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.
As well as the stunning array of glamorous, international musical megastars strolling the catwalk at Summersault, Fremantle Oval January 7, a local contingent of glamorous musical megastars will put forth their noise on the same stages. ADAM CONNORS spoke to Perth bands Jebediah, Bluetile Lounge, Outstation, Wormfarm and Thermos Cardy before the big day arrived.
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.
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.
The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission has cited gross maladministration, negligence and unlawful actions by Commonwealth officials as just a handful of the failures in its multi-billion-dollar effort to save Australia’s largest river system.
MELBOURNE–Hopes for 2013? 1) Little Ted has some more Big Adventures because the 5 on kids’ TV rotation are shitting me, and 2) how to put analytics tracking on SAP comes to me in a hungover whoosh 1 Jan.
MELBOURNE–Seeing Swervedriver tomorrow night and I surely must regale in the stuff I couldn’t put in The West http://bit.ly/eYsXfl , what, 12 years ago.
MELBOURNE–Good hello and top of the season to y’all. My ABC Summer Series special, Taiwan’s year of living democracy, is to air across ABC radio networks from Wednesday January 14. Hopefully won’t bore 20 minutes of pants off you.
From WorldWide Religious News.
Australian-born Macedonians and Croatians are the big names at this year’s Melbourne Fashion Week.
Hello from the coalface. Yep, I’m back reporting, back at SBS in the Melbourne office, working for World View, the “cross cultural meeting place” of feature-style radio reports and some news/current affairs. It’s on nationally 6-7am and 5-6pm weekdays, and truly is a whole lot of fun… when one can come up with enough ideas, … Continue reading “Mental Notes: August 2006”
