The life you could be leading: the threats and extraordinary possibilities of Web 2.0
A while ago, I was rung by Richard Letts of the Music Council of Australia, a kind of peak body of music organisations asking -...
Ron Barassi, Rhodes Scholar?
Contemplating recent nominations for the Prestigious Critical Rationalist Scholar award. Terence Kealey, Barry Smith, the late Sir Donald Bradman and Ronald Dale Barassi. The criteria...
Life for LobbyLens?
This is a guest post from Julia Thornton an occasional commenter on Troppo. Nicholas Gruen’s Government 2.0 taskforce left us a treasure trove of a...
Why is the individual talent premium so much higher in the AFL than the NRL?
After a year of reading about relative salaries in different sports, salary cap breaches, player unrest and defections in the NSW press, I only just learned...
Getting the begging bowl out again
I was a bit disappointed when we were in front and looked like winning by a point - at around the 25 minute mark? Why?...
Colliwobbles to win
Well whether they win or not the 'Colliwobbles' come from another time, long, long ago in the late sixties and early seventies when the Collies...
Commitment and other fantasies
When I hear that anything is 'committed' to something I reach for my gun. It's an almost certain signifier of insincerity. As a donor I receive...