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.
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.
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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.
Continue reading “Murray-Darling report lays bare ‘the system is sick’, say the people it affects”
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
WAROONA–Wrangling two kids under ten years of age in this town is like caging animals.
As a leader of a team of broadcasters and content makers going live-to-air, Radio Australia program makers needed to know where our audience was.
A farmer in western Victoria says a fire started by his new ute, a model recently recalled by the manufacturers, could have cost him millions of dollars in damage.
Continue reading “Ford Rangers, Mazda BT-50s recalled as farmers report spot fires with new utes”
What do people within the catchment actually think of the basin plan after Four Corners’ revelations?
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BRISBANE–Well, we don’t ever talk about the weather here. Mid-winter, 25 degrees always.
By Geoff Heriot
Long before the ABC abandoned shortwave broadcasting to PNG and the Pacific, its programming for indigenous audiences (as distinct from Australian expatriates) had become risible. For those concerned with Australia’s status as the region’s principal security partner, this should matter.
Continue reading “The crowded Pacific: re-considering the sharp edge of broadcasting’s soft power”
White spot disease (WSD) found in Queensland prawns is highly contagious, lethal to crustaceans and has reduced prawn farm productivity by up to 40 per cent overseas.
