Mental Notes August 2022: Mugabe, Habibe, Pohiva, dad, and I
BRISBANE–Wrote this in a flourish when dad died. Not quite right then, with so much detail, now found it makes sense.
Back Door Man
50 years of guild: History of Curtin Student Guild’s magazine Grok
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.
In conversation with former Grok editor Adam Connors
Adam Connors finds a quiet corner of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) offices in Perth to speak to Grok briefly about his formative years as a Curtin University student, back in the early-to-mid 1990s, when he wrote for Grok Magazine and worked on his Honours in English.
Engineers of the soul
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
(Unredacted) Submission to the Aus Govt Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific
As a leader of a team of broadcasters and content makers going live-to-air, Radio Australia program makers needed to know where our audience was.
What is white spot disease in prawns?
White spot disease (WSD) found in Queensland prawns is highly contagious, lethal to crustaceans and has reduced prawn farm productivity by up to 40 per cent overseas.
Who’s who in UK post-Brexit party battles
The race is on in the UK to find David Cameron’s successor as Conservative Party leader and prime minister, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has seen his own MPs pass a motion of no confidence in his leadership.
The Branch Davidians and the Waco Media 1993-2003
From WorldWide Religious News.
Rattled America will find it can’t spin itself out of this one
Rattled America will find it can’t spin itself out of this one By Bob EllisThe Age, January 5, 2007
Silverchair, Thursday March 27, 1997
McGilvray Oval Through the tiny window of opportunity that ‘grunge’ opened for simple youth bitterness, Newcastle’s silverchair (mind the non title case punctuation, they like it that way) was Australia’s gift from the great Kurt Cobain in the sky. Recorded while the members were just fifteen years of age, frogstomp, silverchair’s debut album, went on … Continue reading “Silverchair, Thursday March 27, 1997”
