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Category Archives: Bargains
The Great Covid Panic: now out!
It’s here, the booklet I am sure you have all been waiting for. The one which Gigi Foster and Michael Baker slaved over for 10 months. It is also on Kindle. It is dedicated to all the victims of the … Continue reading →
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It’s Crikey time! But now it’s Crikey and Inkl time
Troppodillians will know that I organise a discount Crikey subscription every year. But this year I’m also supporting Inkl, a new Australian start-up with great aspirations. In lengthy negotiations between our lawyers, comms division and strategists and theirs, we negotiated … Continue reading →
The last man in Europe: waiting to be read in a bookstore near you!
I’ve known Dennis Glover since we were both staffers in Parliament during the Hawke-Keating years (I was there in 1981, 83-4 and 1991-3 until just after the ‘sweetest victory of all’ in 1993 which with hindsight I wish John Hewson … Continue reading →
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Strategic plans and adjunct professorships
Some time ago I was written to by an Australian University asking me to become an Adjunct Professor in Journalism. This is an honorary position so, (paradoxically) it’s not much of an honour! In any event, this is how the letter I … Continue reading →
Free, freemium and cheap services to help run your office
Lateral Economics has had occasion to compile a list of free, freemium and cheap services to help run your one person micro or several person small business. I post it here for your interest and because it may be useful to you. The latest … Continue reading →
Political debate as culture wars: A TripAdvisor for the arts
As I’ve argued elsewhere, most public debates on policy – and I suspect on pretty much everything else – tend to take place as culture wars. In a culture war the ‘sides’ are well defined – usually mapping pretty well … Continue reading →
Bored with reinvention of the superficial kind?
The earlier ad was removed from YouTube. It was even schlockier than the second one I’ve put up here, but until I can find the other one again, it will now have to do. So are we here at Troppo – not to … Continue reading →