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I was speaking at lunch the other day with a few people about the parlous state of the Australian media – I was horrified (again) that the Daily Telegraph had decided to replace its back page with even more advertising, as well as more coverage of the State of Origin, where they rather memorably accused…

We all know that the 2013 election will result in a landslide victory to the Liberal – National Coalition. Depending on who you read, there will be less Labor members left in the House of Representatives than there are members of the Australian Cricket team. This government has been the most dysfunctional government in World….

I watched, with interest, an RSA Animate Presentation featuring Slavoj Zizek about the role of charity. It was pretty provoking, although that in itself is not surprising considering Slavoj’s previous work. I first saw Slavoj on Q and A a while back, and remember being inspired not just by a man who was unashamedly Marxist…

I know it’s a common saying that children are less innocent than we often suppose, but I think there’s an addendum to that saying. It should really be, no children are truly innocent, and certainly, no child is innocent of the role of power in their lives. After all, a child’s first real memories and…

So, we recently completed our 11th episode of the McCarthy Radio Show. I think I’m beginning to get the hang of the radio show – the use of the panel is beginning to be second nature and I’ve been fortunate to have Warren working the deck lately, before I start my show, so that’s been…

This is the post that I had to write. Normally, I try to avoid topics like this, simply because it’s not worth the grief – there’s little I have to say that hasn’t already been said a hundred times over in much larger forums than this little blog, and I’m fairly confident that the only…

I make a habit of flicking through the teaching position advertisements fairly regularly, whether that’s the old paper version or the online version. I’ve found teachers.on.net to be pretty good for this purpose, although it is hard to beat the SMH section. Anyway, something that I have noticed recently is that there are increasing numbers…

So, after the debacle that was my first attempt at writing, I decided to revisit my plan and did what I should have done in the first place. I’ve revisited my notebooks – some of which are more than three years old and gone through and added to my note-taking system. Now, when I come…

So, 100 000 words to go – approximately. That doesn’t include all the hideous editing that I wil lface, plus the hundred small annoyances that go along with footnoting and revising and layout and presentation. I’m a little bit staggered at what I appear to have taken on, here. At least, I was, until I…

Canberra is a city of transition. It’s a place of change. It’s forever caught between states, never quite existing fully in either one. It’s a funny idea for a capital city, but then, Canberra’s a funny kind of capital city. There’s something peculiar about it – a city designed for the fledgeling Australia by an…