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By Mark Bahnisch on July 28, 2011
A report by the Brookings Institution has found that clean economy jobs pay low and semi-skilled workers in the US significantly better than the median. Similar research in Australia would be very valuable in informing the carbon price debate.
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Featured, Industrial Relations, USA | Tagged Brookings Institution, clean economy, Climate change, climate policy, Economics, emissions, green jobs, innovation, jobs, labour market, Paul Howes, polluting industries, research, Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 30, 2009
In a post reproducing and expanding on his op/ed in the Australian Financial Review today, Andrew Leigh writes: For not-so-surprising reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about lifecycles. My AFR op-ed today (partially written with a newborn babe in the crook [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Music, Sociology | Tagged age, Andrew Leigh, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, creativity, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, David Galenson, Degas, Economics, economists, Edward Said, generations, innovation, literature, Munch, Music, On Late Style, Picasso, Sociology, Wassily Kandinsky |
By Robert Merkel on April 28, 2009
Joshua Gans notes Barack Obama’s speech at the the US National Academy of sciences, in which he proposes an increase of the US’s national R&D expenditure to 3% of GDP, amongst other initiatives. One of the many good things about [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Science, USA | Tagged barack obama, basic research, innovation, Science |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 14, 2009
The ABC’s managing director, Mark Scott, has proved a much more interesting pick than many anticipated at the time of his appointment. Over at Woolly Days, Derek Barry summarises a speech Scott made in giving the Latrobe University annual media [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, appointments, Culture, fairfax, future of journalism, future of media, Griffith REVIEW, innovation, interactivity, Julianne Schultz, Latrobe University, lecture, mark scott, Media, media studies, newspapers, print journalism, print media, Rudd government, Sociology, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, web 2.0 |
By Guest Poster on February 2, 2009
Cross-posted from Marcus’ blog. From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Melbourne, Sociology | Tagged arts, Australian culture, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, DIY, economic cycle, innovation, laneways, Marcus Westbury, Melbourne, Newcastle, recession, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2009
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, ARC, Axel bruns, broadcasting, citizen journalism, citizenship, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, DBCDE, future of abc, future of sbs, innovation, internet, Jason Wilson, media policy, public broadcasting, QUT, research, review, SBS, social innovation, social media, Sociology, stephen conroy, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, universality, user generated content, web, YouDecide2007 |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
I wrote in an earlier post about the “summer of culture” feature at New Matilda. Ben Eltham has now wrapped up “the state of the cultural nation” with a thoughtful essay integrating the various pieces with some broader thoughts on [...]
Posted in Culture, Policy | Tagged 2020 summit, arts funding, Australia Council, Ben Eltham, Creative Australia, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, innovation, New Matilda, Peter Garrett, Rudd govermnent |
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