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The conservationist's Catch-22

(Conservation, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-09 14:28 - 0 comments

Greek debt crisis ignites again as voters punish mainstream parties

Greek debt crisis ignites again as voters punish mainstream parties " The conservatives and socialists who have swapped power for four decades were left reeling as they polled less than 34 per cent between them.  Communists, nationalists ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-07 14:33 - 0 comments

What Gina Wants

talent. “It was like a big kids’ school excursion,” recalls one of the then young conservatives who made ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Comment: Blessed are the Wealth-makers

course be corrected by charitable bequests to medical research and conservation groups, with shortfalls ... monarchy, Clive Palmer, Conservation, Gina Rinehart, House of Representatives, Medical research, Port ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-04-27 10:48 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

April 2012 Editor's Note

Turnbull graces our cover. Turnbull reminds us of another era. A time when leading conservatives could ...

Blog - Monthly Wire - 2012-04-10 14:59 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Across the Great Divide

In the mid 1970s, my conservative, town-dwelling parents uprooted us on a whim. From our comfortable home ...

The Monthly - Catherine Ford - 2012-04-05 16:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Once Were Warriors

appeared in the pages of the conservative Argus newspaper as a bitter wharfies’ strike brought ... the spirit of what an Australian can do if given a ‘fair go’”. The conservative commentariat huffed ... conservatives, it seemed, had bothered to read Swan’s essay. Swan, dubbed Euromoney ’s Finance Minister ...

The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

One Morning with Malcolm

the text of the Sir Robert Menzies Lecture he delivered shortly before the conservative rebellion ... neoliberalism. (Paradoxically, probably the least purist are those conservative members of the party, like Tony ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rockin’ Rupert

that the goofy-looking conservative Rick Santorum can “lead moral regeneration and restoration of original American ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-04-05 16:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Long Goodbye: Explaining Gillard’s Collapse

by a ruthless populist conservative like Tony Abbott. The second strategic error concerned a failure ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments

Peter Singer on a conservative response to climate change

A conservative response to climate change  (Peter Singer) " So if the facts are granted, and the market is not the answer, what can a conservative offer to combat climate change? "  ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-02 14:48 - 0 comments

Mitt Romney's struggle to convince conservatives

Mitt Romney's struggle to convince conservatives "Romney  understands that his most glaring weakness may be his lack of a poetic flaw, a useful element in a politician's essential task of connecting with other human beings. Romney's ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-31 14:20 - 0 comments

The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia

pockets, conservative political support, biased editorial policy and shock-jock ranting has been mobilised ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

Jedda Bradley

Nick Bryant’s statement that Queensland is “Australia’s most conservative state”(‘Can Do?’, Dec/Jan) needs challenging. Joh Bjelke-Petersen was voted out of office nearly 25 years ago and Queensland’s had three Labor premiers since then. Jedda Bradley ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2012-01-30 08:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Please help us in our efforts to conserve

Please help us in our efforts to conserve "A towel on the rack means, 'I will use again.' A towel on the floor means, 'I’m cleaning the floors'.... Thank you so much for staying with us. This card can be eaten." ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-11-03 14:09 - 0 comments

Lord Monckton and the Future of Australian Media

is the malleability of public opinion in the face of daily, entertaining, populist, libertarian-conservative ... of this is difficult to understand. Gina Rinehart is an ultra-conservative whose political opinions are close to those ... by populist conservative commentators. Although reclusive by instinct, Gina Rinehart was involved ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

Philosophic Emissions

Conservatives tend to favour market solutions and oppose expanding the reach of government. If the emission ... live, from the cars we drive to the food we eat. Some conservatives respond to this predicament ... for most conservatives is to claim that the market can solve the problem, if only it is allowed to work ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Obama Memos: The making of a post-post-partisan Presidency

because he was the only candidate who was trusted by both the conservative and the liberal blocs ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-24 14:09 - 0 comments

Long in the Tooth

Trixie Gardner Paola Totaro The Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Conservative member of the British House of Lords, waves me through the Peers’ Lobby and with an informal “This way!” called over her ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-02-07 15:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

'The Chemistry of Tears' By Peter Carey

in a small London museum where conservator Catherine Gehrig, reeling after the sudden death of her colleague ...

The Monthly - Jennifer Byrne - 2012-02-08 14:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Angry Boys

with Romney has been Rick Santorum, a conservative Catholic with seven children (most of whom ...

The Monthly - Julia Baird - 2012-02-07 16:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Divided We Fall

on them. Conservative commentators deride the Greens as hypocrites, economic dunces and “a flag ... the then 39-year-old executive director of the NSW Nature Conservation Council, who went on to win election to the NSW ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

The Second Rudd Government?

and the middle term, if the Left in Australia is to have a future and if the populist conservative tide ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-01-23 05:06 - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Gay, socialist, born in a squatters' camp: Meet the new PM of Belgium

Gay, socialist, born in a squatters' camp: Meet the new PM of Belgium "At first glance Di Rupo does not seem to be the man best placed to reconcile conservative, Catholic, suburban voters with the federal Belgian government. He speaks fluent ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-07 13:39 - 0 comments

All About Cory

Cory Bernardi, Conservative Warrior ... and replacing him with Tony Abbott. He’s “carved a niche as one of Australia’s leading conservative voices”, ... by the tactics of the Tea Party, Bernardi established the Conservative Leadership Foundation in 2009, which ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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