By Mark Bahnisch on April 8, 2010
I’m speaking at a forum organised by the Search Foundation on Saturday: Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push. There’s a great line up of speakers, including Professor John Quiggin, Peter Simpson of the Queensland ETU and Dr Patricia Ranald [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, Markets, Notices, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Activism, ALP, Anna Bligh, breaking the addiction, Brisbane Workers Community Centre, BWCC, campaign, challenging Bligh's privatisation push, ETU, event, forum, ideology, John Quiggin, neo-liberalism, notice, Patricia Ranald, Peter Simpson, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, Queensland rail, search foundation, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 20, 2009
We’ve been discussing issues about the future of the media and of journalism here at LP over a sustained period of time, and many will be aware of Margaret Simons’ work and commentary on these issues. She, along with Queensland [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Media, Notices | Tagged Brisbane, event, future of journalism, future of media, kate eltham, lecture, margaret simons, Queensland Writers Centre, QWC, SLQ, State Library of Queensland, wordpool |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 29, 2009
I’m speaking on the 11th of August at an event organised by the Queensland Writers Centre: Books in the Digital Age:The Future of Writing With the rapid changes in Australia’s writing and publishing industry, where will books fit in the [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Notices, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Books, Writers & Writing, cultural studies, digital culture, event, future of books, lecture, literacy, Mark Bahnisch, publishing, Queensland Writers Centre, QUT, QWC, reading, Sociology, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 1, 2009
While the ‘economic management debate’ rumbles along its predictable partisan grooves, something interesting has been taking place elsewhere – something of a concatenation of the better legacies of the communitarianism of the 90s and a shift in values which has [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Economics, Ethics, Notices, Sociology | Tagged BrisCulture, cheryl kernot, communitarianism, community, connectivity, creativity, event, global financial crisis, Griffith REVIEW, Participation Society, social enterprise, Sociology, State Library of Queensland, talk |
By Guest Poster on March 16, 2009
The tangled web: beyond an internet filter A series of public forums about the internet regulation debate in Australia The Federal Government’s proposal to block internet sites with a mandatory filter has drawn overwhelming opposition from voices across politics and [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Media, Notices, Policy, The Web | Tagged Brisbane, event, forum, internet filtering, New Matilda, nocleanfeed, stephen conroy |
By Kim on November 6, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3005940172_cc138e1d96.jpg" Photo of the Obama event in Chicago courtesy of bcbeatty – licenced under Creative Commons. So, since there was so much discussion before election day of where folks were going to meet up to watch the count in [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Life, USA | Tagged barack obama, celebration, election night, election results, event, party, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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