Reality check: Is Sydney actually “full”?
Ever since the Penrith by-election, we’ve been hearing endlessly about Western Sydney as the epicentre of the Australian political nation. The population “debate” proclaims that we need to “pause” as outer suburban areas groan under population pressure and failing infrastructure. [...]
I went to a circus and a science debate broke out
Today I attended the debate between UNSW computer scientist Dr Tim Lambert (author of Deltoid blog) and Lord Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. The venue was the Hilton Hotel Grand Ballroom, and attendance was about 60% of capacity, that is [...]
Prince William comes to town
A number of the commenters on the earliest political memories thread recalled having been taken as schoolkids to see Her Maj, and a number of us also recalled weird little pledges and scratchy recordings of ‘God Save the Queen’ being [...]
Win a free pass to the Media140 conference
There’s a big confab on in Sydney on the 5th and 6th of November on all things social media and future of journalism – Media140. Rachel Hills is running a competition to win a free pass to the conference. For [...]
Lazy Sunday long weekend! (Lunar new year edition)
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! <img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2256617555_f87b2474d8.jpg" Chinese New Year in Sydney. Image courtesy of yewenyi at flickr [...]
Jørn Utzon passes
ABC News reports that the architect of the Sydney Opera House died of a heart attack in his sleep at age 90. Whatever else he did in his long career – as usual, the Wikipedia has more – it’s almost [...]
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