Monday Quickie – Just Like Old Times Already
Seems Tony Abbott finally headed off to Indonesia today to have some talks. Not about the boats – he wants the focus to be on...
Design as a counter-narrative: Presentation to a workshop on arts participation
http://vimeo.com/75482401 Here's a presentation I gave to a conference called - unhelpfully - Art for Art's Sake. It was actually about new approaches to participation in...
Memo to Annabel: It ain’t gonna happen
Annabel Crabb wants us to get real about women in politics. The current carry-on is "all very interesting and thought-provoking and no doubt useful to...
Stop the boats Westies
Kevin Rudd got elected in 2007 by convincing people that he was a slightly younger and more vigorous version of nerdy John Howard, with similar...
Race and IQ: how can we dismiss the correlations?
Suppose you wanted to believe, as I do, that intelligence and vague ‘racial groups’ are, on the whole, unrelated from a long-run perspective. What would...
Saturday Quickie – Sovereign Borders, not so Sovereign Nation
According to Mike Seccombe, at the Global Mail, under the Abbott government, Australia will be open not just for business, but open to costly multi-national...
There are none so soft minded as those that think themselves hard headed
AKA "Intellectual vanity and policy poseurs" AKA "Contorting sophistry in favour of contractionary monetary policy" AKA "The global Serious id hrumphs again". Part 3 of a...