Monthly Archives: December 2003

Excerpt from The History of Moomba 1955-2005

By Craig | Published: December 21, 2003

This is the Prologue of the book Moomba: A Festival for the People. This is now available to download here. Prologue In 2005, Melbourne‘s Moomba Festival became half a century old. Since its establishment in 1955, the festival has become something of an institution, unfolding in the city’s parks, along its streets and on the [...]

Posted in history, web2.0 | Tagged Cat Shows, Fanfare, Festival Directors, Festival Goers, First Kiss, Half A Century, Legions, Melbourne Cup, Mid 1980s, Moomba Festival, Night Sky, Parades, Political Environments, Populism, Prologue, Spelle, Trams, Waterskiing, World Class Opera, Yarra River | 2 Comments

Owen Harries Boyer Lectures on Radio National

By Craig | Published: December 15, 2003

How to Avoid the Parochialism of the Present http://www.abc.net.au/rn/boyers/ Globalisation and International Relations are two important fields for individuals to engage with at this present time given the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the US as the world’s only hegemon. Globalisation is an vital field to comprehend, not simply because of [...]

Posted in history, web2.0 | Tagged Actualities, Boyer Lectures, Boyers, Collapse Of The Soviet Union, Corporate Globalisation, Global Political Economy, Green Politics, Important Policy, Owen Harries, Parochialism, Policy Document, Political Beliefs, Political Consciousness, Political Entities, Radio National, Realist School, S11, Second World War, State Of Affairs, Truth And Honesty | Comments closed

Don Watson: Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, A Portrait of Paul Keating

By Craig | Published: December 14, 2003

� Don Watson’s biography Recollections of a Bleeding Heart is the first biography that I have read since reading David Marr’s Patrick White: A Life in 1995 (about the same time that society collapsed). And what a magnificent segue that it is into the core of things that matter. And even if you aren’t a [...]

Posted in history, web2.0 | Tagged Advocate, Anarchist, Australians, Bleeding Heart, Body Of Knowledge, Contradictions, David Marr, Don Watson, Economic Systems, Freedom Of Thought, Historians, Imperfect Humans, Judgement, Patrick White, Paul Keating, Political Responsibilities, Recollections, Sectarianism, Things That Matter, Utopia, Voyeuristic, web2.0 | 2 Comments

Beyond the Ladies Lounge by Clare Wright

By Craig | Published: December 13, 2003

Clare Wright’s book Beyond the Ladies Lounge is a history of Australia’s Female Publicans. What caught my attention when reading the book is its engaging use of feminist theory. This is perhaps because the book was written within the University of Melbourne’s History School. This school’s full title is the School of History and Women’s [...]

Posted in history, web2.0 | Tagged Boys Club, Broad Reach, Family Affairs, Feminist Concerns, Feminist Theory, Feminity, History Of Australia, Labour Force, Ladies Lounge, Legal Frameworks, Local Pub, Migrant Experience, Misunderstanding, Old Boys, Prestigious History, Public Morality, Publicans, Social Mobility, University Of Melbourne, Victorian Gold Rush | Comments closed

Whitefella Jump Up

By Craig | Published: December 12, 2003

The Quarterly essay by Germain Greer usurps Australian identity within her idea of ‘Aboriginality’. And one of the benefits of being an established writer and thinker is that people listen to you so it is possible to introduce new ideas into the foray and not be mocked as a ‘crack pot’. I wish more established [...]

Posted in history, web2.0 | Tagged Aboriginal Culture, Aboriginality, Australian Identity, Countries In The World, Crack, Democracy, Fitzroy, Foray, Gay Identity, Germain Greer, Logical Style, Pot, Practical Solution, Quarterly Essay, Roots, Senate, Suburb, Tasmania, Thinker, Thinkers | Comments closed

Johnny Cash Was a Great Humanist

By Craig | Published: December 11, 2003

� �I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain the only thing that’s real. The needle tears a hole, the old familiar stain. Try and kill it all away, but I remember everything. What have I become my sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away in the end. [...]

Posted in history, web2.0 | Tagged Dirt, Empire, Humanist, Johnny Cash, Needle Tears | Comments closed

Quarterly Essay David Malouf

By Craig | Published: December 10, 2003

What a comendable addition the Quarterly Essay is to the national debate. It is refreshing to engage with larger Australian discussions after floundering in the intellectual vacuum of ‘the global’�for such a long time. The problem with much discourse on ‘the global’ is that it is largely dismissive of national discussions. ‘The national’ is seen [...]

Posted in history, web2.0 | Tagged Australians, Civil Rights Movement, Clashes, Corporate Globalisation, David Malouf, Democracies In The World, Ills, Independent Studies, Inheritance, Intellectual Vacuum, Lord Of The Flies, National Debate, National Discussions, Pariah, Pol Pot, Quarterly Essay, Reality Check, Stable Democracies, Westminster System, Year Zero | Leave a comment

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