Liz Conor: Comment and Critique
opinion, essays, cultural and political analysis
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Writing on the Wall
This wall was in response to the Black Saturday fires in February 2009, in which 173 Victorians lost their lives.
Labels: Arson, Black Saturday, Climate Change, Graffiti
Writing on the Wall
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)
Labels: 8 hours day, Graffiti, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop
Writing on the Wall
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.
Labels: Graffiti, nuclear, yellowcake
Writing on the Wall
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.
Labels: Forestry, Graffiti, Gunns, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Pulp Mill
Writing on the Wall

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.
Labels: Amcor, CFMEU, Forestry, Graffiti, Labor Party
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
Labels: Fox, Fox Fux Fax, Graffiti, Rupert Murdoch
Writing on the Wall
This wall was in response to then PM John Howard signing off on logging more old growth forests.
Labels: Graffiti, John Howard, Logging, Sex Pistols
Writing on the Wall
This wall was on the release of Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' in 2003.
Labels: George Bush, Kill Bill, Tarantino
Writing on the Wall

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.
Labels: Graffiti, Native Title, Pauline Hanson, Wik

