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The ABC’s Australian Story about David Hicks and he-said she-said journalism

Nicholas Gruen
August 31, 2011
The ABC has made a documentary about David Hicks and screened it in an double episode of Australian Story. It's still on iView and I...
Politics - national

Return of the prodigal Kev?

Ken Parish
August 30, 2011August 31, 2011
What with the sheer number of journalistic political pundits churning out daily "footie commentary" columns to fill the voracious maw of the media cycle, you'd...
Blegs

Getting movies onto my iPad: Bleg

Nicholas Gruen
August 29, 2011August 29, 2011
I am about to make a trans-Pacific flight. Moreover I am doing this on a third world American Airlines plane that I am reliably informed...
Economics and public policy Web and Government 2.0

Meanwhile back in Government . . .

Nicholas Gruen
August 29, 2011September 1, 2011
I'm doing a few presentations in the next week or so and have been hit by an avalanche of bureaucracy. I try to minimise costs for my...
Gender Politics - international Politics - national

Making the most of women

Don Arthur
August 28, 2011August 29, 2011
Women are "working fewer hours, in lower-paid industries and in lower-status jobs" than men, writes Jessica Irvine. Despite decades of feminism, women are still doing...
Humour Sport-general

Introducing: Raymond Weschler

Nicholas Gruen
August 28, 2011
Since a recent visit to San Francisco catching up with a cousin of mine I'd last met forty years ago, I've been receiving an email...
Blegs Economics and public policy Political theory

Weighting criteria bleg

Nicholas Gruen
August 27, 2011
Steven Jobs is perhaps the best CEO of the last hundred years.  This may reflect my ignorance of other CEOs - which is bordering on...

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