Republican Clive Hamilton gets Queen’s birthday gong.
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Republican Clive Hamilton gets Queen’s birthday gong. Alexander Downer sorts them out. Yes, and the evidence was that Annice Smoel was drunk, did steal an expensive beermat, did make a run for it and did abuse arresting officers. What did she expect? The story of the country-based GP who drilled a hole in the side of a young boy’s head using a household drill moved me. The boy had a head injury accident that led to internal bleeding that put pressure on the boy’s brain. The boy faced a near certain short-term death if the pressure was not [...] I have been watching the 2009 Masters Tournament at Augusta the last couple of nights on Foxtel. Augusta is an challenging golf course of great length, complexity and with lightning-fast bent grass greens. The player who impressed me most so far in the tournament is the youthful Anthony Kim a [...] I found this NYT video moving. After this less so. After this story I found it even less so. I heard this remarkable man – ex president of Iran 1997-2005 – speak at La Trobe University this evening. Mr Khatami is a Muslim cleric whose main interest is political philosophy. I found his prepared speech, which ran for half an hour, academic and rather dry. For another 2 hours however he took good-natured, [...] Former head of Human Rights Commission and perennial liar Marcus Einfeld has gone to jail for at least two years. The left loved him as a personality judge. But he lied about a $77 fine (he had lied about traffic convictions several times before), lied about his academic qualifications (he bought degrees) and his past directorships and plagiarised [...] The famous Harvard-based economist Professor Martin Feldstein is on the board of the American insurer AIG that received $200 billion in handouts from the US government and which has just paid over $160 million in bonuses mainly to those managers responsible for its massive financial failure. The bonuses were ‘justified’ by AIG as retention bonuses designed [...] In my youthful past when I sent an article to an academic journal and it was rejected my reaction was often one of fury. This was often amplified by the fact that many referee reports are dismissive and careless*. These days I still occasionally get angry but I have also become more philosophical as a product [...] From being the son of a dirt-poor Chinese peasant, Shi has built one of the world’s biggest solar power companies, Suntech. He learnt his stuff at the University of NSW. Suntech is threatened somewhat by the global financial crisis and by entry from competitors but still a great force. This Fortune article is a fascinating story [...] La Trobe University academic Dr Richard Zann – an internationally reknown ornithologist - his wife Eileen and their daughter Eva all perished in the bushfires in their Kinglake home. RIP. Five La Trobe staff have seen their homes destroyed and nine students have been left with no housing. Meanwhile police believe arson was responsible for the death of 100 [...] Western civilised countries routinely used human body parts in pharmaceutical preparations up to the end of the 18th century. The practise was widespread. Blood, meat the lot was tried with varying success. The potions didn’t always work: “In 1492, when Pope Innocent VIII was on his deathbed, his doctors bled three boys and had the [...] This Guardian survey sounded at first to me like a dumb idea but it is interesting. The wide range of people surveyed suggests the diverse origins of the current mess. I’d foregotten all about Abby Cohen – the perpetual stock market ‘bull’. But, yes, she makes the list. At the end of the [...] I have just read the massive 900 page biography of Warren Buffett, by Alice Schroeder, The Snowball, Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. I was thinking of reviewing it but after as couple of drafts I gave up because my review seemed so narky and negative in what I gleaned as the character of [...] Professor Terry Tao (born 1975) is an Australian mathematician now working in the US. Tao was a child prodigy who taught himself arithmetic at age 2. He received his PhD at age 20, was appointed a full professor at UCLA at age 24 and won the Field’s Medal in mathematics at age 31. This award [...] Paul Newman has died from cancer. A comprehensively decent man whose acting performances have entertained me for as long as I have been watching movies. This interview with him was made in 2007. I most remember him best from The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and a compelling, very different sort of performance, in The Verdict. He [...] Joshua Gans is ‘over the moon’ because his daughter won a sports event. With some qualifications he asserts winning is everything. Its a very American attitude and one I don’t agree with particularly in relation to kids sport where I think the key objective for the vast majority of kids is to participate – to [...] The ACCC’s Stephen King has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. Joshua Gans provides praise for the appointment of his co-author and business partner. I hope this appointment is a success story for Monash – a university which, in my view, has not quite lived up to its considerable potential in the economics and business [...] Friend Jack R, is having his 60th birthday party soon – in Forestville, Sydney. I will be there but it seems the acceptances have been slow. This has got to be the YouTube of the decade. I am stunned by the media interest in whether soldiers had sexual intercourse with a visiting female entertainer. It seems that she did not but even if she did who cares? Why would such sexual intercourse be a ‘scandal’ even if it did occur? Are soldiers intended (or ordered) to remain celibate while on duty? [...] |
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