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Killer Drones, Dieback and Democracy

December 15, 2011 – 12:13 pm

Free speech and doublespeak at The Australian by Justin Clemens

Posted in arts and culture | Also tagged democracy, drones, Free speech, New Media, Newspapers, Robert Manne, The Australian | Comments (0)

Boris Bites Packer

September 2, 2011 – 6:07 pm

How I accidentally thwarted Sir Frank and discovered Madame Blavatsky

Posted in features | Also tagged Australian media, Edition 113, Fairfax, Packer | Comments (0)

Water in a Geo-political Context

November 14, 2010 – 11:08 am

Lindsay Fitzclarence on the need for alternative perspectives about water policies and the Murray-Darling Basin

Posted in features | Also tagged Anthropology, Australian farming, colonisation, cotton, desalinisation, electricity, England, environment, environmentalism, global trade, Indigenous Australians, irrigation, Lindsay Fitzclarence, Murray-Darling Basin, nation building, public ownership, rainfall, sustainability, sustainable development, Water, water policy, water quality | Comments (0)

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

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, capitalism, China, colonialism, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, Israel, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments (0)

The Reality of TV

June 2, 2006 – 9:08 am

Television isn’t to blame for every social ill but neither is it neutral, write Melinda Hinkson.

Posted in features | Also tagged modernity, technology, television, TV | Comments (0)

Arena and the Internet

August 2, 2005 – 8:05 am

Editorial

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Arena, Cooperation, culutral contradiction, intenet | Comments (0)

Arena at 40

December 2, 2003 – 5:15 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Arena, Bulletin, Edinburgh Review, magazines | Comments (0)

The State and Terror in the New Era

December 2, 2001 – 8:05 pm

Jenny Hocking: Imprecision over the language of ‘terrorism’ and its application, leads to concerns that counter-terrorist security measures will be broadly targetted in ways that are neither appropriate nor efficient, ways that may impinge upon legitimate political agitation and dissent

Posted in against the current | Also tagged 9/11, anti-globalisation, apartheid, ASIO, authoritarianism, Ben Chifley, Charles Spry, Christopher Hitchens, civil liberties, Cold War, constitutional rights, Daryl Williams, democracy, equality, executive power, George Williams, Islam, Jenny Hocking, John Howard, journalism, justice, language, law enforcement, Lionel Murphy, Luigi Bonanate, Michael Kirby, modernity, Osama bin Laden, protest, racial violence, religious violence, rhetoric, Robert Menzies, rule of law, security, surveillance, terror, terrorism, The State, totalitarianism, union, United States | Comments (0)

Them’s Fighting Words

October 2, 2001 – 8:00 pm

Douglas McQueen-Thomson: Language of War and War Through Language.

Posted in features | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Alexander Downer, anti-Muslim feeling, anti-totalitarianism, Bill Clinton, Christians, civil liberties, Colin Powell, diplomacy, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, egalitarian principles, freedom, George W Bush, high tech, Jihad, language, Muslims, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, Osama bin Laden, political dissent, rhetoric, Sikhs, surveillance, Taliban, terror, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, war | Comments (0)

I’m Branded

August 2, 2001 – 7:46 pm

Jeannie Rea: No Logo, Naomi Klein, Flamingo/Harper Collins, London, 2001.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged activism, advertising, anarchist theory, anti-corporate movement, appropriation, branding, capitalism, consumer protest, culture jammers, democracy, environmental destruction, exploitation, free trade, human rights, Jeannie Rea, Naomi Klein, product placement, public relations, solidarity, sponsorship, sweat shops, working conditions | Comments (0)

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