November
November 29, 2008
Interesting to see the reports on Acacia, a Melbourne-based consortium with several former Telstra staffers in its team being a credible candidate for the national broadband network project. The Consortium Consortium shareholders include Solomon Lew, Seek founders Paul Bassat, Andrew […]
November 27, 2008
Do we want a system that makes the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally blocks up to one in 12 legitimate sites and misses the vast majority of inappropriate content? GetUp is concerned that the Government’s proposed internet […]
November 25, 2008
Have you seen the reports that the ‘electric vehicle (EV) network company’ Better Place will soon enter the US market in partnership with three Californian mayors and that they are also setting up on the Australian east coast? What Will […]
November 25, 2008
Xris Reardon, artistic director of Third-Way Theatre, has a new show in Melbourne’s outer east. ‘Towing the Line – Distorted Perspectives’ is theatre that aims to make a difference. To me the Third-Way Theatre process sits very comfortably with community-wide […]
November 21, 2008
Not taking population growth into account is distorting the debate about greenhouse gas reduction targets says Rod Sims of corporate strategy advisory firm Port Jackson Partners Ltd. Australia has a 1% population growth while Europe has a near zero growth […]
November 20, 2008
My mother was born in 1918 and turned ninety in June. She commented recently on how values have changed – so I interviewed her. That article is not complete but an email I received from Europe today – amazingly – […]
November 19, 2008
Can you imagine a new kitchen today without a large fridge in pride of place? When we look at architectural mags and big electrical stores you see so much amazing stuff, kitchens can really be hi-tech wonders, BUT aren’t we […]
November 16, 2008
Many believe the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s idealistic quest for ‘clean feed’ filtered Internet connections to all homes and schools will not protect children from pornography, will slow down the Internet and will cost taxpayers money. […]
November 16, 2008
With Pat Dodson’s Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech – at the same time as Barak Obama was being elected President in the US – Peter Botsman – Chief Editor of the Australian Prospect – believes Australia’s national Indigenous leader has […]
November 16, 2008
We hear that due to highly saline conditions the short neck and long necked Murray Freshwater Turtles are dying in SA’s Lower Murray and Lakes region. These unnatural conditions are enabling marine worms to infest the turtles leaving them with […]
November 12, 2008
Did you see the Business Age article ‘Who says it’s cheaper to build in Woop Woop?’ Professor Peter Newman of Perth’s Curtin Uni has research proving the failure of the ‘old’ economy’s fixation on cars and building on the edge […]
November 12, 2008
With the insolvency of ABC Learning Centres – meaning that most of its child care centres are soon going to be looking for buyers – instead of management buyouts as The Age is suggesting, Alan Greig of The Mercury Centre […]