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Hegel, 'Philosophy of Right' Public Opinion Archive   going after the welfare state sleep walking to the future historical amnesia Red Alert, Hollywood style Australia's poor policy reform capacity banging the drums of war just short sighted politics here we go again closing down of Australia’s renewable energy industry establishing authoritarian rule? selling austerity the severed head picture it's the inequality folks a diversionary tactic a pantomime the surveillance state's dragnet tabloid politics coal dreaming going down the US path dreaming of a lost age a dead end for the economy creating political drama it's not going to be roses learning the ropes SA Labor: a political crisis Coalition: "reward the lifters” and “discourage the leaners” a Liberal victory? being taken for a fool The Coalition's "lifters and leaners" rhetoric Iraq: the chickens come home to roost hand in glove the climate deniers club let the market decide budget backlash class power a policy vacuum? the end of co-operative federalism? deficit gloom and doom a return to the past striking welfare flying high What to make of the NBN chaos a creeping authoritarianism getting mauled it's a no brainer drifting along Labor rolls over on mass surveillance IPCC: Fifth Assessment Report Brandis: people have a right to be bigots business-as-usual politics SA Labor hangs on the return of the Rum Corps scaling up SA: its early days but... SA State election 2014 Ken Henry speaks signs of change an emerging authoritarianism? ending the Tasmanian Forests Agreement a future climate scenario for Australia An expanionist Russia the “deserving” and the “undeserving” poor the austerity script is in place hell on earth sound bytes My Broadband the politics of food safety it's getting real ugly making Australia more competitive waving the magic wand better jobs to replace those dreary assembly line ones? Abbott's great big spotlight no doubts, its back a more self-reliant culture of enterprise? it doesn't stack up the spooks are the hackers and so it begins the booze culture in fact, it's hard to keep up Adelaide is changing noble lies A responsible audit? reigniting the culture and literacy wars economic ideology SA State election Fairfax + a bunch of deniers liberating the economy from its straight jacket? Blaming the sun a cynical political exercise? the Asian Ascendancy paying to access to public health care commercial data mining oil peaking speaking crudely the politics of vengeful score-setting digital futures Australia's cheap and nasty "NBN" how's it going Tony? the writing on the wall mass snooping living off the fat conflicting pressures let's tear up the system ‘Give us a break’ the China-Japan dispute no surprises here Nirvana beckons? anti-democratic tendencies the ugly Australian bad neighbours a gloomy outlook it's politics not economics corporate power stop the boats that good ole drip feed the big silence coal boom turning into a bust giving 'em hell? Murdoch's cheek It's not that hard to understand mass-surveillance programmes neo-liberalism + universities Abbott's climate change denialism solar: a disruptive technology The pathway to prosperity? a new bush fire regime? fiddling away The Republican Party is not conservative enough! feeding the chooks the limits of doublespeak consequence-free politics The new Senate drawing the wagons "it's only a mistake" Indonesia must fall into line? eating humble pie a bad economic idea returns GOP hostage-taking IPCC:--Australia's future media management in Fortress Australia unwinding higher education reforms making science the enemy goodbye NBN a cynical reason Things are different now The natural order has been restored Surprise, surprise and so it begins 'Wrecking became the order of the day' Russian/U.S. cooperation? the future is like the past? "consensus" politics---Abbott style Election 2013 Australia's bleak future the hollowness of Australian politics a roadmap of sorts to hell with science more of the same surveillance secrecy on the road locked in a bitter struggle NSW Labor: corrupt the politics of border protection why not in Australia? So they say goodbye to all that? bloody hell shifting politics King Coal's troubled future NSA: the authoritarian strain in US political life live by the sword, die by the sword too little too late? looking back on the 43rd Parliament the energy transitions under way the surveillance state the politics of the welfare state Ken Henry on Australia's economic future The Australian: more nonsense its the dead hand of NSW Labor The Canberra Press Gallery Syria: it's getting complicated where to now? broken dreams surveillance in a digital world Not again Garnaut on after the mining boom Adelaide: urban renewal the coal industry speaks it's called political reform scrutinizing the Catholic Church goodbye Ford two handed politics "a future akin to Europe's present"? 'Safe as Milk': Really? bombast + humbug austerity's siren song the new normal in a post-GFC world? a flawed growth scenario? a 'horror page' in our economic history? the culture wars revisited after the commodity boom? perhaps NDIS--opposing voices invoking the spectre of Greece omissions in the current debate budget pressures: health care educational reform remodelling the welfare state US Senate says no to gun regulation Energy: disruptive technologies a fairer + smarter educational system? goodbye to all that? a post-industrial world whither Labor? Nth Korea: sound and fury "on struggle street" gungo-ho developmentalism on Cyprus second rate visions an energy death spiral? can the ALP reconcile itself? ALP in crisis gossip sheets Republican America Eurozone: grabbing depositors cash press regulation: a do-or-die battle market democracy media reform polls and leadership the limits of antibiotics give me a break urban development on floodplains a siren song Designer suburbs? witch hunting in Australia on western Sydney a dysfunctional Washington Italy divided exploring obesity journo's reflecting on the media a certainty? Labor eats its own much ado about nothing a disturbing picture Here we go again taking a political stand? why we need to bleed the patient tensions in federalism Tasmania at the cross roads America's Broken Dreams Innovation in Australia China's modernity no surprises, really The Coalition's developmentalism political corruption some plain speaking on energy a neo-liberal university over-hyped scandal SA Liberals:-disunity is death the new low-revenue economic environment the light at the end of the tunnel Australia Day woes closing the gap? the political circus is back in town ideas for Abbott Liberals? US: Obama finally acts on gun control Wall Street's rotten core forewarning Big Mining's political agenda contradictions tightening the belts of the poor is blogging dying? upside down politics US: cliff hanging being irrelevant happy holidays the NRA lashes out a sleazy year economic realities Australia is an obese nation the high Australian dollar a flawed media because.... rethinking cities dirty politics economic mythology Steve Keen on the US fiscal cliff a downbeat national mood survival time rolling back green tape Faulkner on the lack of political integrity Energy reform heating up enough Coalition's attack on Gillard escalates Greece: more of the same fossil fuel resistance where's the regional solution? give it a break no to a 2 state solution Murray-Darling Basin: finally, between a rock and a hard place tedious and boring ALP: the NSW factional smell AFR: losing its independence? here we go again Big Coal's wet dream Catholic Church: the rogue defence Treasury's wellbeing framework 'War on Terror': drones China: looking back China: rebalancing US: budget hysteria Energy White Paper US: Presidential election US: myth and denial social democrat woes? Canberra Gaze: changing dynamics US: presidential race is stagnation the new normal? Murray-Darling Basin: a small win the Asian century? South Australia: Labor's Right faction Canberra Gaze: clean energy Big Business wimps tax reform neo-liberalism + the "free market" SA Liberals: changing leaders again? fiscal discipline ACT election.... The AFR's sexist ideology the closure of coal-fired generation? from welfare to workfare contradictory policies you can’t take the money out of politics the missing figures The Canberra Media Gallery has lost it energy: a contested policy space Parliament: Gillard's white hot anger South Australia: renewable energy sqwarking shock jocks the parties of big business? after the mining boom defending political staffers a media performance going negative the global economy slows down Goodbye Gunns The AFR's blind spots The Republican's not yet? Greece: a great depression? the empire lives on stirring the pot The Daily Telegraph's moral outrage where to now? class warfare Soros on Euro crisis that eternal Chinese boom the great free market gaming the energy market Gina Rinehart offers some free advice Tasmania: Forestry not the key economic driver Gonski: first moves by Gillard a return to yesterday? an insider's judgement of Gillard Labor the industrialisation of the Kimberley dental reform, finally something rotten in free market economics Murray-Darling Basin: still negotiating Latham's long lunch with Robert Manne questioning the Murdoch ethos from within after the mining boom the smear merchants Syria: a regional conflict Megalogenis on shock-jock journalism Über-hip Adelaide? Canberra: what about Gonski? Julian Assange: Australia's silence Big Tobacco defeated ignoring the Gillard-bashing rising sea levels: SA gridlock the media loose the plot the media's Olympic coverage the bully boy motif returns power industry profiteering city boom, sprawl and bust? Olympic glory + triumphalism class conflict John B. Cobb on economics Wayne Swan's John Button lecture just click bait? a political moment playing hardball Liberals: energy policy Queensland: slash and burn educational reform Australia: an obese nation in Washington Wall Street rules Syria: Going, but not yet gone? Melbourne: Go Greens Will Ford be next? fossil fuel heaven? sitting atop the wreckage Ken Henry on Australia's two speed economy Sydney = Australia? scrutinising Abbott whistling in the wind changing the work culture blaming the carbon tax for price hikes thinking about politics urban sprawl fear and loathing a cynical politics Europe: towards federation? refugees: the parliamentary impasse News Corp splits in two? AFR: spruiking nuclear power the threat to Murdoch's pay TV interests Abbott: "bigger government means smaller citizens" an archaic power grid Greece: crony capitalism media shakeup media: Fairfax's decline tax reform: ho hum Greece: its going to get tougher an old media debate revisited under pressure getting debt down Eurozone: beyond bank bailouts? carbon pricing not carbon tax Eurozone crisis: Spain doing it tough Queensland: gungho development a scare campaign conserving declining river systems "false" democratic choices those feral beasts fiscal federalism strange times indeed going too far strange tales Greece: a hard road ahead Greece comes to the crossroads News International: the screws turn Greece: the fight against austerity the future of news China to the rescue? media and political power politics as show biz: the routine budget blues surviving by a thread left + right policy hands fawning over Murdoch France at the cross roads Energy poverty Eurozone crisis: Spain media reform? a very Labor sleaze e-publishing "you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” public debate in Australia the decline of liberal democracy Leveson Inquiry: the Murdoch dump begins France: presidential elections 1 ALP: Monday blues The Australian: wrong again neo-liberalism on the attack Afghanistan: the endgame investing in infrastructure rethinking economics rolling back environmental legislation media diversity etc health reform: Medicare locals cleaning the union stables journalism's future budget surplus fetish the politics of electricity Labor's Follies political speculation and so it ends dump the subsidies to the big miners Australian forest industry a different narrative out of sync US: Romney falters taxing the miners the ADF's Skype sex scandal Australia: an independent foreign policy? Fukushima: a year on corporate rule anyone? ALP: where to now? Syria: a wider conflict? Murdoch rises? flicking the switch to vaudeville Rudd challenges Gillard? the digital economy Gonski review Iran: bizarre media fantasies ALP: a self-inflicted madness populist conservatism US style the political fog King Coal not interested in going green junk political theatre policy contradictions poor Greece big energy reshaping capitalism means testing private health insurance why South Australia matters Australia: generating electricity with near-zero emissions? Canberra gaze: summer fever it's more than lazy journalism the new Abbott? sacrifice, and more sacrifice storm in a teacup Australia Day nationalism energy politics 'War on the Internet' event: - Bernard Keane backsliding on pokies reform Republicans divided a global economy SOPA / PIPA goodbye to pokie reform? Reforming Medicare Eurozone's troubles deepen Politics and Television South Australia: a new era? a radically changing internet The Republican circus goodbye Kodak? phrasing-out of fossil fuels? media futures the floating hat Europe: facing a "lost decade"? China: a new epi-centre Pokies reform + social change Boxing