Julia Gillard has announced the date of the next election. As she dons spectacles for the first time in public, perhaps hoping for the well-known ‘halo effect’ of glasses suggesting intelligence, here perhaps rationality, the message is all about purpose, planning and technical competence. What we’re getting is a PM and a party serious about [...]
Tag Archives: Alison Caddick
Producing Refugees (Editorial 1) Permission to Abuse (Editorial 2)
December 13, 2012 – 3:34 pm
By John Hinkson
Cruelty and Outrage
June 3, 2011 – 3:22 pm
Hidden from view in our lives in general, animal death is very hard to bear, and with the once relatively confident justifications for it beginning to slip away, the rawness tends to come into focus.
Surrogate Democracy
March 11, 2011 – 10:18 am
“We live in a liberal democratic society in which democracy has come to mean openness to individuals’ personal rights and needs, with virtually no examination of what they might mean” writes Alison Caddick
WikiLeaks: Power and the Network
January 2, 2011 – 8:32 pm
The underlying story in all this is not the content but the form—the form of the vehicle that brings the revelations in this mass (apparently) uninterpreted form, and the claims that are being made of it, writes Alison Caddick
