Austin G. Mackell
Top Posts
- VBS.TV are a bunch of little bitches.
- You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.
- Democracy Without Elections
- Christopher Hitchens: Farewell the Hypocrite
- Bio
- Female Misogynist goes Internet dating
- Egypt's Workers in Revolution: An Interview with Labor Journalist Jano Charbel
- Happy New Year From Tahrir
- Egypt's revolutionaries fight the army, and win.
- Heroin for Dole-Bludgers
me on twitter…
- @jujueyeball do you put an s to pluralise that? 3 hours ago
- @benpobjie @GregJessop1 like that proves anything. 3 hours ago
- Latino/as, as an Anglo-saxon I'm compelled to point out: moving ones arse first left, then back rightward, is a highly inefficient maneuver. 3 hours ago
- @Glebe2037 the old airport is now a huge park. only a month or two after flights stopped. 3 hours ago
- @Glebe2037 i thought i had it set to public... but perhaps logged in yeah- 9 hours 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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Tag Archives: Australia
Letter in support of Assange
Below is the text of a letter which was read on my behalf at #Rally4JA events held in Australia. I know that at the Sydney rally it was read by a friend and hero of mine Antony Loewenstein. The text is also … Continue reading
Bob Carr … I need your help, and I need it now
I had an appeal to the incoming foreign minister @bobjcarr published over on The Drum today: This is serious, Bob. A full month has now passed since American masters student Derek Ludovici, Egyptian translator and news producer Aliya Alwi and I … Continue reading
Gurindji Fight the Intervention
I finally uploaded some videos shot last november in the Northern Territory. Probably best to watch on youtube (in HD!) but here works too. Special thanks are due to Paddy Gibson, Peter Herman, Shane O’Hallaran, John Graney, and most of … Continue reading
Heroin for Dole-Bludgers
- A plan for Australia I heard an very good story on ABC’s PM a while back. Apparently treasury –working on “the principle of least regret” – don’t want unemployment to go any lower for fear of triggering dangerous inflation. … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, Australia, capitalism, Heroin, inflation, treasury, unemployment
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Antony Loewenstein talks to #ElectionWire
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Tagged 2010 Election, Afghanistan, Alliance Maintanence, America, American Left, Antony Albanese, Antony Loewenstein, Australia, Australian Federal Election 2010, Australian Media, Australian War Crimes, Boradband Network, corporate media, Foreign Policy, Grainler, Greens, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel, Labor Party, Left, Lobby, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Radical, Rendition, Rudd, Sam Byrne, Torture, US alliance, War, Wikileaks
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