My name’s on this gong for assisting with a few bits and pieces.
Category: Surrealpolitik
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’.
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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(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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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.
PNG Cybersecurity Law to target ‘cowards’ who ‘slander’: PM
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has forthrightly stated that a main thrust of the nation’s new Cybersecurity Law is to target so-called “cowards” on the internet who “bully or slander”.
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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.
