The Cabinet Reshuffle
The latest thread on the Federal ALP’s dramas this week has got rather long, and since things happened today, here’s a new roundtable. Gillard announces new ministry: obviously Bob Carr is the big...
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Fundraising for Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams field reporting
As LP readers know, FAQ Research has partnered with Crikey to produce Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams, a major investigative media project shining the spotlight on the Queensland election campaign’s...
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Behind the Seams: The politics of restructuring or blinded by the coal dust?
Crikey’s website is down today, so I’m publishing my latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams post here. Coal Seam Gas well on the Baker property near Dalby. In writing about the controversy over a...
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Crikey: Big trouble brewing inside Katter’s Australian Party
Republished from today’s Crikey email with permission. Mark Bahnisch and Pandora Karavan of FAQ Research write: The Katter Australian Party anti-same s-x marriage ad has topped the charts as the most...
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Behind the Seams: Mark Bahnisch on CSG and the Queensland election on ABC...
Crikey’s website is down today, so we’re publishing the latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams posts here. NB: You might like to consider donating to support the work of FAQ Research on our Coal Seam...
View ArticleBehind the Seams: Interview with Kerry Shine MP
Crikey’s website is down today, so we’re publishing the latest Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams posts here. NB: You might like to consider donating to support the work of FAQ Research on our Coal Seam...
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Behind the Seams: Moderate voices in the CSG debate – video interviews
Cross-posted from The Wellhead Dr Mark Bahnisch talks to farmer Ian Hayllor on his property near Dalby. Photo credit: Pandora Karavan. As Kim Jameson reported, The Greens have ramped up the pressure on...
View ArticleQueensland election roundtable
The polls will be closing shortly. The expected result, as no doubt everybody knows by now, is a massive swing to the LNP with only an ignominious rump left for Labor. What was voting day like on the...
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What does it take to justify murder?
The recent chin-stroking by various people regarding Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands of a vigilante crank is shameful. I was reminded of Maia’s commentary on the victim-blaming attending the...
View ArticleLarvatus Prodeo’s Last Post
As of today, Larvatus Prodeo will cease publishing. After a couple of test posts, the blog began to wend its way through the online world on March 17, 2005, so it’s a very old beast in internet years....
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…. and, we’re back for Election ’13!
As everyone who followed Larvatus Prodeo knows, we decided in April last year to sound the Last Post. But, prompted by some urgings on Twitter, we have resolved that we can’t let an election year go...
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Destroy which joint?
Good to be back in Purple. Just in time for the Fourth Week of Lent. So I’ll take as my text today a contribution from Helen Razer to the discussion about the impact, effectiveness and value of Destroy...
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Chavismo without Chávez
Where the death of Hugo Chávez has been noticed in the Western media, it’s typically been framed in terms of two quite old polarities. Chávez and his movement began to encroach on the institutions of...
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Guest post by Linda Carroli: Losing connections
A guest post by Brisbane-based writer, urbanist, planner and researcher Linda Carroli on the South East Queensland review of bus services, previously discussed on LP in comments here. (Cross-posted...
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Pope Francis
I promised when LP was revived that I would write a post on the crisis in the Catholic Church. I’d intended to do that during the Conclave, but like everyone else, I am surprised that the election of...
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Why we have Labor leadership spills and stoushes; and how to avoid them
It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that there is a more than usually febrile atmosphere in Canberra today, and that some folks are anticipating white smoke announcing “Habemus PM”… Whether there...
View ArticleFerguson without class
The MSM has extensively reported Martin Ferguson’s statement, in his resignation speech, that “The class war rhetoric that started with the mining dispute of 2010 must cease. It is doing the Labor...
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Feminism, Julia Gillard and Magical Thinking
There’s one central paradox about the uncritical support some feminists have for the Julia Gillard regime. Eva Cox: “I don’t think she was being blasted out at all because she’s a woman,” Ms Cox told...
View ArticleTime Magazine endorses Marx, notices class struggle
I’m always intrigued when the business press publishes articles that say “well, Marx was probably right”. Here’s Michael Schuman in Time Business and Money: With the global economy in a protracted...
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Semiotic weapons
A group of latte-sipping cultural elites are banging on with their postmodern ideas about the power of clothes to create meanings that are louder than people’s words or actions. They can even make...
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