There's been a great thinning out of our political culture. Once built up from the life-world with hundreds of thousands determining party policy feeding up from branches to politicians – though leaders obviously had quite a lot of power, particularly in the conservative parti...
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6V7XU5H6A] It seems like time to review progress on the Gunner government’s quest to create a vibrant Darwin CBD. They actually appointed an assistant Minister for that noble quest (Paul Kirby) on achieving government in 2016. In term...
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As far as I can tell, the position of the Australian Republic Movement ever since the failure of the 1999 Republic Referendum has effectively if tacitly been that there is no point in another referendum while the current Queen remains on the throne. Certainly the ARM’s current...
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In an exchange, John Burnheim sent me an email which seemed to me to be the effective condensation of a lot of good thinking. It certainly chimed with my own thoughts. So I suggested he clean it up and I'd reproduce it here, which I reproduce below. Because it is the conclusio...
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The OECD has joined The Movement. In a new report it's saying that plastic recycling isn't working. So we've got to make it work . Fair enough. Perhaps we should. But you'd think that reading their material on it, there might be some discussion as to whether this was the most...
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For some time now we've been 'proving up' citizens’ juries as a means of consulting the people, but generally within the context of governments being in charge. As a result they've been mostly relatively innocuous. For instance the first two in South Australia were focused on...
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Beginning tomorrow. Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks The Silent Revolution (Opening Night) It’s 1956 and during a visit to West Berlin, high school students Theo and Kurt witness dramatic footage of the Budapest uprising. Back at in Stalinstadt, they spontaneously...
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[caption id="attachment_31009" align="alignleft" width="865"] I happened upon this post in 'drafts' without my having drafted anything. Events now make that unnecessary.[/caption]
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This article is a follow-up to my recent long piece titled Northern Territory development, debt and deficit - the long and winding road . Urban development ideas are invariably bedevilled by community dissension, much of it uninformed and anything but constructive. However, pa...
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I'd like to write up some thoughts regarding Shared Value some time, but I've not had the time and there's a fair few things in front of it in the queue. So in case anyone's interested here's quite a good panel session on the subject with Pru Bennett / Managing Director and He...
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I saw this post by previous Troppo regular Richard 塚正 , the Troppo author previously known as Richard Green and tweeted a suggestion that he republish it here. To which I got the reply : "I long since lost my password and was too lazy to try and recover it. You can repost your...
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I posted the piece over the fold some time ago (early January) but the fact that the federal Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is about to publish its report into the ongoing legal and constitutional debacle surrounding the Parliamentary disqualificati...
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The media debate about last Monday’s NT Budget sure could do with some context and perspective. The Australian ’s Amos Aikman was an honourable exception: Everyone could see this mess coming. You can’t have a mining boom, two new gas plants, a whole lot of federal indigenous s...
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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 about psychological violence though? Psychological violence, ie the inflicting of mental pain, takes many forms. It inc...
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We're nothing here at Club Pony if we're not banging on about the Issue of the Day and the Issue of the Day is Anzac Day. Owing to continuing flatlining in Troppo's celebrity endorsement and themed fluffy toy revenue and the Troppo elves striking for the right to learn to read...
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The Financial Services Royal Commission is in theory a general inquiry into the financial system. In practice, however, something else is on trial: Australian regulatory systems. As I set out in my latest column for The CEO Magazine , many of our regulators, including ASIC, AU...
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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 proportions of these personality types. The Big5 personality types are agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism, con...
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The Director-General of the BBC has now conceded there is a crisis, with young people spending more time viewing Netflix and YouTube than they do BBC programs. In July 2017 he announced the broadcaster’s biggest investment in children’s services in a generation – an additional...
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Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks Kiki, Love to Love (Opening Night) Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love. Paco and Ana are a married couple looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations. Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of...
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Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being by Erik Brynjolfsson, Felix Eggers, Avinash Gannamaneni - #24514 (EFG PR) Abstract: GDP and derived metrics (e.g., productivity) have been central to understanding economic progress and well-being. In pri...
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