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tableland: March 2015
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Sunday, March 15, 2015. Smoking for broke beside the Molongolo. Where the market gardens that supplied Canberra as far back as the 1820s used to be a small fortune has been spent turning 86 acres overlooking the Eastern end of Lake Burley Griffin into a superb regional restaurant, Pialligo Estate Farmhouse Restaurant. The renovated building at Pialligo Estate that houses the main restaurant. Completely Monstered at Hotel Hotel. We had eaten several times in Monster Restaurant inside Hotel Hotel but alway...
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indefinite article: May 2015
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Irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Arts funding changes – rearranging the deckchairs while we ditch the lifeboats. What will now not be funded. The main issue for me is what will now not be funded – by the Australia Council or by anyone else. This is the hard, cold reality of these changes and Im not convinced th...In a si...
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indefinite article: The hidden universe of Australia’s own languages
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Irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The hidden universe of Australia’s own languages. If the language activists taught me one thing it was that underneath the surface language was everywhere and in everything'. Big Talk One Fire Festival, Cairns 2013 - 'there were 250 languages in Queensland alone'. The process these langua...
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indefinite article: A journey to a strange land – making sense of the senseless
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Irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. Thursday, June 18, 2015. A journey to a strange land – making sense of the senseless. Senator Ludlam hears the concerns of the delegation about the impact of funding changes. Multiply this thwarted vision a hundred or more times and what does it mean - it means one more step along the path to mediocrity. We file...
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indefinite article: Out from the shadows – the other Arts Minister
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Irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. Thursday, June 25, 2015. Out from the shadows – the other Arts Minister. A recent model to work with. It was a timely moment, given the turmoil stirred up by recent changes to national arts funding arrangements and the #freethearts response from small arts and cultural organisations and artists. As you would exp...
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indefinite article: Arts funding changes – rearranging the deckchairs while we ditch the lifeboats
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Irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Arts funding changes – rearranging the deckchairs while we ditch the lifeboats. What will now not be funded. The main issue for me is what will now not be funded – by the Australia Council or by anyone else. This is the hard, cold reality of these changes and I'm not convinced t...In a si...
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indefinite article: Creative industries critical to vitality of Australian culture
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Irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age. Thursday, October 9, 2014. Creative industries critical to vitality of Australian culture. Tobacco drying sheds near Ovens Valley, North East Victoria - the remnants of an ageing industry now abandoned for the promise of industries of the future. They are also closely linked to central social challenges Australi...
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balloon: February 2010
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Thought balloons for our strange and unsettled times – short quirky articles about the eccentricities of everyday life, almost always with a sense of short black humour. Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Life in the sky. Living in an apartment high up in the sky (or at least on the fourth floor - quite high enough for me), I feel like I'm on some giant airship. When I see films of the great zeppelins suddenly appearing silently out of the clouds I think about life in the sky. I live in an apartment which has...
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balloon: July 2010
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Thought balloons for our strange and unsettled times – short quirky articles about the eccentricities of everyday life, almost always with a sense of short black humour. Sunday, July 4, 2010. I’m convinced that one day I’ll hurry down for my haircut and find the shop gone, as though a rift in the universe has sealed and the wormhole in time and space connecting me to the 1950s will have closed forever. Internet memes – swirling around the virtual universe. Bring back the Romans. Hiding from the heat.
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balloon: August 2012
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Thought balloons for our strange and unsettled times – short quirky articles about the eccentricities of everyday life, almost always with a sense of short black humour. Sunday, August 12, 2012. Wide brown landing – fear of empire. Ive made two unsuccessful attempts to see the. Wide brown land - detail with Black Mountain Tower behind. What I was really there to see though was the sculpture Wide brown land. Which is installed atop a hill in the Arboretum adjacent to a copse of Himalayan cedars. I was...
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