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: Julia Gillard
Driving In The NT
September 3, 2012 – 12:55 pm
A new report shows how Intervention measures are criminalising Indigenous drivers
By Maggie Knight
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am
It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
The School as Market
September 2, 2010 – 1:09 pm
‘Equity’ and ‘choice’ delude Labor and create inequities for generations of students
Unstable Politics
March 2, 2010 – 3:37 pm
John Hinkson examines the sources of today’s unstable politics.
