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Amidst all the celebrations we should remember this: Labor is not the Australian version of SYRIZA

1st February, 2015, 10:30am

A social democratic desire among workers for improved living standards and services is both systemic, arising from the f... more
Abbott might be a buffoon but he is their buffoon

30th January, 2015, 8:41pm

I wrote an article about Abbott back in August 2012. Recent events seem to confirm my analysis. Here is a snippet. The b... more
MERDEKA: the fight for freedom in West Papua

29th January, 2015, 8:49pm

Ben Hillier has written an excellent and informative article on West Papua in the latest Red Flag. He says for example: ... more
Newman needs to raise ALP Ghosts

29th January, 2015, 2:30pm

If Campbell Newman's campaign doesn't start focussing on the opposition and their previous record in government, then it... more
A lockout, a sit in, a picket

29th January, 2015, 7:54am

It’s a lockout, a sit in, a picket writes Jerome Small in Red Flag. It’s a rolling conversation. It’s woodsmoke, a... more
Daylight Saving Redux

28th January, 2015, 9:45pm

I wrote a piece here nearly ten years ago about how I personally wasn’t a big fan of daylight saving – mainl... more

The Blogs

Ambit Gambit
- Trans-Pacific Partnership shows democratic deficit
  
  26th January, 2015, 1:46pm
  
  It is easy to be blase about corruption in other places. No one thinks much of what passes for government in countries l... more
- things could get interesting
  
  23rd January, 2015, 8:25pm
  
  From the Carbon Brief: Temperatures during the Iowa maize growing season are projected to increase by more than five deg... more
Jennifer Marohasy
- Open Thread
  
  28th October, 2014, 10:50am
  
  I’m wondering how the sooty owl, rescued by a reader of this blog last week, is fairing? The post Open Thread... more
- Patrick Moore has Nothing New to Offer
  
  25th October, 2014, 4:51pm
  
  HIS greatest claim to fame is that he co-founded Greenpeace. Not something I would be proud of. Of course, I’m referri... more
Andrew Bartlett
- Daylight Saving Redux
  
  28th January, 2015, 9:45pm
  
  I wrote a piece here nearly ten years ago about how I personally wasn’t a big fan of daylight saving – mainl... more
- Short on New Year Resolutions? Pinch someone else’s!
  
  11th January, 2015, 10:56pm
  
  Adding to my own wish/goals, this article contains a range of good resolutions from folks such as Maya Angelou, Carl Sag... more
Club Troppo
- Vox pop journalism as a system of domination: Syriza editi
  
  31st January, 2015, 3:04pm
  
  When the French and Russian Revolutions occurred, the existing order asserted itself through the intervention of foreign... more
- Crikey Subscription
  
  30th January, 2015, 4:04pm
  
  Yes folks it’s on again. The Annual Crikey Group Subscription. It’s from this modest beginning that we funde... more
Skeptic Lawyer
- The revolutionary status quo Power
  
  31st January, 2015, 1:31pm
  
  Based on a comment I originally made here. The US is at once both a revolutionary and a status quo Power. It is a revol... more
- Plan or strategy?
  
  27th January, 2015, 1:02pm
  
  In Austrian school economics, and economics influenced by the same, there is often talk of entrepreneurs as making plan... more
En Passant
- Amidst all the celebrations we should remember this: Labor
  
  1st February, 2015, 10:30am
  
  A social democratic desire among workers for improved living standards and services is both systemic, arising from the f... more
- Abbott might be a buffoon but he is their buffoon
  
  30th January, 2015, 8:41pm
  
  I wrote an article about Abbott back in August 2012. Recent events seem to confirm my analysis. Here is a snippet. The b... more
Henry Thornton
- Inflation shock - for some
  
  Schlock horror ... inflation surprises on the upside. Henry said in early March: 'Australia's goods...... more
- The rise of China and the decline of the West
  
  Easter weekend has seen much press comment on the rise of China and its governance. Julia Gillard i...... more
What The People Want
- Newman needs to raise ALP Ghosts
  
  29th January, 2015, 2:30pm
  
  If Campbell Newman's campaign doesn't start focussing on the opposition and their previous record in government, then it... more
- Queensland election 2015: the qual
  
  28th January, 2015, 6:10pm
  
  �The qual shows that voters are not enthusiastic about either of the parties. When thinking of the LNP, their disappoint... more