Category: Adam Bandt

01 May

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The ALP & the politics of anti-immigration (both kinds)

by Dr_Tad

Cross-posted from Larvatus Prodeo. Thanks to Mark Bahnisch for convincing me to return to this subject. I have to confess that I couldn’t bring myself to watch Monday’s Four Corners on the scandal of Australia’s “offshore” asylum seeker processing regime. I’m on the Sydney Refugee Action Coalition email list and read horrifying stories from Manus [...]

Filed under: Adam Bandt, ALP, class, dogwhistling, Featured, immigration, Julia Gillard, population, refugees

17 Apr

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The Greens after Bob Brown: ‘Replacing the bastards’ or just joining them?

by Dr_Tad

Bloody Bob Brown. I have a relatively quiet weekend planned and he goes and retires. Here’s the other article I was asked to write on the subject, for yesterday’s The Drum Opinion, looking at things in terms of the prospects for the party itself. I reproduce it below for your commenting pleasure away from the, [...]

Filed under: Adam Bandt, Bob Brown, Christine Milne, Featured, Greens

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