The politics of privatisation

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• ► 2012
  • ► January (4)
  • • All lined up #2
    • All lined up
    • Found
    • Will it always be like this
• ► 2011
  • ► November (1)
  • • Not so easy to answer
  • ► August (1)
  • • Moving around
  • ► June (2)
  • • Last days in Shanghai
    • Cao Cang Di
  • ► April (26)
  • • Old Beijing
    • Beijing kitsch
    • Beijing nostalgia
    • Beginning of Spring
    • Forbidden City
    • Two sides of the same street
    • Stairs
    • My Beijing folly...
    • Convenience Store #2
    • Beijing follies - CBD
    • In the suburbs
    • Votive traces
    • Day 2
    • Convenience Store #1
    • On the way home
    • China Telco
    • The end of the roll
    • Kowloon hydrant
    • Walls
    • Trolleys
    • Clean streets
    • More fire plugs
    • Ladders
    • Fields of plenty
    • Hong Kong hydrants
    • More fields
  • ► March (1)
  • • More Dead Servos
  • ► February (2)
  • • Eat in or take away
• ► 2010
  • ► November (3)
  • • Rage, rage
    • All that remains
    • Just passing through
  • ► October (3)
  • • Hold everything dear
    • Captive to memory
    • Where hope and hopelessness collides
  • ► September (5)
  • • Will you catch me when I fall?
    • Quoting Dylan Thomas
  • ► August (1)
  • ► July (2)
  • • A matter of opinion
    • Another outing
  • ► May (1)
  • • Cusp - unconscious narratives of the surgical intervention
  • ► April (2)
  • • By way of explanation
    • Quoting William Yeats
  • ► March (2)
  • • Misquoting Willliam Yeats
    • Smith Street
  • ► February (1)
• ► 2009
  • ► December (1)
  • • Epitaph
  • ► November (2)
  • • Finally
  • ► October (2)
  • • Avoca main street
    • All that remains
  • ► September (1)
  • • Unsettled
  • ► August (2)
  • • Rubbish Theory
    • Local knowledge
  • ► July (3)
  • • Dead Servos
  • ► June (2)
  • • House in the sky
    • Flock in Ararat
  • ► May (1)
  • • Hotham Street, St Kilda
  • ► April (3)
  • ► March (3)
  • • Sleeper
  • ► February (1)
  • • The trees of Rome
  • ► January (2)
  • • I must be in Naples because....
    • Nightlife
• ► 2008
  • ► December (5)
  • • Campo de' Fiori
    • Shoo fly
    • Washing in public spaces
    • Leaving Rome
    • Music in public spaces
  • ► November (6)
  • • Madonnas in public spaces
    • Scissor Sharpener
    • More dogs of Rome
    • The dogs of Rome #1
    • Looking for an exhibition by Ernesto Neto
    • A difference of opinion
  • ► October (1)
  • • Smith Street
  • ► September (1)
  • • Recliner #3
  • ► August (2)
  • • Return to the streets #2
    • Return to the streets
  • ► July (1)
  • • They flock together
  • ► June (4)
  • • Flock
    • From the stencil archive
    • Laneway smoko #10
    • more suitcases
  • ► May (3)
  • • Yours or mine
    • More from the stencil archive
    • Better than a texta
  • ► April (3)
  • • The city and its strangers #18
    • Looking down #1
  • ► March (5)
  • • Looking up #5
    • The city and its strangers
    • Looking up #4
  • ► February (2)
• ► 2007
  • ► December (2)
  • • The city and its strangers #18
    • The city and its strangers #17
  • ► November (2)
  • • The day after
    • The city and its strangers #16
  • ► October (4)
  • • the city and its strangers #15
    • A change of venue
    • The city and its strangers #14
    • The city and its strangers #13
  • ► September (6)
  • • The city and its strangers #11
    • The city and its strangers #10
    • The city and its strangers #9
    • The city and its strangers #8
    • The city and its strangers #7
    • Another voice
  • ► August (13)
  • • The city and its strangers #6
    • The city and its strangers #5
    • The city and its strangers #4
    • Mobile art
    • The city and its strangers #3
    • Laneway smoko#13
    • The city and its strangers #2
    • Acting suspiciously #2
    • Site and surface #1
    • The city and its strangers #1
    • View into a carpark #5
    • View from a carpark #4
    • View from a carpark #3
  • ► July (13)
  • • Acting suspiciously
    • Public amenity
    • Hard rubbish collection point #2
    • Looking up #5
    • The Palace and the Palais
    • Bright eyed and bushy tailed
    • Circling the ruin
    • Gleaner and the cleaner #4
    • View from a carpark
  • ► June (13)
  • • Laneway smoko#13
    • Student life for sale
    • In between space #2
    • In between space
    • Looking up #4
    • Looking up #3
    • Looking up #2
    • Looking up #1
    • Laneway smoko#12
    • The gleaner and the smoker
    • Laneway smoko #10
    • Laneway smoko#9
    • Gleaner and the cleaner #3
  • ► May (13)
  • • Jason recliner #2
    • The gleaner and the fishermen
    • The gleaner and the fishermen #2
    • Looking down #3
    • Looking down #2
    • Looking down #1
    • The gleaner and the cleaner #2
    • Gleaner and the cleaner #1
    • The botanist of the pavement
    • View from a bridge #3
    • View from a bridge #2
    • Beside the river next to the bridge
    • Depends on your point of view
  • ► April (5)
  • • View from the bridge
    • On the bridge
    • Under the bridge
    • Fields of gold
    • Torquay rocks
  • ► March (7)
  • • Walking around Carlton
    • Walking around Paddington
    • A long walk home
    • Waiting for rain #2
    • Quoting Damien Hirst
    • Apartment for sale - Riverside views
    • Moving on
  • ► February (5)
  • • Flat out #2
    • And another thing
    • One more thing
    • Flat out
    • I love St Kilda
  • ► January (5)
  • • Permanent fixture
    • New year's resolution
    • Waiting for rain
    • Hot afternoon
    • Legless
• ► 2006
  • ► December (10)
  • • Border town #5
    • Border town #4
    • Border town #3
    • Border town #2
    • Border town #1
    • Local Character
    • Out of site
    • Unconscious art of demolition #2
    • Is there a pattern here?
