When I was a young thing in my twenties off on the “Grand Tour” to the lands of my forebears, UK and Europe in my case, all there was available to me and my relatives was the postal service. Yes I could have [...]
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Fiction
Hypothetical situations to get the thinking flowing, may contain traces of fact.
Twitter is clearly different things to different people. It is one part of new/social media; forms of media production and dissemination that were popularised long after I changed careers and stopped teaching [...]
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The internet is becoming an essential medium of communication. Question perhaps is what needs to be done to trust what is communicated?
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There is something about human nature that compels people to indulge in their prejudices when something bad happens. We feel the need to distance ourselves from the bad thing because we can't bear the thought of [...]
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Paul suggest to inject some quality DNA into the ABC and SBS organisations The Australian, the Daily Telegraph, and 2GB should be nationalised.
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She walks alone, her head hung down.
One foot in front of the other
Her clothes mismatched, Her hair unkempt
She used to be a mother
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The rain came down for weeks on end
We thought it would never stop
The river was over, the road was gone
Under a lake of flood
...
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Recently celebrity philosopher Alain de Botton has been travelling around the country spruiking his new book entitled ‘The News’. Driving his work here is a thesis which suggests there is a lack of [...]
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Paul has a trip down memory lane about the last 25 years online.
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I think we should be using every significant weather event to reinforce the message. But what message? Global Warming and Climate Change hasn’t worked, what about “Human Amplified Climate Change”?
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