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.
Would You Want Me
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.
HK umbrella movement one year on
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.
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
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”
The Branch Davidians and the Waco Media 1993-2003
From WorldWide Religious News.
Mental Notes: November 2004
SYDNEY–Expect a whole lot of new material in the next few weeks as I get some SBS articles and pre-2001 pics up. If you haven’t tried the new search, which now brings you album titles, prices and reviews, without you particularly wanting them, this is for yooou. Lobster on the dishlickers on Sat night coming. … Continue reading “Mental Notes: November 2004”
Mental Notes: September 2002
HONG KONG–hi x, well, i’m at one of those infamously seldom very-fucking-low points again, but they certainly are starting to become more frequent. i’ve just spent a good 20 minutes on the hong kong patio of a friend bawling alone, having just come off the phone with another grrrl i fell for who had to … Continue reading “Mental Notes: September 2002”
Mental Notes: March 2002
From a March 1998 posting on a Humbug bulletin board:
Tyranny of Distance? Save your Pity For Yourselves
Article for The Australian – Western Australia feature (Sept, 1996): WA music industry It was during a small, suburban park cricket match in late 1995 that many of us finally realised that Western Australia’s largely unheralded music ‘renaissance’ had finally broken through. Halfway through the Treadmill Eleven’s dashing batting effort on a slow but true … Continue reading “Tyranny of Distance? Save your Pity For Yourselves”