    • The politics of privatisation
  • ► November (14)
  • • Anything is possible
    • Writing in public #4
    • Writing in public spaces #3
    • Writing in public spaces #2
    • Writing in public #1
    • In my next life I'd like to be a tech head.
    • Locked out
    • Lunch break
    • Mobile memorial #1
    • Mobile memorial #2
    • Tidy Town #3
    • Tidy Town #2
    • Tidy Town #1
    • Hillsy's chairs
  • ► October (9)
  • • Not enough water
    • Toilet wall
    • More wheat silos
    • House in the sky #4
    • House in the sky #3
    • House in the sky #2
    • House in the sky
    • No monument
    • The other side
  • ► September (8)
  • • Hotel St Kilda
    • Unconscious art of demolition
    • From the badlands
    • Contested space
    • Another redemption?
    • On Punt Road Hill
    • Afterlife #2
    • Afterlife #1
  • ► August (15)
  • • A brief history of stencils #8
    • A brief history of stencils #7
    • A brief history of stencils #6
    • A brief history of stencils #5
    • afterlife
    • A brief history of stencils #4
    • A brief history of stencils #3
    • A brief history of stencils #2
    • A brief history of stencils
    • More signs
    • Is it art or is it science.....
    • Moving to St Kilda
    • Same words
    • Quiet resignation
    • St Kilda pill popper
  • ► July (14)
  • • Size 10 shoe
    • Monument to mediocity
    • Love that design
    • The height of fashion
    • Another conversation
    • Another voice
    • On edge #4
    • Girls on edge #3
    • Identity crises
    • Passive smoking
    • Another Furphy #2
    • Sydney postcard
    • Isn't everybody?
  • ► June (15)
  • • Writing in public
    • Urban fabric #12
    • Urban fabric #11
    • Urban fabric #10
    • Rural/urban #7
    • Rural/urban #6
    • Rural/urban #5
    • Rural/urban #4
    • Rural/urban #3
    • Rural/urban #2
    • Rural/urban #1
    • Laneway smoko #9
    • City fabric
    • Waiting for a new home
    • Urban fabric #9
  • ► May (14)
  • • The last of the pink bags
    • Another furphy #1
    • Pink bag
    • Town square
    • Out of place
    • More freeway art
    • Waste not want not
    • A work of art on every corner
    • Business as usual
    • Peak Hour
    • Privatising public space.....
    • Laneway smoko #8
    • Laneway smoko #7
  • ► April (14)
  • • Object on pedestal #2
    • Object on pedestal
    • A long walk home
    • Marked for removal?
    • Message board
    • Out of site
    • Duds #1
    • Laneway smoko #6
    • Old St Kilda Monument
    • What does it mean?
    • Laneway smoko #5
    • Re-direction notice
    • Another set of signs #1
  • ► March (14)
  • • Back to normal soon
    • Official marks #6
    • Official marks #4
    • Official marks #1
    • The Commonwealth Games
    • Urban fabric #6
    • Urban fabric #7
    • Urban fabric #4
    • Urban fabric #8
    • Colour on canvas
    • The other game in town
    • Grand Prix bump-in #2
    • Grand Prix bump-in #1
    • Commonwealth Games clean-up #1
  • ► February (11)
  • • Bindings #1
    • Bindings #2
    • Depends on your point of view #2
    • Depends on your point of view #1
    • The original Heidelberg Mall
    • Still flying the flag
    • Re-establishing
    • Heidelberg Mall renewed #1
    • Heidelberg Mall renewed #2
    • Heidelberg Mall renewed #3
    • A different language
  • ► January (9)
  • • Preserved from another era....
    • Road side honesty system'#2
    • Roadside honesty system #1
    • Why not $1.50?
    • Too much information
    • Onions
    • Country Xmas
    • In memory #2
    • In memory #1
• ► 2005
  • ► December (12)
  • • Final word
    • Week before Xmas #4
    • The week before Xmas #3
    • One week before Xmas
    • Relaxed and comfortable? #3
    • Relaxed and comfortable? #2
    • Relaxed and comfortable?#1
    • Sydney postcard
    • No longer on edge
    • Get smart when they get tough
    • Have you ever read the signs?
    • Sacrificial smoke
  • ► November (19)
  • • Hard way to earn a buck
    • Laneway smoko #4
    • Waiting for ........
    • A simple set of instructions
    • Exchange rate always on edge
    • Telstra on edge
    • Graffitti artists on edge
    • Howard Government on edge
    • ACMI on edge
    • Laneway smoko #3
    • Laneway smoko #2
    • Laneway smoko #1
    • Sydney Xmas bunting
    • Annandale letterbox
    • Another directive
    • Another version
    • Fitzroy street picnic
    • Message from the Melbourne City Council
    • The city and it's strangers
  • ► October (13)
  • • Temporary mark
    • Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival
    • Community Notice Board
    • Melbourne Festival bumps out
    • Trip hazard #3
    • Trip hazard #2
    • Trip hazard #1
    • Sydney's rubbish #6
    • Sydney's rubbish #5
    • Sydney's rubbish #4
    • Sydney's rubbish #3
    • Sydney's rubbish #2
    • Sydney's rubbish #1