Author Archives: Beachdair
It’s not just them, it’s us
Some articles that I’ve encountered over the past few weeks looking ostensibly at opposite ends of the democratic machine brought home to me the truism behind Churchill’s quote that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” The first was an article […]
The debate that dare not speak its name
In the early 1990s, an American Hip Hop duo called Sale-N-Pepa had a hit called ‘Let’s Talk About #%x’. The chorus went: Let’s talk about #%x baby Let’s talk about you and me Let’s talk about all the good things And the bad things that may be Let’s talk about #%x Let’s talk about #%x […]
All at sea on values
Will the 2013 federal election see a further erosion in parties representing and acting on a core set of values? And what does that mean to partisan voters? Much has been written about post ideological politics and the rise of managerial politics. The past several decades in Australian politics, and throughout many parts of the […]
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