Flanders mud is pretty bad too
Kate Carruthers Recently I visited the site in Flanders where John McCrae wrote the famouns pomen In Flanders Fields. It is at the Essex Farm Aid Station only a few kilometres from…
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The Somme really does have sticky mud
I have taken some time out from business meetings in Europe to make something of a personal pilgrimage in the steps of my ANZAC ancestors. It has been a very…
Traveling around Northern France – following tracks of Australians in World War 1
Since I am traveling around there is not always the time or the internet access to blog as often as I would like. Instead I’m sharing links to resources that…
TEDWomen – might be worth tuning in?
As they say to introduce this latest in the TED stable: “How are women and girls reshaping the future? The first-ever TEDWomen invites men and women to explore this question…
New initiative: the Digital Revolution and Government #gov2 #gov2au
One of my great passions is the digital revolution and how it is affecting society. A key area of our life that the digital revolution is changing is government and…
Living in the future: new media, new consumers, new desires
The old media model of the twentieth century was monolithic and based on a broadcast model. Large scale media players distributed a fixed series of products to a passive audience.…
Serious stuff: “dream machines that deliver the desires of the material heart”
I was lucky enough to hear my friend Mark Pesce speak at the Social Innovation BarCamp in Sydney on 6 Nov and his talk, while entertaining, was also profound. Mark…
Blog action day 2010 – theme is water
Today is Blog Action Day 2010 and the theme is water. Many people are without access to this most basic of human needs. In Australia we need to find ways…
Rethinking a girl’s place in the world #becauseiamagirl
Sheryl WuDunn’s Half the Sky investigates the oppression of women globally. Half the Sky lays out an agenda for the world’s women and three major abuses: sex trafficking and forced…
Warning: I’m probably going to tweet a fair bit about #OzPol & #media140 this coming week
Because, along with the witty and intelligent @neerav @smurray38 @grogsgamut @paulwallbank, I shall be in Canberra blogging and tweeting about Media140 Oz Politics. This event is on Thursday 23 September…