Haigh Patapan and John Kane – Griffith University
Profs Haigh Patapan and John Kane discuss …..
As an alternative to our usual raves and rants and as an expression of a desire for balance ….. this interesting site hove into view – from a collaboration of researchers led by Swinburne University of Technology – called Australian Policy Online
The clip comes from the ABC – somebody tell Q&A…… please …… there IS intelligent life on this planet
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
God! Here it is Christmas 2019…so many years later
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Lovely to hear from you Venise 😊
Your comment finds me lying on my bed listening to the rain on the roof in a Motel in Walch NSW – about an hour from both Armidale and Tamworth.
Up to see daughter for Christmas and her birthday. Farm ran out of water – first time in 139 years . Today’s storm a small reprieve.
Simple pleasures in a world growing more dire by the day.
May this be a turning point.
Fond regards,
Emmjay
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Therese: Lovely to hear from you. Sorry to hear you and your daughter are caught up in the drought. I hope you’ve been out of the fires engulfing the nation…..The ones our beloved leader says are not part of Climate Change. Ha!
I do hope you suddenly get enough rain to ease your problems; and to drown Scott Morrison.
As you can see time has not pacified me. Why oh why do we get such appalling leaders?
Wishing you and your family a very Happy Christmas and New Year.
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Thanks for that Therese, got me thinking a little differently.
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Everything
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I have a naive answer to the question before us.
The problem seems to be that the current crop of political leaders can’t even lead us up the garden path effectively, let alone bring us along with their idea of a future Australia. Abbott wants us to go back to some populist neo medievalism, while Gillard wants us all on the shop floor, debating old school Labor style.
Neither has any real sense of modernity and the imperatives of the current geopolitical scene and both are fundamentally compromised by their debt to more powerful party hacks. I know that no-one will be surprised if I say that we’d all be better off with a Rudd/Turnbull contest. Both are detested by their party colleagues for being outsiders and for not playing the party power game and yet no matter which of them won, both the electorate and the parties themselves would be invigorated. It won’t happen for reasons all too tedious to go into here, but if wishing could make it so…..
The above notwithstanding I think that Messieurs Patapan and Kane have probably got a better handle on the whole thing.
Good find TT. Many thanks.
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Thanks for the post. It was easy to find and listen to it. One can also go direct to it via abc radio national site.
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I have trouble clicking it on. It is asking me to download something. I ,from experience, have regretted changing things on the computer. So…any advice?
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Hi Gerard,
It is a link to an ABC-audio file: it is safe to ‘open’ the file and listen to it from ABC server, or, to ‘save’ the file on your computer for later use.
Always check the source of the file in the yellow strip that appears at the bottom of your Explorer-window (that is if you are using Internet Explorer) – Look at the filename and the extension of the file. If it is from a reliable source (which is something you have to decide yourself) then go ahead and download. In this case the source is ABC. You can trust it.
By downloading this file you are not changing anything on your computer.
Every time you want to download in this manner you will be prompted by the same message.
There are, of course, different ways of downloading from different sources.
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Yes, I manage to do it by going to ABC direct. Yes, the program makes it so easy, why don’t those sort of rational people ever make it into politics? Or, do they and become corrupted by the process?
On Q&A last night that guffowing silly journo man on stage from a media empire linking the political fighting to do something about the media denigrating of all and sundry the ALP’s ‘longest suicide note ever’. What a ratbag of a comment, low life indeed.
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What a ratbag`comment that was. How continuiningly out of touch do these public commentators prove to be. I sighed, groaned and soon turned it off hearing further clap trap, to be spared any further assault of the senses, idle usury of that privileged space … we as a country are nowhere when we invite a dik in the door to say that. Fancy I turned on the telelvision let along Q&A. Disgusting and Tony, who is such a gross interrujpter and has so much to say, couldn’t pull him up with the least cautionary comment regards introducing such a facile notion. Not a peep from any one of them. I was disgusted.
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I can’t even typo… 😉
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A low life indeed! The only reason why he was able to broadcast his rant was because there wasn’t a good opposition from the left present on the panel, to put him off. But the clown on the right managed to draw a few laughs from the audience. That was enough for me.
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hph, every time Fanes was asked a question, Barnaby jumped in and started his simple rants, Tony did not pull him in line…I could not watch it.
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It was a strange Q&A night for me, Helvi.
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The man was a delusion of himself. Apparently has something called the “court of Public Opinion”, shock jocks would say that wouldn’t they. What had me was barking barney, he can’t string two words together let alone answer a question.
Last night on Lateline the same, Tony Burke and Barking Barney. Tony Burke answered questions, Barney was more interested in throwing mud, answer the question well forget that. Is this what we can expect from them up until the next election, mud throwing unintelligently without policy whilst the other side busily shoots themselves in the foot. Lets hope the lessons of the week have been learnt. I for one am angry that the apology for forced adoptions was overshadowed by a brain fart from Crean and the delusions of a little man from Queensland. Of Abbott and his inappropriate use of words well and barking barney as his deputy maybe?? well!!
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Thank you for that! You made me think ….
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Lucky, find, I’m afraid, yt. You’re most welcome.
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