FREMANTLE–Ah Freo you fine old thing. Turning on the sandstone and sun for Stereolab this fine eve.
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50 years of guild: History of Curtin Student Guild’s magazine Grok
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.
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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.
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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.
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Engineers of the soul
Engineers of the Soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping’s China by John Garnaut
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.
