Tag Archives: Gillard
Aim High on Climate Change Action (Link)
Hi everyone, Just wanted to provide a link here to the second article I wrote for The Drum which went up on April 29, 2011. It’s a longer article than usual, and I hope into goes into a good level … Continue reading
Filed under Ideas, Philosophy, Politics
It’s official, personality in politics is a thing of the past
Love him or loathe him, Bob Hawke has personality in spades. Sunday night’s screening of ‘Hawke’ on Channel Ten and the subsequent Hawke interview was a thought-provoking reminder of this fact. Why so? Well, how many politicians can you think … Continue reading
Filed under Politics
It’s a Gillard-hunt. Substance: zero.
It seems that nearly all of the Australian media have jumped on the ‘Let’s trip up Julia Gillard’ bandwagon. This is problematic in itself. What is even more problematic is that the media have confused Julia Gillard’s speech by assuming … Continue reading
Filed under Politics
Like a bull at a gate…
A response to Paul Colgan’s article, ‘The Dili Proposal’ (6/7/2010), The Punch With phrases such as “political correctness” and “racist” being bandied about for days, it is no wonder that the immediate response by many online commentators to the government’s … Continue reading
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