Comments for arena http://www.arena.org.au the website of left political, social and cultural commentary Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Environment and Reaction by Neil Maizels http://www.arena.org.au/2010/01/environment-and-reaction/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Neil Maizels Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:05:51 +0000 http://www.arena.org.au/?p=860#comment-242 continued: The only element missing in the looming restraint/expansion tug-of-War is the effect of Population hyper-growth, and its catalysis - through anxiety - of the rape of the Earth and gang-violence against the Other, through the promotion of Bushes, Hitlers and Abbottoids as the frontmen. continued:

The only element missing in the looming restraint/expansion tug-of-War is the effect of Population hyper-growth, and its catalysis – through anxiety – of the rape of the Earth and gang-violence against the Other, through the promotion of Bushes, Hitlers and Abbottoids as the frontmen.

]]> Comment on Environment and Reaction by Neil Maizels http://www.arena.org.au/2010/01/environment-and-reaction/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Neil Maizels Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:51:51 +0000 http://www.arena.org.au/?p=860#comment-241 This is a great piece of writing by Alison - straightforward, profound, wide-ranging in its time-span & very difficult to ignore. It's a refreshing step back (ahead) from the mindless, messy and distracted journalistic 'analysis' that never gets out of its Pavlovian knee-jerking and head-lining. thanks. This is a great piece of writing by Alison – straightforward, profound, wide-ranging in its time-span & very difficult to ignore.
It’s a refreshing step back (ahead) from the mindless, messy and distracted journalistic ‘analysis’ that never gets out of its Pavlovian knee-jerking and head-lining.

thanks.

]]> Comment on Democracy Evacuated by DOES IT END IN TEARS? « DUCKPOND http://www.arena.org.au/2009/09/democracy-evacuated/comment-page-1/#comment-219 DOES IT END IN TEARS? « DUCKPOND Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:52:22 +0000 http://www.arena.org.au/?p=43#comment-219 [...] ramifications and monopoly capitalism, the same applies in Australia. At the Federal level, as Allison Caddick suggested in her Arena editorial, via Political Opinion, that ministers short of resignation are [...] [...] ramifications and monopoly capitalism, the same applies in Australia. At the Federal level, as Allison Caddick suggested in her Arena editorial, via Political Opinion, that ministers short of resignation are [...]

]]> Comment on A New Left Forming? by Robert Verdon http://www.arena.org.au/2009/11/a-new-left-forming/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Robert Verdon Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:42:01 +0000 http://www.arena.org.au/?p=734#comment-200 Why leap aboard the train of social democracy / Ruddism when Second International parties have been derailed all over Europe recently? Why ignore socialism or equate it with Stalinism ('communism')? Why cling to the obsolete and anti-democratic 'twin-party state'? 'Why not get beyond self-dividing nationalism and market eternalism? Western hegemony on the planet is dying, and very likely all of the concerns raised in the above article (by everyone named) must find their place — or not — in a new revolutionary situation to be siezed by the world's proletarian majority . Why leap aboard the train of social democracy / Ruddism when Second International parties have been derailed all over Europe recently? Why ignore socialism or equate it with Stalinism (‘communism’)? Why cling to the obsolete and anti-democratic ‘twin-party state’? ‘Why not get beyond self-dividing nationalism and market eternalism? Western hegemony on the planet is dying, and very likely all of the concerns raised in the above article (by everyone named) must find their place — or not — in a new revolutionary situation to be siezed by the world’s proletarian majority .

]]> Comment on The Problem with Technocratic Caring by Dcoulthard@pacific.n http://www.arena.org.au/2008/12/the-problem-with-technocratic-caring/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Dcoulthard@pacific.n Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:48:15 +0000 http://www.arena.org.au/?p=651#comment-114 Many thanks Alison, for your beautifully expressed article. I have experience in the child care and aged care end of these services and it has been a futile fight along the way. The community run child care centre was wonderful and fitted perfectly into the needs of the local families, but the Kennet era with amalgamation of Councils, put paid to it and the horror of it is how quickly all these things are dismantled and how many years it takes to build them. Thank you again for your well crafted, personal and lucid paper. Many thanks Alison, for your beautifully expressed article. I have experience in the child care and aged care end of these services and it has been a futile fight along the way. The community run child care centre was wonderful and fitted perfectly into the needs of the local families, but the Kennet era with amalgamation of Councils, put paid to it and the horror of it is how quickly all these things are dismantled and how many years it takes to build them. Thank you again for your well crafted, personal and lucid paper.

]]> Comment on Contracting Out Indigenous Futures by 17 OCT 2009: NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION INTO ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES « WGAR http://www.arena.org.au/2009/09/contracting-out-indigenous-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-95 17 OCT 2009: NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION INTO ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES « WGAR Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:23:48 +0000 http://www.arena.org.au/?p=48#comment-95 [...] Contracting Out Indigenous Futureshttp://www.arena.org.au/2009/09/contracting-out-indigenous-futures/Sep 09: “Noel Pearson and Peter Sutton both take an assimilationist turn writes Geoff Sharp [...] [...] Contracting Out Indigenous Futureshttp://www.arena.org.au/2009/09/contracting-out-indigenous-futures/Sep 09: “Noel Pearson and Peter Sutton both take an assimilationist turn writes Geoff Sharp [...]

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