Day consumption off shore processing centres? Europe: mass migration political impasse Iraq: What was achieved? an ignorant media? Canberra gaze 'the market' UK: standing alone Lessig: corruption of the US political system financial instability Europe: technocratic rule means? UK says no to Europe UN climate change negotiations: Durban EU reform + German leadership academic capitalism British riots revisited ALP: business-as-usual it's more than Euro wobbles Regulating the mining of coal seam gas the media: a freedom to lie Murray-Darling Basin: environmental rollback nay saying Nurses protest Tony Windsor's muscle a bumpy media road Labor's shrinking base more Europe, not less Europe? Obama's address to the Australian Parliament the media: goodbye self-regulation? US interests are Australia's? Europe: defending the banks questioning the hate campaign against the Gillard Govt News Ltd: paranoia? News Ltd: ideology takes over Berlusconi next? dismantling the future kicking the democratic can down the road Euro Crisis: three scenarios the more you emit, the more subsidies you get. goodbye Qantas hello OneAsia Europe: an effective economic strategy? Qantas: lockout Occupy London toxic media brands sweeping problem gambling under the carpet Europe: economic tragedy? seductions everywhere in Melbourne on a photo shoot Crabb on the media The US: the undeserving poor the ending of the neo-liberal period? News Corp on the defensive The Canberra Press Gallery sucks Asylum seekers: the turn to onshore processing the ALP's core problem Greece: bleeding to death? defending the old crying in the wind Republicans as cowboys America needs Jobs Steve Jobs: RIP tax forum it drags on Palestinian statehood GST: no longer a growth tax it's just bad journalism from News Ltd lifting the lid digging up all we can dig the clubs & pubs: fear and loathing Déjà Vu? US: a double dip The euro crisis: spinning out of control? whatever it takes out of the loop a media inquiry 'here I stand' a euro crisis? can the ALP rebuild itself? The Lancet on obesity defending liberty modernity vs terrorism with friends like these food labelling logic 9/11: ten years on doing a deal with Abbott? the decline of the west? a new and democratic Libya? a step backwards? China as a lynch pin? High Court rules on Malaysia asylum deal mapping today's journalism the “too hard, too costly” fear political froth + bubble Libya : what next? Gillard Govt: health reform Australia + the 'Dutch disease' ALP: self-inflicted injury solar power + its opposition a personal note the carnival: nothing is forbidden killer blows? cardboard cutout positions a googled world Tasmania in transition criminalizing the working poor? a dangerous place The Coalition's slash + burn UK: urban riots Aged Care reform loving the punting? Quarry Australia the liberal state in transformation perpetual growth? Wall Street wins again The Australian writes crap US : shaky compromise on debt ceiling defending the need for a media inquiry Rann Government: goodby Mike? liberalism v community America today big whingeing retailers Anders Behring Brevik's cultural conservatism deficit hawks News Ltd: a bully boy culture orthodox + complementary healthcare restructuring public education health inequalities blocking a media inquiry the hacks defend the Murdochs EU: heading towards the rocks? Keating enters the carbon debate News International: a trainwreck confession time at News Ltd Murdoch's retreat political hubris UK: corruption in public life carbon tax: going slow carbon tax: ALP's neck on line black, brown, green Murdoch's ideology Murdoch's way energy politics political balance: a coalition An endless war on terror? financial crises IPA: slips up? Greece: a democratic deficit mass deception carbon tax deal: more brown than green? triangulation Greece + the EU green growth The Canberra Press Gallery: one year on newspapers: decline and influence NBN: a long time coming addressing the energy problem oceans in a bad way Medicare locals + health care old King Coal AfPak: some background newspapers: a digital future? "the will of the parliament" `lost their way'? Greece: the crisis deepens global 'weirding' pokie reform IPA : say no to slow food ALP: Faulkner's call for reform grid parity for solar soon? SA: 2011 Budget Libya: roadmap for peace? The Australian to go behind a paywall Murray-Darling Basin: communities first austerity economics a regional solution? urban renewal mental illness Afghanistan: graveyard of empires rumbles in the Eurozone crunch time in energy Garnaut Review 2011 side show alley US: economic woes playing the cards badly the chicken hawks Murray-Darling basin: water reform? on modern politics a semblance of action The Critical Decade the National Security and Surveillance State the new urbanism Turnbull on climate change the decline of journalism Liberals side with Big Tobacco? poor Greece Pakistan's tightrope "Stop the boats" Religious instruction in public schools destabilising the elected government BHP Billiton: lets go nuclear social democracy: on the defensive 2011: Big Picture politics NBN + cost benefit analyses being blue ALP: in retreat American reactions to Osama bin Laden death the politics of a carbon price conservative speak making progress? Britain: electoral reform Budget politics Tanner on gotcha a media spectacle journalism's future a personal IT moan Guantánamo Bay Anzac Easter Rann Government: dying days? The ALP turns right bringing the media to heel the re-emergence of ‘assimilation’ NSW: environmental rollback Libya: regime change seeking power for its own sake a truce in the timber wars? mandatory limits on gambling News Ltd goes on the defensive whither the ALP? a toxic culture US: not again The Australian's conservatism spilling the beans? kinds of development exclusion Andrew Bolt + the right to free speech pushing the law as far as it will go urban planning: Sydney style intervening in Libya for what reason? political toxicity the politics of austerity economics SA government: spruiking nuclear power NSW: where to for the ALP? question time living in a liberal world ALP: writing the obituary NSW: good riddance to Labor media matters troubled times in the US Liberal interventionism + Libya nuclear power in Australia? Japan nuclear situation: fear or fact? Gillard in America Japan: nuclear crisis history by numbers sleeping rough in Adelaide reduce subsidies to fossil fuel industry greenhouse reform: lie + tax can a rustbelt Adelaide reinvent itself? US: showdowns and shutdowns consumer empowerment? paying homage keeping on trucking public debate in Australia Libya: civil war climate change: the politics US: the politics of deficit Borders SA government: spruiking nuclear power ALP bites the bullet on climate change? Middle East: Qaddafi's end the question of coal junk economics Burchell makes sense on multiculturalism the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions Liberals call the shots health reform: more local control Gillard's art of compromise climate change policy Egypt: post-Mubarak SA: Labor renewal? CoAG and national health reform Egypt: regime change? make the polluters pay for the harm they cause ALP: lacking vision or principle? Al Jazeera: discussion on Egypt economic crises: why? little more needs be said fatism Egypt: Mubarak's violence Tropical Cyclone Yasi Egypt: goodbye Mubarak? politics as usual Obama: anti-government Democrat? Egypt: civil unrest the irony Obama's 2011 State of the Union address Australia Day The Australian's advice to Tasmania Hot pools of money Murdoch + media dominance energy efficiency: a paradox the same old mantra flood insurance it's back to politics austerity politics US + global dominance Obama's Tuscon speech King Coal rules Eurozone: in crisis US: a political culture of paranoia fixing limits for the growth of a city? Queensland floods: Living on the floodplain junk food + shock advertising Sarah Palin's political rhetoric overseas online shopping is "un-Australian"! universities + the neo-liberal state The Australian's hypocrisy Republican Attack Machine Big Ag: delay water reforms US politics: Obama on the ropes? Facebook + social networks Detroit: left to die? austerity politics The Australian: contradications The Australian's hammer two types of media right wing economics sex + censorship US politics: the shift to the right Xmas ALP: all at sea? huh NBN: hostile responses global economy: 'hot money' US: economic recovery? Australia's refugee myths Labor's lament the American media: in the service of power The Australian: our future is conservatism banking reform? The Cancún negotiations the press + democracy WikiLeaks + press freedom ‘turn the boats back’ WikiLeaks: secret diplomacy a divided and hierarchical system of schools WikiLeaks: pressure mounts Swan: “banking competition” Murdoch + iNewspaper a republic of learning Cancún climate summit Health reform: states reneg? WikiLeaks: embassy cables dump The ALP's political malady Labor's gone in Victoria in Melbourne SA Labor: forced to change? Gillard + Co: an uphill struggle from Ireland to Europe Albrechtson's advice to Gillard: go nuclear The Australian: more blah on the NBN the warp + weave of a digital economy poor Ireland Will Hutton: 'fairness' NBN: a turning point The Greens' momentum halted? Murray-Darling Basin: nothing changes a 'post-peak' world? Victoria: Lib/Lab OECD Economic Survey of Australia 2010 G20: Seoul UK: austerity economics NSW Right flexes its muscle Australian conservatism: Gary Johns G20: skating on the surface Australia in the world break up the banks? Tea Party: take the country back NBN: a "magic pudding" a 'Tea Party' in Australia? Obama's got problems Victoria: Labor squeezed? Robert Reich on the US's economic woes US: Republican politics the state of journalism: Crabb's reflections home schooling Obama: on the ropes? Who cares Murray-Darling Basin reform: its war Liberals call for a financial inquiry Wikileaks + whistle-blowing the limits of market liberalism 'starving the beast' The Australian's war on the NBN UK: Cameron's politics of austerity ALP: a war party Water reform: conservatives rise to the occassion neo-liberalism + welfare Conservatism: inequality rules The Australian's view of the Greens Af-Pak The currency wars Afghanistan: are things getting better? Judith Sloan on the Murray-Darling basin plan on Crikey Tony Blair: 'digging down' + 'gripping it' Gillard's folly? a puzzle Murray-Darling Basin: basin plan Albrechtson: Tea Party dreaming a retreat from politics? Labor's free trade hypocrisy ABC: Judith Sloan's attack NBN: cost benefit analysis Afghanistan as a folly Tasmania: a silicon valley? biffo National Broadband Network: backhaul Fox News: Glenn Beck British Labor Party: internal democracy some humour ‘Deficit mania’ now rules an ideas -free zone? BHP Billiton goes green? The Australian's delusions The tea party rolls on Ross Garnaut: mining + the environment SA: the politics of the axe and that's it? Adelaide: urban sprawl US: policy paralysis? regional development + the Australian settlement is regional Australia an economic ghetto? Murdoch's way of doing business goodbye to the dictatorship of the executive the conservative noise machine cranks up minority government + the media US decline + Tea Party gatherings so much spin on political representation What is the role of finance in a good and just society? Tony Windsor's maiden speech yet another fear campaign so much hot air Mark Thompson on Murdoch's media dominance Iraq: what was the point Andrew Wilkie plays a cool hand roads are for cars folks a note on education the fracturing of the body politic troubled by an absence foreboding futures voices from the past in the twilight of a hung parliament towards a hung parliament Election Day politics-as-usual an uneasy Australia? reverse momentum in Canberra T. Abbott on Q+A austerity is prosperity listening to the past? 