November 2011
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Making Sense of the Politics - Daniel Kyriacou on... →
The WA campaign coordinator wrote on the matter of NDIS rollout funds at the NDIS campaign website today:
Senator Fifield is right, the time for motherhood statements from the government must come to an end. The Every Australian Counts Campaign expects the government to legislate the statutory body known as the NDIA in 2012. The NDIA is trusted with the job of running the NDIS and is a ...
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Peaceful Places « Look up at the Sky, London →
Via the Poetry Library at Southbank (@wet_black_bough) and Londonist.
If you know any, I believe you are invited to contribute.
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“Wired.com photographers have the enviable job of shooting the coolest stuff and...”
– The article provides further information (via Laughing Squid on Tumblr).
Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours | Raw File | Wired.com
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aaah, yesterday...
According to Allen Barra at Bookforum:
…a time when the English-speaking world took its popular music very seriously. A somber British television reporter put it in perspective when Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the Beatles: “The event is so momentous that historians may mark it as a landmark in the decline of the British Empire.”
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“I started acquiring books as soon as I started earning my own money. I was 12, I...”
– Junot Diaz, in an excerpt from an upcoming book. More at
Unpacking my library - FT.com
Every Australian Counts – National Press Club... →
Speakers include Rhonda Galbally, Peter Darch and Dr Peter Brock.Video of each above, as well as ticket information if you are in Canberra and wish to attend.
How To Google Your Exact Words →
In a word, verbatim….New this week, thanks to ReadWriteWeb.
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big Ozpublishing news: ex-Lonely Planet owners buy... →
This post from the Readings bookshop blog also includes a farewell to publishing doyenne Di Gribble.
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Delayed Gratification, a magazine devoted to slow... →
via things magazine.
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Nathan Curnow blogs at Page Seventeen. Issue 9 and... →
November 19th,
Community Room
Watsonia Library (right across from the train station)
6 Ibbottson Street
Watsonia, VIC
2-4pm
There are more posts, Issue 9 Reflections, at the P17 blog, where Marian Spires’ post includes some fine images courtesy of Steve Warburton. Enjoy.
Engaging reminder at the KYD Culture Club that I... →
Estelle Tang, Caro Cooper and Ronnie Scott tilt at a few windmills in this podcast.
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Exciting news: John Williams of The Second Pass is... →
A well-deserved appointment - that link’s news is from Bookforum. The Second Pass is a terrific books website. More about TSP and John.
Gram Parsons, “Hickory Wind” and other videos:... →
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the rachel papers: Vale Sarah Watt →
Sarah had all the difficulties and distractions common to women artists, as well as profound struggles with grief and illness. But despite that she stayed very true to the art she wanted to make. Her art and films are bursting with heart, with her over-active imagination, her steely eye, her playfulness, great sense of the absurd and anxiety-fuelled whimsy. Few artists have made work that...
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“I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways to...”
– In Which We Get Down To The Actual Writing - Home - This Recording
Thanks to Emily Maguire on Twitter for this great laugh (I have peanut butter in my teeth at present.)
The rest of the article is also good. But this bit is truly excellent.
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The Power Index: Andrew Bolt rails against blog... →
…Andrew Bolt has slammed the moderation of comments on his blog as a “dangerous state of affairs in a democracy”. Over the weekend Bolt, who was named The Power Index’s most powerful Megaphone earlier this year, announced to his blog readers that “for legal self-protection, I am not able to moderate my blog any longer. All comments must go through our moderating...
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The Medusa vs. The Odalisque: keeping you up to... →
This is James Ley’s review from The Age of the film Anonymous, currently screening in Oz (and most probably everywhere).
He has also posted on the supporting evidence for Shakespeare’s authorship of his plays.
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a pile of stuff #22
Vengeful librarians? Who you gonna call? yep, that’s right, the CIA.
Sendak did The Velveteen Rabbit in the sixties, according to Maria Popov at Brainpickings. (The pictures look oddly familiar to this cusp boomer, ten weeks shy of Generation X).
Maria has also compiled some useful links and pictures to accompany the release of a ‘monumental monograph’ on the work of graphic...
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“Free shipping, free movies, free books, for $80 a year. What, exactly, is Amazon...”
– David Pogue, NYT tech columnist, on the lending arrangements for Prime subscribers at Amazon. (Link via Melville House.)
Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books - NYTimes.com
“Literature and art continually linked aspects of my parents’ lives; my...”
– Frieda Hughes, Lines of beauty: the art of Sylvia Plath | Books | The Observer
thanks to Geordie Williamson at forestofwords for this link.
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Walter Benjamin - One Way Street: Fragments for... →
forestofwords:
With thanks to Alison Croggon
(I can’t fit the picture in this template!)
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Melbourne Leaders’ Lunch to consider key NDIS... →
On Wednesday 9 November at 12pm at ZINC at Federation Square in Melbourne, disability support organisation Independence Australia is hosting the next of its Leaders’ Lunch events.
Hosted by the Chairman of Independence Australia Brian Meltzer, this lunchtime event will involve a panel discussion moderated by ABC Radio’s Jon Faine where a number of issues critical to the future development of...
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Helen Hodgman's Favourite Authors – Text... →
I reviewed Hodgman’s reissued Blue Skies for The Ember a few months back.
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to be read
Griffith Review 34 - the fiction edition
Fiona Wright’s new collection, Knuckled
Foal’s Bread, Gillian Mears. Already started, and feeling this is something out of the ordinary.
Have read speedily, greedily: Jess Huon’s The Dark Wet. May have more to say on that another time.
Autumn Laing - sitting on the back table, quietly waiting for me to be done with the Mears. And...
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José Saramago: a celebration. →
To read, via Granta online.
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The Internet Archive held a Books In Browsers... →
thanks to James Bridle at booktwo.org for the link.
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Barry Humphries in the hall of the Goblin King (so... →
“When will our society move past its bourgeois morality and allow polyliterature?”
– Ben P. speaks for me…
Round Two, Match Two: The Man Who Loved Children vs The Secret River · Meanjin
October 2011
47 posts
Kris Hemensley - Poetry Archive. A very fine bio.... →
To Be Read: Island Magazine (current edition) -... →
Time to subscribe. Definitely.
