To reduce social harm, instead of a ban on teens accessing social media, should we consider a ban on over 60 year olds reading and listening to News Corporation outlets? Announcing the Government’s proposed ban on social media for under 16 year olds, PM Albanese said “Social media is doing social harm to our kids. Continue reading »
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Trump’s anti-China 60% import tax barrier will weaken China’s economy and is predicted to have flow on effects impacting negatively on Australia’s economy. Will our political leaders now realise that Australia’s involvement in a military war against China for which they are furiously preparing, would have a devastating impact on our economy and Australian life Continue reading »
A major new report has detailed the “extraordinary economic opportunity” for Australia to replace its coal and gas exports with decarbonised commodities, and reap six to eight times more than the typical revenues it earns from fossil fuels, and help other major economies to meet their own climate goals. But renewed calls for Australia to Continue reading »
Gaza – what can we do about Australia’s complicity in this abhorrence? It is a question that rots the soul… Indiscriminate destruction of civilian populations on an industrial scale as a legitimate weapon for war started, in the West, with the attack on Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. The outage depicted by Picasso’s painting Continue reading »
‘Joe Biden allows Ukraine to use long-range US-supplied ATACMS missiles on targets in Russia, prompting threat of world war’ – so runs the ABC headline of 18 November. Serious stuff, not to be lightly discounted, and yet perhaps what we are seeing is primarily performative politics, viewed through the smoke of uncertainty and reflected in Continue reading »
Australia has a reputation for egalitarianism. It is not deserved. Extract: Address to the Royal Society of NSW, October 2024. This is a nation based on mercantilist plunder. Two hundred and fifty years after the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, our leaders insist that the prosperity of citizens rests upon a trickling down Continue reading »
On building something better than what we've been given.
Democrats are in disarray. It’s time to name our enemies and assert our demands to build a party that can win.
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I mentioned last week in this blog post – The dislocation between the PMC and the rest of the working class – Part 1 (November 11, 2024) – that I had been reading the 2021 book – Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (published by Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) – written…
China has the biggest influence on Myanmar’s civil strife but Russia also has sway, supplying arms to the military junta. As opposition forces continue to rack up battlefield victories over Myanmar’s military, questions over who outside of the war-torn state is helping to fuel the crisis are being asked. China is easily the most influential international actor Continue reading »