'horse race' journalism due credit to T. Abbott South Australia: the deficit hawks Coalition going backwards on NBN water politics in a neo-liberal world a soap opera our future's present corporate media spam onward Christian soldiers elephants in the room election scripts + mantras the media: politics v policy Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission Big Oil rules economic myths Labor troubles the election: its about marginal seats the election: smile and look positive Wikileaks: The Afghan War Diary kicking solar yet again Big Ag flexes its muscle Mark Latham on the ALP Canberra watch: Gillard spins her retreat The ABC's 24-hour news channel the emerging population debate has social democracy exhausted itself? Burchell's tedious cliches paying for good journalism federal election called Canberra watch: Gillard's retreat Jonathan Holmes on media bias Big Pharma + academic medicine conservatism in the Christian Church NBN: new service possibilities Australia hesitates Soros on the European economy work, laptops + blackberries Canberra watch: political housekeeping Afghanistan: we are fighting Al Qaeda on "pearls of wisdom" here we go again time for the party to stop Greenspan on climate change Criticism of US counterinsurgency Karl Rove + the Big Miners Canberra watch: dividing the miners Palm Island: CMC Report the econocrats: here we go again Burchill: the blogger's fantasies Daily Show on Barak Obama Afghanistan: McChrystal's counter-insurgency strategy Canberra watch: cutting deals a quick execution Gittens on the media Afghanistan: a fool's errand Telstra accepts the inevitable BP: stonewalls before Congress Israel: things have changed huh? Canberra watch: the mining tax "disaster" journalism, news, democracy Obama on BP oil crisis what's wrong with the political process? undermining democracy trusting BP the Green virus? fossil fuels forever BP: socializing the damage costs Murray-Darling Basin: obstacles to reform Rudd Labor on the nose Burchill's moral decomposition thesis Israel becomes more isolated politics SA style parliamentary supremacy + political corruption the anti-burqa movement end the Gaza blockade public education: looking backwards the corporate backlash food politics BP: oil spill in Gulf of Mexico Liberal Party: papering the contradictions the ongoing digital media revolution the Dubai passports affair an unfolding economic crisis media wars Leunig: lies + truth trashing our digital future Hockey + neo-liberalism political abstraction + practical politics when I lie to you I'm honest and real The Daily Show on BP + oil spill Thai Democracy before and after The Australian's upside down world Coalition: in the spotlight hot rocks indeed Budget 2010: no frills The eurozone's debt crisis UK: a logjam 'enuf said UK election: conservatives surge hysterical miners National Broadband Network looks good a question UK: a minority Conservative government? Rudd/Swan squib on tax reform taxing times UK: politics as usual? squeezing Big Tobacco Rudd's retreat UK: a surveillance society? UK: the "plague-on-all-their-houses mood" Gray on modern conservatism Anzac Day: Why not Kokoda return of the 'dole bludger' a thinking conservative? the political tango of the executive and media The non-existent hand CoAG: health reform UK election: a three way election Canberra gaze: the electoral middle China: the new superpower Brumby = anti-reform Building the Education Revolution: rorts etc newspapers + iPad Petraeus + counterinsurgency Tasmania: power seduces hospital reform: local governance Turnbull moves on Islamophobia a Big Australia the aspirational class Tasmanian election: what now? Abbott on economics broadband blues Ken Henry on water Obama: at war Murdoch's retreat Catholic Church + sexual abuse a novel idea for SA The Australian: the voice of the nation? the politics of health paying nurses to play doctor? Obama + health reform state elections + Canberra Press Gallery the tensions between the US + Israel surface The NBN rolls on SA election: city forgotten Border protection recycled Tasmania: happy and bleeding? retiring early? political spin + media health debate: #2 Canberra gaze: a "political debate" the health debate bubble-driven economic growth? SA: health versus sport local control of health finally, some movement on health reform a draft national curriculum bizarre Garrett: and so it came to pass Sweet on health reform bad ideas Glenn Stevens on the economy Climate change: Wong on adaptation Canberra Gaze: political convergence Tasmania: state election no need to comment Turnbull speaks out Tasmania: river problems in Launceston yeah, but whatta about.... SA: democratic deficit Abbott's green wash economic orthodoxy an election strategy Tony Blair performs Blair at Chilcot the population debate Obama's 2010 State of Union speech the internet's technological shift going to the gym the idea of a mutualised news organisation taking on financial capital Chinese stories funny that America in decline? community cabinet in Adelaide: water is the old political order in decay? Intergenerational Report: Australia to 2050: Future Challenges media conventions a study in contrasts going postmodern? university futures Google and China Liberal circles media: shifting the debate homeless in Australia Adelaide: drifting into a genteel poverty? the medical gaze Murray- Darling Basin: waiting for the new basin-wide plan the ever shifting web a renewables national electricity grid Krugman on US economic woes politics + the good life Google Books using capitalism to save the planet? tough on crime after Copenhagen: the fallout dreams and reality playtime federalism + water Xmas Day: red rose a multipolar world selling out Australia's national interest Copenhagen: politics-as-usual digital magazines + tablets the Copenhagen Accord Greening the Reseve Bank South Australia at COP15 at COP15 Iraq: it was regime change Australia 2.0: from cyber-safety to 'clean feed' economic growth and green innovation Copenhagen: just another political problem? Murray Darling-Basin: blocking water reform Realizing Our Broadband Future beyond retail politics The Drum beats badly Medicare Select Open Government + health reform media: Copenhagen + critical engagement SA: uranium mining in Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary Copenhagen: climate refugees Canberra Gaze: populist conservatism NSW: fighting over the deckchairs Copenhagen and the global commons Obama's Afghanistan strategy If the ETS is scrapped, what then? the politics of climate change Dubai the dream of modernity Hockey's moment in the sun? As in Australia so in the US Twitter + politics Liberals implode Open Australia high drama in Canberra media wars Mike Rann + all that sex The GPRS Afghanistan: a civil war When the US goes to China climate change politics + the media child migration + institutional care urban sprawl fruit loops + talking shops Australia's coasts + climate change Media present is a hybrid of old + new miners wind up the good time spin, again Media140 Sydney revisited a note on Australian conservatism a Liberal Party madness Murdoch: you're stealing my stories journalism + new media a food policy? restoring the River Murray? Media140 Sydney US: "state secrets" and executive immunity Ken Henry: shape of things to come supermarkets, food, health goodby media paternalism "AfPak": time to cut the losses the road to recovery Cubbie Station: farewell the 'Indonesia' solution Northern Territory: a failed jurisdiction? coastal Australia + rising sea levels it needed to be said Australia: a polluter's paradise Coalition defends Telstra Fox News: "fair + balanced" a political sickness the nanny state digital communities white populism in Australia going nowhere fast Libertarianism: refugees + immigration flicking the switch away from vaudeville and so it returns media empires in decline Afghanistan: a classic proxy war ETS: public debate Murdoch's rant Nobel Peace Prize Turnbull: leadership terminal? the legislative sovereignty of Parliament War 2.0: Political Violence & New Media media: inventing the future the politics of interest rates whither health reform? Ballarat + water Ballarat International Foto Biennale taking the hard path social inclusion in SA? goodbye to the media as watchdog Washington Post + social media finance capital rules Quadrant on "the Left" they mine water in SA socialism: a note dreaming California media140 Sydney sydney dust storm Gittens + ecological economics climate heating: UN negotiates behind the headlines Telstra: the strike back "What works" politics Stutchbury on the national broadband network Fairfax: time for a change Afghanistan: Nato losing Skukuza 2009: River Murray Nelson: a farewell to political life climate change: withering in the vineyards Telstra breakup: a gamechanger moral hazard in action National Times Afghanistan: strategy debate policy advice SA: reforming the Legislative Council US health care: reform health reform: primary health care Remembering the past economic fairy tales SA politics: just a memory Beattie on the coal industry Afghanistan: illusions Canberra Gaze: Coalition on economics Melbourne's Docklands + urban renewal democratic renewal + policy formation inevitability of devastating bush fires River Murray: it's climate change not drought Murdoch guns for public broadcasting UN judgment on NT intervention Canberra gaze: Kev + Julia bringing the banks into line ICT: infant industry or bootstrap political fashion? a "blueprint for progress"? US Republicans wind things up urban violence Queensland: Abortion Law Future of Journalism Forum in Adelaide Techport Australia backlash against Obama more Murdoch Canberra gaze: Coalition wedged Cubbie Station: up for sale Skeketee: the politics of health reform spruiking nuclear power Afghanistan: continued war and destruction newspapers resisted the internet 30-year draft Plan for Greater Adelaide America in turmoil crazy people media democratization? Canberra Gaze: national security laws shifting to sustainment indigenous housing: trouble ahead sovereign risk IPA on the national broadband network playing politics Fairfax joins News Ltd: goodbye free goodday sunshine SA: squeaky clean? Malcolm in the middle closing the gap? homegrown terrorism Canberra gaze media futures: going local? SA: The defence state beyond newspapers v bloggers regulating financial markets? polled publics and government the ugly side of the media health reform: hospitals or primary care dodgy vocational education Liberal Rule manufacturing or bust bizarre health reform? unemployed professionals Two China's both sides now media limits on executive government Iran: authoritarian capitalism Afghanistan: the rhetoric the people's kevin intrigue globalisation + book publishing surveillance: some questions China: a rising power moving out of the current crisis more competition in the banking sector G8 + climate change Adelaide Festival Ideas 2009: health journalism, News Ltd style Murray Darling Basin: sad news Iran: within the corridors of power banner private greed reliably creates social good? climate change: doing nothing SA Liberals: leadership tussles a wicked cartoon Indigenous well being economic policy re the recession not news from Iraq to Afghanistan Adelaide Festival of Ideas: 2009 urban water planning changes in migration policy why not close some streets to cars? Canberra gaze Murray-Darling Basin: water theft Iran: more repression NBN + digital economy dodgy documents in SA walkable urban environments after the smoke clears political heat and bluster US health care: reform Detroit: an empire of ruins too much spin? Canberra gaze a symposium on the economic crisis Iran: civil disobedience a national energy policy? Peak oil costello will go Iran: Ahmadinejad clings to power Obama, Israeli settlements, Netanyahu the road to Copenhagen beyond neo-liberalism China makes moves on renewables stall, stall stall Obama's Cairo speech Senator Fielding: a climate change denialist Middle East: two state solution? Canberra gaze: Rudd reshuffle SA Budget 2009 UK Labor: the living dead? honour the final showdown riesling threat comment on the punch digital town squares GM, bankruptcy, renewal Canberra Watch: big on everything distractions Murray River: Twynam water buyback the path to Copenhagen bio security Coalition buys time SA: bikie laws Old Labor fallout from Guantánamo Bay economics of healthcare in America they go hungry Ken Henry, fiscal policy, challenges parasitical bloggers? Coalition backs off increasing retirement age, reducing secondary education China: behind the headlines Pakistan: civil war Coalition flexes its muscles? Carrara college's 30 percent Obama backtracks on torture images Matthew Johns bother Budget 2009 ---good times near whither Australia? goodbye to free online newspapers? budget 2009 unemployment fat cat bounce Fiji Pakistan: wobbles more Turnbull's economic politics civic action Budget forebodings ETS: backflip Defence White Paper: strategic confusions? SA's gravy train? spot the enemy fear global threats budget blues Ian Pilmer: Heaven and Earth cracks in the welfare state? tabloid sensiblities historical memory PJ's asylum seekers Hardie + corporate governance CIA , torture, immunity yet more toxic debt at the UN downturn, ever down after capitalism? banging an old drum BrisConnections + infrastructure development Somali, pirates, war on terrorism Telstra backs off time to negotiate Easter Murray River: a toxic drain finally, decent broadband a multipolar world TVNZ: public broadcasting? calling the shots G20: humour Eco-tourism one of these things cars not people an internet sensation off to NZ governing the economy blacklist bonanza and filtering fun Afghanistan and the media liveable cities + economic crisis toxic assets Anna Canberra gaze public broadcasting in the 21st century AIG: corporate governance The Senate acts Larry Summers on the economic crisis G20: co-ordinated policy the future of capitalism the sluggish state The US in hock the knowledge economy a question about the media ETS: negotiations Higher education: reforms heralded the horrors epochal shifts + economic crisis commenters bad, commentators good Murray-Darling Basin: cooperative federalism? Pakistan wobbles nationality, energy + the global economy media: the amateur returns ETS: design flaws gloomy times moderation Afghanistan on the brink? goodbye Sol black humour socks and jocks Qld, the state Queensland election + populism Afghanistan Canberra watch an auto-industrial society souless globalization it's just a matter of excess A Healthier Future for all Australians: key proposals Hockey's economic message peri-urban development + bushfires after the intervention Rio Tinto on the ropes? health reform more coal fired power stations for Australia? The Australian's conservatism Xenophon stands his ground end of an era? bailing out Wall Street Israel: election living with fire racist laws Obama's sugar hit Victoria: bush fires through a distorted lens Israel's right turn? heat wave an urban lead