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The fundamental issue is that the policies and programmes for "Closing of the Gap" are destined to be administered and implemented by the very same bureaucracies that have overseen decades of ineffectiveness and failure in the delivery of services to Indigenous people in remote Australia. Patrick Dodson, March 2009
A Great Man of Mata Mata (released 17 May 2012)
Ceremonies begin this week-end to celebrate the life of a great man of Indigenous Australia. » more 
Yorta Yorta Man (released 4 April 2012)Battle hardened warriors put down their spears; crying women stopped their tears; tired children lifted their gaze, when Jimmy Little began to play. » more
Saint Anna: Last of the Labor Dinosaurs (released 25 March 2012)
Those of us who left Brisbane for the bright lights of the Southern cities in the 1970s, came back in the 1990s to a Brisbane that was an imitation of Sydney and Melbourne. Brisbane was smarter, used its river but when Jim Soorley left Brisbane City Council in 2003 he too represented a lost connection with the real people and the real doings of life. The State government without Soorley, who the State politicians loved to hate, was all fluff and words and memos and press releases and meetings and no substance. Campbell Newman filled the void. He effectively took over the real working space that Clem Jones and Jm Soorley had occupied for Labor. » more
Temperature Rising (released 8 March 2012)
Stand by now for some passion, some blood and some aggression from Labor » more 
When Hard Men Cry (released 26 February 2012)When a hard labor man cries you have to wonder why? Anthony Albanese has made a lot of men and women curse and cry in his time. But, after Saturday 25 Feb 2012, more will appreciate that he is, for all his hardness, a good man. » more 
Unholy Alliances (released 24 February 2012)Under Julia Gillard the new factions of the ALP are the greens and the independents. Graham Richardson's marginal seats strategy has become a permanent party institution. It all looks smart politics until the next election. » more 
Tin Tin Returns (released 19 February 2012)If Kevin Rudd Does Not Win His Position back as Leader, the ALP is Doomed to Never Win an Election in its Own Right Again. » more 
Mc Knight's Murdoch (released 15 February 2012)McKnight’s is a serious, well researched and documented book that will probably become a standard work for students of media power and of Murdoch himself. There may even be a secret market amongst those hoping to survive within the News Limited workforce and amongst Murdoch’s minion editors who want to gain a historical perspective on Murdoch’s past and likely future crusades. » more 
New Beauty (released 9 February 2012)An Extract from Kerrie Leishman, The New Beauty?, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Saturday 31 March to Sunday 13 May, 2012 - Not to be Missed! » more |
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