Stolen generation

by | Aug 1, 2007 | Uncategorized

Just heard on NPR that a South Aus­tralian man has received almost half a mil­lion dol­lars com­pens­a­tion from the State gov­ern­ment for his treat­ment as a child (being stolen from his family and handed to whites to raise; it’s a common story...

While I’m at it…

by | Jul 19, 2007 | Uncategorized

I never posted this Keith Olber­man video from July 3, a scath­ing indict­ment of Bush’s reign that ends with call­ing for his resignation. I don’t think I men­tioned either that on July 4, I read the Declar­a­tion of Inde­pend­ence and was sur­prised...
Protected: Utopian thinking

Young fodder

by | Jul 19, 2007 | Uncategorized

I think the most dis­turb­ing thing about Amer­ica for me is the fre­quency with which I hear young teens talk about their friends leav­ing for boot camp. For a lot of other people vis­it­ing the US and hanging around with adult friends, I don’t think...

José Borghino on Howard

by | Jun 26, 2007 | Uncategorized

From New Mat­ilda, a bril­liant ana­lysis and most of what I wanted to say about how Howard is manip­u­lat­ing the NT situ­ation polit­ic­ally, but with more facts and ground­ing. Unsur­pris­ing, given who José is. He taught me in my under­gradu­ate degree...