recovery? The $42billion Nation Building and Jobs Plan Rudd on the global financial crisis Australia's recession a solar future for Australia? the cobwebs of history NSW health: broke solar power Afghanistan: pressure builds China: an economic spectre looms? Coalition moves on climate change the fightback begins Israel's political strategy in Gaza is..... Adelaide's thinkers in residence: Genevieve Bell hard times goodbye Bush a new dawn America’s self-renewal? hope Obama's inauguration thinking of the children trust an economist? "war on terror" A global entertainment industry Gaza, blogs, pictures suburbia They've gone humanitarian relief --Israeli style digital Adelaide waging the info war Quadrant, biotechnology hoax suburban blues Middle East: defeating Hamas Garrett gives Gunns the green light for pulp mill drugs, doctors, disease US: dealing with torture technolitics Israel escalates war welcome back the economic road ahead Frost/Nixon political blogging: a comment Israel: the drums of war beat Conroy has company melting of the ice Benedict XVI on Xmas auto industry in the US Merry Xmas after the stimulus? blogging: a note glog does filtering corporate welfare US: climate change doing infrastructure badly politics as management rights-based entitlement ethic Bradley Review: some comments more broadband blues Australia is not taking climate change seriously university reform White paper on climate change Afghanistan: disaster looms bullies taking the wrong turn associations the downward turn light relief national charter for human rights Poznan: its slow glog green lite Ergas The Howard Years Economists open letter National Security Statement the new custodians of the global economy Fairfax Media: cold winds blowing Canberra watch: water Qantas: some questions chilly economic winds Ergas contra Keynes The Howard Years: episode three Mumbai fallout CoAG: does it deliver? Berg on internet censorship Canberra watch recycling water----Queensland backs off NSW Health: Garling Report a note on combating climate change Go8 on university research the party is over broadband blues Murray-Darling Basin: more bad news what kind of public works? good old days US car industry on the ropes Reserve Bank: financial stability and high growth Reserve Bank: they didn't see it coming giving one pause borrowing our way to growth The Howard Years G20: the power shifts Afghanistan: why? what news? G20: global governance Costa on economics problems in the energy industry avoiding climate change NSW: a tough budget for tough times? internet censorship child care global economic governance Sunday cartoon: indigenous health SA "trim its sails" New Zealand election an independent media in Australia? the start of the downturn US Presidential elections: death of Republican America Murray-Darling Basin: reform movement US: a shift away from conservatism different moods Murdoch on Australia's future a win for the terrorists bad Conroy US---change afoot Canberra gaze greening Canberra? rushing to the shops Republican death throes? avoiding recession? remembering the past: Pax Americana favouring the banks, whilst ..... Republican futures global economic governance water Costa, urban planning Canberra Gaze political blogging the debt overhang political satire: Sarah Palin optimism surges a different form of political reasoning McCain slides and slides granted Keynes et el the illusions of the economists NSW by elections political rhetoric of Rudd + Co credit default swaps market Jon Cleese on Sarah Palin The Washington Post how things have changed ACT elections: Labor slides US decline frightened horses getting things right the standard economic narrative where's the global governance? ever downwards into mythology McCain paddles on reinventing conservatives + democracy as the credit dries up wormless will it be enough? Garnaut national sovereignty as in film so in... Building Australia just reviving financial markets? Arena: the administered state toxic assets adverse events in Australia's public hospitals Senate blocks change to Medicare threshold levy grabbing the water welfare for the rich US bails out Wall Street health reform: looking good Russia's return to great power status Quadrant's myopia standing on the sidelines watching great minds neo-liberal bankruptcy? Senate debates Medicare Ley Surcharge changing nature of the global financial system the more things change turmoil in financial markets Liberals leadership: it changes Sarah Palin impersonated WA: Nationals decide movement at the station The happy industry Institute of Public Affairs: water Costello's memoirs Mark Day trashes blogs Costello speaks Medicare Levy surcharge It's Afghanistan not Iraq now Why the economic gloom? US: financial bailout of Freddie + Fannie NSW: just a basket case Sarah Palin: theocratic politics Mayo by-election, then WA Bloody hell political disintegration in NSW Comedy Central Daily Show US Republicanism: drill, baby, drill educational inequality Melbourne + water Sarah Palin chips fingernail Canberra: solar power Liberals go postmodern in glum times Murray-Darling Basin: more bad news RBA eases monetary policy? a new cold war? Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention Obama on the move bad dogg tough love for public schools blocking privatisation the Clinton moment media woes industry whingeing the big stick approach Turnbull on telly US Presidential election university reform The Australian attacks bloggers again business as usual Babcock + Brown's fall Queensland irrigators Liberal tribulations a democratic dictator? the commodities boom? Bracks Report Greer: indigenous dispossession, sexuality, rage Institute of Public Affairs on liberalism gross mismanagement of water Georgian blowup she would say that, wouldn't she? solar energy + industry protection silly seven Reserve Bank refocuses, somewhat Bradley Review of Higher Education China: the new global power corporate medicine business as usual River Murray: greenwashing early bird.... competition + supermarkets fear and loathing The Australian's trash goodbye Starbucks fat cats Mayo by election Pacific Solution ends political comedy world economy slowing charades and other games machine politics a marriage made in.... creative industries learning to use a Macbook bring out your dead international justice Friday cartoon flippery poor planning Cossie, why? reducing the political costs of reform a coal fired Queensland a time of renewal Washington's "war on terror" The Australian speaks softly, softly a question Rudd wimps development in Adelaide more stuff coming World Youth Day death of a river Nelson on climate change ABC comedy Abbott on conservatism missing the point of blogs G8 the community voice of reason financial turmoil the great moving right show alternative health care law 'n order, SA style ripping into the ABC mission accomplished screams no yawn fuelwatch boo boo assesssing the commentary on climate change still waiting waiting for Garnaut blocking water reform vile people and so it begins so far this week couldn't resist car dominated cities a hot political potato decapitating Mugabe? the farce begins spruiking nuclear power Liberal's double talk on emissions trading? Are GP gatekeepers a historical relic? climate change: costs poor Oz Burchell's attack on political blogs Israeli moves Bush's legacy school bully Indigenous Affairs: emergency intervention Canberra watch green energy equals jobs AMA makes its stand Murray-Darling Basin woes NSW: state of crisis mr popularity Google, thinking, writing Bush's farewell to Europe AMA/Rudd biffo? Babcock and Brown Obamaworld Rudd's car the ugly face of SA Labor Pacific Rim: strategic alliances medical politics backpedalling? federalism today: a note higher oil prices are normality conservatism, teenage bodies, sexuality an ALP ascendency? SA Budget bossy technology avoiding henson Obama's Democratic Nomination Victory Speech health workforce the whacking US Presidential primaries: end game froth and substance Israeli-Palestinian conflict a balance sheet of sorts From Cronulla to Camden money 2.0 being consistent disillusioned another step to emissions trading peak oil folks goodbye Paul Lennon yuk Bill Henson: conservatism as farce petrol + suburban realities Friday humor why subsidise private health insurance A good question Reserve Bank uneasy tuesday nasty scaremongering on health care solar suburbs mental health Israel US policy in Middle East Canberra watch sex slavery in Australia? rhetoric + reality Roxon's health budget disaster Some things blogs can do 2020 Summit, deliberative democracy, media Budget blues, 2008 House of Clinton Canberra: economic narratives cyclone-hit Myanmar informed the limits of health prevention social catastrophe in the 'Pit' Lands Obama's Race Speech Gittens on economic growth Telstra rules? US Presidential primaries: Indiana Iemma strikes out alone nations, incest, psychoanalysis a note on Black Liberation theology The Pentagon’s hidden media hand economic troubles national security Cardinal Pell on human rights Murray-Darling Basin: buy-back Alcopop tax + health prevention stuffed media narratives swimming alone Anzac day edited Australia in a globalized world the turn back to coal no tech Can she? 2020 Summit: health 2020 Summit Friday humour Roman Catholics + sex biscuits developers global economic crisis NZ: climate change the blinding obvious going to NZ 2020 Summit: future thinking Iraq: the surge falters the coming economic downturn the classic politics of the Murray Rudd's diplomatic talk nine homeless pirates regulating global financial markets industry protection + innovation 2020 Summit: democracy NSW: opposing reform on climate change telecommunications: twists and turns China's intellectual life no worries mate digital economy and innovation SA's expansion of Olympic Dam River Murray and political spin China's heavy Tibetan hand? Mr Rudd goes to Washington Williams on federalism blog to book stealing things Evaluating CoAG reforms CoAG + water: limits of co-operative federalism CoAG + health reform hedge fund love in Rudd Labor: thin policy? Garnaut: addressing climate change a sobering thought where have all the good times gone Albrechtson's wilful confusions Heat wave + water The Australian's hypocrisy China's rule in Tibet the charms of Wikipedia voting economic push and pull Finance capital's crisis immigration + national security gc scooterererers about economists The Three Trillion Dollar War Rudd Labor, health reform, modernization medical self-regulation has failed a hard landing acoming? political sleaze Gaza matters a voice from the past Latham on Rudd Government opposition US Presidential Primaries: Ohio/Texas Ken Henry on water inflation woes Burchell's Rubicon monetary policy as a sledgehammer corruption, NSW style Rudd's 2020 Summit health in the headlines access US Presidential primaries: West Wing William F. Buckley RIP Conservatives in cloud cuckoo land rain, water plans, Murray-Darling Basin digitally depraved health reform The BCA speaks coal industry's future Festival time in "solar city" Adelaide Ross Garnaut on climate change universities + the 'education revolution' dennis the peaceful bloc by bloc governing inflation US Presidential Primaries: Wisconsin water flows in the Murray-Darling Basin in one day conservatives rewrite history at Howard's end fighting terrorists in Afghanistan Saunders on capitalism and happiness money markets' bubbles more sorry business bad words Canberra watch living with sharia law? from sorry to reparation the elephant in the room US Presidential Campaign: After super Tuesday The Australian: water politics Victoria Police: corruption Paul Keating's Redfern speech adjusting history Canberra watch hospital reform a new governance style turrning the screw US Presidential Campaign: Super Tuesday Goodbye Mitsubishi, hello knowledge economy? the demons of rationality Microsoft + the Internet talk fest or deliberative democracy? Adelaide, a backwater Afghanistan sorry donnelly and the dog hospital care: pinpointing the problems US Presidential Campaign: Florida Gitten's on the economic troubles Bush: State of Union 2008 Gaza: a prison US Presidential campaign: South Carolina Australia Day hole in the wall a world class education for all? inflation woes + Goldilocks explaining the crisis in financial markets Dr. Pangloss genuflects to the free market a two tiered health system? national broadband strategy., war on inflation Is the Australian mainstream socially conservative? Fox + Forkum adieu saturation point its more than a slowdown folks offline bogeymen and fairy tales US Presidential campaign: Michigan crunch time at Citigroup are we there yet? some environmental initiatives things look bad in the US River Murray turning toxic Bush to the rescue Post Election Action consequences celebrity and fluoride the limits of political power Bush in the Middle East Stiglitz on the global economy US Presidential campaign: New Hampshire Senate industry handout? Washington reneges the new reformers US Presidential campaign: Iowa Noel Pearson's reform plan Peggy Noonan's junk commentary US: political realities New Years Eve/Day the imperial presidency revisited tidy town Canberra watch: new directions? total strangers Pakistan: more turmoil let the good times roll suburban happiness US Republicanism, fascism and executive dominance Xmas day Religion, public life, postmodern shopfest Sunday cartoon US Presidential campaign An Xmas card