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Ricky Ponting the Nathan Rees of Cricket
Louise Easson | September 16, 2009In The Art of War, Sun Tzu’s tells us that “without a general, the army is totally useless.”
This old adage has never been more pertinent than when applied to the current NSW Labor government and Australian cricket team. They are both so weakly led.Whether in politics or cricket, without a good leader, you lose battles.
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Indefinite Deferrals: Planning to Nowhere
stokes_hughes_anthony | September 16, 2009In 1998 the then Premier of NSW, Bob Carr, first conceived the NorthWest Rail Link. It was to be integrated into the existing CityRail network; connecting the city’s north, via the exisitng station at Epping, to the growth centre of the west with end of the line at Rouse Hill.
The project was due for completion by 2010.
However after the 1998 state election, which Carr won, the NorthWest Rail Link plans never followed through.
In March of 2008 former Premier Morris Iemma announced his major rail infrastructure plan to tackle the northwest. Construction was proposed of a metro-style subway, the NorthWest Metro; direct from St James in the city to Rouse Hill in the west.
This project was due for completion in 2017.
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Woman Bites Dog: Unequal Affairs in Australian Politics
Mark Worley | September 14, 2009As one political sex scandal roared to life in New South Wales two weeks ago, another in Tasmania finally came to an end.
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History Vindicates Treatment of the Red Dragon
Tim Matchett | September 14, 2009If my Chinese classmates are anything to go by, there is a lot of anger in China about the way the Australian media has reported the detention of Stern Hu.
‘Unfair’, ‘inaccurate’ and ‘irresponsible’ are common words in class discussions about the coverage here of Hu’s arrest. One student described the Australian reporting as “anti-Chinese racism”. What is missing in the debate, unfortunately, is a little bit of history.
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Prevention Best Medicine for Aged Care
Liam Kinkead | September 14, 2009Australia’s health system is under the microscope; and the new “yourHealth” reforms being rolled out by the Federal Government are in the public forum for debate.
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A Tsunami of Silence
Open Forum | September 14, 2009Hello everybody and welcome to your audition for the seven o’clock news.
Here’s our first applicant; Omar from Sudan.
So Omar, what’s your story?
Hunger you say?
No, I’m sorry, hunger is getting so very old, but please come back and try again if anything of greater news value should happen to you.
So thank you for coming Omar, and of course good luck with your starving, HIV-positive, homeless, refugee family.
NEXT!
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Little Reporting for Queers
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GFC Breeding Ground for Xenophobia
Magdalena Rojas Infante | September 14, 2009Spanish newspaper El Mundo claims that one in every six members of the Parliament is either xenophobic or Europhobic.
In the June 4-7 elections of the European Parliament the Social Democrats experienced a severe downfall, whilst extremist right-wing parties made their way into European Union politics. The Social Democrats lost in respect to the 2004 elections in all but four of the twenty seven member states of the EU; Malta, Romania, Greece and Sweden.
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Sinophobic One-Liners
Wang Hui | September 14, 2009Since August, relatives and friends back in China have shown growing concerns about my family and I as we are now temporarily living in Sydney.
Even an uncle who lives in a remote county in the under-developed Shaanxi Province asked me to go back to China earlier. “China-Australia relationship is very lousy now, so you guys won’t be safe there,” he told me over the phone.
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Sanctions No Help to Suu Kyi
Richa Sharma | September 13, 2009As it sentenced the country’s representative of resistance, Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months additional detention, Burma’s military junta displayed no disposition to discuss democracy.
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The Dangers of Karzai’s Re-election
Tomas Valasek | September 11, 2009The final result of the Afghan election may not be known until the end of September, but it looks as if President Hamid Karzai will have done well enough to avoid a second round of voting. This is causing dismay in some western capitals, where some senior figures now view Karzai as a key obstacle to Afghanistan’s reconstruction. If he stays in power, people in many European countries are likely to become increasingly disenchanted with the ‘mission impossible’ that their soldiers are undertaking, and that would increase the probability of European forces being withdrawn.
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Business Planning – It’s a lot more than strategy
yardley | September 10, 2009Boards are responsible for strategy and management for operations. Business planning develops the strategy and ensures it is well executed. Each choice sets up future possibilities and closes off others. This is about making the best choices. This is about changing behaviour.
Why is Planning Important?
Planning is a thought experiment saving the energy and resources of actually doing it. Planning is learning to be ready and able to meet any opportunity. It is not about specific anticipated future opportunities.
A Learning Process
At Acumentum we had three strategies:
