Women’s bodies have long been a site for politics, but over the past few months political games and posturing have put issues like misogyny, sexism, rape and gender in the headlines. Whether it’s American Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock’s comments about rape and pregnancy or Julia Gilliard’s address to Tony Abbott, from Australia to America politicians are […]
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We need competition in supply and funding of individuals not institutions Julia Gillard wisely remarked last month that competition with Asia could “make us the runt of the litter” in terms of our educational performance. This provocative remark should trigger urgent application to government policy, given that increasingly unlike much of Asia, ours is a […]
Australias relationship with Indonesia is continuing at its all-time high following the conclusion of the East Asia Summit in Bali. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has come away from the summit confirming a major reduction in tariffs in trade with Indonesia, providing further “ballast” to the once-troubled relationship. Even Australias agreement to host US Marines in […]
Politics is a tricky business. Being in government is even trickier. But it should be pretty simple. It’s like any other business, isn’t it? It’s all just marketing. You find out what they want, you tell them what you’re going to do, and then you give it to them. So is it […]
Crossposted from geoffrobinson.info In many respects modern Labor has returned to the type of inward musing that it engaged in after 1996. Then there was an assortment of vaguely defined rhetoric about the party’s perceived excessive social liberalism, these critics however were very vague as to exactly what alternative policies they proposed, instead they preferred […]
Julia Gillard will today announce the launch of the My University Website. Following on from the positive response from the public to the My School web site, the My University web site was inevitable. Parents are delighted with the accessibility of the information, the simplicity of the data, the ease with which comparisons can be […]