CoAG: the workhorse of the nation? choking on our own prosperity? tall poppies CoAG + health reform 'winning' in Iraq means.... an economic healing process? climate change: after Bali neo-con tales out of season checks and balances revisited conflicting messages justice in Queensland beyond tomorrow Nauru Modern Labor Agriculture and Climate Change education crunch adapting to climate change Post Election Blues Treachery defined scary things UN conference now under way in Bali remembrance meetings, more meetings pathway to reform crash and burn Bernie Banton: RIP recession anyone? political ambiguity whither Australia and so it goes Labor on Social Inclusion mental health crisis stories for grown ups Life Beyond The Election that sinking feeling Where's Costello when needed? who do you trust? the poverty of Australian conservatism troubles ahead for some politics viewed through television a cautionary tale Regional Partnership Program conundrum a personal impression morale central a lighter moment being other people Treatment of Australians and Refugees. QLD: indigenous development v wild river protection RBA: inflationary pressures build another skill shortage campaign launches Victoria: the smell of police corruption profiling swinging voters what ad campaign? How Sick My Country beyond economic election twitter crunch time approaches Coles: time for a change the other Marx RBA increases interest rates bombing Iran? Military Colleges Pakistan and the war on terror the week after last week me-too TAFE by passed missing in action thinking about neo-liberalism, badly pork poverty health reform tax cuts v better health care old media climate change : ALP blinks Walter Lippman on media corruption electoral horrors nuclear power Costello's Tsunami conservative eh? bling oil and war the weight of public opinion an inflation nail in Lib's coffin an "enduring relationship" Climate change: rhetoric+reality an education revolution? oil or gas exploration in Antarctica after one week public hospitals in crisis generation shmeneration eavesdropping Dirty tricks? economic prosperity + anxiety Howard haters + Monica Dux Budget--ooops tax cuts media + politics Captain Whacky? History 101 caretaker mode that old chestnut Friedman, AWA's, economic freedom Afghanistan: six years on wither the Liberals? democracy vs ? Paul Kelly blasts intellectuals health reform: John Dwyer on dog whistling Gunns pulp mill AWA's unfair Climate Change report Gittins takes a punt the electoral politics of health Rudd+centralization of power Myanmar: popular revolt is economic the media is a business political cartooning enough already good governance climate change not drought economic smoke and mirrors education gone missing: OECD Report Howard's backflip on energy Will the US dollar decline? adverse events in Victorian hospitals Adelaide: water crisis possible possibles cheering on financial capitalism? Speaker on the nose political passion picking on Julia media: adaptingt to change Alan Greenspan on global capitalism from patient to consumer Meta Cartoon and Quote Canberra watch: it's a shambles the evil Rudd The Australian: red in tooth and claw The media strikes selling the Iraq war in Washington the nongs debating health care? After APEC--what? Hillary Clinton: interactivity or falseness? Workchoices: street advert Howard: tide's flowing out President Bush in Australia Adelaide + water shortages APEC's relevance Bush's surge what a difference a poll makes ALP shifts health focus to primary care APEC, Howard's vision, climate change alien reptiles at APEC APEC: going green? personal ambition Pax Americana in the Middle East Friday humour big target strategy Health reform: first steps? pulp mills and political cynicism bending in the wind Health system + adverse events Business Council on education their own devices editing Wikipedia Gunn's pulp mill A Mussolini from Manuka? Michael E. Porter on health care reform Economist woes self sabotage "aspirational nationalism"? fast capitalism mass deception political blogging #3 when panic rules hustling uranium conduct unbecoming Market turmol media insights more Republicans bail out University education: soaring costs double standards Oh Lord, Spuiking for Jesus brand Howard masters of the universe classical liberalism and global financial flows Canberra watch health governance, Howard style back to the past the shock of the Kevin economic turmoil? a wounded Howard celebrating inequality? Sunday cartoon Telstra as bully boy federalism supercharged media +politics Robert Reich in Adelaide Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, journalism liberal interventionism Victoria, reform, federalism ALP: why not some health policies AMA: money talks tough guys Rudd: beyond me tooism ministerial staffing Canberra watch: economic reality Haneef case + legal reason water woes: to the High Court? educational woes housing affordibility The forest wars the war on terror broadens where's the ALP? draconian legislation Canberra watch: 'shit happens' Iraq: Out of the shadows disturbing views Haneef case: anonymous leaking Costello's blues Murdoch's voice Pearson's Cape York reforms spinning the spin Bush's surge + the ALP double talk talkback radio+conservatism Canberra watch The Australian versus the blogs Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: China +pollution the great Australian dream Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: a counter discourse cut 'n run detention without charge Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007:-diversity Australia on the world stage Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: Indigenous Futures #2 Sunday morning humour Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: Digital Ink Good news: Rising house prices Blogging the Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: water An Iraq joke Blogging the Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007 yet another rationale for Iraq Adelaide Festival of Ideas: Elephants & Dragons Adelaide Festival of Ideas: Opening an order of clemency? Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: eat well be well rethinking the war on terror Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: Media moves Republican Justice Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: Indigenous futures Housing: an elusive dream Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2007: Guy Pearse a threat-free Australia? Weekend question: about healthcare political blogging is untrustworthy right? Ken Henry's stool political scepticism creeping authoritarianism? a flawed education policy President Bush: Good v Evil goodbye to all that? "rivers of grog" Gillard on the culture wars talking sense about productivity uranium enrichment, nuclear futures Post Hamas victory in Gaza political frustrations Middle East--resolving conflict Canberra Watch economic prosperity plus Medicine's Working Group + PBS the media's psychosis Tony Blair on the feral beast so much for competition Blogging the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, 2007 US v Russia etc political memories Keating lets rip blowing hot +speaking cool the return of the newspaper? shaking up broadband? power price surge Iran: confrontation The Big Scare John Curtin, empire, WW2. Blair + liberal internationalism medicine's woes Canberra Watch global warming + AFR Gittens on water Barry Jones on education a free ride for energy pollutors? some questions Indigenous health drugs in sport: another miscue miscue carbon trading tricky political moments health care: ALP slips up the penny's dropped a political solution in Iraq Global warming increasing Australia's foreign debt troubles in Gaza end of an era? US leaving Iraq water woes What's good for Telstra is not good... simplistic media rhetoric ground zero politics education mantras Bastard Boys blogging and pro journalists fiscal conservatism? Blair's long goodbye Rudd: equality as skills training? higher education, market freedom, CoAG Costello's 2007 Budget heath: cost containment of PBS? Israel: Australia as cheerleader Private equity: scouring the world for deals seducing middle Australia the politics of wellbeing IR: softening the market's hard edges bureaucrats redesigning the health workforce? a dominate executive netroots: are they forming in Australia? IR, ALP + corporate backlash The ABC's selling of Downer a media campaign harassing the White House ineffectual diplomacy playing catchup with a wedge snap shot of the Middle East ALP: conferences + regulating labour markets between Iran and Afghanistan being an Australian political messages: economic goodies water futures US: Gun control Telstra: gouging the customer neo-con illusions ministerial responsibility+journalism Al Jazeera, Iraq, US occupation Sally Young on media repetition rightwing shock jocks CoAG reform sustainable energy futures Per Capita think tank Afghanistan: more troops CoAG's reform agenda: politics rules? an Australian template for emissions trading? And so it goes ignoring the message Gunns: from Tasmania to Canberra Rudd,Treasury, policymaking Treasury comes clean, finally sidelining Condoleezza Rice Intergenerational Report 2007 blogger's criticism of the Canberra Press Gallery Hicks as political football federal election: protecting coal Workchoices +disciplinary power Soros on Israel, America Iran: just a game of poker? health reform, professional self-regulation, Tony Abbott Costello blues developing Canberra ghost blogs+ dying newspapers investing in broadband Gunns, pulp mills and POPs interest rates + foreign debt is federal Labor trusting Gunns? Ministerial responsibility Future Fund: building a broadband network Google + journalism vs bloggers Gunns, ALP, pulp mill corporate welfare + Gunns negative campaign backfires Howard upbeat on Iraq the nuclear option bubble land negative political campaigning Seymour Hersch: The Redirection Australia from space Peter Cullen at the Brisbane Institute rolling the dice politics for sale? Qantas in a globalised world limits of water restrictions? Scooter Libby + rule of law Questioning Zionism in Australia corruption + the lobby industry accountability in Washington Gittens on the limits of economics defining lefty extremism wobbles, corrections and triggers Political lobbying --Brian Burke style Israel: cracks in the American wall? the hand of history a political firestorm? Barry Jones: truth to power Afghanistan: sobering the denial machine paranoia and politics forever hopeful Pax Americana governing the Murray-Darling Basin Iraq: a changed tune doctors and self-regulation CoAG reform agenda different Jewish voices Beattie's water dreaming political ambition child well being national security political blogging #2 blaming Iran Apocalyptic views public housing in SA a bad hand? Iran: brinkmanship? that close and special relationship the shifting sands of politics the politics of water Turnbull to the rescue? Adelaide & water politics political blogging US Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Iraq hearings Corporate Australia & climate change Israel, Carter, apartheid ratting on the Americans! water development--SA style Sydney: climate change hot spot gambling + happiness SBS goes commercial water politics: more subsidies Adelaide's water future Jimmy Carter in Australia. Greenwash? Mulrunji Doomadgee: reverberations Canberra Watch: water State of the Union: digging a hole ALP: education matters Water crisis in SE Queensland The Australian's irrationality the importance of literacy water is everywhere work + family Baghdad revisited knowledge + economic innovation conservatism, multiculturalism, democracy rationalising irrigated agriculture US's 'interests' in the Middle East water crisis whither social democracy markets, morality, politics political cross dressing stablizing Baghdad higher education at the crossroads Iraq: what next? politics + cricket on Bush's Iraq strategy conservative follies religion and public life bloggers, tutored feelings, gatekeepers Remember David Hicks Jimmy Carter on Palestine Middle East: the strategic map changes a strange thesis The Australian bashes the ABC again goodbye Saddam Water: poor old Adelaide Xmas cheer Bush on Iraq Xmas spirit Xmas political humour poor buggar me aborigine Biomedicine, markets, biopolitics New -look ALP economic forebodings the illusions of the war crowd hot global money on the loose new Arab media voices Justice---Queensland style DLP+ ALP: history reborn Pinochet---good riddance The Australian, global warming & Thomas Kuhn Israel: contrasting views energy compromises the commentariat on ALP renewal Noel Pearson on the ALP's indigenous policy media changes Canberra watch media plays "the blame game" Rumsfeld's Iraq options 'not just an echo' of old Labor? ALP: renewal or not where's Israel Telstra is fair game Canberra watch talking sense on foreign policy ALP--they've got problems digital migration DFAT's negligence whither Lebanon AWB: beyond spin Victorian election 'only a postbox' Living with the Holocaust a neo-con maze false choices in energy deconstructing the global war on terror is neo-conservatism dead? going nuclear Labor woes again victory is no longer an option Milton Friedman The Australian's junk commentary #2 Al Jazeera The Australian's junk commentary soapbox oratory media woes contrasts 21st century federalism Who is listening to Australia on Kyoto? The Reserve Bank's case a sobering moment social democracy brings about banana