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Patricia Edgar: What are Children’s Television Programs and should we preserve them? Part 3

Nicholas Gruen
September 29, 2017
A new programming approach for children today (Continued from Parts One and Two.) There is no justification for the Government to fund children’s television and media,...
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Information and the structure of institutions: W. H. Hutt edition

Nicholas Gruen
September 26, 2017September 26, 2017
Fredrick Hayek was onto something fundamental in stressing the centrality of information flow to economic functioning. But because his consuming passion was on the (undoubted) evils of Soviet-style central planning, 'the market' always...
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Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence.

Paul Frijters
September 23, 2017
[Note to self. Geeks only] Over the fold I muse on the nature of human intelligence, social intelligence, and the options for artificial intelligence to...
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Patricia Edgar: What are Children’s Television Programs and should we preserve them? Part 2

Nicholas Gruen
September 22, 2017September 22, 2017
The birth of a Children’s Television industry (Continued from Part One) No Children’s production industry in Australia can exist without a viable, film and television...
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Patricia Edgar: What are Children’s Television Programs and should we preserve them? Part One of Three

Nicholas Gruen
September 20, 2017September 22, 2017
‘Tell me a story!’ What child has not expressed those words? Children find the fantasy world a story transports them into, comforting, entertaining and enlightening....
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APRA’s new psychology team takes regulation to the next level

David Walker
September 15, 2017
My latest column for The CEO Magazine looks at the bank regulator's latest enthusiasm: changing banks' cultures. APRA is now doing what the Dutch have done...
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Is Catholicism in rude health? 2017 edition

Paul Frijters
September 14, 2017September 15, 2017
Looking at the newspapers you’d think Catholicism is having a hard time with philandering priests and cover-ups of their doings being found out on a...

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