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Arts elite attacks Australian PM Rudd over images
Posted by senselessthing from The Age
The handpicked cultural advisers of prime minister Kevin Rudd have confronted him over his attack on Bill Henson's photographs of naked teenagers, and have warned that the Melbourne artist potential prosecution damages the Australia's cultural reputation.
Justice for Australia's Stolen Generations
Posted by senselessthing
One of the tens of thousands of indigenous Australians known as the Stolen Generations, Debra Hocking reflects on being forcibly removed from her family and enduring years of abuse as a result, before campaigning for a formal apology from the government.
Riding on a sheep's back - PETA versus Australian wool
Posted by senselessthing from The Age
In recent months, PETA's campaigning has induced dozens of retailers to boycott or phase out Australian wool in protest at the controversial practice of "mulesing", a grim operation which involves cutting away swathes of skin around the backsides of Merino sheep.
Of dogs and blogs - the generational rift in Victoria's Liberals
Posted by senselessthing from The Age
The 'Ted Baillieu Must Go' blog that attacked the leader of Victoria's opposition Liberals has shown that his opponents are less defined by belonging to a party faction than by their younger age and the new methods they use to make themselves heard.
Hatchets are buried as the chainsaws fall silent in Australian native forest
Posted by senselessthing from The Age
The last of the chainsaws are due to fall silent as the final licence to log in the Otways expires, ending years of bitter confrontations between loggers and conservationists in the native forest 100 miles south-west of Melbourne.
‘Captain Sniffy’ and Western Australia’s blokey blokes
Posted by devolved from Smh.com
The addition to a welter of oafish indiscretions of sexist overtone by Western Australia's opposition leader Troy Buswell says plenty about the Liberal Party there, and adds to a lingering suspicions about the place that despite marketing itself as the State of Excitement is too often too willing to conduct itself as the State of Excess.
Costa, New South Wales Labor's good cop, bad cop or true blue?
Posted by devolved from Smh.com
New South Wales Treasurer Michael Costa's bully-boy tactics may have hurt Labor but not the Premier or the state government plan's to sell-off its power industry.
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