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My spot for Prospect magazine in the UK on the politics of Australia’s asylum seeker approach. “The long, ugly journey of racism in Australia can be traced back to a single government act: the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901. The so-called White Australia Policy openly racialised immigration to the country and set a bigoted undertone to the country’s subsequent history. It was only in 1973 that the Act was finally... Continue Reading
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At the time of writing this review, the world’s most popular websites were all corporations, most are based in the U.S., usually New York or in California. The top five blogs are based in New York. The top 10 Twitter accounts are made up of nine celebrities and one celebrity politician (Barack Obama). All are U.S.-based. Spot a trend here? B. J. Mendelson has. And he thinks it’s all bullshit…(more)... Permalink
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Was moved by the doco Under African Skies to consider more deeply the role of Paul Simon’s 1986 Graceland project. A brilliant, extraordinary doco, it certainly raises some weighty questions, some of which I hope to have investigated in this piece. THERE’S POLITICS AND THERE’S GRACE(LAND) Sometime in the first half of the 1980s, diminutive white New York Jewish boy Paul Simon, already an iconic music figure rarely out of the... Continue Reading
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This is my piece for the ABC on the Greens’ proposal to add an ethical investment component to the Future Fund. “Not for the first time, the Greens have caused some hubristic harrumphing from the business sector with an idea that shines a light into an area Big Business would rather remain darkened. The latest Greens missile is from Senator Richard Di Natale, and it concerns the marrying of social... Continue Reading
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Another review, separate to the earlier one posted below, on The Truth. “Michael Palin doesn’t look much like a Renaissance man. A well-worn, hangdog face and an endearing English propensity for comfortable walking shoes and long sleeve shirts tucked into loose chinos have carried him through a cult comedy series on TV, leading roles in some of the more subversively funny movies of the 1980s, and a library of travel... Continue Reading
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