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License to Drive in the Digital Economy
joanneryan | July 29, 2009In the digital economy, teaching people to drive should be given as much significance as the road building.
The announcement by Telstra that they will be charging for over the counter and mail bill payments is food for thought about what the digital economy will mean for those citizens left behind in the rush to roll out the NBN and the technology that follows across Australia.
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How do we Celebrate Giving?
Peter Fritz | July 28, 2009Big figures are not the key indicator to recognising generosity; and all generous giving should be honoured in the interest of encouraging more of it.
In My Fair Lady, the exchange between Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle speaks volumes about the relative value of a shilling.
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The Healthy Man Study
Leon Flicker | July 28, 2009Ageing isn’t simply a matter of time. Long term research conducted in Perth in to the causes of bodily ageing is providing insights for the Healthy Man.
Why is it that we become frail as we age?
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Adverse Communication
Neil Batt | July 27, 2009After the Labor Party and the electorate had combined together to conclude my political career I took a job as Executive Director of the Health Benefits Council. This was an organisation which had been established by the health insurance funds operating or having their head offices in Victoria and the intention was to have a stronger voice in the creation of health policy as it concerned the health insurance industry. It was also intended to liaise with and influence the private hospitals, the department of Human Services and the various professional bodies.
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Carbon Trading a Symptom of Inaction
Dion_Milok | July 24, 2009The current carbon industry has it all wrong. The focus is wrong and the objectives are not achievable. Most people have no idea what it is and how they can help or become a part of it.
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Improving quality of life for residents through technology
Con Koulouris | July 23, 2009In November I blogged here about the ConnectCare project which is harnessing technology to improve the level of care and efficiency within regional and remote aged care facilities.
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Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin: Leading Privacy Campaigners …
Malcolm Crompton | July 22, 2009This is not a long blog. I encourage you to read a longer article & possibly explore further from there.
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Facing Up to the Reality of China
Warren Reed | July 20, 2009When the Stern Hu case in Shanghai broke in the Australian media a fortnight ago, outrage was understandably widespread. For most Asia hands, though, who had been involved with the region for any length of time, the biggest surprise was not so much what China had done. Rather, it was the shock that Australians felt that anything like this could happen.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of this case and the way it is being handled, two vastly different systems are at work here. Australia’s is based on democratic principles of justice and fairness, while China’s places less emphasis on the rights of the individual and more on protecting the national interest – however that is interpreted and by whatever means are deemed necessary. Neither side understands the other fully. But China is huge and important, and clearly isn’t going to be led by the nose to our way of thinking.
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Uncategorised10 Tips for Business Bloggers
editor | July 20, 2009A blog can show your business employs talented people who know a lot about their speciality. How can one create an effective business blog that will attract interest?
In an interview to BTalk Australia, Open Forum’s blogger-in-chief Sally Rose talks through the importance of providing content that is brief, fresh and opinionated, without the spin.To listen to the podcast, click here. -
Senior Indigenous Men Forgotten
Bruce R | July 20, 2009There have been real achievements in relation to articulating the needs of indigenous woman and children over the last decade. The needs of senior indigenous men are not taken so seriously; and this group is regularly marginalised and poorly represented in non-indigenous forums.
This is probably because a perceived degree of similarity with women and children between the two cultures when approached from a modern viewpoint (as found in the mainstream media).
The perceived needs of indigenous women and children make ‘commonsense’ and appear to require little serious thought.
However, understanding the needs and role of senior indigenous men in Australian life poses a much more difficult challenge.
In place of informed opinions based on real indigenous men, we regularly encounter the worst kind of negative stereotypes. And so we are manipulated by those with other agendas.
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The rights of asylum seekers on Christmas Island
mrty | July 19, 2009Who is the Government trying to kid? They have excised the external territories from the country’s migration zone and located asylum seekers arriving by boat on Christmas Island. Why do that? To prevent the real asylum seekers from gaining access to legal assistance and rights of review. Those rights are reserved for the fake asylum seekers who arrive in their thousands legally by air.
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Mr Batt calling…
Neil Batt | July 16, 2009Pomp and ceremony may be on the decline but are manners headed south with them?
When I was Deputy Premier of Tasmania and ALP National President I thought I was important, indeed so important that I could not phone anyone directly or answer the phone myself. I had a secretary who initiated all my calls saying as she did so " Mr Batt (or the Deputy Premier wishes) wishes to speak to xxx "
The ritual went that the person called would then answer the phone, my secretary would then say ‘Mr Batt on the phone" and I would begin the conversation. It was not that I was particularly pompous, it was simply that this was the way things were done, and so I adapted to the standard practice.
