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.
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.
BRISBANE–Wrote this in a flourish when dad died. Not quite right then, with so much detail, now found it makes sense.
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: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
The groundswell of discontent with Papua New Guinea’s Government, and more specifically the administration of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, provided the tinder for today’s violence around the nation’s main university campus.
Earth Hour has seen the lights go out again in many of the world’s largest cities, each with its own local focus on energy concerns.
Charlot Salwai will be Vanuatu’s 11th prime minister after receiving more than 40 votes from the 52 Members of Parliament.
It is the final week of typically boisterous campaigning leading to Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections on Saturday, where the embattled ruling Kuomintang is expected to be defeated in both, sparking its third democratic handover of power.
One year on from the pro-democracy protests that brought Hong Kong to a standstill, organisers admit that China’s Communist leadership shows no sign of budging on reform, but a spark could reignite the movement.
“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
In Fiji, one person has died from typhoid and more cases of the disease are emerging just days after tropical cyclone Gene swept through the country. The victim was a 33-year-old woman from the northern village of Nailou.