Dirty Jane— on her way from Bowral to a new Canberra emporium
Hold on to your credit cards, people! Dirty Janes—Bowral’s most beloved of vintage emporiums—is opening in Canberra.
And it is going to be bigger than a shipping crate full of genuine American shaker furniture.
Jane Crowley is going to make a lot of Canberrans extremely happy with her decision to bring her distinctive eye for vintage to our fair city.
A dozen four-metre tall, bright red and yellow security cameras covered in barbed wire were put up at public housing sites around Canberra this week before mysteriously being taken down days later.
Residents in public housing complexes in Canberra’s inner north near where the cameras were temporarily located have complained about the lack of consultation, saying they returned home to find the cameras installed.
“Soviet-style” CCTV cameras put up at public housing locations
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NOT DONE WITH THE ARTS: The CPSU flagged the possibility of further cuts following a three-week voluntary redundancy process. |
The Digital Transformation Agency has appointed KPMG Australia's technology and government advisory partner Scott Cass-Dunbar as its new chief strategy officer.
Cass-Dunbar joined the peak government IT agency earlier this month, ending a four-month search to fill a role vacated by former chief strategy officer Anthony Vlasic in February.
DTA finds its new strategy chief at KPMG
ATO JobKeeper termination letters set to debut as professional bodies push back
Counter-espionage agency ASIO is conducting a sweeping investigation into allegations Chinese government agents have infiltrated the office of a NSW Labor politician to influence Australian politics.
Multiple sources aware of the foreign interference investigation said it was scrutinising the office of NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane as part of one of the most significant inquiries in recent ASIO history.
NSW MP's Sydney home raided as ASIO probes China links
Drillosophy: Using Drill Music To Teach Philosophy, And A Million Young People Sign On
“Young people who break the rules, who don’t want to conform, are natural social scientists. They’re natural philosophers, questioning what’s around them. You might not be channelling that in the right way right now – but I bet you’ve got the type of mind that we can talk to.” – BBC
“Young people who break the rules, who don’t want to conform, are natural social scientists. They’re natural philosophers, questioning what’s around them. You might not be channelling that in the right way right now – but I bet you’ve got the type of mind that we can talk to.” – BBC
Premier Berejiklian’s last hurrah
Her planning was immaculate. She would vacate the Premiership, leave a strong economy, and install her Deputy Leader, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, as the next Premier. Then everything fell apart.Continue reading
Securitisation – Turning Problems into Threats
One of the more disturbing tendencies of modern governments is to transform policy problems into threats, thereby elevating them into the national security domain as the political rhetoric extends further into hyperbole.Continue reading
They've announced the winner of this year's Siegfried Lenz Prize, a biennial €50,000 international author prize now awarded for the fourth time, and it is Ljudmila Ulitzkaja -- i.e. Ludmila Ulitskaya.
Although she is the 2020 prize winner, the prize ceremony is only planned for 19 March 2021; yes, they announce these things way in advance.
Two Ulitskaya novels are under review at the complete review: Daniel Stein, Interpreter and The Big Green Tent.
Dracula’ Wasn’t Inspired By Transylvania — It Was Inspired By Ireland
The town of Sligo, specifically, and the dire cholera outbreak there in 1832. Dracula author Bram Stoker’s mother lived through that epidemic, and there’s evidence, circumstantial but convincing, that it was her memories of the pestilence on which Stoker built the original vampire novel; Transylvania, which the author never visited, was simply a stand-in location. – Atlas Obscura