I recently read Alice Pung’s lovely ‘Unpolished Gem’, an autobiographical account of growing up as a first generation Asian migrant in Melbourne’s Western suburbs. For a variety of reasons it really struck a chord with me.
After discussing it with some other fans of the book recently, a friend sent me this Op-Ed that the author […]
With Apologies to the Life of Brian….
Leader of the Australian People’s Front: What’s the Rudd Government ever done for the Left? They’re no better than the Howard Government!
Man 1: Um – signed Kyoto?
Leader of the Australian People’s Front: Well, yes, ok signed Kyoto. But other than signing Kyoto, what’s the Rudd Government ever done […]
The physical and political suffering inflicted by the monster, Robert Mugabe on the people of Zimbabwe is so familiar by now that the flood to stories of beatings and kills have become all too monotonous.
However, the stories of the economic travails of the citizens of Zimbabwe still have the capacity to jolt a jaded mind.
The […]
Chris Blattman is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science at Yale with a penchant for fieldwork in development economics. He also runs a very entertaining as well as generally thought-provoking blog on his experiences. He’s far from a conservative.
I say this as background to the following post:
Today the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, […]
Glen Reynolds (of Instapundit fame) provides perhaps the most provocative contribution to PDF’s Rebooting Democracy collection: “Privacy on the Internet: Time to Go?”. Reynolds’ premise is simple: given that privacy is extremely difficult to protect online and most people are pretty unconcerned about it do we need to start questioning the value of the concept? […]
I’m going to keep saying this until progressives are fully recovered from their past swoons over John McCain’s maverick centrist credentials: John McCain is radically conservative, much more so than Bush in many ways.
Take today’s post on The McCain Report:
Kerry: Obama Will Give bin Laden Habeas Missed this the first time around, but as reports […]
Apologies for the delayed reaction time for this post but I’ve been in Romania for the past three days (and yes, that’s as odd as it sounds).
Dave Bath at Balneus recently posted on Australia’s relative standing in allowable pre-trial detention periods in the context of a comparative table in The Economist that showed Australia to […]
It doesn’t take a multi-year ethnographic study to work this out:
This paper explores working-time arrangements for solicitors in private practice…… We sketch out the dominant working-time pattern, centred on long daily hours and limited opportunities for flexibility and diversity (such as part-time work), and argue that this pattern is both rigid and demanding.
Kudos to Tim Dunlop and the folk at ScepticLawyer (here and here) for taking up the unfashionable (and unpalatable) cause of defending Mark Steyn’s democratic right to be as ignorant and offense as he wants to be.
I think Mark Steyn is an ignorant, unprofessional wanker, but he should not be on trial for what amounts […]
Sam Crosby, the outgoing President of Young Labor and champion of centrist Labor politics has an extended interview with Janet Albrechtsen in the Oz today on the rejection of the introduction of an Australian Charter of Rights at the recent Young Labor Conference. Here’s a taste:
Sam Crosby, the 25-year-old outgoing president of Young Labor, […]