat and not. Is there a legitimate […]