{"id":188,"date":"2006-01-16T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2006-01-16T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T23:19:15","slug":"mgk-nominated-for-2006-best-australian-political-blog-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"mgk nominated for 2006 Best Australian Political blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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mgk:Machine Gun Keyboard<\/strong> has been nominated in the category ‘Best Australian Political Blog<\/a>‘ in the 2006 Australian Blog Awards<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Thanks much to the roughly 1000 people per week who read and have nominated mgk. <\/p>\n

My nomination for the category went to Suki Lombard of Suki Has An Opinion<\/a> for her dogged and tireless pursuit of Women’s Issues in Australia, particularly on matters of reproductive freedom. I really think that there should have been an independent Australian Women’s Issues category, but c’est la vie<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Also nominated in the Best Australian Political blog category is the anti-racist FightDemBack<\/a> group (to which I am a frequent contributor), who really go far beyond mere politics. Racism isn’t a simple political matter- it’s a core human rights issue. The Cronulla race-riots<\/a> of December 2005, coordinated and fuelled by neo-nazis and white supremacists, put the issue of racism on the front burner in Australia. <\/p>\n

FightDemBack scored coup<\/a> after coup<\/a> after coup<\/a> in 2005, exposing racists<\/a> who hide in the shadowy corners of the Net. No one should be victimised simply for what they are- and FightDemBack gets that message across across- like a full overhead swing of a sixteen pound sledgehammer on a walnut. <\/p>\n

FDB conveys the message of tolerance and equality- and not just to mainstream readers. FDB is highly effective in shutting down race-hate propagandists and exposing their hypocrisies. FDB truly came of age in 2005, now working closely with Australian and New Zealand journalists<\/a> and law enforcement<\/a> to score several<\/a> arrests<\/a>, convictions and jailings<\/a> of race-hatemongers in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Nominations for the 2006 Australian Blog Awards have now closed and voting is on<\/a> until 26 January 2006.<\/p>\n

-weez <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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