Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
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Mental Notes December 2018
WAROONA–Wrangling two kids under ten years of age in this town is like caging animals.
(Unredacted) Submission to the Aus Govt Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific
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.
Ford Rangers, Mazda BT-50s recalled as farmers report spot fires with new utes
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.
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What people on the river think of the Murray-Darling revelations
What do people within the catchment actually think of the basin plan after Four Corners’ revelations?
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Mental Notes July 2017
BRISBANE–Well, we don’t ever talk about the weather here. Mid-winter, 25 degrees always.
The crowded Pacific: re-considering the sharp edge of broadcasting’s soft power
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.
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What is white spot disease in prawns?
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.
‘You’ve never seen anything like a Nirvana crowd’: 25 years on from that Fishos gig
Scrappy Seattle three-piece Nirvana had just knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard music charts when they played Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel on Queensland’s Gold Coast, 25 years ago today.
Mental Notes December 2016
MELBOURNE–After 11 years the truck is stacked and the flights booked to decamp to Brisbane in a couple days.
