Ingram1941 (बॉब स्मिथ)
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Public policy and management, Australian politics, Indian public policy and governance, हिन्दी भाषा
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
Rising electricity prices have nothing to do with renewables johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Rising electricity prices have nothing to do with renewables
Electricity prices are elevated, but anyone who claims renewable energy has driven the rise is either uninformed or is deliberately lying.
johnmenadue.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Rising electricity prices have nothing to do with renewables johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251114-...
#ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251114-...
Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change
Fewer than a quarter of young Australians trust the nation's political leaders on climate
thepoint.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251114-...
#ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251114-...
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Everyone is paying attention to the toddlers having a meltdown, we really should be looking at what the supposed ‘adults’ in the room are actually doing. That’s what actually matters.
Come and have a chat to Sean Kelly and I about it at ANU Meet the Author
www.anu.edu.au/events/meet-...
Come and have a chat to Sean Kelly and I about it at ANU Meet the Author
www.anu.edu.au/events/meet-...
Meet the author - Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly will be in conversation with Amy Remeikis on his new Quarterly Essay, The Good Fight. What Does Labor Stand For? In this subtle and brilliant essay, Kelly explores whether Labor is still up...
www.anu.edu.au
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Everyone is paying attention to the toddlers having a meltdown, we really should be looking at what the supposed ‘adults’ in the room are actually doing. That’s what actually matters.
Come and have a chat to Sean Kelly and I about it at ANU Meet the Author
www.anu.edu.au/events/meet-...
Come and have a chat to Sean Kelly and I about it at ANU Meet the Author
www.anu.edu.au/events/meet-...
'But to his credit, Albanese is also doing the things that we need to be doing for a post-US future'
'https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/14/albanese-indonesia-us-china-foreign-policy-wins-indonesia/
'https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/14/albanese-indonesia-us-china-foreign-policy-wins-indonesia/
Anthony Albanese's 'all of the above' foreign policy has flaws, but is notching up wins
Anthony Albanese has just concluded his second security agreement with Indonesia. Whatever his faults, on foreign policy the prime minister is doing everything he can.
www.crikey.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
'But to his credit, Albanese is also doing the things that we need to be doing for a post-US future'
'https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/14/albanese-indonesia-us-china-foreign-policy-wins-indonesia/
'https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/14/albanese-indonesia-us-china-foreign-policy-wins-indonesia/
The dissection continues--and in RSSS building too where there was a vigorous seminar on the topic right after the event itself in November 1975. Best wishes for a fruitful debate.
LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY
(CANBERRA REGION BRANCH)
Frank Bongiorno and James Watson,
THE DISMISSAL FROM BELOW
6 pm on Friday 14 November in Lectorial Room One, RSSS Building, ANU.
(CANBERRA REGION BRANCH)
Frank Bongiorno and James Watson,
THE DISMISSAL FROM BELOW
6 pm on Friday 14 November in Lectorial Room One, RSSS Building, ANU.
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The dissection continues--and in RSSS building too where there was a vigorous seminar on the topic right after the event itself in November 1975. Best wishes for a fruitful debate.
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Jeez it was good when Don Dunstan was our premier! [South Australia 1967-1968, 1970-1979]
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Jeez it was good when Don Dunstan was our premier! [South Australia 1967-1968, 1970-1979]
Yes.
The obsessive focus by political media on coalition policy deliberations … maybe talk about something that has a real world impact? This constant propping of a two-party formula just because it suits your notion of horse race politics is beyond dull.
Think.
Talk issues not numbers.
Do better.
Think.
Talk issues not numbers.
Do better.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Yes.
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Suggestions here - from anonymous sources - that the alleged perpetrators of the bombing outside Delhi's Red Fort were panicked into the attack, having originally planned a bigger one for the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition on 6 December. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...
Delhi blast suspect planned big strike on Babri Masjid demolition anniversary
Dr Umar Nabi, the prime suspect of Monday's Red Fort blast, intended to carry out a major explosion around the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary on December 6, according to sources.
www.indiatoday.in
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Suggestions here - from anonymous sources - that the alleged perpetrators of the bombing outside Delhi's Red Fort were panicked into the attack, having originally planned a bigger one for the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition on 6 December. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...
Thanks. Hope people see the article. Good points about Asia courses--in 1969-74 taught a third year course on India. Cannot imagine that flying now.
Thank you! I'm sorry, though - I deleted the earlier version of that post because it contained a typo...
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Thanks. Hope people see the article. Good points about Asia courses--in 1969-74 taught a third year course on India. Cannot imagine that flying now.
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Peter Varghese on Australia's "Asian journey" and the struggle to attain, value and fund "Asia literacy". asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/as...