republic stuff happens Iraq: a change in direction economic troubles Water Summit Bush hobbled or Bush unbound? US mid-term elections: Rove frizzles Desperate Republicans a water crisis governing the boom Victorian state election behind the times Treasury: managing prosperity climate sceptics: pathetic responses waiting for Bush to turn Stern on Stern energy efficiency Jeffrey Sachs on the Stern Review market failure Stern Review: Stiglitz comments Liberal myths economic costs of global warming the tide flows out on the Republican Party Israel turns right US congessional elections The patriarch: Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali another interest rate hike folks crunch time Iraq: the new spin Pacific happenings What if? energy pathways looks like spin media reforms: survival of the fittest questioning drought relief Little Mr echo man media reform: the fallout begins Iraq: the same old song water reform: flaws Costello's folly Iraq: it's getting worse nostalgia Canberra Watch drought=climate change media diversity + journalism educational woes a question Washington woes Telstra spins a new political culture Coonan on media reform Israeli occupation of Gaza The other face of John Howard ALP gears up passive indigenous welfare New Labour confronts its future a barren country Beyond Blair? Iraq: some honesty required as the Darling dries up Blair's last stand economic woes the decline of Crikey SA budget the power equation in Iraq waiting for a techno fix on Greenhouse factionalism Krugman on President Bush and torture citizenship test world trade playing the values game maximizing Presidential power water crisis Christianity vs. Islam infotainment Krugman on economic progress mission creep in Afghanistan "media reform" work-to welfare a cheap shot? Al Gore's argument selling off Medibank Private 9/11: 5th anniversary Questioning 9/11 Queensland elections war narratives freedom of information the Blair era draws to a close the planet is going to get hotter Steve Irwin--in memoriam Iraq: controlling information a cynical moment fighting climate change which way Labor? Steyn on the decline of the West Solar cities 'keeping the bastards honest' control orders in Australia comment on Iraq Telstra: a mess the changing face of politics water woes in Queensland neoliberalism and the media building a world class telecommunications network questioning the media carbon trading therapeutic cloning Beattie still rules wither the Israeli Right? economic temptation ALP: old strategy in play the UN in Lebanon Mark Steyn's question airport security a history summit in Canberra on Israeli identity destroying nascent Arab democracy ACCC on media diversity rethinking energy? war continues? echoing Washington Question mark over the Liberal Party the ALP's silence on Lebanon Pat Buchanan on the Israeli blitz of Lebanon Canberra Watch Jewish diaspora UN draft resolution Telstra pulls the plug a ceasefire? the economy: a question reality dawns in Washington different perspectives a Judaic critique of Israel economic reform, foreign debt, health an image war OECD's reform agenda for Australia obesity groundwork for a ceasefire? just asking Condelezza Rice's new Middle East accidental on purpose? a flawed energy policy a media question Israel's war of choice a long war of attrition? Israel's military strategy needs a rethink Telstra v the public interest bigoted conservatism what if? an imperial presidency? Israel's strategy in Gaza Bush's moment listening in on Bush & Blair Howard's energy vision Israel's disproportionate response a regional war? media reforms--yawn CoAG main game Telecommunications--strange commentary Howard and Menzies IPA spins for Telstra endgame the violent invasion of Gaza a media baron new directions? taking control David Flint sings his song obesity, market failure, neo-liberalism Israel: might makes right a lap dog media a shag on a rock US Supreme Court reaffirms the rule of law The Australian's nonsense US trade policy & FTA's media woes & revamps skilled migration loving Australia the decline of the west media changes movement in telecomunications Canberra watch water politics nobbling the Senate Iraq: after Zarqawi from whence we have come the nuclear debate media matters The Israel lobby revisited the new world of work geopolitics & Iran but is it appeasement the market mood darkens flawed labour market policies ALP toughens up an apocalyptic vision citizenship---things are changing, differently here's the nuclear wedge whatever it takes a simple question the impoverished state of politics kissing the American liberal republic goodbye the rise and fall of the middle class undermining the family? It's strange isn't it Iran: regime change spruiking nuclear power #2 liberalism, water, interstate conflicts about American culture water politics: cut and run Spotlight on water politics+political marriages a biased Speaker the task of state government is... the pathway of assimilation the imperial highway to chaos fostering democracy? two peoples a crook story limits of power the nuclear debate bad indigenous governance Fred Argy, inequality, social intervention Wadeye Gillard on politics and health policy Stiglitz on the IMF Immigration: the other side of globalization violence in indigenous communities spruiking nuclear power A living Murray? Australia needs new nuclear power stations? the dark side of a resource boom Iraq: neo-con dreaming emasculating the CIA Defence strategy: old wine in new bottles Republican troubles media fluff the neocon discourse around Iran global imbalances: the blame game Canberra Gaze a diplomatic letter today and tomorrow Canberra awash with cash a ho hum Costello budget? Tony Blair: a dead duck addressing obesity a winter discontent media corruption hard, dirty times It's Australian values and rights Downer's intellectual bankruptcy Galbraith on the new economy Keating: the ALP and economic management Bush administration under seige US v Iran health insurance learning from Indonesia Jakarta Lobby privatizing the internet globalization, inequality, protectionism Anzac quibbles Globalization round 2---offshoring Solomon Islands: what's going on? fairness hollowed out? an American tragedy governing water issues gloomy reading the new economy is.....? global financial imbalances higher education in a globalised world US v.Iran US strategy in the Middle East back to the past Fallout from the SA election keeping politics and commerce separate moving towards monopoly ministerial tall tales Governance & a spooked Whitehouse free trade & protectionism the mask of failure destination Iran the no-nothing Ministers SA--don't expect too much greenness real men go to Tehran broadband in the slow lane my my strange tunes Finally, some progress privatising Medibank Private IR laws: good for families? Stiglitz, globalization, welfare state selling yellowcake and .... Republicans: 'tis the media Blair selling the war in Iraq damaged goods privatisation by stealth the ALP's no no no strategy Israeli elections social policy reform the great persuader selling ministerial access Indonesia's Australia card Tony Blair + liberal interventionism AWB: a good quote India & US nuclear deal beyond Lib-Lab? The US as an empire of bases the evolving US strategy on Iraq strange happenings in Tasmania The ALP finds some courage The White House dreams on critical Israeli voices political differences Media reform--back to the past SA state election: checks & balances US economy on the slippery slope whistling in the wind Israel: Australian debates forging a containment China strategy party politics Media reform: much ado about nothing Iraq:--a Pandora's box a neo-liberal mode of governance SA election: Lib-Lab Iran: on the way to war? nuclear games-US style good news from Iraq SA Election: lost opportunities remembering another time lefty anti-semitism Nuclear Bush religious politics in SA SA Election: the media a political joke observing Canberra Malcolm Turnbull on water: a disappointment Iraq: story doesn't add up current account deficit worsens goings on in federal parliament unhealthy lifestyles double standards some questions? Iraq: order amidst chaos? targeting Muslims NSW ALP struggles questioning medical power Guantanamo Telstra flexes its muscle close Guantanamo Bay SA election a question about housing in Sydney AWB: hard to believe a future economic scenario double standards Crikey:a dissenting voice? ministerial responsibility? political damage hijacking Greeenhouse policy junk food as sin? political crazies biopolitics CoAG: smiles all around Canberra watch: Gillard on health media, conservatives, multiculturalism wither West Papua? 12 cartoons: Tim Blair + Andrew West third tier of government political theatre ministerial responsibility of course they knew catching up political shrills 'one people, One Destiny' medical politics 24 television news a nuclear Iran? some questions electricity system failure in SA bribing the enemy shoddy corporate governance reforming the health care system political renewal? kickbacks, stench, corruption Queensland health #3 hospital deaths: treat them like road deaths addressing climate change a saturday joke political cartoons health reform anyone? hello banana republic Kyoto lite Big Energy's talk fest a flaw in Australia's economic governance rewriting history FTA scepticism America's global hegemony here's hoping big pharma makes its moves summer in the city a future pathway of health reform changing media times Iraq: desired results achieved? rising costs of health care mean... goodbye Packer hello Packer about CAD no worries mate consumerism patiently waiting? Xmas spirit The US v Iran social health atlas of SA a note on Israel Costello's backfoot surveillance in the USA about the media Dollar sweetie? living in bubbles WTO in Hong Kong sedition, the media, Cronulla different perspectives The Australian way the turn of one nation nationalism Kyoto: a step forward wine industry: troubled futures the light at the end of the tunnel Costello's Lucky Country Kyoto Conference rendition--CIA style Costello falters Australian fascism? Queensland health #2 Walkley's & media criticism a low wage Australia? damaged goods junk legisation Queensland health the friends of democracy corrosive effects of the IR legislation How's the ALP travelling? Iraq gone bad the politics of media reform goodbye Dick Cheney? a future challenge for Australian conservatism a bright idea Mike Rann's big policy idea Higher education: market realities The times are a' changing Israeli right factures Bush, China, containment? the pathway to greater inequality the corruption of the Canberra Press Gallery Economists as the high priests tensions in the Washington beltway Telstra: focusing on the customer? Adelaide locked down It's official folks where is the health policy? Gough Whitlam--yesterday's man inside the political machine Andrew Bolt: conservative on the rampage parliamentary tactics fighting executive dominance vindication economic whispers A circuit breaker? anybody read.T.B..these days its called media management three tiered reform The Australian's deception print media decline crying wolf Question Time IR: informed debate? scarry narratives twists and turns a boxed in White House a bit of a pickle--sedition Bush on the ropes and so it begins exiting Iraq media criticism some call it contempt how partisan spin works criticizing the media Iraq--slide into partition? hard times ahead? Two cheers for Malcolm Fraser health: pressure points or system failure? Gittens on economics & the iron cage Treasury on public policy addressing global imbalances IR: the battle for the hearts and minds Keating says it well corruption in high places oh no, not roll back again a never ending race Canberra observed: global imbalances flouting the law of the land a numbing fear health care reform: a suggestion something strange is happening holidays, bombs, suffering China-US relations poor old river Murray Canberra observed Questioning medical dominance going nuclear London calling living the good times Israel: false promises imperial illusions US alliance & blank cheques nuclear proliferation The corruption of the Canberra media media and democracy United Nations reform truth telling in politics Welcome to executive dominance welfare to work & disability loose talk indeed The welfare state is the problem energy bull networks of surveillance 'balancing and blending'? folly and surreality in New Orleans Telstra fallout White House under siege the shining glory of great deeds New Orleans: limits of neo-liberalism It's on--destabilization Iraq: beyond the myths after the media frenzy American nationalism Israel: how much change is real change? China: new regional dynamics? Iraq: close to civil war limits of empire ditching liberal pluralism rhetoric and reality reconnecting Israel:different perspectives when does the reform start? Queensland backlash Israel: too soon for celebration? hotwiring the country something lacking cutting deals scaremongering Tony Abbott on health reform more sound than fury? reconnecting a little tale strangely told IR legislation no respect for the law Queensland Health Australia as a low wage economy? yep question mark over NSW ALP a historic moment? Iraq: the political process continues to go positively politics as administration Health: unions rule don't you know media: changes on the way a seismic economic shift? condemning multiculturalism Iraq & Iran as