one fellow's political coverage, music ramblings and general hijinks across decades under a range of guises at several locations often in a state of awe.
By former and current Grok staff
The history of Grok Magazine, the official student publication of Curtin University, begins exactly 50 years ago, in April 1969, only a couple of months after the creation of the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) Student Guild.
Continue reading “50 years of guild: History of Curtin Student Guild’s magazine Grok”
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
By Geoff Heriot
Long before the ABC abandoned shortwave broadcasting to PNG and the Pacific, its programming for indigenous audiences (as distinct from Australian expatriates) had become risible. For those concerned with Australia’s status as the region’s principal security partner, this should matter.
Continue reading “The crowded Pacific: re-considering the sharp edge of broadcasting’s soft power”
From Lifehacker–Connecting an Ethernet cable between your Mac and one of the Ethernet ports on the AirPort Time Capsule is definitely the fastest way to back up your data.
By John Fitzgerald
Inside Story April 18, 2016
China needs no help in silencing its critics at home and abroad. So how did Australia come to be part of the problem, asks John Fitzgerald.
By Nic Mclellan. Originally posted in Overland, Spring 2013
2002–Does the closure of Asiaweek, the region’s leading news weekly spell the end of its vision? Since its lightning closure, this is the first time a senior staffer publicly writes about it.
Inhouse gag, but I have to file this for posterity.
Source: Media Watch, 28 June 2010
Welcome to Media Watch, I’m Jonathan Holmes. And tonight, I’ll be picking over just one evening’s entrails – the coverage of one of the most extraordinary nights in Australia’s political history.
Transcript at http://abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2939110.htm
“Breaking Barriers – Access to Information”: Mark Scott, Session 6
Relationships and Role of Development Partners – Friends or Neo-Colonialists Pacific Partner, Pacific Friend: ABC International