Asia literacy matters, yet is going backwards
In the ‘bonfire of certainties’ that marks the world today, engagement with Asia—and knowledge of its national stories, languages and cultures—matters to Australia more than ever, writes Peter Varghes...
asialink.unimelb.edu.au
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Peter Varghese on Australia's "Asian journey" and the struggle to attain, value and fund "Asia literacy". asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/as...
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It’s time for politicians to lead on Asia capability, because business won’t, the public and media pundits are sceptical, and universities have lost most of their social licence. So, time to act, and talk less, before it is too late… asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/po...
Political leadership required to overcome Australia’s Asia capability deficit
Australia’s institutional commitment to improving Asia literacy fails to match signs of growing popular interest. But Ian Hall writes political leadership will be necessary to achieve the “whole-of-na...
asialink.unimelb.edu.au
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
It’s time for politicians to lead on Asia capability, because business won’t, the public and media pundits are sceptical, and universities have lost most of their social licence. So, time to act, and talk less, before it is too late… asialink.unimelb.edu.au/diplomacy/po...
Ian Hall-
Asia Capability:
'we must see government lead the conversation with business and the broader community on Asia capability. This important task cannot be left to universities or think tanks. If politicians do not pick up the slack... we run the risk of another forty years of failure.
Asia Capability:
'we must see government lead the conversation with business and the broader community on Asia capability. This important task cannot be left to universities or think tanks. If politicians do not pick up the slack... we run the risk of another forty years of failure.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Ian Hall-
Asia Capability:
'we must see government lead the conversation with business and the broader community on Asia capability. This important task cannot be left to universities or think tanks. If politicians do not pick up the slack... we run the risk of another forty years of failure.
Asia Capability:
'we must see government lead the conversation with business and the broader community on Asia capability. This important task cannot be left to universities or think tanks. If politicians do not pick up the slack... we run the risk of another forty years of failure.
ICE threw me out of an immigration courthouse. Not everyone is so lucky www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/i...
ICE threw me out of an immigration courthouse. Not everyone is so lucky
Every day, hundreds of migrants queue up for court hearings in front of immigration judges inside the vast tower block at 26 Federal Plaza. Not all of them leave.
www.crikey.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
ICE threw me out of an immigration courthouse. Not everyone is so lucky www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/i...
How Australia’s national security chief used AI to write speeches and ‘personnel communications’ www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/12/a...
How Australia's national security chief used AI to write speeches and 'personnel communications'
As the government pushes public servants to use AI, this is the first time that FOI has been used to reveal how the government staff are already using the technology.
www.crikey.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
How Australia’s national security chief used AI to write speeches and ‘personnel communications’ www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/12/a...
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Five ways to fix social media for teens without a ban (and Australia can still do them all)
Five ways to fix social media for teens without a ban (and Australia can still do them all)
It's not a choice between a ban and doing nothing at all, experts tell Crikey.
www.crikey.com.au
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Five ways to fix social media for teens without a ban (and Australia can still do them all)
Quite a read.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Quite a read.
June in November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
June in November.
After Trump goes home johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
After Trump goes home
If anyone had any lingering doubts about the change in the world order, the sight of President Trump pumping his fist into the air at the doorway of Air Force One, before turning his back on Asia to f...
johnmenadue.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
After Trump goes home johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Timely challenge from Professor Josephine Quinn:
'I want to tell a different story: one that doesn't begin in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean and the re-emerge in Renaissance Italy, but traces the relationships that built what is now called the West from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration...'
'I want to tell a different story: one that doesn't begin in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean and the re-emerge in Renaissance Italy, but traces the relationships that built what is now called the West from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration...'
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Timely challenge from Professor Josephine Quinn:
'I want to tell a different story: one that doesn't begin in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean and the re-emerge in Renaissance Italy, but traces the relationships that built what is now called the West from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration...'
'I want to tell a different story: one that doesn't begin in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean and the re-emerge in Renaissance Italy, but traces the relationships that built what is now called the West from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration...'
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“Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. (Die Jungfrau von Orleans)
Friedrich Schiller, German philosopher, playwright, co-founder with Goethe of Weimar Theatre; born #OTD 1759.
Portrait c 1810 by von Kügelgen Frankfurter Goethe-Haus
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"Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same" by Michael Bradley #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same" by Michael Bradley #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...
UC launches newly established Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas and appointment of inaugural director
UC to establish the Vice-Chancellor’s Centre of Public Ideas, and Prof Frank Bongiorno AM to take up Donald Horne Professorship as Centre director.
www.canberra.edu.au
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Delighted that the University of Canberra has announced my appointment as Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, and Director of UC's new Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas. Looking forward to developing this exciting initiative from early 2026. www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/med...
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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.