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» 13/12/2018 2:46:03 PM Just to clarify, the NSW Government were floating two high speed rail options. In the shor.....
» 12/12/2018 9:18:17 AM rache, the Federal Inland Rail proposal is now being coordinated by the Australian Rail Tr.....
» 10/12/2018 5:56:50 PM In 1995 I traveled from Sydney to Canberra on an X2000 Tilt Train, loaned from Sweden. It .....
» 26/11/2018 12:49:21 PM A look at education nationally would be useful, and an "audit" would be a small .....
» 20/11/2017 5:02:38 PM You may find of interest the section on "Vulnerabilities of Liberal democracies to in.....
» 6/11/2017 10:43:42 AM The original government vision for the NBN was not FTTH. The coalition and ALP toyed with .....
» 2/10/2017 9:54:47 AM The Royal Australian Navy's new Hobart-class ships have the US Aegis combat system and are.....
» 26/09/2017 8:02:35 AM ttbn, I just checked the Bunnings website and they are offering four models of gun safe, i.....
» 28/03/2017 12:53:14 PM Mise, the "islands" for the LHDs (the bit sticking up above the flight deck) wer.....
» 28/03/2017 9:17:27 AM Hasbeen, the RAN's Landing Helicopter Doc (LHD) ships were purchased from Spain to replace.....
» 6/02/2017 8:09:45 AM Yes, the BMA guide says on page 5: "A large majority of people that have been pregnan.....
» 12/12/2016 3:11:09 PM Alan, the solution to the STEM shortage, I suggest is a little gentle government nudging o.....
» 28/10/2016 3:10:17 PM Philip Townsend, from Flinders University, gave an excellent talk this week on how mobile .....
» 6/10/2016 10:32:57 AM Yuyutsu, I agree that the age pension, especially the one for couples, does not provide a .....
» 4/10/2016 11:40:25 AM David Leyonhjelm writes "... a superannuation balance of $1.6 million ... is not enou.....
» 26/09/2016 11:20:59 AM See "Flashlight Scam: Shadowhawk X800 And Others": http://www.theoutdoornerd.com.....
» 25/09/2016 1:07:08 PM Bazz, good point on how Silicon Valley was started by defense R&D funding. There is a bit .....
» 22/09/2016 2:42:10 PM Pete: 1. Australia has world class robotics researchers who could develop AUVs. Some of t.....
» 21/09/2016 4:38:12 PM Pete, all good points on why UUVs/AUVs might not replace submarines. Some responses: 1. B.....
» 20/09/2016 1:32:00 PM Syd Hickman asked why the submarines Australia has selected so large. As I understand it, .....
» 22/08/2016 10:17:55 AM ttbn, as far as I am aware, the Coroner has not yet released their report into into the de.....
» 23/05/2016 12:39:38 PM Yes, renewables can meet expectations. The cost of solar, wind energy systems and battery .....
» 23/05/2016 10:31:08 AM Felix, the survey is an excellent initiative. Some suggestions: Explain what "sustai.....
» 28/04/2016 2:44:03 PM Raycom, sorry I am not a climate scientist and so not equipped to debate the science with .....
» 26/04/2016 4:11:24 PM Don Aitkin set out to rebut the claim that 97 per cent of climate scientists support three.....
» 18/04/2016 1:05:26 PM Keith Suter asks "How could schools evolve in the future?" (12 April 2016) and o.....
» 12/04/2016 9:38:56 AM mkarsikko, it not a matter of trusting you, but of your observing good scientific practice.....
» 11/04/2016 3:54:09 PM I could not find any record of this research, or researcher, on the University of Turku we.....
» 29/03/2016 5:09:02 PM SteeleRedux, I don't know how insurance companies assignment fault in an accident, fortuna.....
» 29/03/2016 8:27:45 AM The ethical and legal issues with automated cars are not new and have had to be considered.....
» 7/03/2016 4:46:29 PM Recently I attended a series of seminars as part of the "Securing our Future in Cyber.....
» 15/02/2016 12:35:23 PM Phil Cullen's suggestion that the Australian education system "... did not know what .....
