That’s a pretty big teaspoon!

(Yes, all my posts at the moment are coming from The Guardian. The journalism there is not perfect, but they do some pretty interesting stories that the media here in Australia doesn’t seem to even get wind of.) Some Israeli women wield the teaspoon of civil disobedience and smuggle Palestinian women out of the West [...]

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Voting in the Senate

I always vote below the line in the Senate, and I have now done my research so I can vote in an informed manner. If you want to do the same, you can find the information you’ll need at the AEC election website, which lists candidates as well as the registered preference tickets for the [...]

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Reasons not to vote for Tony – signal boost

caitlinate at The Dawn Chorus has a bonza (or something) collection of quotes from Tony Abbott, just to remind you of all the odious things he’s said over the years. Here’s a sample: Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale (say) of [...]

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Malcolm Fraser – making a political comeback?

Ok, the post title is snarky, but Fraser does seem to be getting his name in lights a bit lately [warning: there is a video that starts 5 seconds after you load the linked site]. As well as his resignation from the Liberal Party, he was on Q&A on Monday, for which there is a [...]

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Could the UK Labour Party get its first black female leader?

Diane Abbott, the UK Parliament’s first black female MP, has put her name forward as a candidate for the UK Labour Party’s leadership ballot. Realistically, it will probably be one of the frontrunners who wins. But as Abbott points out, all the other candidates “look the same”. If Abbott is successful, I think that means [...]

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Dog whistle politics

Yet another reason I can’t see myself bringing myself to vote for the Libs at the next NSW election (not that I think I’ll be able to bring myself to vote ALP, either): Barry O’Farrell’s interesting take on the criminal justice system: If he (Williams) had a criminal record, what’s he doing on the street [...]

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Was that really necessary? Misogynistic headlines and catchphrases

Peter Hartcher, the SMH’s international editor (by which I assume they mean editor of international news) is a pretty good columnist. His articles tend to be interesting and thought-provoking. They are about politics, international politics and economics. So when I saw the headline “Attractive French model bears close watching” on Hartcher’s column today, I assumed [...]

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Talk about burying the lead!

John Sutton, secretary of the CFMEU, has an opinion article in today’s SMH, taking the government to task for its immigration policy. Sutton spends most of the piece essentially blaming underemployment on what he seems to consider to be the government’s far-too-lenient approach to letting employers employ people from overseas. But honestly, I would have [...]

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