Will this get you up?
GetUp says this is the ad the government doesn’t want you to see, and that you should send it to five friends today. Do they really think people don’t know that the government was having it both ways with Iraq? The point is that people don’t care - after 10 years, they expect their government [...]
On being an ordinary Australian
It may be 10 years since John Howard became Prime Minister of Australia, but this year also marks 10 years since I started - and never left - university. In response to the commitments I’ve already lined up for the rest of the year, I’ve decided to use this experience as some kind of organising [...]
Astounding
So according to Danna Vale, Australian women are aborting our country’s identity away. It must be true, because her population predictions rest on a quote from an imam in the The Daily Telegraph. These comments are some indication of the paranoia that Liberal Party politicians seem happy to vocalise. They are nothing less than embarrassing. [...]
Morning newspaper humour
Big business can be trusted to reduce greenhouse gas pollution without regulations or binding climate change targets, say the US and Australian governments.
Code pink petition
Codepink has started an online petition entitled ‘Women Say No To War’. Their goal is to get at least 100,000 women to sign it by March 8th. With your help they can do it. Go here to sign.
New year omens
You might have caught this story in the Saturday papers. I’ve been trying to find the incredible image published with it, but instead stumbled upon a flickr account which shows the action in a bit more context.
In light of events like these, I’m finding this week’s predictions genre in the on- and [...]
Congratulations
Breaking news: my colleague, Gerard Goggin, and collaborator Christopher Newell, have been recognised for their pioneering work in Disability Studies at the Human Rights Awards. Here’s the press release:
Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid by Associate Professor Christopher Newell and Dr Gerard Goggin has been awarded the 2005 Human Rights Arts Non-Fiction Award.
Disability in [...]
How to make friends and influence boomers
The title might be deceptive, but this isn’t another post about the pre-fix professional development day, which Az and Ange have documented. A while ago now I wrote a book review of Lindsay Tanner’s Crowded Lives which apparently some people actually read, and as a result I’ve been asked to contribute to a new book [...]
Happy Dismissal Day
From Catri via Crikey: [Requires knowledge of Australian political history].
The welfare of work
Ok, I realise it’s getting depressing around here, so time for a plug. I am really enjoying this ongoing thread at k-punk given my fantasies of unemployment as opposed to book writing. But the following passage is really helpful in thinking about my embryonic workplace culture project:
Nothing defines the Right so thoroughly as their [...]