tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post5677529844930829936..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Toujours LaisséBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-43046652899666191192012-10-27T13:30:07.295+11:002012-10-27T13:30:07.295+11:00Jemma would not have noticed what goes on behind t...Jemma would not have noticed what goes on behind the high walls the French have thrown around those banlieues. She would have been too busy making the acquaintance of visiting and influential members of the Australian arts community. I wonder how many SWF poobahs have slept on her couch? Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-15166537052434236042012-10-27T11:55:47.222+11:002012-10-27T11:55:47.222+11:00Does this Stephane have any French lady friends hi...Does this Stephane have any French lady friends his own age...if so Chip Rolley might be interested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-16300612848897367242012-10-27T11:38:11.576+11:002012-10-27T11:38:11.576+11:00'This was one of the rare cities of the world ...'This was one of the rare cities of the world that revered writers and the arts and still had hundreds of bookshops in every corner'<br /><br />Friend of mine was in Paris recently, took the wrong RER train and wound up in the South Paris projects. According to her, it was a nightmare of decaying concrete brutalism and benighted urban squalor, inhabited by sullen Arabs and North Africans, it could have been - perhaps it was - the setting for the film 'La Haine".<br /><br />Wonder if Jemma has ever been anywhere like that? BTW, don't remember my friend mentioning any bookshops! <br /> Consuela Poteznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-33870938403010613612012-10-27T09:42:25.418+11:002012-10-27T09:42:25.418+11:00Are you surprised? It must have dawned on every se...Are you surprised? It must have dawned on every sentient Australian by now that Gillard was shoe-horned to her job as a union puppet and in return she meant to carry out her sisterhood Mission,aka Emily's List!<br />Welcome to the land of thuggery and rorts inside unions with men elsewhere emasculated outside their own bedrooms!<br />Think Ill go to sleep till it's all over--but then again Red Ted hasn't wound back any green left tripe has he nor O'Farrell and the WA bloke seems to have no cojones in finding facts in the AWU union racket of the 1990's--I know I'll move to Newman territory,surely it will be better there soon,and maybe Tony is still the hope of the side!Jazzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-20660408642274926832012-10-27T09:23:04.989+11:002012-10-27T09:23:04.989+11:00Where's a whip of cords when you need one ?Where's a whip of cords when you need one ?The Old and Unimproved Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-63739950781137522032012-10-27T08:55:35.392+11:002012-10-27T08:55:35.392+11:00The Australian communist resistance newsletter, Cr...The Australian communist resistance newsletter, Crikey, announces: “A new chapter has begun at Australia’s biggest writers’ festivals, written by a new generation of female thinkers. In the last three weeks the trio of Lisa Dempster, Kate Eltham and Jemma Birrell have all begun their posts as the respective directors of the Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney writers’ festivals.”<br />So not only does (or did) the Emily’s List second-raters run most of the current and recent failed leftwing Australian state and federal governments, they’re now running the left’s cultural wing as well. And my how they squawked when the new conservative Queensland state government refused to finance a writing award designed to advance the left’s subversion of the dominant political and economic culture.<br />Having lived through the Whitlam years, I’ve no doubt the past decade will be remembered as The Madness, when we almost surrendered the foundations of the Australian civilization to a minority of radical wreckers. I have also no doubt that the next decade will be a war to save our culture and to remove the financing of its destruction by the public purse.<br />In these mad moments of history, which are mercifully rare, every fringe political group in society comes out of the swamp and uses public money to present themselves as the new paradigm – the ruling class of the future. The fact that its ambition is ultimately the destruction of our system of wealth creation means it is unsustainable and is quickly banished. But this madness, which is amplified by many multiples compared with what was dreamed by the swamp rats in the Whitlam era, runs far deeper as the left has by now successfully infiltrated and controlled the bureaucracy and the judiciary, as well as academia.<br />Only democracy – the biggest hurdle of all – stands in its way. The communists are unelectable unless they lie about their ultimate aim – big government and the destruction of private wealth. Many have successfully lied their way into power. The public now knows who they are.<br />The left’s cultural wing, which runs the writers festivals, now takes lavish public funding for granted. Since these institutions are designed for the radical 10% and actively exclude the other 90%, they should have their funding stripped back to reflect that reality. Since the left’s major cultural institution, the ABC, is now run by and for the same tiny minority, its correct annual funding is nearer $100 million than a billion.<br />Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-52126470013639750042012-10-27T08:19:04.975+11:002012-10-27T08:19:04.975+11:00The incomprehension that Europeans show for Austra...The incomprehension that Europeans show for Australian politics and life knows no bounds, Prof. On these matters, I have spent many a pleasant lunch re-educating a certain aristocratic gentleman from Zurich with whom I have had, shall we say, an intense acquaintance; one with whom, due to more recent marital vows, I no longer sup. <br /><br />As for the French - let them get fritte'd. They have always been chattering agonists. Just look what their 'intellectual' life has done to solid British empirical traditions when French theoretical fantasies are imported sans critique and holus bolus into our universities. A cultural cringe indeed.<br /><br />Like Jemma, I have loved a certain sort of Parisian life, but I am careful enough to know that wild dancing with jazz, wine and winsomely Gallic chaps in a hidden bar off Montparnasse is me living out a fancy rather than anything I would want to translate back home in Oz. Similarly, we should have our own definition of a writers' festival, not theirs. In return, they can keep their plumetting economy.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-84191693547839940302012-10-27T08:14:24.076+11:002012-10-27T08:14:24.076+11:00Were they all doing their thing on the Rue De Rema...Were they all doing their thing on the Rue De Remarques?paratusnoreply@blogger.com