You can nominate yourself or nominate others for the Summit. Let’s see the blogosphere (especially the women) represented! You’ve got till 5pm today.
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Suz:
Nice of you to put this up …. but …. as I’ve said on the Counter Summit blog http.//countersummitaustralia2020.blogspot.com and elsewhere, including Stilgherrian blog, I’ll be d*mned if I’ll give up my grocery money to go off on a jolly jaunt down to Camberra AT MY OWN EXPENSE [sorry GMB, for pinching your typeface] just to make up the claque for eminent born-losers who have absolutely no vision whatsoever for the future. Nor do I feel like wasting my time rubber-stamping counter-productive policies. Sorry, have wasted my valuable time too often at Canberra and Sydney bunfights over the years to get caught again by the same mob of boofheads.
HOWEVER, If a genuine get-together to discuss how we can improve the future of Australia comes up …. please contact me immediately, anytime. day or night.
I’ll swim flooded creeks to get there.
Hey Suz
Do you get travel and accommodation expenses and are you paid? There would surely be some benefit for wanting to participate.I doubt much else will come out of it!
Can I suggest that it might be more constructive if we all supported SOMEONE (I’m thinking Mark) as a representative, and supported that application????
Interested, Mark?
One thing to keep in mind that it’s really ten largely separate summits.
Mark might be most interested in the governance one; if I were to go, I’d like to attend the environment one.
Robert Merkel [4]:
You and Mark would be far better delegates/participants than the usual bunch of culprits and dropkicks.
Given my experience, I don’t think that’s likely to happen though. Pity, it would have been a terrific opportunity to drag Australia forward out of the 19th century.
If there is anything practical that I can do to help get both of you in, let’s know.
I was actually going to nominate Mark. Then I saw the form and realised I didn’t know his inside left leg measurement. Robert or Mark if you need a ref contact me.
Unless there’s a telecommuting option, no chance. This sort of participation is inaccessible not only to people who can’t afford to pay their own expenses, but also to people who are physically unable to travel long distances and sit up all day gabbing.
But if someone else in the ozfemiblogosphere is up for it, count on my support.
Lauredhel [7]:
Thanks. To be honest, I hadn’t even thought of the implied physical fitness test that matches the implied financial test and, from that, the minimum education limit.
Frank Calabrese [if you're around today]:
Did you or anyone you know put in for this BunyipAristocracy 2020 Summit?
Thanks, folks, but I’d previously been asked to nominate and declined. For basically three reasons:
(a) I’m not a full time university employee and have cut back on my casual lecturing and tutoring this semester and other work commitments this semester to enable me to finish my PhD thesis – so I’m brokeish;
(b) I’m speaking at a forum on 20 April;
(c) I may well be critical of the outcome of the summit and I thought it might be a conflict of interest to go and then write about the proceedings.
Mark [10]:
No conflict of interest visible on this side of the horizon …. but at least you did consider taking part in a discussion [other than here, Crikey, etc.] on Australia’s future.
Score: Involvement & Engagement – 1. Apathy – 0.
I’d thought Tigtog – ex-physiotherapist and blogger extraordinaire – would be a great summiteer but for various reasons she wasn’t keen – which I can easily understand.
I appreciated the thought, Susoz. Apart from some reservations about the whole process, the timing doesn’t work for me.