Clean economy jobs pay better, employ more workers
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.
Centre for Policy Development: Research fellowship and ethical dollars
A quick post to plug a couple of things for the Centre for Policy Development: The Centre for Policy Development is pleased to announce we are seeking applications for a new Sustainable Economy Fellowship. The fellowship is generously sponsored by [...]
Social media 'State of the Art' report
I’m pleased to say that the report Axel Bruns and I wrote for the Social Media project in the Smart Services CRC a few months back has now been released. It should be available on the CRC website soon, but [...]
Kevin Kelly and "Digital Socialism"
One recent-ish article I missed in Wired but had a vague awareness of from discussion elsewhere is Kevin Kelly’s piece on the new socialism and digital collectivism. It struck me as very curious that the libertarian tinged techno-utopians at Wired [...]
Public broadcasting as public service media
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 [...]
Windschuttle Sokaled
An enterprising hoaxer – claiming to be acting in the tradition of Ern Malley – has published a spurious article on a scientific topic in Quadrant with the aim of demonstrating that Keith Windschuttle would print “outrageous propositions” which accord [...]
Terror academics! Feud!
My colleague Terry Flew takes a look on his blog at the latest controversy over teh evils of postmodernism (and neo-Marxism!) in academia. In regard to The Australian, he writes: In two articles (Sat and Mon) referring to the Culture [...]
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