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From the LaborFirst Bloggers

Imagining the 'Good Society' Part One
Blog: LaborFirst Blog
Imagining ‘The Good Society’  Part One visions for Australian society and economy   nb: this is the first in a two part series.  Part Two will be posted soon...   What makes...

New Eric Aarons book 'Market Vs Nature' launched in Melb this Friday
Blog: LaborFirst Blog
Invitation to launch of Eric's book, Market vs  Nature - 6pm Fri 2/5 - New International Bookshop, Trades Hall, Melbourne Kenneth Davidson to launch  Market Versus  Nature The Social P...

Template Motions To Place Through Your Branches
Blog: LaborFirst Blog
Template Motions To Place Through Your Branches Dear friends:  Below are a series of 'template motions' that were posted on the 'Australian Broad Left Network'. Although the motions are not mine...

From the Other Blogs

The destructive cycle of federal intervention
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  143 days ago
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he would not override ACT legislation allowing for civil unions - now it seems he has changed his mind.

Crisis and response
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  143 days ago
Burma: applying the UN responsibility-to-protect doctrine too broadly to natural disasters could do more harm than good.

Lessons from calamity
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  143 days ago
There are telling lessons to be learnt from the calamities in China and Burma by the relative responses of the ruling parties.

The fall of Suharto - a perspective from the street
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  143 days ago
A decade since the fall of President Suharto: a time when the forces of dictatorship, democracy, capitalism and Islam all converged.

Liberal compromise and the struggle for social justice
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  143 days ago
Exploring the dynamic between liberal democratic consensus and the struggle for justice.

Russia - will it be Putin's way?
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  143 days ago
Putin’s leadership, though much reviled in the western capitals and media, won the Russian people’s trust and admiration.

101 green bottles
Channel: The Road To Surfdom  |  143 days ago
Yeehah! We’ve got them on the run! Al Qaeda crackdown yields 100 ‘critical’ militants And could this be ‘Mr Big’? Iraq says senior Qaeda chief seized fleeing ...

ALP tackles the private health system in the stupidest way imaginable
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  143 days ago
You've probably gleaned by now that I'm intractably opposed to the whole notion of private health insurance - a system predicated on the idea that access to doctors and hospitals should not be ...

First Antipodean Carnival of the Feminists!
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  143 days ago
I bags being the one-legged woman! Seriously, though, folks, the whole idea of a blogging “carnival” is a collaborative exercise to highlight posts on a certain theme or from a ...

What happens when you have a non-Bogan on BB
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  143 days ago
Yes, Ken Virginia, they are there.

Riverwalk
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  143 days ago
If I tried really hard, I could probably think of some bad things about working from home.

EVENTS: Imran Ahmad at the Sydney Writers' Festival
Channel: Planet Irf  |  143 days ago
Karachi's answer to James Bond? Imran Ahmad is author of the rather hilarious Muslim memoir Unimagined (which I've reviewed here).

OPINION: Sectarian prejudice is clear in mainstream media ...
Channel: Planet Irf  |  144 days ago
The way things are looking, Senator Barack Obama will most likely be the Democratic Party's nominee for the presidential elections.

EXHIBITION: Bethlehem - Dreams of Home ...
Channel: Planet Irf  |  144 days ago
For those interested in all things Jesus-related, there's an excellent exhibition being put on by the Friends of Bethlehem and supported by Marrickville Council (Bethlehem's sister-city) ...

Reading list ...
Channel: Planet Irf  |  144 days ago
Writing all the way from Alice Springs, Jennifer Mills explains why an Obama victory is written in the stars.

Switching sides
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  144 days ago
I read someone the other day explaining why they became a conservative.

State government grants 1 - academic freedom 0
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  144 days ago
If you’re in Melbourne and have any interest in transport issues, you’ll have heard of Paul Mees.

Green materials
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  144 days ago
While most of the focus in the climate change mitigation debate has been on power generation and transport, there are a number of other emissions sources which are large and pose mitigation ...

I won’t add my condemn to your condemn XIX (Budget 2008 whining edition)
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  144 days ago
So, it’s time again to condemn.

Line of the day
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  144 days ago
The Liberals will be pursuing vendettas rather than votes.

Seduction of Being Close To Power
Channel: South Sea Republic  |  144 days ago
by camNews organizations have a close relationship with politicians and power.

Why is the West different from the rest?
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  144 days ago
An outline of the centuries-long, tortuous and often fortuitous route by which 'democracy' became established in the Western world.

Living in the future
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  144 days ago
Ever wondered what went through the minds of the Easter Islanders as the last tree was cut down?

Defining relationships
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  144 days ago
The prejudices of the ALP and the Religious Right have triumphed over the dual principles of sexual equality and ACT self governance.

