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Disquiet on the western front: @GuinevereHall interviews Senator Scott Ludlam #WAVotes
The Greens’ Senator Scott Ludlam is having the time of his life. Five years after being elected he has seen his personal profile rise to the point that he’s now getting recognised on the street. There was also a lot of attention garnered from his “Welcome to WA” speech that went viral. Senator Ludlam spoke at […]
Boldly going nowhere: @burgewords on the inequality of Sci-Fi
“When I was nine years old Star Trek came on,” Whoopi Goldberg told Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, at a casting session for the show’s reboot in the early 1990s, “I looked at it and I went screaming through the house: ‘Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady […]
No Fibs Bennelong reporter @preciouspress counters Paul Sheehan race attack on @jasonyatsenli
By Jack Sumner 29 August 2013 In the Sydney Morning Herald today Paul Sheehan wrote “Labor pulls out race card in bid to win over Chinese“. His flimsy justification for this serious allegation is: “During the 2007 campaign, Labor shamelessly played the race card in Bennelong against Howard, emphasising Rudd’s fluency in Mandarin, his links to […]
Let’s excise western Sydney so the rest of us have a say: @sarah_capper column
By Sarah Capper 23 August 2013 During a candidates’ debate (a loose term) in the seat of Melbourne recently, an impassioned local resident rose during question time (again, loose term) and implored other local voters to send a message to Canberra – that voters in Australia’s “most progressive seat” should reject the major party policies […]
Tomorrow when the war began: Australia’s ‘national emergency’
By Noely Neate 25 July 2013 Source: Yathink.com.au It’s not the movie, the wonderful Tomorrow series written by John Marsden where Australia was invaded but we never knew or were told who invaded us. Today’s coalition press conference was a bit like that – we are being invaded by a group of faceless people who we need […]
What will you do?
Margo: To me Rudd’s PNG solution resonates strongly with Howard’s pre-2001 Pacific Solution. Rudd is trying to do to Abbott what Howard did to Beazley with the Pacific solution. So here is my post 2001 election comment piece – is this Ground Hog Day? First published 12 November 2001 By Margo Kingston Source: Webdiary The election […]
Eleven years on nothing’s changed: @FranklyFeisty letter to Ruddock
By Michele Borghesi (@FranklyFeisty) 19 July 2013 I can’t believe that almost 12 years after I wrote this to Ruddock and Howard, the same shit is still happening… @margokingston1 it's SO much worse than I imagined Rudd/Ruddock what's the difference? Guess my letter really is timely 12yrs on! — Michele Borghesi (@FranklyFeisty) July 19, 2013 May, […]