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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

August?
Channel: The Oz Politics Blog  |  1128 days ago
Mumble recently suggested a 4 August election (see 24 June and Crikey).

Friday q and a #76.
Channel: Reasons You Will Hate Me  |  1128 days ago
<br><br /><br />It's been a surprisingly lovely week, full of high quality food and odd encounters with deck-building spunks at local cafes (more on that frankly bemusing ...

Australian Pale
Channel: South Sea Republic  |  1128 days ago
by camMost of Australian Vexillology up until the 1970s - with the noted exception of the Eureka Flag - has been around the Defaced Blue Ensign design.

Free Trade©, Fair Trade® & the “Free Market of Ideas”
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1128 days ago
According to its website, the Institute of Public Affairs believes in something called the “free market of ideas”.

a post-political utopia
Channel: philosophy.com  |  1128 days ago
In his review of Pierre Manent's A World Beyond Politics: A Defense of the Nation-State in Prospect Eric Kaufman say that Manent locates the pluralism of liberal democracy in the separation of ...

Alex White's blog
Channel: Catechism  |  1128 days ago
My blog is available <a href="http://stoush.

Saturday Salon
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1128 days ago
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.

Indigenous state of emergency: one week on
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1128 days ago
Lauredhel at Hoyden has a great links post up, and I’m also going to post some links supplied by some of our commenters in the various threads we’ve had going since Howard announced ...

Howard and history
Channel: John Quiggin  |  1128 days ago
Inevitably, after 11 years in office, Howard's dramatic intervention in indigenous communities is going to be judged on his past history. The question is, which history.

Can you trust the internet?
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  1128 days ago
I remain very surprised by the number of people who take drivel published on the internet at face value, without considering the source.

Weekend reflections
Channel: John Quiggin  |  1128 days ago
The idea is that, over the weekend, you should post your thoughts in a more leisurely fashion than in ordinary comments or the Monday Message Board.

Collective agreements should prevail: Catholic Church
Channel: Red Rag  |  1128 days ago
The Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations today published a scathing criticism of WorkChoices, saying it is biased towards bosses.

Recess Appointments by the US Executive
Channel: South Sea Republic  |  1128 days ago
by camThe US Constitution was written in the days when it took James Madison three days to travel to his nearby political friend, Thomas Jefferson's house.

How to Move the Pasha Bulker
Channel: For Battle!  |  1128 days ago
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Costa skeptical?
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1128 days ago
A little rain falls and this happens.

GG for the Prince
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1128 days ago
Reports emerged today from Britain that Prince William, heir to the British throne, aspires to becoming Governor-General of Australia.

Religion, social attitudes and politics
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1128 days ago
Charles Richardson writes in Crikey today: From a lot of cultural indicators, you’d think that religious belief in Australia was on the increase.

WA redistributed
Channel: The Poll Bludger  |  1128 days ago
The draft boundaries for the one-vote one-value electoral redistribution in Western Australia have been unveiled.

Ten whole Karl Marxes?
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  1129 days ago
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Benefits of Central Political Structures
Channel: South Sea Republic  |  1129 days ago
by camThe Meiji Restoration in Japan deposed the Tokugawa from dominating Japanese politics.

Constitutionality Matching Civic Life
Channel: South Sea Republic  |  1129 days ago
by camJohn Hirst wrote in Quadrant in 1991 that the Queen has lost her civic identity in Australia.

indigenous development
Channel: philosophy.com  |  1129 days ago
Sending in the troops and police to stop alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence and neglect of children is not going to achieve 'the desire and capacity of Aboriginal people to put an end to ...

The Phantom Smear Campaign
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  1129 days ago
Memo Paul Austin, Age political reporter: Just because the ALP has some kid photoshop some "advertisement" smearing the Greens, <a href="http://www.

The Chimera post we had to have
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1129 days ago
I was wondering if anyone would pick up on the link I inserted into my Blade Runner post, but apparently not.

Crikey rates bloggers
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1129 days ago
All week, Crikey has been rating various media for bias.