allies? not really insider trading a little insight it's like a movie script Israel divided Crikey on the Palmer Report a new non-liberal world dawns Israel: thinking differently in Australia Palmer Report--buck stops where? a different narrative tales of hope, freedom and prosperity G8: bye bye? political corruption SA #2 Muslim diaspora a digitalized Adelaide Festival of Ideas (2005)? London bombings+ war on terror London bombs & G8 capital/labour Canberra bureaucracy's failure shifting political ground a deflating housing bubble means.... Paul Kelly on the ALP's crisis Bush's Fort Bragg Speech media & democracy Israel: settlers vs the state political truth telling Lobbyists and Democracy there's bile and there's bile Israel: settlers rebel dumbing down higher education? rhetorical flourishes Europe: modernize or die Is the ALP big on hope? Canberra observed #3 a question mark over the ALP media diversity? yes minister nuclear power over the top checking back in water reform one step forward and... unbecoming human what's the problem politics of climate change Canberra observed#2 the new radical centre? work, work, work SA's corruption trial media politics: burying liberalism looking the other way and so it starts Canberra observed by Laura Tingle is the game being played? where's the media critique? Deep Throat health reform confrontational reform SA Budget 2005-06 Telstra's joke incarceration is the game deregulating the labour market it makes sense changing times Queensland medical crisis ABC on journalism v blogging perspectives on global economic imbalances waiting for the rains Governing Sydney town centralism buried budget cuts Mr Galloway Goes To Washington Forum on the media yesterday's man a big dry questionable tactics the media's budget Costello's budget politics Costello's Budget no.10 Victoria's green wash? Federal budget tensions going going.... only a god can save us now the media: democracy's watchdogs? getting down to the wire democracy in Iraq disengaging from Gaza? the australian connection modernist water dreaming an old moderrnist dream returns Is the ALP Right going feral? not a good idea where's the economic analysis? Anzac Remembrance Israel: The Wall Israeli disengagement it's not just dodgy backs hard road ahead debating global imbalances These guys have got problems Treasury is running health policy what is going on? global economic imbalances clever Iran, energy, geopolitics Medicare rorting privatisation US-style. public health & Treasury's hand Murdoch, media, internet Israel: stirring the pot Australian nationalism? Productivity Commision & health care reform UK: Dog whistle politics Australian federalism: dumping Menzies? Federalism: the biff deepens booms & skills shortages saying no no no to Kyoto World Bank: decline of $US health, federalism, politics wait and see Gruen on economic policy state of exception? crisis, politics & sex abuse- SA style Beazley on economic reform Costello under fire Costello's welfare-to-work reform brief Garnaut on economic reform Cancer: treatment pathways just a thought... living high on the hog? easter politics GST, federalism, state bashing The politics of medicine in the US the poverty of ethical thinking easing mandatory detention? Cancer Inquiry#3: some what ifs none are so blind as .... Israel: more settlement expansion redesigning the telco market the life and times of.... shifts in the mediascape anti-terrorism & the national security state the men from the government A crisis of legitimacy tabloid politics where's the greens? Electricity: here we go again After June 2005: co-operative federalism? Telstra: holding the line? strange economic thinking deconstructing the US foreign policy narrative meanwhile in London the winds of political change blow as... automatic markets the skills crisis Media and critical thinking economic wisdom as a fashion welfare-to-work Health care-American Style dubious economic reasoning the poverty of economics things are sliding, badly security v freedom The economy: plugging the gaps The Financial Review and the Governor Big changes on the way How to sort Iran out Treasury comes clean Iraq: a religious modernity? pork barrel as a political attack weapon Iraq: Australian contradictions Telstra, competition and regulation secrets & lies #2 Health reform: doctors rule Economic Reform: RBA style secrets and lies? work and politics cancer: cures and healing media and democracy going nuclear The politics of President Bush's Budget fostering a deliberative democracy Cancer, politics, ecology peace in our time? beware the reborn centralists mental health beyond economic atmospherics strangers in our midst I'm reading spreading democracy around the world The ALP's glimmer twins President Bush's SOU Speech the wind is blowing one way living in a neocon world Mark Steyn's twisted truth changes in world economy currency disputes Iraq: democratic gamble Language and death ALP: advice galore Auschwitz & Remembrance Andrew Sullivan on torture Australia Day Iraq: no water ALP: 'a God-awful shambles' Democracy, Iraq-style Israel: peace circle the religious right US: Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearings speaking the truth painting the town red ALP: executions & stasis the circus continues leaving Iraq storm clouds Tsunami & giving Israel: new narratives? the return of the self same freedom of sorts Bush fires Iraq: elections Distributed Denial of Service attacks a failure to lend a hand being ground down Tsunami Relief: UN v US Relief for tsunami-ravaged nations livelihoods gone band aids & vaccines Tsunami #8 in memoriam the politics of aid todays quote Tsunami#5 lending a hand Tsunami#5:good news Tsunami#4 Aceh tsunami#3: priorities Tsunami disaster #2 comment spam Wal-Mart a historical eye Tsunami disaster Gunns v Greens#3 Santa's complaint Xmas in Iraq God's commands the new crusade wishful thinking Gunns v Greens#2 Xmas cheer voice of the past political portraits a telling quote anti-democracy tendencies mutual obligation#2 mutual obligation economic critique global economy economy not looking good the ways of empire media, politics, democracy passive observers electricity problems pork-barrelling Iraq: time to go? James Hardies: corporate governance Ukraine: power politics Israel: Disturbing images Costello's spin the long march first indications Janine Haines: in memoriam Greenhouse sceptics Israel, settlements, research institutes ALP: bloodletting China puts US in its place Stiglitz on the US economy mix 'n shake ALP: turn right Greenspan on global economy Iraq: photos + political secrets ALP: torn 'n frayed hard policies--Iran? collateral damage? ALP: economic creditionals approaching the tipping point squeezing Falluja political blues in memorian ghost of the 1960s economics & politics Israel: shouting match Iraq: more bombs watching the media democratic matters in la la land $U.S. in a tailspin? US: the counter enlightenment biopolitics it's Bush? US Election: a divided nation US Election: notes US: last days Iraq: a judgement Reality dawns a quote Israel: out of Gaza the guardians Anti-Semitism doing the Ali shuffle partisan economics ALP: a slow decay? US elections US: conservatism a note on water urban water reform a partisan media fissures factions families indeed US: The twin deficits US: 3rd Presidential Debate yep Troubled times in Israel staying in tune US: 2nd Presidential Debate singing the blues aftermath Election day Election Eve: it's the economy confirmation The trees are the winners Tasmanian forests Onward the Greens Iraq: civil war in the land of the free behind appearances: fundamentalism Medicare Gold? Energy crisis & the media federalism=centralism? let the good times roll Bush at the UN family first surfaces regional development "campaign posters" Fortress Australia biff & forests Iraq: going backwards 3 puzzles Forests & cynicism? talking sense rings around Labor water water water too much about nothing much a long shadow ugly Australians blowback & neocons economic mismangement? reversals Health: negating ALP advantage Tasmanian forests US Republican Convention political contrasts barren years ahead? Murdoch's Green-bashing shift in power Election: Gunning Costello Election day 2: figures US: Presidential campaign Iraq: Najaf saved Israel: Sharon's game plan Health: ALP collapses? yeah goodbye water dreaming Election Campaign#3 Iraq: Najaf bored Media: its failure a note on water back in town on the road A green senate? campaign nonsense contrasts Liberalism & national security FTA: Gittens on the money Maybe damaging market competition Iraq: reverberations behind the surfaces a broadband future? things stall Free Trade: Intellectual Property? Free Trade: strange pathways it's a done deal finding the rhythm US Democratic Convention Federal election: WA FTA: speaking out same old song Reality television the Latham face of Labor Federal Election: its close SA: moving to the right no political courage Robert Menzies: the rule of law strange views chaos and tyranny cleanskins? a funny ole business prudential statecraft? Nip 'n tuck in time Kyoto: Australia's last stand The Australian's politics Medicare: a problem Israel in the docks Militarization of space US beats up ALP again it takes a blackout to see the light The politics of smear what if? the rule of law Robert Menzies a simple truth prejudice strange happenings remember the illusions A new Iraq born? CoAG & Water in 2004 living with the squeeze Israel: racism Meanwhile.... endangered species yeah if I had the time Energy market Israel: some thoughts Iraq: it gets worse do you hear the echo? strange happenings Reinventing the energy wheel something to chew over Energy: the future is coal Farewell Iraq: caged by fear burning the midnight oil US/Australia alliance plain bad politics political celebrity FTA: selling Australia short little Johnny OPEC we wish them well on how to mess things up Energy: threadbare policy Gotcha Iraq: exit strategy Labor Dreaming Rann Government Budget Iraq: media and democracy Iraq: fogging the distinctions Gangland: It's also the police Water and urban life Israel: a few thoughts so much wasted blood Mitsubishi: writing is on the wall a political celebration Free trade: PBS undermined Gaza: blood flows like in Lebanon post-budget blues Nick Berg video: text Iraq: going according to plan? The Beheading: tit for tat? spinning out of control spinning on spin the feel-good Budget contrasts politics as showbiz the pictures from Abu Ghraib Budget choices tired but.... today's puzzle it's the media's fault Mitsubishi: bad signs the tide keeps flowing out Israel: national identity dead meat Sugar: let's pull the plug Mitsubishi: let the factory close? the light at the end of the tunnel Mitsubushi: a mess contradictions Iraq: bodies everywhere SA: Mitsubishi woes Health: reform on the way? coffee and papers when news isn't news SA: power crisis political debate lobby groups ATSIC: end of an era blogging in a media-driven culture Israel: a two state solution? vigorous competition putrefaction in the intelligence body we will not cut 'n run historical footsteps Internet: lousy service Murdock quits Australia it's an upside down world ' Iraq: it is civil war Iraq: civil war brewing? Ironbar cracks again Iraq: cut and run Palestine: Darkening horizons? Parliament & the media Climate Change Abuse of government power Treasury: slipping up on the job? He's an embarrasment Energy Policy: it's a tussle Israel: any common ground? standard operating procedure it's not his role Free trade and Media Dining with death Telstra: anti-competitive conduct hope she wins Sunday Cartoon Madrid bombings no blank cheques The campaign trail: looks like veneer to me blowback? at the pub: the politics of security Tasmania: liberal corporatism Sunday cartoon Iraq: Interim Basic Law Tasmania: senseless economics John Pilger on Iraq bad blood a small step a summing up ours is better than theirs Is Israel a theocracy? Media & public policy So true Federal election ....it is possible that... Broadband Islam and the Other The Israeli wall Iraq war: some sense election issues the decay of public language cracks in the health system? the politics of power Tim Blair's darned sock populism divided It's dated but I 'like it' Saturday Cartoon: The Canberra bubble Overheating: That is the news Political atmospherics Iraq Telstra's political folly US elections: The slanging match starts Health: the politics of fear Free Trade: A sense of betrayal Sunday cartoon Saturday Cartoon River Murray & the IPA National politics: the ground is changing Senate: Medicare Plus the bio-security state Free trade: its all go go blow torches and human bellies Sunday cartoon the unmaking of a PM Media: lapdogs, watch dogs, attack dogs too good to pass by Energy: botched attempts Queensland: a puzzle oh my my Media wars BBC & deep conflicts Latham: Free economy, strong state a changing political landscape popping champagne corks ALP Conference Rather onesided the way the cookie crumbles truth in politics Australia Day: some puzzles Sunday cartoon Tis a shame Free trade: Deadlocked? Conservative America: snake oil US Presidential elections Free trade: its integration Energy: policy vacuum rolling into elections Democracy in Iraq more of the same fantasy & reality Victoria leds the way Iran: democratic turning point? boys and their toys climate change policy in Australia just a smokescreen On holiday Native Forests: more debate Native Forests: The logging