Keywords: Margaret Thatcher
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 17 December 2012
3 Comments
Browsing the highlights and lowlights of the year, media treatment of vulnerable people has been a constant. The regrettable circumstances surrounding the suicide of nurse Jacintha Saldanha come to mind, but there are surprising moments when journalists have distinguished themselves with investigative reporting for the common good.
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ECONOMICS
- David James
- 12 November 2012
12 Comments
Even after the most dangerous financial crises ever seen, finance industry lobbyists still argue that the sector should not be too heavily regulated as that would be counterproductive. This is nonsense. Money is rules. It is a question of who sets the rules and what kind of rules they should should be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 February 2012
4 Comments
The problems do not begin and end with badly applied fake jowls. J. Edgar introduces its subject in his later years, reflecting back on his life. This manipulative tactic errs on the side of sentimentality, when Hoover, like Margaret Thatcher, is not a figure to whom sentimentality can be easily attached.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 16 January 2012
9 Comments
It is arguable that, because she was one of the architects of the free market financial system that lacked protection for ordinary citizens, Margaret Thatcher shares responsibility for the widespread public harm caused by the GFC and the eurozone crisis.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 10 January 2011
3 Comments
Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader is a woman.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 25 June 2010
35 Comments
Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists
everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing
the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had
time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader
is a woman.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 18 February 2010
22 Comments
Everyone has a story, and they don't happen in limbo. Tony Abbott's comments about homelessness mimic the paternalistic attitude pushed by Margaret Thatcher, where the focus is on supposed individual deficits rather than structural deficits.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tim Battin
- 01 December 2008
6 Comments
The Rudd Government is attempting to sell its Fair Work Bill on the basis of 'balance', as compared with the Howard Government's WorkChoices Bill. This is like trying to strike a balance between Margaret Thatcher and Genghis Khan.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 26 March 2008
You find all kinds of books in people's cars — from novels and comics to atlases and bibles. The books people carry reveal something of their life and experiences.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 14 May 2006
Pundits who were left gasping by the announcements of Colin (‘Cry me a river’) Barnett would have been less surprised if they’d read the last issue of the Okotsk Institute Journal of Research into Inexplicable Public Behaviours.
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AUSTRALIA
Don Gazzard visits the national libraries of France and Britain.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Button travels Twelve cities: A memoir with Roy Jenkins.
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