Last charitable appeal for 2006-07 - update
Channel: John Quiggin  |  1129 days ago
I've used up all the gimmicks I could think of for the Great Australian Shave appeal, so this is going to be a bog-standard fundraiser.

Victorian water plan - why go with two projects?
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1129 days ago
There are several bullets that can potentially be bitten in the process of making sure that the supply and demand for urban water meet, and none of them are particularly pleasant for state ...

Downer admits unfair dismissal protection, union rights are part of a modern economy
Channel: Red Rag  |  1129 days ago
Alexander Downer has suggested Australian Labor should look to the Tony Blair’s industrial regime for inspiration.

Caught in the Web
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1129 days ago
I was talking to two university students last week - one aged 40, the other 20 - and was surprised to learn that both of them still write their essays by hand.

Blog a little slow
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1129 days ago
We apologise for occasional outages and slowness in loading pages you may be experiencing.

Moral Panic Thursday! Things to do with fast intertubes
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1129 days ago
A dose of intertubes misery:

Movement?
Channel: The Oz Politics Blog  |  1130 days ago
So far this June, there have been five opinion polls, with a combined sample of over 6000 people.

Christopher Hitchens on the real extent of anti-Rushdie protests ...
Channel: Planet Irf  |  1130 days ago
Christopher Hitchens doesn't always get things right.

Leaving Iraq The Middle East
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1130 days ago
I’ve just finished reading Gwynne Dyer’s The Mess They Made: The Middle East after Iraq: As Gwynne Dyer argues in The Mess They Made, the Middle East is about to change fundamentally, ...

Thatcherism after Blair?
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1130 days ago
Blair’s going, going, gone, and Gordon Brown will be off to the Palace soon to kiss hands.

Do androids dream of cybernoir films?
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1130 days ago
It’s a bit astonishing to read that Blade Runner was released twenty five years ago.

Thatcherism after Blair
Channel: John Quiggin  |  1130 days ago
The big public utilities remain privatised, unions have never really recovered, the rich are a lot richer and so on.

LP Podcast! Interview with Biopolitics Expert
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1130 days ago
Sydney University hosted a series of public lectures in May and June on issues including security, government, work and higher education.

Meanwhile in Iraq...
Channel: Suki has an Opinion  |  1130 days ago
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The peril of traveling as a pillion passenger
Channel: Suki has an Opinion  |  1130 days ago
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Evidence of HoWARd's rhetoric believed to be with WMD's
Channel: Suki has an Opinion  |  1130 days ago
<blockquote>"If you imagine that you can buy immunity from fanatics by curling yourself in a ball, apologising to the world for who you are and what you stand for and what you believe in, ...

Applying the "Costello principle"
Channel: Suki has an Opinion  |  1130 days ago
Recently treasurer Peter Costello <a href="http://www.

Gunn and Gone
Channel: Catechism  |  1130 days ago
I attended the packed-out supreme court investigation of MUSUi (in liquidation) today, as John Gunn, former CEO of MUSU, took the stand.

Rightism
Channel: Catechism  |  1130 days ago
As much as I detest the term, I must applaud this blog I just stumbled across, <a href="http://dissectright.

Unlimited Sympathy
Channel: AnonymousLefty  |  1130 days ago
Sometimes you'll be arguing against an injustice only to have someone counter with something to the effect that "I can't care about that whilst [some other injustice] is still a problem.

The best (real) excuse for getting out of work, ever.
Channel: Reasons You Will Hate Me  |  1130 days ago
<br><br /><br /><br />*<i>ring ring</i>*<br><br /><br /><br />Nice producer: Conversation Hour.

Goodbye, John.....well, sort of
Channel: The Red-Capped Prophet  |  1130 days ago
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A ray of hope?
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1130 days ago
It’s possible, I think, that Federal Ministers will rue the day they orchestrated such a heightened state of interest in their state of emergency.

Charity
Channel: Larvatus Prodeo  |  1130 days ago
There is often much use of terms like “strawman” and “ad hominem” in blog debates – and usually for very good reason.

Microwave recycling
Channel: For Battle!  |  1130 days ago
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