Today I bussed into Ultimo wearing my wattle yellow Australian Democrat T-shirt to support along with a crowd of over 100 at a public meeting at our ABC.
Three proposals were adopted without dissent. (1) We supported the position of an ABC staff elected Director of the ABC Board; (2) We proposed an inquiry into the governance of the ABC with a view to ending the politicisation of the National Broadcaster; (3) We called upon the ABC Board to explicitly endorse the continued non-commercial character of the ABC opposing both advertising and sponsorship of ABC programs and services.
The meeting was chaired by John Cleary with the first proposal presented by Quentin Dempster. Other ABC "icons" were there in the form of Robyn Williams, Liz Jackson, Tim Bowden and I am sure many others.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Sunday, March 19, 2006
New website
My son has managed by remote control to develop for me a new website so you are also able to visit http://home.exetel.com.au/cnridings/
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Milosevic
I still mention his name most reluctantly as the monsters of history, present and past, deserve no recognition of their name because of the trauma left for generations among innumerable souls.
He tried to manipulate himself out of receiving judgment in The Hague but although he denied justice to so many his last breath was in captivity, and I guess one has to be content with that.
I am still trying to decide whether he was a psychopath or a sociopath and will have to leave that distinction to others who know the difference better than I do.
Those two Bosnian Serb henchmen of his now require urgent apprehension or their people will become even more isolated if they identify with these misguided "nationalists".
Why do such brutal leaders bring out our anger so much?
Is it because we tolerate what they stand for too much in the first place, and we did not find better ways to forestall their brutalities?
Have we not come to terms with the brutality which invades our humanity, and find ways to overcome it?
He tried to manipulate himself out of receiving judgment in The Hague but although he denied justice to so many his last breath was in captivity, and I guess one has to be content with that.
I am still trying to decide whether he was a psychopath or a sociopath and will have to leave that distinction to others who know the difference better than I do.
Those two Bosnian Serb henchmen of his now require urgent apprehension or their people will become even more isolated if they identify with these misguided "nationalists".
Why do such brutal leaders bring out our anger so much?
Is it because we tolerate what they stand for too much in the first place, and we did not find better ways to forestall their brutalities?
Have we not come to terms with the brutality which invades our humanity, and find ways to overcome it?
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Four Corners 6.3.06
If anyone was having 2nd thoughts about advertising on the ABC, Monday night's excellent production of Four Corners by Ticky Fullerton would have well and truly laid that to rest.
By the time a baby is born there are parasites disguised as market research psychologists setting out to program the poor little mite to be hooked for life on product consumption.
You remember Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola's maxim, "Give me a child until he is seven and he is mine for life."
This was taken up by the Communists and the Free Marketeers.
Ticky Fullerton should be in line for a Walkley's for one of the classic presentations of all time, and I hope the ABC repeats this several times over.
By the time a baby is born there are parasites disguised as market research psychologists setting out to program the poor little mite to be hooked for life on product consumption.
You remember Jesuit founder Ignatius Loyola's maxim, "Give me a child until he is seven and he is mine for life."
This was taken up by the Communists and the Free Marketeers.
Ticky Fullerton should be in line for a Walkley's for one of the classic presentations of all time, and I hope the ABC repeats this several times over.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
St David's Day on Ash Wednesday
Happy St David's Day whether you are of Welsh descent or not and welcome to Ash Wednesday and 40 days of Lent. Now how are you going to commemorate all that? Yesterday I was part of a party at our Manse celebrating Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras/Pancake Tuesday by eating pancakes. It reminded me of the time when we had restaurants called "Pancakes Galore" and one could eat pancakes with almost every conceivable flavour or combination thereof. Speaking of Shrove Tuesday, have you been shriven? Tonight I am off to our North Ryde Community Church to be marked on the forehead with a black ashen cross.
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