Things internetty
A public lecture is being presented on Thursday night as an event associated with the International Association for Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference being held in Brisbane on 27-29 September. Looks interesting – details over the fold – the topic is [...]
Down the Theodore track
Republished from today’s Crikey email: Queensland has already sent two potential Prime Ministers to Canberra, and Joh never quite made it. Last century, both TJ Ryan and “Red” Ted Theodore, shifted to Canberra after their premierships. Both were touted as [...]
Centrelink Really Must Go!
(or Abolish Centrelink Redux) Australians have a real talent for bureaucracy. (Some famous bloke whose name I’ve forgotten) I went out to Melbourne University yesterday afternoon, to check out a course. It’s supposed to be the next move forward in [...]
Bill vs. Fox: the Empire fights back
Bill Clinton was quoted in a long feature in the New Yorker recently on the importance of Democrats getting on the front foot when the GOP hurl mud at them. Kerry, he suggested, shouldn’t have let the Swift Boats saga [...]
How to squander goodwill amongst the liberated
Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, summarising part of his book Imperial Life in the Emerald City, argues that one large contributor to the current distrust and militancy amongst Iraqis is the way [...]
Lonelygirl15 wants you to take her photo
Some of the debate about the lonelygirl15 affair has been a bit odd. Odd, in that people are surprised? Why would anyone think that in an age of viral marketing, Hollywood types wouldn’t cotton on? There are two analytically separate [...]
Brethren On A Plane!
This evening’s Four Corners report on the Christian sect known as the Exclusive Brethren reminded me about a striking scene I witnessed at Melbourne Airport one morning about a month ago. Gate Lounge 23 was full to overflowing with EB [...]
Syderney
I’ll be in Sydney on Thursday night this week. Jason Soon and Comrade Liam have been kind enough to organise some drinks for me – and I’d be really happy to meet any other bloggers and LP commenters and readers [...]
A lumbering beast with a club
Republished from today’s Crikey email: A few days after the Queensland election, Bob Katter had this to say to Tony Eastley on ABC Radio: What we have here is a beast that’s been slumbering and is now lumbering out of [...]
A Conga Line of Cliches
… One of saddest things I have seen in my lifetime has been the decline in Australian male culture, the loss of our larrikin language and values. This has been squeezed out of society by a number of powerful influences; [...]
At the Brisbane Writers Festival
I often have nightmares about turning up for work when no-one else is there, or being invited to a party and being the only person showing up, or not being able to find the place I’m going to and so [...]
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