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It was difficult to know how to approach Paul Howes’ Confessions Of A Faceless Man , his public “diary” of the 2010 election campaign. http://left-flank.blogspot.com/2010/11/taken-at-face-value-labor-is-in-lot-of.html

Taken at face value, Labor is in a lot of trouble

Dissecting economic mythologies - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/40558.html Find More Stories Think back for a moment to September 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the world's financial system seized up. Think of the panic that infected elite circles as contagion threatened economic catastrophe.
Illustration: Mat Davidson.

Stars & swipes

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/stars--swipes-20111022-1mdpa.html
Greens leader has been clashing with the government over the Tasmanian forestry deal Picture: Ray Strange Source: The Australian THE bonds between the government and the Greens are strained by complexities. Some involve the relationship between the two. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/greens-big-year-may-sour/story-e6frg6z6-1226266132463

Greens' big year may sour | The Australian

left flank: Intended or not, the consequences of riots are not always negative

http://left-flank.org/ When watching the last few episodes of US cable TV series The Walking Dead , it struck me that the title has a double meaning, that Sheriff Rick and the other survivors of the zombie apocalypse are also among the dead who roam the planet’s surface.

The Greens at the crossroads: ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ matter more than you’d think

http://left-flank.blogspot.com/2012/02/greens-at-crossroads-left-and-right.html When watching the last few episodes of US cable TV series The Walking Dead , it struck me that the title has a double meaning, that Sheriff Rick and the other survivors of the zombie apocalypse are also among the dead who roam the planet’s surface. They’re still animated to do all the usual human things — eat, sleep, play, laugh, cry, get jealous, fight with each other, screw up — but really only kept going by the residues of the past and not any sense of a goal or a future.