Patricia Edgar on Children’s TV: Part Two
Continued from Part One.
The ABC and Children’s Programming – The Highs, Lows and Power-plays 
The promise of the early years
Articles from Club Troppo
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Patricia Edgar on Children’s TV: Part One
Many readers will have heard of Patricia Edgar who was a giant force in Australian cultural life from the 1970s. She more than anyone else was responsible for lifting the tone of children’s TV in Australia.
An interesting claim about culture and gender
“Research has shown that cultures with greater gender equity have larger sex differences when it comes to job preferences, because in these societies, people are free to choose their occupations based on what they enjoy.”
A month ago, a Google employee wrote a memo about his take on Google’s gender diversity efforts; last week it went public (and then Google fired him).
The new CBA scandal and the business response (plus, cuckoo smurfing!)
Smurfing, sans cuckoos …
There’s a weird sort of dissonance in today’s Australian Financial Review.
On the front page, CBA CEO Ian Narev argues that CBA culture is “strong”.
The last man in Europe: waiting to be read in a bookstore near you!
I’ve known Dennis Glover since we were both staffers in Parliament during the Hawke-Keating years (I was there in 1981, 83-4 and 1991-3 until just after the ‘sweetest victory of all’ in 1993 which with hindsight I wish John Hewson had won as it would have kept in-tact Australia’s bipartisan tolerance on race matters for many years.)
Today in history: Remembering the surprisingly tenable North Korean ICBM emergency
The massed battalions of The Oz were quickly brought up to the front
You get what you pay for: MP’s edition
Does It Matter How and How Much Politicians are Paid? by Duha T. Altindag, Elif S. Filiz, Erdal Tekin – #23613 (LS POL)
Abstract:
Making our intellectual tools fit for purpose: Part One
I: Introduction