Tom, Hugh Mackay is a good source. He puts out a regular newsletter - I don't think it is cheap, but there is a lot of work behind it. I don't subscribe, but his newspaper columns are always excellent. Incidentally, the SMHerald & Age seem to have dropped him in the last month - perhaps they needed the money to give Miranda Divine a bonus :-(
And yes, I think it is possible to take the cultural pulse and then come at it from a completely different angle to Howard.
Kind regards, Lindsay.
At 09:30 AM 4/09/03 +1000, Tom Stuart wrote:
I ve become somewhat battered by castigates of the chattering class. While, if I am a part of the chattering class, I would be at the bottom end, I confess (if such a membership is a sin) I to belong to it. I have come to this conclusion because I seem to be interested in, and hold opinions, that often fit into the categories of the accusers.
As I often am, I am about to be presumptuous. My hunch is that if I belong to this chattering class then a lot of the people on this list could also be described as fitting the same category.
Though I actually don t think my membership is such a sin I am anxious that somehow my perspectives are somewhat blinkered and at present I am feeling dearly inclined to ratchet the blinkers back. I would like to find a place (oh dear & I mean a website, ezine or something similar & is the place I am seeking my answers already denying me of them?& okay, a pub!) where I might discover what really matters to the ordinary Australian.
And, by the way, when I look at Jesus and who it was that surrounded Jesus, and to whom he offered his message, who are they in Australian society? (There is a question in there of a particular & is it the blue collar worker that apparently the Prime Minister is pandering too and whose values I detest? Maybe I can find the same anxieties in them but come up with different responses & hmmm)/
After the furore over refuges, war, a lying *&^% of a prime minister, homosexuality, I just need to calibrate my compass.
Tom
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