“If we were providing these policy settings and outcomes in Western Europe, they’d be lighting candles to us in the cathedrals.” “I guarantee if you walk into any pet shop in Australia what the resident galah will be talking about is micro-economic policy.” “Stick your head out of the building in any capital city in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Policy'
Paul Keating on the Economy – “Shut Up and Listen and You Might Learn Something” – Edna Carew and Patrick Cook
February 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Australian Labor Party, Economics, Policy, Politics, Quotes
Tags:Economic Policy·economics·Labor·policy·Politics·The Australian Economy
Nationalist, Not Ethnic Conflicts – “The Fall of Yugoslavia”, Misha Glenny
February 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Ethnicity, Genocide, Multi-culturalism, War, WW2
From the beginning of the conflict in Croatia, one question above most others has exercised minds inside and outside the country: what causes this depth of hatred which has provoked atrocities and slaughter on such a wide scale over such a short period of time? In retrospect, it seems clear that the wars of the [...]
Tags:Ethnicity·hatred·multiculturalism·nationalism·war·World War 2·WW2
Mostar – “The Fall of Yugoslavia”, Misha Glenny
February 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Ethnicity, Multi-culturalism, War
Mostar is famous above all for its Ottoman architecture symbolised by the old footbridge which arches high over the Neretva River… Hercegovina is divided by the river Neretva, whose moth is in Croatian territotyr but which soon enters Hercegovina. The Serbs consider the Neretva the dividing line between Serb and Coat territory. The Croats however [...]
Serb Unity – “The Fall of Yugoslavia”, Misha Glenny
February 15th, 2012 · No Comments · Ethnicity, Multi-culturalism
The great motor behind Serbian nationalist politics is the search for unity. The most powerful example of Serbian iconography is the symmetrical cross adorned with four Cs (the Cyrillic letter S), the two left-hand ones being printed as mirror images. This is an acronym for the phrase ‘Samo Sloga Srbina, Spasava’(Only Unity Can Save the [...]
School and Leisure – “The Greek Way” – Edith Hamilton
February 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Civilisation, Philosophy, Policy
Our word for school comes from the Greek word for leisure. Of course, reasoned the Greek, given leisure a man will employ it in thinking and finding out about things. Leisure and the pursuit of knowledge, the connection was inevitable—to a Greek.
On other cultures – “Joh Speak” – Alan Price, Elizabeth Hancock and Erik Scholz
February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Ethnicity, Multi-culturalism, Quotes
“Just because a few migrants want their spicy tucker, I fail to see what the Australian community as a whole should suffer the possibility of foot-and-mouth disease.”
Tags:Joh Bjelke-Petersen·multiculturalism·Non Sequitors·Quotes·racism
On Policy – “Joh Speak” – Alan Price, Elizabeth Hancock and Erik Scholz
February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Economics, Environmental Policy, Policy, The Law
“The Great Barrier Reef is really big. The people who say it’s being ruined don’t know how big it is.” “We won’t be able to sit on uranium. Firstly because it would not be right and secondly because it would be wrong.” “I oppose tobacco tax on principle. It is a new tax and Queensland [...]
Tags:constitution·Environment Policy·Federation·Joh Bjelke-Petersen·Tobacco Tax·Uranium
Gross National Product – “Make Gentle The Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy” – Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
January 28th, 2012 · No Comments · Economics, Environmental Policy, Policy, Politics, Progressive Politics, Quotes
Our gross national product … if we should judge America by that – counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural [...]
Tags:economics·patriotism·policy·Politics·progressive politics·Statistics
Unemployment – Make Gentle The Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy” – Maxwell Taylor KennedyRFK’s prose means that he’s frequently remembered as the most ideological of the 1960s liberals, but this is historical revisionism. Ideologically speaking, Bobby would have been a member of the ‘Labor Right’. He was vilified by his contemporaries on the left for his principled opposition to communism and the welfare state. His economics and his values were very much of the progressive centre. He would have been a strong advocate of mutual responsibility had the term been used at the time.
January 27th, 2012 · No Comments · Economics, Extremism, Ideology, Policy, Progressive Politics, Quotes
The root problem (of unemployment) is in the fact of dependency and uselessness itself. Unemployment means having nothing to do – which means nothing to do with the rest of us. To be without work, to be without use to one’s fellow citizens, is to be in truth the Invisible Man of whom Ralph Ellison [...]
Tags:Economic Policy·extremism·Ideology·policy·progressive politics·unemployment·Values·welfare
Privilege – “Make Gentle The Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy” – Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
January 26th, 2012 · No Comments · Policy, Political Communication, Politics, Progressive Politics
During One of RFK’s speeches at a university medical school, a student in the crowd at a speech at a University asked “Where are you going to get all the money for these federally subsidized programs you’re talking about?” “From You. Let me say something about the tenor of that question and some of the [...]
Tags:99%·Community·policy·progressive politics·Progressive Taxation·Society
