Keywords: Winning For Women
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 February 2010
12 Comments
That Senator Joyce's arguments for reducing foreign aid make little sense does not stop them from winning
popular support. Many voters decide on the basis of emotion rather than
rationality. And tapping voter greed is likely to be more successful
than appealing to altruism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Hanifa Deen
- 17 September 2009
6 Comments
Visits by our senior politicians offering glib reassurances
will not halt the turndown in Indian enrolments in our tertiary institutions. We need to revisit the days when we treated international
students as people rather than statistics in an export industry.
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AUSTRALIA
- Simon Roughneen
- 01 September 2009
1 Comment
Shariah law in Malaysia has seen Muslims banned from attending a Black Eyed Peas RnB concert, and a woman sentenced to be caned for drinking beer in public. All's not what it seems in this slickly-marketed, 'moderate
Islamic' tourist magnet.
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AUSTRALIA
Perhaps it's an omen: election day in Somalia, and the first voter to approach the polling station wears an Obama t-shirt. Elections, and the act of voting, are a powerful affirmation of one's ability to stand and be counted. For refugees, it is all the more significant.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 15 September 2008
10 Comments
Discussion prompted by the publication of Peter Costello's memoirs defines leadership narrowly as the ability to win elections. If the criteria were expanded to include moral fortitude, judgments about leadership would be very different.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 September 2006
George Bush, John Howard and others insist that we are winning the long war against terrorists, and, perhaps by body count they are right. But there is evidence that the way we are fighting the war has massively increased popular sympathy for such people in some parts of the world.
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