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Quite a week. On Friday I gave a presentation at the 11th Shed A Tier Conference in Mirboo North with a paper entitled Universal Rights, Common Wealth and Confederacy which apparently has received some excellent feedback. It was a quite a good gathering, although small and with a few One Nation types in the audience. I spent a fair bit of time chatting in particular to Lyn Allison, leader of the Australian Democrats, and to Mark Drummond, a PhD student in mathematics who has calculated that the abolition of State governments could save public finances some $20+ billion dollars (see Australian Journal of Public Administration, December 2002).
Somehow just prior to this managed to finish the submission to the State Government on the proposed Charter of Human Rights and get it signed on Sunday. Sunday was also the day of the Melbourne Unitarian concert for the Taibessi Women's Cooperative in Dili. We had a fair turnout, about 70, and raised some $600 for East Timor Women Australia, along with signing a MoU between the two organisations. Just finish off the events of the day, two members of the congregation had a wedding! Apparently it was planned, but they hadn't advertised it.
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vasco_pyjama in the past few days which was very cool. The rats were very fond of her. In Outbreak of Heresy, the noble multi-religious party were saved from some weirdos in Order of the Dragon, but no less than Francis David. RuneQuest playtest notes pour in at a rate of fifty a day, sometimes more.
Howard's industrial relations agenda to raise productivity may hit finite limits - Australian's are already working too hard. Seventeen of Australia's leading economists have also expressed their doubts that it has anything beneficial in it, least of all to the critical issues facing the Australian workplace. Viadarkstardiety, Financial Risk is being put on households as Housing prices fall. I told you so.
The third paper this week was a response to a figure no less amusing than Andrew Landeryou having a go at me on his "Internet radio" on its premier show. It is, as I say in my response "like being savaged by a dead sheep", but does raise some very important questions on the future of the Labor Party. Landeryou seems to think that Labor should surrender to the culture and infrastructure of the socially fragmented outer suburbs (which he doesn't live in, of course). I think otherwise.
Weekend looks busy. First there's Continuum including a 2600 members' birthday party and a housewarming on Saturday. Finally, I've decided not to run again for committee membership of SAGE-AU. Too much on my agenda, and some things have to be shed.
Somehow just prior to this managed to finish the submission to the State Government on the proposed Charter of Human Rights and get it signed on Sunday. Sunday was also the day of the Melbourne Unitarian concert for the Taibessi Women's Cooperative in Dili. We had a fair turnout, about 70, and raised some $600 for East Timor Women Australia, along with signing a MoU between the two organisations. Just finish off the events of the day, two members of the congregation had a wedding! Apparently it was planned, but they hadn't advertised it.
Also managed to receive a visit from
vasco_pyjama in the past few days which was very cool. The rats were very fond of her. In Outbreak of Heresy, the noble multi-religious party were saved from some weirdos in Order of the Dragon, but no less than Francis David. RuneQuest playtest notes pour in at a rate of fifty a day, sometimes more.Howard's industrial relations agenda to raise productivity may hit finite limits - Australian's are already working too hard. Seventeen of Australia's leading economists have also expressed their doubts that it has anything beneficial in it, least of all to the critical issues facing the Australian workplace. Via
darkstardiety, Financial Risk is being put on households as Housing prices fall. I told you so.The third paper this week was a response to a figure no less amusing than Andrew Landeryou having a go at me on his "Internet radio" on its premier show. It is, as I say in my response "like being savaged by a dead sheep", but does raise some very important questions on the future of the Labor Party. Landeryou seems to think that Labor should surrender to the culture and infrastructure of the socially fragmented outer suburbs (which he doesn't live in, of course). I think otherwise.
Weekend looks busy. First there's Continuum including a 2600 members' birthday party and a housewarming on Saturday. Finally, I've decided not to run again for committee membership of SAGE-AU. Too much on my agenda, and some things have to be shed.