Award for ‘A quiet place’
A nice surprise in at work today, landing an award for a digital production collaboration with WA reporters on a feature titled ‘A quiet place’.
The Judge
Australian TV current affairs program grills Fiji leader
The region’s largest meeting of the year, the Pacific Islands Forum, kicks-off next week in Cairns and will be without official representation from Fiji or its interim prime minister and coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
Murray-Darling report lays bare ‘the system is sick’, say the people it affects
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.
Somme at 100
With a blow of the whistles at 7:30am on July 1, 1916, tens of thousands of British troops went over the top and advanced on German lines in positions abutting the River Somme in France.
Aus Senate votes for Moss Review committee as govt signs on Cambodia
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.
Pacific Beat 2009 year in review
As 2009 and the decade draws to a close, let’s now take a look back on a year which has seen some momentous events take place in this, our Pacific home. Bookended by the intractable political situation in Fiji and Papua New Guinea’s unchartered future with its new energy wealth, the year 2009 will instead … Continue reading “Pacific Beat 2009 year in review”
Huge cash injection for China state media
Large Western media organisations could do nothing but shake their heads this week as reports came out of China that $US7 billion dollars was to flow into state media. While newspapers, television, radio, and even internet properties in the Western world were being gutted by their parent organisations, China spoke of expanding its reach in … Continue reading “Huge cash injection for China state media”
Court first for Indian brain scan technology
An Indian court in July became the first in the world to convict a suspect based on evidence from some widely-unproven brain scanning technology. In one Indian state alone, around 75 crime suspects and witnesses have undergone the controversial technique since 2006. But fellow scientists, ethicists and the forensics community are extremely apprehensive about the … Continue reading “Court first for Indian brain scan technology”
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
Latham as leader leaves Labor open to attack
With the release of a vague statement concerning his health, the leader of the opposition, (mr) MARK LATHAM, continues to leave himself open to criticism from both the public and his Labor Party colleagues.