Hillary plays loose with the truth
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  144 days ago
Book review - Hillary: The Politics of Personal Destruction by David N. Bossie.

Guy marriage
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  144 days ago
<i>Yes, I'd like to stop posting on this subject too.

CRIKEY: How The Oz proved Rupert Murdoch's al-Qaida link ...
Channel: Planet Irf  |  144 days ago
My old buddy Sheik Dicky Kerbaj continues his series on the nefarious Saudi influence on Muslim institutions.

This is a funny quote
Channel: The Pen  |  144 days ago
From Overheard in New York: Four-year-old boy, pointing at giant inflatable rat: Look dad, a big rat! Dad: Yeah, that symbolizes anti-union labor where the union employees aren’t being ...

universities as the knowledge business
Channel: philosophy.com  |  144 days ago
Timothy Luk in Telos says that under a neo-liberal mode of governance Husserl’s vision of intellectuals as “functionaries of humanity” becomes less and less viable under these conditions until ...

escaping the 20th century
Channel: philosophy.com  |  144 days ago
In the The Long March Out of the 20th Century in Telos Robert D’Amico and Paul Piccone say that: modernity and its successor, postmodernity, remain the broad horizons within which all problems ...

McCain Dreaming
Channel: The Road To Surfdom  |  144 days ago
Are you troubled by contemporary social ills? Disgusted by poor customer service? Sick to death of inefficient public services? Had it up to here with professional incompetence? You are not alone ...

Kevin Donnelly is a silly old duffer
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  144 days ago
If you're going to weigh in on the tedious "debate" on "violence in video games", please make sure you have something new to say.

How to do things with questions (or not) II
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  144 days ago
As a follow up to my last post, Newspoll is out showing no change in 2PP between the parties (57-43 in Labor’s favour) with Nelson on 12% as PPM and Rudd dropping back 2 points to a still ...

How to do things with questions (or not)
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  144 days ago
[Apologies and hat tip to J.

New book on uncertainty
Channel: John Quiggin  |  145 days ago
Sorry for putting up a second plug in a few days, but it seems as if, after the usual delays, quite a few things of mine are coming out that might be of broader interest than most of my academic work.

Political Morality
Channel: South Sea Republic  |  145 days ago
by camPoliticians have a choice to act morally and with individual conscience; however, it is rare.

Because we haven't been nerdy enough lately...
Channel: For Battle!  |  145 days ago
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We are all in grave danger...
Channel: For Battle!  |  145 days ago
of a John Farnham 'comeback' or 'farewell' tour.

Definition of chutzpah
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  145 days ago
I missed this last week, what with being in remote country Victoria and all, but did you see the tale of the 13 year old and his mates in Texas who stole a credit card and went on a $30,000 ...

Guest post by Sam Clifford: The Borg’s not the only new kid on the block
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  145 days ago
One of the big credibility problems The Borg has with his “new face of Queensland” nonsense is that at least on the National Party side of the Pineapple Party benches, he’s ...

Disappointment
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  145 days ago
In discussions during the long Democratic primary I’ve heard it suggested a number of times that should Obama not win the nomination, a generation of newly-engaged voters will be ...

Liberals turn budget reply into… leadership crisis
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  145 days ago
… with a bit of help from their friends in the press gallery.

The flying Hypercar…
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  145 days ago
One common trope amongst people interested in energy efficiency is that the modern car is a terribly inefficient device, using 1500 kilograms of metal to move roughly 75 kilograms of human.

ACNielsen: 57-43
Channel: The Poll Bludger  |  145 days ago
Now ACNielsen comes through with a post-budget federal poll, its first since the election.

Newspoll: 57-43
Channel: The Poll Bludger  |  145 days ago
Lateline reports tomorrow’s Newspoll shows no change on the previous fortnight.

Burma appeal final
Channel: John Quiggin  |  145 days ago
I’ve just sent off my donation to the Burma appeal.

If it's so wonderful, why do you have to force us to use it?
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  145 days ago
Don't get me started on eBay's anti-competitive attempt to use its dominance of the online auction market to manufacture a dominance in the online payment market by <a href="http://www.

John McCain and the future of the Republicans
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  145 days ago
Cross-posted at Terry Flew’s blog.

French exceptionalism: a guide through the energy wars
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  145 days ago
The French experience shows that nuclear power can curb dependence on fossil fuels and the emission of greenhouse gases.

Free Tibet (just not in the IOC’s time)
Channel: On Line Opinion  |  145 days ago
The IOC argues that athletes can freely express their opinions during the Chinese Olympics as long as they 'comply with the laws of the host state'.