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Tony Abbott's Ideas Summit

By Mark Bahnisch on February 25, 2010

Business Spectator reports: Opposition Leader Tony Abbott will hold an ideas forum on Friday in much the same vein as Kevin Rudd’s famed 2020 summit. But he insists it will be more than a glorified photo opportunity. The roundtable is [...]

Posted in Politics | Tagged 2020 summit, ideas, ideas forum, Noel Pearson, Tony Abbott | 103 Responses

TED; Aimee Mullins and her twelve pairs of legs

By Kim on May 5, 2009

I’d been meaning to blog on this for such a long time. I sort of put it off, because… well, for all sorts of reasons. But I’ve been reminded of Aimee Mullins’ talk by the recent (and well deserved … [...]

Posted in Activism, Disasters, Ethics, Feminism, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Technology, The Web, Women | Tagged Activism, Aimee Mullins, amputation, amputee, body, capabilities, design, Disability, disableism, Feminism, ideas, posthumanism, prosthetics, Technology, TED, Video, web, Webby awards, Women | 10 Responses

Climate change denialism and the future of the right

By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009

With George W. Bush having a little over a week in office left to go of what has been a very long eight years, it’s timely to turn to the question of the long term implications for the political strength [...]

Posted in Climate change, Environment, Ethics, International, Markets, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, anti-science, Australian politics, Climate change, cprs, epistemology, George W. Bush, ideas, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, neoliberalism, political culture, right wing, Rudd government, Science, science studies, short term thinking, Sociology, white paper | 66 Responses

Guest post by Andrew Crook: The Grattan Institute – Centre for Ruddist Thinking

By Guest Poster on December 17, 2008

Republished from Crikey with permission. Since it was announced in April, barely a peep has been heard from the Grattan Institute, Kevin Rudd’s $50 million super think tank named after a street abutting Melbourne University. Headed by ex-McKinsyite John Daley, [...]

Posted in Politics | Tagged Catalyst, cis, Gerard Henderson, Glyn Davis, Grattan Institute, ideas, IPA, John Roskam, Kevin Rudd, Lelbourne University, managerialism, OzProspect, PerCapita, policy making, public policy, Rudd government, Sydney institute, Terry Moran, think tanks | 10 Responses

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