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A Marshall McLuhan Memory
by Dr Mark Hayes It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of the major media scholar, Marshall McLuhan. ABC Radio National has embarked on a major McLuhan Project, with several programmes devoting air...
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Kafka Eat Yer Heart Out ~ Phone Hacking
by Dr Mark Hayes A Message from a Continuing WTF !!! Moment… In the equivalent of forests of news print and years of electronic coverage and comment on the continuing and escalating phone hacking...
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Consumerism by other means: #UKriots, burning Babylon and #neoliberalism
Guest post by Dr Wayne Hope Identifying the “causes” of major civil disturbances is always difficult, there are so many to choose from. Even the mundane vagaries of the weather have to be taken into...
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Academic, Media & Religious Freedom ~ Not ~ in Fiji
by Dr Mark Hayes Update, September 4, 2011 ~ This Post started out as something else, but, over the last week of August, 2011, it morphed into a major, running, UpDate on developments in Fiji, several...
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Another fine communist journalist. Paul Foot 1937-2004
I was reminded of Paul Foot again today. It happens from time to time. So it seemed appropriate to remember visiting his memorial site in Highgrove cemetery in north London. I was there in October 2008...
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Support the Victorian nurses – All out, go the redshirts
I’ve just driven past the Victorian nurses demo outside the Austin hospital in the pouring rain. Gave a huge blast on the car horns, coincidentally had Heaven17 in the CD player with ‘Fascist Groove...
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Turn Left 2013 – a new blog to check out
A recently established Australian political blog, Turn Left 2013, will be worth following. It launched on International Women’s Day this year (8 March 2012). This from the ‘about’ page: Turn Left was...
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Rolling through the town square as they go
Reblogged from matters spherical: The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas would probably weep. I suspect Sir Dove-Meyer Robinson, our erstwhile mayor whose bronze fist is quite appropriately raised in...
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Over hump day with a bikie war then scalping the Premier seals the deal
So far I would have to say that in terms of news bang-for-buck the Herald-Sun is doing tabloid better than The Age does compact. It’s early days I know, but in Melbourne, at least, the News Limited...
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Someone’s looking at you: Welcome to the surveillance economy
One of my favourite Boomtown Rats tracks is “Someone’s looking at you”, written by Bob Geldoff and released as the third single from The Fine Art of Surfacing. I wanted to include the lyric as a...
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EXCLUSIVE or ‘EXCUSIVE’? The Australian’s war against logic
I gave up my subscription to The Australian just over a year ago. It was the one resolution from New Year 2012-13 that I made and kept. I drafted a post on it at the time, but decided not to bother...
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BHS update
http://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/zhu-yu-china-s-baby-eating-shock-artist-goes-hyperreal Zhu Yu claims it was a real foetus stolen from a hospital Part of the shock value?...
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An open letter to Sharri Markson
The Australian‘s media editor, Sharri Markson, caused a storm this week when her newspaper published an “undercover” expose of alleged left-wing bias in two of the nation’s premier journalism programs...
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Few Weird Scenes Yet ~ Queensland Election Week Two
by Dr Mark Hayes Who is still a native Queenslander but hates the stultifying summer humidity and heat which envelops much of the place. ‘You break into a sweat when you change your mind, and feel your...
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The Looming Queensland Revolution ~ Welcome to A Future
by Dr Mark Hayes Who still hasn’t seen or heard any campaign ads on TV or radio, actively avoids them, and whose most reliable election guide has for years been ‘his water’. Some brief UpDates ~...
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Welcome to a Liquid Modern Queensland & Why Tony Fitzgerald’s in Despair
by Dr Mark Hayes Who, in his spare time, likes nothing better than grappling with some obscure and erudite tome of often European-origin high social theory and really does know where and how Habermas...
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Queensland ~ Always a Very Interesting Place
by Dr Mark Hayes Whose ‘water’ let him down badly on the probable outcome of the Queensland election, and begins to explain why below. I freely admit it. I got the Queensland election outcome wrong,...
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Update on my case with Deakin – Friday 10 June
I’m sharing this from Crikey because it’s behind a paywall. I’m only imitating the always charming Andrew Bolt. If you have think that the action against me is just about a couple of sweary tweets,...
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Hirst v Deakin: Update 12 June
The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia, (JERAA) has issued the following statement. I think it relates to my case, but I’m not sure. I am a member of the Association. Journalism...
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