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Junk For Code is a blog by Gary Sauer-Thompson where he posts and comments on political cartoons, discusses philosophical issues, and chimes in on events in the news. Editorial cartoons are an interesting art form and are well represented here, as well as other forms of art and discussions of current events. You’ll also find extensive links on related subjects.
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Date: 05.24.2013
The Coalition talks in terms of smaller government and rolling back the welfare state its policies (paid parental leave, dam construction, and Direct Action for carbon abatement) are those of Big Government. Mark Latham spot it, and he sees the significance----the Liberal Party is in retreat. David Rowe Of course... read more »
Date: 05.23.2013
Moir`s cartoon is pretty accurate by you would guess that from business and political journalism. As we know the media??s commercial interest masquerading as news is not new and that a lot of the commentary is PR-driven churnalism. It`s a situation of weakened media companies, reliant on corporate advertising, not... read more »
Date: 05.22.2013
The media commentary around Abbott`s Budget reply has by and large been positive. The Canberra Press/Media Gallery is happy to remain at the level of political appearances---"Abbott cleverly sidestepped Labor`s booby traps" etc--- and to take Abbott at his word about budget emergencies and the austerity medicine restoring Australia to... read more »
Date: 05.21.2013
Both Tony Abbott and Matthias Gorman on Radio National Breakfast espoused austerity economics, which, they claimed , would lead to a anew age of prosperity. These claims (bombast and humbug were not contested by the journalists even though the flaws of this pre-Keynesian economics were covered over by the rhetoric... read more »
Date: 05.20.2013
Mark Blyth??s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea looks at the ideas of those austerians who have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made the economy worse and centered the economic policy debate on budget on cuts to government spending. Austerity is the only way... read more »
Date: 05.19.2013
The Gillard Govt`s budget strategy is one that locks in its long-term social welfare reforms in education and disability in the context of the shortfall in tax revenues caused by falling commodity prices and a high Aussie dollar. This strategy also involves cuts in spending--eg., the baby bonus, university funding,... read more »
Date: 05.18.2013
An incoming Coalition is committed to the politics of austerity, given its economic mantra of ???stop the taxes??? , "cut the debt" and only run budget surpluses always. It is also committed to the supporting multinational capital--- Big Miners, the coal industry and the fossil fuel companies/generators--- by rolling back... read more »
Date: 05.17.2013
It`s hard to arouse much interest in the 2013 budget and its deficit. The latter has become a fetish. We know that government revenue is declining, and that this means the naive commentary that the deficit is caused by a profligate, wasteful Labor Government blowing the revenue from the mining... read more »
Date: 05.16.2013
Nick Cater??s book The Lucky Culture And the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class is the voice of the Murdoch media in Australia, which controls 70% of the press and a fair slice of the screen. Cater speaks for the political power that is centred on big business, the Murdoch... read more »
Date: 05.15.2013
Roy Green in Beyond the boom: have we frittered away our opportunities? asks a very good question: "Where are jobs and growth to come from after the commodity boom?" Improved productivity is central to rising living standards and sustainable economic growth especially when Australia is repositioning and competing globally as... read more »
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