Speaking of The Adelaide Review it was founded by Christopher Pearson who is now one of the one-dimensional ideological hacks at BARBARIAN CENTRAL---aka the Australian. Where everything is reduced to a set of binary exclusions and most of the articles are just a string of cardboard cliches strung together to "prove" a point in the culture wars.

Consider two recent articles.

Last Saturday there was an article by James Allan dismissing "alternative therapies" as essentially irrational superstitious nonsense.

As an alternative consider this site 1. http://www.radicalhealing.com which is by a fully qualified and experienced MD who actually bothered to do the EMPIRICIAL (that is evidence based) research to find out if the "alternatives" actually worked.
One of the authors inspirations was Doctor Robert Mendelsohn who was a professor of pediatrics at a major USA teaching hospital and university. Robert wrote a book titled Confessions of a Medical Heretic which expressed his dis-illusionment with conventional drugs and surgery "medicine". Based on his EMPIRICAL evidence based observations.

This week there was an essay titled Dark Green Barbarians by Craig Emerson. It had a few good points but was just a string of the usual one-dimensional right-wing cliches.

As a counter to Emerson please check out the new edition of Orion Magazine, especially the set of 6 essays personal response to climate change and the environmental crisis---try Carl Safina to start with.

1. http://www.orionmagazine.org

Or try Resurgence Magazine at 1. http://www.resurgence.org

If the people at Resurgence and Orion are "barbarians" then count me in too! I am more than proud to be a fully paid up barbarian!

Yes these people have been hanging around in an isolated group for far too long. As has been discussed Kevin Rudd was very careful to portray himself as a ‘steady as she goes’ candidate, on social issues as well on the economy (except work choice- the issue that inspired a lot of my friends to vote Rudd).

Also could the Authors of this piece do me a favour and highlight the articles that they wrote over the past 10 years telling the left that the debate was over and the people had spoken, particularly during the ‘Tampa’ election where immigration and border securing really was a key elevation issue.

Cheers

Interest rates up, petrol price up ... even though barrels of oil are down by 20%, ... groceries are up, inflation is up, electricity is up, unemployment is up,

standard of living is down, Australians average wealth is down,

all in eight months of Rudd and his “recognise(ing) where markets fail and then intervene(ing) on behalf of a compassionate society”.

His convoluted talking and madness is leading us to economic disaster. And then wait until he tries to implement IR reforms and Emissions Trading.

Oh and when was Howard ever lectured on Human Rights by a Communist Chinese Dictator ... like Rudd during his first trip to China. No bloody wonder he was so quiet on his latest fawning trip to see his demigods.

Oh and that idiot Roxon lied when they stuck up the price of my booze.

What a parade of sad sore losers posting their whinges here.

Get over it people. There's a new legitimacy in the land and human values are back in town.

This article sounds strangely triumphant, given that Rudd's not left. He's not even really right. The terms are becoming increasingly redundant. We're not told that by the main stream media who cling to it, though.

Cheryl, you were going so well until saying that The Australian is an excellent newspaper. It's not. None of the newspapers in Australia are particularly good, and even worse at admitting when they've been caught fudging. It's been listing aimlessly for some time, and had everything but the result completely wrong at the last election, despite constant bleatings that they were the only ones that really knew, er, anything political. They were pwnt, completely. The current beat-up of Costello is another example: it's based on nothing...