Austin G. Mackell
Top Posts
me on twitter…
- Best news I've read in a while. // Global food market far improved from crisis years soa.li/CFiyryi 1 day ago
- "Did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for a leading role in a cage?" A line that keeps me going when the going gets tough. #PinkFloyd 1 day ago
- So is #Israel's thinking that if anyone is going to be killing Levantine Arabs they sure as hell aren't going to miss out on the fun? #Golan 1 day ago
- RT @antissa: Syrian army admits to targeting Israeli military vehicle that had reportedly crossed ceasefire line - rt.com/news/israel-fi… #… 1 day ago
- Israel, Syria show teeth: Third cross-border shootout in week — RT News: rt.com/news/israel-fi… 1 day ago
Blogroll
- Acitv8Change The fantastic and fiery Kate Ausburn’s blog
- Antony Loewenstein One of Australia’s best and most critical intellectuals
- Disgruntled Biped “23 year old curmudgeon. Serial pessimist. Born in Jesusland, raised in Redneck Wonderland… suffice to say that both these experiences damaged me profoundly. Much happier now in the Inner West.”
- Inner West Live A community of blogger/journo/food-reviews/catlovers from around the Inner West (The Cool Part) of Sydney
- Lorenzo Tugnoli An amazing Italian photojournalist.
- Patch Galey A very sharp young British journalist based in Beirut and working at the Daily Star (also once my flat-mate)
- Penultimo A blog about my neighbourhood run by Jesse Stein and Erin Riley… Coz I still got love for the streets.
- Richard Hall Another fine young Daily Star Journo, writing from Beirut about the Middle East and beyond.
- Sam Tarling English Photojournalist bouncing round the Middle East. In Cairo (in the thick of it) last I checked.
- The Review of The New York Review of Books A side project of mine, featuring meta-reviews (reviews of reviews), video digests, and comment pages for the NYRB
- The Tongue Are you ready for a taste of the realness?
- The Tracy and The John “the men danced the dance of the gays”
- Two Bullets an anonymous insider from the Sydney music scene
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Tent Dwellers come to Sydney.
Small communities of tent dwellers are popping up -and being moved along – on Sydney’s city fringe. One of Australia’s leading experts says they are victims of the housing crisis. Continue reading
The Review of The Review rides again.
Recently I started another blog that I will be keeping in parallel to this. It’s called The Review of The New York Review of Books. The idea is by writing “meta-reviews” of the reviews in the NYRB we can start from where … Continue reading
Sydney College of Arts Painting Studio a “Protégé factory… Gripped by dogmatism”
A student of the Sydney College of the Arts, speaking on the condition of anonymity, has said that the Sydney College of Arts Painting Studio suffers from an “anti-aesthetic” orthodoxy that stifles the development of its students. Describing his place … Continue reading
Fuck Forbes and his Stupid Magazine.
When Kristina Keneally and Wayne Swan opened the Forbes conference in Sydney on Wednesday September 19, they were welcoming to Sydney a collection of what were without doubt some of world’s biggest and shiniest knobs. Among them was the … Continue reading
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Tagged billionaires, Bush, Cheney, Dinesh D'Souza, Forbes, Kristina Keneally, Obama, Project for the New American Century, Rumsfeld, Wayne Swan, Wolfowitz
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What are we afraid of?
Had a story I’m quite pleased with, about why it is stupid to hate refugees, published in the latest City Hub Understanding the kneejerk racist responses the issue of refugees evokes from large sections of the Australian public is the first … Continue reading
