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| Blog Name: | public opinion |
| Url: | http://www.sauer-thompson.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | politics, public policy, Australia |
| Description: | critical commentary on public issues in Australia |
| Popularity: | 28 Followers |
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journalism + new media
Derek Barry has a couple of posts on the new media, journalism as a critical public good and the
Derek Barry has a couple of posts on the new media, journalism as a critical public good and the
a food policy?
As Michael Pollan points out in The New York Times, our industrial food system is now characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table. It has enabled an Australian to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, chips and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labour at the minimum wage. However, the food and agriculture policies we’ve inherited from the industrial-food system, which were designed to maximize production at all costs and relying on cheap fossi
As Michael Pollan points out in The New York Times, our industrial food system is now characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table. It has enabled an Australian to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, chips and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labour at the minimum wage. However, the food and agriculture policies we’ve inherited from the industrial-food system, which were designed to maximize production at all costs and relying on cheap fossi
restoring the River Murray?
As we know the rivers and wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin experience water scarcity because state governments divert too much water primarily for irrigation. This is the over-allocation problem that the federal government is struggling to fix. Richard Kingsford, the director of the Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, University of NSW, is optimistic. He says in the Sydney Morning Herald that: Australia has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious river restoration effort
As we know the rivers and wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin experience water scarcity because state governments divert too much water primarily for irrigation. This is the over-allocation problem that the federal government is struggling to fix. Richard Kingsford, the director of the Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, University of NSW, is optimistic. He says in the Sydney Morning Herald that: Australia has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious river restoration effort
Media 140 Sydney
There is Media 140 event happening in Sydney over the next two days, with live feeds, live blogging, and real time twitter. Though the concern is with the impact of social media on journalism the focus is on twitter. The conference format is a mixture of keynote speeches and panels with speeches plus questions at the end. There is still a lot of fear of, and contempt for, the new being expressed, the emphasis is more on the new. Mark Scott from the ABC kicked things off this morning by saying that ABC
There is Media 140 event happening in Sydney over the next two days, with live feeds, live blogging, and real time twitter. Though the concern is with the impact of social media on journalism the focus is on twitter. The conference format is a mixture of keynote speeches and panels with speeches plus questions at the end. There is still a lot of fear of, and contempt for, the new being expressed, the emphasis is more on the new. Mark Scott from the ABC kicked things off this morning by saying that ABC
US: "state secrets" and executive immunity
I watched Michael Moore's documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. This is a dystopian view of the United States under the Bush Administration and is controversial because it is deeply critical of the Bush administration and its conduct of the Iraq war and the you're either with us or against us" model of argumentation of the conservatives. So many conservatives have been willing to give the US government a pass on its awful treatment of prisoners taken during the "war on terror", and were
I watched Michael Moore's documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. This is a dystopian view of the United States under the Bush Administration and is controversial because it is deeply critical of the Bush administration and its conduct of the Iraq war and the you're either with us or against us" model of argumentation of the conservatives. So many conservatives have been willing to give the US government a pass on its awful treatment of prisoners taken during the "war on terror", and were
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