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PATRICIA EDGAR. Kids Technology and the Future: The Case for Regulation of Australian Children’s content (Part 3)

December 17, 2018

In the dynamic media environment we have in Australia, broadcasting regulation has become an exceptionally tricky exercise. If regulations are to work, they require creative...

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Is there now more psychological violence?

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018

In all ways that we measure these things, physical violence has reduced in Western countries in the last 70 years, particularly mainland Western Europe. What...

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Thought of the day: could there be an equilibrium of personality types?

Suppose you buy the idea popular in psychology that there are stable personality types largely formed in childhood and that the population has relatively stable...

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Some Game of Thrones Season 8 speculation

September 2, 2017September 4, 2017

Let me indulge, purely for entertainment value, in some fan-speculation on what we will see on-screen after the Long Night is over and the final...

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Patricia Edgar on Children’s TV: Part Two

August 22, 2017July 30, 2021

Continued from Part One. The ABC and Children’s Programming - The Highs, Lows and Power-plays Part one here and part two here. The promise of...

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Care

September 27, 2016October 3, 2016

Part One Note: this post has been superseded by the full essay. A couple of days ago I came upon care ethics via Virginia Held's book The...

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Our ABC: some great Radio National listening

March 22, 2015March 7, 2022

I drove for the best part of 11 hours over the last few days giving a Do Lecture (would you believe?) which was fun. In any event I...