Liz Conor: Comment and Critique

opinion, essays, cultural and political analysis

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Writing on the Wall




This wall is in response to the campaigning by the 'big polluter' mining companies against the Gillard government initiating a price on carbon. It is intended to be ironic.

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This wall was in response to the Black Saturday fires in February 2009, in which 173 Victorians lost their lives.

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This wall scored the performances of Julia Gillard and Julie Bishop as opposed industry ministers in 2009. (8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours play, was the demand won by the Stonemasons and building workers in 1856)

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This wall was in response to Prime Minister John Howard's call for an inquiry into the feasibility of a local nuclear industry and a debate on the viability of a nuclear industry in Australia in mid 2006.

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This wall was a remembrance to a 13-year-old Somali girl who was gang raped, and then stoned to death after she reported it to al-Shabab, in the southern port of Kismayu, in late 2008.

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This wall commented on the common backing by the Labour and Liberal parties for the proposed Gunns' Pulp Mill, in the Tamar valley, Tasmania in late 2006. To avoid forestry becoming an election issue the parties stitched up a bipartisan deal changing the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement. It made logging, that the courts had found to be illegal, legal. The mill would have consumed 4.5 million tonnes of forest per year. In addition secret dealings between the Tasmanian Lennon government and Gunns had been revealed.

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This wall responded to revelations on ABC's 'Four Corners', in October 2008, of the infiltration of environmental groups by packaging corporation Amcor. It created a covert group, the A-team, in cahoots with the CFMEU, and stacked the Victorian Labor party's environment policy committee influencing Labor party forestry policy.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Writing on the Wall



This wall was inspired by the documentary Outfoxed, which exposed the bias, undue influence and corruption of Rupert Murdoch's media empire

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This wall was in response to then PM John Howard signing off on logging more old growth forests.

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This wall was on the release of Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' in 2003.

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This was the second Graffiti wall. The first read, 'Jeff Kennett Needs His Bottom Smacked'. This one was at the height of the Wik Native Title Dispute in which then PM John Howard propogated much of Pauline Hanson's racial sentiment, to reclaim the National party constituents haemorraging to her One Nation party. Thanks to Tasmanian conservative senator Brian Harradine, Howard's bill, which required amending the racial discrimination act, Howard's 10 Point Plan passed in 1998.

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