The ABC needs relevance, not lifestyle!
The ABC Lifestyle initiative is an own goal. Instead of pandering to the lowest common denominator of content, it should focus on quality content and continue to excel its online delivery.
You cannot kill what’s already dead!
Apparently, the sale of Fairfax to Nine is the end of journalism in Australia, the triumph of the cheque book as the only arbiter of a good story and the death knell of democracy. Paul Keating – that most eloquent and cerebral of political alley cats – was particularly scathing in his assessment, but he isn’t alone.
The stakes are too high – the party is over!
Party politics has been allowed to take control over the political discourse at all levels. The voters are disillusioned and disengaged. How do we break the Gordian Knot of partisan control over democracy?
In Search of Good Government: Great Expectations & Political Amnesia
author: Laura Tingle name: Kim average rating: 4.38 book published: rating: 5 read at: 2018/07/19 date added: 2018/07/23 shelves: review: Laura Tingle does something few of our political commentators manage: to write with the deep insight of an insider without...
The Naked President
The problem with Trump is not Donald Trump. The really scary part is that nobody is standing up to him.
Taboo
author: Kim Scott name: Kim average rating: 3.94 book published: 2017 rating: 4 read at: 2018/04/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: This was the first of Kim Scott’s books that I have read. It won’t be the last! Scott is of Aboriginal origins and...Saigon
author: Anthony Grey name: Kim average rating: 4.35 book published: 1982 rating: 5 read at: 2018/02/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: Read this after watching Ken Burns’ excellent documentary on the Vietnam War. Although this book is historical fiction,...Seven Pillars of Wisdom
author: T.E. Lawrence name: Kim average rating: 3.93 book published: 1926 rating: 4 read at: 2018/06/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: The movie is one of my all time favourites, the man an intriguing character of a tragic period of history. I have always had...Too Soon to Say Goodbye
author: Art Buchwald name: Kim average rating: 4.05 book published: 2006 rating: 2 read at: 2018/02/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: My dad loved Art Buchwald, and I was once a big fan, too – had kind of forgotten about him for a few decades when I...Lincoln in the Bardo
author: George Saunders name: Kim average rating: 3.76 book published: 2017 rating: 1 read at: 2018/01/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: It’s won prizes, so it’s one of those books that one is “supposed” to love. Well I didn’t,...Get my book!
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