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.
Peace dividend
Friday, 5 June 2009 The Australian state 4 comments
Drift is one thing, but loss of control over the state apparatus is something else.
The state steps in
Monday, 25 May 2009 The Australian state 5 comments
Treasury’s unusual move in projecting growth at a higher trend and for a longer forward projection is necessary to provide a guide path out of the downturn that does not come from the economic programs of the political class.
For next Australia Day
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 The Australian state 5 comments
Instead of making even more racially based sections of the constitution with a preamble, how about marking next Australia Day by getting rid of the ones we’ve got?
Culture wars bores
Friday, 9 January 2009 The Australian state 7 comments
Greer seems to be demanding that a zany film director and a screen actress do what she can’t – make a coherent political point.
What damage a dying government did
Wednesday, 10 December 2008 The Australian state Comments Off
If apologies are so in vogue, maybe here’s a chance to apologise to all those living now who have had such a slur made against them …
Clinging to the wreckage
Monday, 1 December 2008 The Australian state Comments Off
… it seems the more the Liberals ditch what they stand for, the more they cling to Howard the man, rather than what he was supposed to stand for.
A crime without criminals
Monday, 23 June 2008 The Australian state Comments Off
Over the last year there has been a subtle, and rather unpleasant, re-writing of what the intervention is about.
Stringing them along
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 The Australian state Comments Off
The republican side always contained an uneasy coalition between these two differing reasons for supporting the republican model – a national identity one and a broader democratic one. The two may want to get rid of the monarchy but there is a conflict between them over who was to have the final say.
What Nelson did wrong
Thursday, 14 February 2008 Key posts, The Australian state Comments Off
If there is an iron law of Australian politics, it is that the fate of the political class and the indigenous issue are intimately intertwined.
