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.
Something in the Way
Mental Notes March 2020: The music one
BRISBANE–Okay, I’ve finally been suckered into the FB data collection twaddle contribution of ‘post yr fave albums’. While there’s no call for ‘why’, I do feel a bit of a need to vent.
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.
Was the ABC shanghaied by Beijing?
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.
No regrets over Sandline affair: Sir Julius
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.
Epitaph for a magazine
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.
Inaugural Pacific Media Summit 2009
“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
Glance of human togetherness in Kazakh’s Tulpan
Many people consider the steppes of Kazakhstan as a largely desolate place – the large, flat plains that cover about half of the country being the home of shepherds, sheep and hot dry winds. But last year’s most awarded international film, Tulpan, has shown audiences worldwide that the most simple settings, and the most simple … Continue reading “Glance of human togetherness in Kazakh’s Tulpan”
Bangkok governor resigns over firetruck scandal
The governor of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, has resigned amid a US$190 million corruption case. The nation’s anti-corruption commission found Apirak Kosayodhin had a case to answer over irregularities in the purchase of hundreds of fire trucks and boats. While resigning, the governor continues to protest his innocence.
