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Breaking the privatisation addiction: Search Foundation Forum

Mark Bahnisch — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:45:16 +0000

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 from the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network, as well as myself.

Proceedings start at the Brisbane Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington at 1pm, Saturday 10 April. More details here.

Update: Text of my talk posted here.

Simons and Condon on the future of journalism; Brisbane event

Mark Bahnisch — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:14:22 +0000

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 writer and journalist Matthew Condon, will be speaking in Brisbane on Thursday night. Blurb provided by Kate Eltham from the Queensland Writers’ Centre:

QWC’s final Wordpool for 2009 is The Content Makers: the future of journalism presented by award-winning writer and Crikey blogger Margaret Simons, and moderated by author and journalist Matthew Condon.

This is a FREE event, co-presented with the State Library of Queensland, on Thursday 22 October at 6:30pm.

I urge you to get to this one, not just because Margaret Simons is a brilliant and charming speaker, or because her book The Content Makers lays out a frightening assessment of the future of media in Australia. She is and it does.

I urge you to get to this one because you work in the content industries and if you’re a writer, or a publisher or a bookseller or an academic or even a conscientious blogger and you think the issues affecting newspapers and journalism are limited to the Rupert Murdochs of the world, then this presentation will make you think pretty hard about your own industry’s future.

Margaret Simons is well known in Australia for her journalism with The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Griffith REVIEW and her blogging for Crikey.com.au. But she doesn’t get up our way very often and I encourage you not to miss this fantastic opportunity to hear her speak.

Matthew Condon’s scribblings in The Courier-Mail are of course familiar to us. He is also the author of ten novels and short story collections including A Night at the Pink Poodle and The Trout Opera.

Wordpool: The Content Makers

When: 6:30pm, Thursday 22 October
Where: The Studio, Level 1, State Library of Queensland (South Brisbane)
Cost: FREE

Info and bookings: 3839 1243 or online here.

Books in the digital age

Mark Bahnisch — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:54:00 +0000

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 digital future and how will this affect how we read and write?

As part of QWC’s Wordpool series of three lectures for 2009, we’re looking at the the future of… books, writing and journalism.

Digital publishing invites writers and readers to think differently about the dynamic relationship between content and the container in which it’s consumed and shared.

Join Mark Bahnisch in a discussion as to what this means for Australia writers and readers, as he attempts to answer… what is the future of writing?

When: Tuesday 11 August, 6:30pm

Where: Room KG-B-304, Queensland University of Technology,

Kelvin Grove Campus

Cost: Free for QUT students, or $15. Bookings required

Bookings: Phone QWC on 07 3839 1243, or via www.qwc.asn.au

Cross-posted at BrisCulture.

Cheryl Kernot on social enterprise and the participation society

Mark Bahnisch — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:11:10 +0000

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 gained traction with the Global Financial Crisis. There has been increasing talk of the creation of social value and social creativity, and the harnessing of community connectivity through social enterprise.

In her post-political career, Cheryl Kernot has been actively working in these fields, and analysing them within academia. The latest edition of Griffith REVIEW, Participation Society, addresses many of these questions, and Kernot will be talking at the State Library of Queensland on Wednesday night at 6.30pm on ‘A Participation Society’, riffing off some of the themes of her GR essay.

Details of how to book tix and rsvp are on BrisCulture’s Facebook group.

Cross-posted at BrisCulture.

New Matilda forum on net filtering in Brisbane

Guest Poster — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:22:09 +0000

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 civil society. So what are the real questions for policy-makers?

These forums explore the ethical, social and political questions raised by government regulation of the internet. With the growing intersection between technology, politics and media, how do existing and proposed classification regimes measure up?

Is filtering inevitable? Or are there better ways to regulate the world wide web?

Details over the fold

CHAIR:

Peter Black, QUT Faculty of Law

SPEAKERS:

Senator Scott Ludlam, The Australian Greens

Irene Graham, libertus.net

Nic Suzor, Electronic Frontiers Australia

WHEN:

Tuesday 24th March, 6pm

WHERE:

Room B122

Queensland University of Technology

2 George St, Brisbane

RSVP:

enquiries@newmatilda.com

This is a FREE event.

This is the first in a series of forums. newmatilda.com will present events in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne in coming weeks.

US election: The hangover!

Kim — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:30:18 +0000

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 convivial style, how did everyone enjoy their election celebrations? Where did you go? What was the mood? Any good drinking games?

And how’s everyone feeling today?