Sometimes I use this blog to remind myself later of people who add to the weft and weave to transform for a moment my wretched, mundane existence into a dance of possibilities and wishes. Suheir is possessed by the muse – when she performs it is the whole woman, the laughing medusa of Helene Cixous, the . . . → Read More: Suheir Hammad – magnificent poetry
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Whilst I’m suspended from our usual playground pending a complete exoneration, I’ve returned to my own patch to add thoughts and links which interest me. If folks stumble in, in search of their long lost mate, perhaps it’ll give them something to feast upon. Here’s some shockers for today: From the Defence of Children International [DCI] . . . → Read More: Day 1 in the Thinking Chair – Mortification & Fascism Why have I not come across this before? so much would have been made clear. Vladimir Lenin said: “The Australian Labor Party does not even call itself a socialist party. Actually it is a liberal bourgeois party, while the so-called Liberals are really conservative.” So that’s why the chardonnay drinking chattering pseudo-left colonises the working class, and workers . . . → Read More: The Bourgeois Australian Labor Party Excellent article on educational trends in Australia toward social inequity on Inside Story by Chris Bonnor which should ring alarm bells for anyone concerned about democratic values: The evidence is getting harder to avoid. The education consultant Barbara Preston has shown the changing ratio between low and high income families in schools. In 1996 there was an . . . → Read More: Australia’s Educational Divide Widening From Sally Rose at Open Forum: Hi I thought you’d be interested to know that the next instalment in the AGIMO eGovernment consultation trial has arrived. It is an online discussion forum for the National Human Rights Consultation Commitee (an independent body supported by a Secretariat from the federal Attorney General’s Department) and it’s being hosted by . . . → Read More: AGIMO eGovernment consultation trial An eclectic overview of the current state of play on prospective Australian net censorship is presented by Warwick Rendell – suggesting the leaking of the possible / partial ACMA list plays into pro-filter hands, and that filter opponents need to focus on the development of workable alternatives. Activities which violate human rights – child pron, rape, war, . . . → Read More: Get Thee to a Library & Learn!  10 comments - (Comments are closed)  Australia, Censorship, Internet, Politics  ACMA list, Censorship, Conroy, net filters, nocleanfeed . . . → Read More: ABC Lateline : Stilgherrian On ACMA Blacklist Leak Comments are closed Australia, Censorship, Human Rights, Internet, Politics ACMA, Censorship, Conroy, nocleanfeed, Stilgherrian Wikileaks, the international purveyor of information governments would rather keep privy from their citizens, has published what is claimed to be the Australian ACMA blacklist in their section on Australia. The leak was revealed by @ashermoses in an exclusive in the Sydney Morning Herald. Wikileaks has previously published the blacklists for Thailand, Denmark and Norway. University of Sydney associate . . . → Read More: Possible Australian ACMA banned sites list published 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Australia, Censorship, Human Rights, Internet Censorship, Conroy, nocleanfeed, wikileaks |
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