The other day business groups were outraged and finally motivated to chip into the Liberal election campaign funding because of perceived criticism of company directors. Now, John Howard claims business can’t be trusted to hire parents and do the right thing by Australian families. Are business groups now outraged at Howard? Are they going to […]

I’ve written elsewhere about the Bush Administration’s ‘irrational escalation of commitment’ in foreign policy: a tendency, when things don’t work out as planned, to keep doing the same things only more so. Expect to hear plenty along those lines next week when the latest report is released disclosing that terrorist attacks worldwide increased almost 30% […]

So what’s the lead story on AAP? Australia Wins World Cup?
Nope.
It’s
Howard congratulates World Cup champs
I’m really looking forward to tonight’s news and the candid snaps of him in his Cricket Australia track suit, leaping excitedly to his feet when Gillie hit another 6 as a passing TV crew fortuitously happened to be in the vicinity […]

Nothing’s too good for our diggers, right? When Jake Kovco died in Iraq there was a spontaneous outpouring of grief amongst the whole apparatus of federal government. I seem to recall the prime minister at the funeral, and the defence minister, and all the chiefs of the armed forces, and an RAAF flypast … all […]

Somehow I always thought my heroes would live forever. Or at least until after I’d gone into a nursing home and started to abuse the bitch who wanted me to eat my porridge. It’s not turning out that way unfortunately. It wouldn’t be so bad if more heroes were coming up to replace them but […]

I might have to begin making a series out of the “Here’s a better question…” formulation. At the very least, this is the second installment, following up on my previous effort (see Swopa here, riffing off of that post with more trenchant analysis, as usual). Today’s episode comes courtesy of Juan Cole [emphasis added]:
Nationalist young […]

Look over there! Terrorists!

AND LOOK OVER THERE!! UNION BOSSES!!!

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Listening to: The Gram Parsons tribute video. Again. Had some people round the other day and popped it on and then discovered this clip from it on YouTube. The highlights for me are still the two songs Lucinda Williams does, but it is a disc of many highlights. Including this, Keef […]

Hot on the heels of the Priceline decision, comes this latest example of “WorkChoices” at work (thanks to Polly in comments for the story link):
A dozen retrenched port workers have told of their dismay at being given 15 minutes to leave their work site after up to 26 years of service.
Twelve men, who have worked […]

The most common argument now used to support the continuing occupation of Iraq is that if the CoW withdraws, all hell will break loose. The general impression that the occupation supporters try to give is that Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq can’t wait to slaughter each other the way they’ve been doing for hundreds of […]