Antipodean links
Yes, well what else can Melbourne do. Via vonstrassbourg. Not go to the Comedy Festival so much, apparently.
Medievalists getting a bit of publicity.
Daniel Day Lewis being generous in remembering Heath Ledger.
Some suggestions for the 2020 agenda.
Indigenous leader calls for the return of mission schools: "The missionary days were good. The missionaries looked after the kids much better than the Government does today."
The list of “IR Community” people at the Ruddathon Ideas-for-Australia summit includes a dramatic lack of people who have ever risked any of their own capital hiring someone.
Reflecting on Sydney, particularly in comparison to Melbourne. My favourite: When conservatives drop by your house in Melbourne they bring economics texts and incomprehensible arguments about Austrian philosophers. When conservatives drop by your house in Sydney they bring wine and unrepeatably tasty gossip.
Far be it from me to disagree with the Managing Director of the ABC: If Sky News can deliver a 24-hour news service with a fraction of the number of journalists working in ABC newsrooms, then it stands to follow that the ABC is capable of producing a 24/7 news service for our audiences: we just need to work smarter to deliver it.
Blue collar voters are more likely to vote Liberal than they used to be, but on an election-by-election basis. The Liberals appear to have a demographic problem.
Liberal students are campaigning against biased academics.
Medievalists getting a bit of publicity.
Daniel Day Lewis being generous in remembering Heath Ledger.
Some suggestions for the 2020 agenda.
Indigenous leader calls for the return of mission schools: "The missionary days were good. The missionaries looked after the kids much better than the Government does today."
The list of “IR Community” people at the Ruddathon Ideas-for-Australia summit includes a dramatic lack of people who have ever risked any of their own capital hiring someone.
Reflecting on Sydney, particularly in comparison to Melbourne. My favourite: When conservatives drop by your house in Melbourne they bring economics texts and incomprehensible arguments about Austrian philosophers. When conservatives drop by your house in Sydney they bring wine and unrepeatably tasty gossip.
Far be it from me to disagree with the Managing Director of the ABC: If Sky News can deliver a 24-hour news service with a fraction of the number of journalists working in ABC newsrooms, then it stands to follow that the ABC is capable of producing a 24/7 news service for our audiences: we just need to work smarter to deliver it.
Blue collar voters are more likely to vote Liberal than they used to be, but on an election-by-election basis. The Liberals appear to have a demographic problem.
Liberal students are campaigning against biased academics.