debate continues Siding with the animals too its show biz managing a "power crisis" Foreign policy: Howard's use by date Sunday Cartoon: Endless Highway suburban realities a new tourist spot Media: the big lack The man's confused wish fulfilment or reality something here? Free trade & the ALP Who do you trust? Did you wonder too? Xmas Day ? over Queensland Greens Israel: upping the ante An Xmas thought: porn is hip Lefty magazines need to lift their game Selling the imperial presidency Sunday's Cartoon Saturday Cartoon SA health politics: The Advertiser Cuts through the hype SA politics: health crisis Kyoto: achieving little? Free Trade Agreement: PBS SA politics: more spin it's much ado about nothing its red tape not free markets raises a smile It's not economics, its ideology caring for our forests Iraq: a chapter ends Sunday Cartoon Saturday Cartoon Energy: the future is market competition ecological vandalism After the interest rate rises some light reading there's evil in that big place on the hill It's never too late to say goodbye Sunday Cartoon Saturday Cartoon Iraq: democratic elections Free trade: Two Comments Watching the Senate Senate deal making Deals on higher education Free Trade And then there was one And then there were two chomping away at Palestine Saturday Cartoon its not fair but.... painful times for social democracy the politics of medicare what should have been said Electricity: whose pocketing the benefits? free trade & national culture Tides and rocks shoddy service in the information economy Saturday Cartoon US hegemony under challenge Observa on the electricity crisis A C21 Australia Medicare speaking truth More on River Murray Iraq war it's Indonesia's problem you know Saturday's cartoon Returning water to the River Murray Iraq: US Exit Strategy just get used to it Trying to make sense of..... slipping behind yet again Sunday Cartoon Saturday Cartoon Arguing about free trade Iraq: an exit strategy what does it say Peace prizes for Palestinians the politics of asylum seekers Anti-Spam free trade and water a swamp that needs to be drained China & Japan or China v Japan? Electricity: pointing the finger where Sunday Cartoon Saturday Cartoon a defining political moment its easy to bring down the Internet screwing the customer? Telstra/environment Baghdad bombings Blog/Comment spam a dud deal? Saturday Cartoon It's the economy stupid transgressing stage managed politics yawn television selling the imperial president jobs jobs jobs=cheap labour Seaside thoughts Sunday Cartoon Saturday Cartoon Australia's promotion Turmoil in academia so much for a flutter US strategy in the Middle East #2 US strategy in the Middle East Responses to Bali when a fence is a wall Boomtime in SA? Sunday Cartoon Saturday cartoon Comments on Senate Reform just a few porkies Senate Reform a new political wind blows Where to now? Just a one off? money talks Sunday cartoon Nothing new here Saturday Cartoon Higher education: another perspective Electricity Blackouts & the Internet a politically charged atmosphere China Celebrates The Plame Affair Arab intellectual debates something different required Water politics Wagons circle around White House? conservative vitriol Weekend cartoon For Edward Said Water politics US weak dollar just a tiff governing the global economy Too clever by half? Onward to the UN Hutton Inquiry It's political spin Free trade? a good step Weekend Cartoon beyond silence Iraq and Federalism Michael Walzer Interview University reform on the ropes light blogging oh yeah A great read I couldn't agree more its subsidies by another name circles of violence Sunday cartoon Weekend cartoon Washington Beltway your time is up Snowtown: The dark side of Adelaide Water politics the image of globalization this is about right We are in charge here I just couldn't resist repairing bridges? Weekend Cartoon Israel/Palestine: a good account Bush & the American economy Iraq & US diplomacy Iraq: brief update where have all the real jobs gone? Different pathways to the future supping with the devil Water wars: its written in the wetlands Iraq: more violence right hand left hand Avoiding New York-style power failure Iraq: the lowdown would you trust a journalist? Water: three legged reform Iraq: war is needed now softening the sharp edges Water reform: its only a tiny step Iraq: fighting the big one Don't you worry about that Afghanistan: little reconstruction happening Iraq: views from inside Hocus pocus think tanks & water politics Iraq: The New Order Cartoon Madam, the charge is treason thoughts on Pauline Hanson here's a thought educational reform bit of a round up Iraq: from low level insurgency to? A half smart Rann Government Coral reefs under threat Iraq: opposition to US unites The green touch when the lights go out Saturday's Cartoon Iraq: behind the violence dirty electricity markets Trash at the Centre for Independent Studies The West holding the line: two views in for the long haul? Water politics and faith enter the market A note on Aboriginal self-help just a few blind spots wielding racism Tim Blair watch Sunday's Arab cartoon Saturday's Australian Cartoon Indonesia: Marriott Hotel bombing it's oh so thin interesting reads free trade? things are warming up anti-Americanism Afghanistan: lack of law and order no nuances here ABC: the debate continues OZ Foregn Policy: Debate Continues says it well a note on Blair, Kelly & the BBC Electricity market Iraq: nice if this happened in OZ The wall is a problem yuk & apologies to Tim Blair a part time uni lurching to a Mad Max world tough choices on the nose media wars the lie of the land Another nail in the coffin Polemics: conservative fallout Govt v Public Broadcaster trying to do a sneer Iraq: How about this? a note on academia nice to see some sense pardon me Reality dawns Governing the country "Fixing" the Murray The US/Israeli tango swings and roundabouts Foreign policy matters a husk of its former self how things turn around its the ministerial staff hard not to agree Trying to implode North Korea Yet another war to fight Tim Blair Watch a bit of a vacuum I suspected as much but no one told me That white picket fence a man of constant compassion easy solutions? a different voice Strategic shifts in OZ foreign policy best to ignore Discontent with electricity Green Debate Conservative Commentary Iraqi troubles Telstra: the right idea spin & publicity on family/work more good news blocking 'development-at-all-costs' a catechism of doom? hit and run for fun Tim Blair watch designed for the cameras one to avoid? Foreign Policy in the Age of Terrorism a bit of a rant Seeing Iraq through the prism of Vietnam the fog of war? Paleocons and neocons a light moment Oz Ambassador takes tea in Iraq well, well, well Selling the Iraqi's short More on the ASIO Bill after the corruption in trust we place our faith politics and aesthetics some recent history ASIO Bill Senate does its job more of the same Senate Debate Return of the self-same user pays? Harradine's feather duster Foreign policy: Realists v Idealists media ownership and digital democracy cross-media ownership restrictions Miranda's folly Iraqi fallout Media Ownership: shooting from the hip At last speaking plainly lying or exaggeration? More myths in the culture wars a dash of cold water the poverty of journalism The ALP & policy formation The deck chair reshuffles critics are complainers and so it goes on Accountability just a few remnants? The new CSIRO A long time coming So much for competition question mark over wine industry That white picket fence says it all the mask of naivety This needs to be said misleading the nation into war. Reforming the Senate shuffling away from the Reithian past the pressure builds a little fissure a joke a misguided boy more than a photo-op? Cracking the whip Cracks in the mirror the culture of the Liberal Party definitely not for us No. NO. Never! it only takes a little twist Aftershocks continue in Israel Downer's 'last' stand? If it works don't fix it stamping on the feds toes cultural & media politics Life imitates the movies? ABC as democracy's watchdog. Driving forward on new policy ideas? Cloud cuckoo land Its happening again sigh Howard's Way SA's romance with the money men Corporate governance A tricky fellow think tanks needed Arc of crisis beyond boring Israeli occupation Iraq: Democracy postponed travelling with the neocons US lines up Iran blood on Indonesian tracks Defending the Senate a little bit of political courage Little needs to be said corporate governance Middle East: is the die cast? comings and goings connecting the nation on a lighter note One for the Blairites The crackdown on Aceh a good idea A roadmap to where ....and SA is doing what? Woomera+ABC Is this the case? Tim Blair watch Commercializing universities A shooting star? philosophy behind Costello budget oh Crikey Return to the past? Australian press Iraq: the spin Trust me says Pete The Budget: it whimps... but Digital Adelaide revisited Neocons & US regime change in Iraq The G.G. & dirty hands Digital Adelaide high tech hubs We've heard it all before Easing back into things On holidays poor old ABC Market morality Reality check River Murray fiction continues The Australian: a neo-con flagship good ole capitalism Being modern There's something going on here signs of a civilization ain't going nowhere Sunshine and shadows University reform Back to the future Debating Oz foreign policy trouble ahead And so the war continues returning to a state of nature? Howard's victory a democratic Iraq? Margo's finger on the button have we forgotten something. Deliberation Andrew Bolt: One of a kind a bit of a round up Patriotism by jove another kind of war the politics of blogging Strike First. On the money Sigh Wogblog and multiculturalism Dancing over the rainbow All the way with the USA? Howard's tactics fail media diversity Here's hoping Governing Iraq Over the top? Mapping the future Labor Party troubles Kurdish fragments War crowd not looking good Australia's foreign policy Assessing the war On a lighter background note We won't see this Has the War changed? Strategic Implications of War on Iraq Taking a reality check Hearts and Minds Peggy Noonan in Australia thin gruel A simple question tragic, flawed and false Reverberations Cartoon Media briefs & public debate well well well Popular uprising in Basra Media's view of the war After the Celebrations After the War: Democracy? Grand plans and precision campaigns Driving the wedge Constraining Bush, Greening Carr Sobering thoughts comment on comment. Such a rag tag army Pillars of security shaking Some truth telling WAR: Japan sides with US The New American Century Wedge Politics A quote Through different eyes Political signifiers Time will tell Whither Israel? Howard's historical hand Dissonant notes Simple truths Mark Steyn:--empty headed fantasy More flawed arguments No prizes for logic here PM's National Press Club Speech on Iraq Background to Iraqi War Keeping things in perspective Bad diplomacy? UN: a different view In the national interest Wilkie Resignation NSW Democrats not travelling well War Four Corners on neo-con US global strategy The Carr campaign The UN: Where to now? Formula I Turkey backtracks Knives circle Medicare Tim Blair retreats The selling of Bob Carr On the pathway to happiness Howard: We don't need the UN Richard Woolcott Speaks his Mind Miranda Devine on Green Politics in NSW Glimpse into another world Condoleezza Rice Tim Blair Watch NSW Election Timor Sea Treaty Ministerial Meeting Dialectics and public policy Formula I Grand Prix Tony Abbott discovers he's human Us neo-cons versus Oz public They did it their way Power Dressing Milan-style An interview with Tony Blair Iraq, Israel and US strategy Media & the War Confession time Memories of academia The John & Alex routine North Korea Unilateralism War roundup Parliament as family-friendly workplace? Great Barrier Reef Carr Labor Government SA Government: Reform Shy A competitive market place? Political Metaphors River Murray Forum Energy reform After the War: peace in our time? Christopher Pearson gets serious Good Journalism + some realism They noticed At the National Press Club Have you noticed? The third way in SA? The weapons of Tim Blair Miranda runs out of puff A Big Thanks to the war crowd Deregulated Electricity: a flop The boy from the Adelaide Hills Anti-democratic sentiments Some call it treason Authoritarian logic Just war theory is out of date? Light relief Beyond the Australian media Moveable Type upgrade/ virtual culture Tim Blair & others Executive Dominance More Budget Cuts in SA planned America targets ALP Rift Between Europe & US Widens Electricity Crisis in SA The cat is out of the bag Why cannot this happen in Australia? Iraq: Regional blowback Its more than fear Luke: its death Colin Powell's UN Speech Once the war is over, what then? Nukes Dump/Space Industry Tim Blair's Howard paradox. Very confused neo-cons Rann Govt in slash mode Neo-cons join public debate on Iraq Breaking news Trust and terrorism Danger Zone Anne Coulter on Liberal Treason Radioactive Idiots? A bit of cheek Going back to Ann Coulter Goodbye UN? Waiting for the River Murray to Collapse Good Quote Bush: SOU Speech again Bush: State of Union Speech Politics in SA Being cyncial After the War Pall over Deregulation Countdown to war. Bush fires: lets not forget volunteers Its a hostile world Richard Butler talks sense Roman Forums Debate over the war? Political shuttlecock