Mental Notes January 2023: All the Rest Are Strangers
BRISBANE—I haven’t done a music review for 23 years, literally, so I sipped a few Coopers on the balcony and did this for a friend. Or possibly enemy, as no-one likes a reviewer.
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—I haven’t done a music review for 23 years, literally, so I sipped a few Coopers on the balcony and did this for a friend. Or possibly enemy, as no-one likes a reviewer.
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.
Papua New Guinea’s former prime minister Sir Julius Chan says that if he had been allowed to continue with the infamous Sandline operation to put down the Bougainville civil war in 1997, he would have been able to bring the island under control.
It’s now been confirmed that Australia’s Senate will establish a Select Committee to review allegations relating to conditions and circumstances at the Australian-run Regional Processing Centre on Nauru.
MELBOURNE–As signalled late last year, I’ve finally updated the 2001 adamconnors.net interface for modern screen widths. The content will still ring like 2001.
MELBOURNE–Your suggestions and advice please as after 11 years this website needs a facelift. Links to my beta versions of a home and content page follow.
MELBOURNE–I’ve resigned from the ABC. I begin work late December as head of online for the City of Melbourne.
There’s been a mixed reaction in the Philippines to the Pope’s comments on the selective use of condoms.
The Indian telecoms minister has been forced to resign over his role in claims of multi-billion dollar losses to India’s government in the sale of a telecommunications network.