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“Before the news and polling cycles accelerated, leaders assumed that the electorate understood reform was a long game. Not anymore. The digital age has shrunk the public attention span and lured government into making each thing it says appear to be a big idea. p225”
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
“Laura tingle: "So it's not jut that we see Gillard as a backstabber who brought down an elected prime minister, it is that we see her as the very reason we have minority government. Gillard has become the embodiment of a crushing number of uncertainties and disappointed expectations, both about politics and Australia's future, which makes voters uncomfortable -and in some cases angry.”
― Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
― Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
“Government is weaker today because the public it serves is quicker to anger, and because the Opposition has realised the safest way back to power is opposition, not policy renewal. No mandate need be respected because the Opposition can trust the media to set impossible standards for government to meet. p237”
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
― Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal
“Gay men are French women...with penises.”
― Gay Men Don't Get Fat
― Gay Men Don't Get Fat
“This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.”
― Two Boys Kissing
― Two Boys Kissing
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