Talk:Gerard Henderson

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[edit] "progressive political views"

Im prepared to concede that "progressive political views" can be used here with regard to the republic, becaue one side wants to keep the status quo and the other wants to "progress toward change", but the despite it technically being the same situation for Euthanasia and Asylum seekers, I think the connotations for these touchy issues causes a POV problem when tying the word "Progressive" to a person's views on them. For example, someone could argue that a change from mandatory detention of asylum seekers to instantly turning them back to their port of disembarkation could be "A progression" and thus labeling a point of view mandating a softening of Asylum seeker laws is POV in the other direction.

Add all this to the fact that we had just come off setting up a binary opposition of conservative v progressive, where we suddenly have the conservatives with the new IR laws (in this article where we mention the 'conservative position on Workchoices'), where the conservatives make the change and the so-called "progressives" want to keep the status quo. - You see the problem here.

I don't see the problem here. You can Bend it anyway you like but It is not the case of "turning them back to their port of disembarkation" as being a Progressive point of view as his the reference to his progressive point of is that Gerrard Henderson is against such treatment of Asylum Seekers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.160.99.7 (talk) 08:33, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] private or secret

User:Rumcorp keeps changing 'privately funded' to 'secretly funded' to describe the Sydney Insititute. I've given up reverting, mainly because edit wars achieve nothing. I don't think 'secretly funded' can stay because it implies the he runs some sort of shadowy organisation, which raises concerns with WP:BLP.Teiresias84 10:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[User:Teiresias84] keeps changing secretly funded to privately funded, calls me mate and wants to put the law onto me. If no one knows who funds the Sydney Institute, and all readers are encouraged to ask them where their funding comes from, then why is it not secret, the shareholders in private companies are easily established, thus in this context, private is a poor choice of wording.Rumcorp 13:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] critic of the chasers?

Henderson simply kicked them out of the Sydney institute when the American ambassador was giving a talk and they ran in with a sign saying "fuck Hicks". Hardly a well known critic