Episode 292 – Eddie Campbell – The Virtual Memories Show
Commissioners sack City of Perth CEO
"The City of Perth’s chief executive Martin Mileham has been sacked by the commissioners running the council." (The West Australian)
Justin Gatto is dead son-of-mick-gatto
Soaking up Australia's drought
"Is Natural Sequence Farming the secret to restoring our water-starved continent? For more than a decade, two farmers have shown that parched landscapes can be revived. And finally Canberra's listening." (ABC)
Work was once the way to a better life. Not any more
"A job that provides rising living standards is a thing of the past." (The Guardian)
Why remote meetings are still so painful
"Video calling at work suffers from a mix of technology hurdles, people problems, and the workflow complexities of meetings." (Quartz)
Dear bosses, spare us the feedback sandwich, we're onto it
Australians owe more debt than ever to the ATO
Massive loophole Labor is promising to end
BOB CARR. Chinese Australians are the silent minority on foreign policy
BOB CARR. Australians have no interest in joining U.S. cold war against China
Commissioners sack City of Perth CEO
"The City of Perth’s chief executive Martin Mileham has been sacked by the commissioners running the council." (The West Australian)
Justin Gatto is dead son-of-mick-gatto
Soaking up Australia's drought
"Is Natural Sequence Farming the secret to restoring our water-starved continent? For more than a decade, two farmers have shown that parched landscapes can be revived. And finally Canberra's listening." (ABC)
Work was once the way to a better life. Not any more
"A job that provides rising living standards is a thing of the past." (The Guardian)
Why remote meetings are still so painful
"Video calling at work suffers from a mix of technology hurdles, people problems, and the workflow complexities of meetings." (Quartz)
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Dear bosses, spare us the feedback sandwich, we're onto it
Australians owe more debt than ever to the ATO
Massive loophole Labor is promising to end
GRAHAM FREUDENBERG. 80 years after Munich
BOB CARR. Chinese Australians are the silent minority on foreign policy
BOB CARR. Australians have no interest in joining U.S. cold war against China
On ABC’s Saturday Extra of weekend fame (in case you missed it):
- Andrew West discusses the second round of Brazil’s Presidential elections. How much of Brazil’s past is in the vote for Bolsonaro? Guest Sarah Maslin, The Economist Brazil correspondent.
- Following the swing in the Wentworth by-election, is there room for another political party? Guests: Chris Wallace from the school of history at the ANU.
- A Foreign Affair this month looks at an agreed referendum for Bougainville’s independence next year; Macedonia’s controversial move to change its name and the US mid-term elections and voter suppression with Simon Jackman (US Studies Centre). Melissa Conley Tyler (AIIA) and Jonathan Pearlman (AFA magazine).
- Nicholas Wolpe, son of Harold Wolpe, one of the men arrested in Rivonia in 1963, talks about remembering the anti-apartheid struggle and what’s happening with the ANC?
- Princess Margaret, the original “it” girl long before Meagan or Kate or Dianna. A new biography called Ma’am Darling has been written by British satirist Craig Brow.
Other commentary
Australia’s Coalition isn’t the only conservative government facing headwinds of its own making. In the UK more that 700 000 people have marched through London demanding a “people’s vote” on Brexit. Phillip Adams interviews Ian Dunt, editor of politics.co.uk on Britain’s political fault lines, some of which run through the border between Northern Island and the Republic.
While climate change is our main environmental concern, it is easy to lose sight of other environmental needs. Writing in the Guardian — Look after the soil, save the Earth: farming in Australia’s unrelenting climate — former governor general Michael Jeffery reminds us of the concept of ‘soil security’ which also underpins what he lists as the world’s six existential challenges: food, water and energy security, climate change abatement, biodiversity protection and human health”.
The idea of shifting embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem goes beyond the idea of shoring up the Jewish vote. Although comparatively minor in Australia, there is a strong “Christian Zionist” movement in the USA, whose four million members have thrown their political weight behind Donald Trump. On the ABC’s Religion and Ethics program, Andrew Westtalks with Sean Durbin, the author of the forthcoming book, Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity and Myth in John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel.
“As much as our world hurtles toward digitized information, physical books remain popular, useful, and revered items.” That’s Alan Taylor’s short introduction to hiscollection of 35 photographs of libraries around the world published in The Atlanticonline.