» 1/02/2016 2:39:13 PM The NZ Army has decided to replace its Steyr AUG rifles (which were similar to the ADF one.....
» 25/01/2016 2:26:55 PM In Canberra you can carry a knife for entertainment, recreation, sport, official uniform o.....
» 19/01/2016 1:42:02 PM We can use less energy and save money, using modern design and correctly sized, efficient .....
» 11/01/2016 11:19:17 AM Are Malaysian universities performing poorly? The top QS ranking Malaysian institution is .....
» 4/01/2016 8:13:34 PM More than 70,000 people or 0.37% are Jedi according to the Australian 2001 census. This cu.....
» 3/12/2015 8:46:12 AM In "Giving Mark Latham a history lesson" Helen Pringle comments that there was m.....
» 30/11/2015 10:37:55 AM NathanJ, one way to encourage creativity and connection are hacking, start-up and "ba.....
» 25/11/2015 3:57:26 PM Leo, what I wrote was that computer simulations are predictions based on scientific theory.....
» 24/11/2015 8:19:54 AM Michael Kile wrote 20 November 2015: * "Fact one: The climate – average weather over.....
» 16/11/2015 11:55:23 AM rehctub, which economists were talking about a carbon tax versus increased GST and where w.....
» 10/11/2015 1:57:34 PM "imacentristmoderate" wrote 10 November 2015: "the culture in Australian ac.....
» 9/11/2015 1:12:21 PM Marko Beljac in "#Occupy the university" (Online Opinion, 5 November 2015) sugge.....
» 9/11/2015 12:36:33 PM Mal Fletcher writes that "the National Union of Students in Britain canceled a schedu.....
» 2/11/2015 1:58:09 PM Crackcup wrote 28 October 2015 6:55:54 AM: '... Our Defence Minister, ... has just announc.....
» 22/09/2015 11:19:30 AM Coles are doing an okay job of selling Kangaroo, by having a "game" section in t.....
» 22/09/2015 11:13:34 AM I agree with Al Blake that "Australia's new PM 'gets IT'" (Online Opinion, 16 Se.....
» 15/09/2015 12:32:52 PM Hasbeen, we can't build a railway from Oz to China, but China has already has a high speed.....
» 14/09/2015 3:41:22 PM Murray Hunter writes in "The danger of climate change evangelism": "... t.....
» 14/09/2015 3:22:55 PM BAYGON, rail is an alternative to aviation in some cases. In July I flew into Guangzhou (C.....
» 14/09/2015 9:38:53 AM Solargas would be a useful supplement to other carbon dioxide reduction measures, but is n.....
» 17/08/2015 12:47:20 PM Associate Professor Murray Hunter says "Academic standards have slipped ever since th.....
» 17/08/2015 12:00:42 PM The "Advance Queensland Knowledge Economy" from the Queensland government is a l.....
» 10/08/2015 5:31:52 PM Joe, last week Harry Longworth from the OATSEA Foundation, talked about how they are produ.....
» 10/08/2015 11:36:50 AM Max, you introduced the word "Fukushima" into the discussion. Unlike the technol.....
» 10/08/2015 10:51:45 AM Loudmouth, increased participation at universities by indigenous students is good news but.....
» 9/08/2015 2:44:57 PM Max, does you costing of a Fukushima-sized nuclear plant include the cost of insuring agai.....
» 8/08/2015 1:33:04 PM Luciferase, I had in mind renewable technologies such as silicon solar cells, which are no.....
» 7/08/2015 11:04:12 AM Max, I am not sure we will be able to convince many Australians to do without a car, nor d.....
» 6/08/2015 1:57:41 PM Max, I favor the approach of more efficient energy use and more renewable sources to reduc.....
» 5/08/2015 4:03:56 PM Luciferase, the estimate of the USA needing an area the size of Italy for find farms is fr.....
» 5/08/2015 10:11:17 AM In "Wind farms use fossil fuels for construction and operation" Adjunct Professo.....
» 3/08/2015 10:07:23 AM Keep in mind that Australia has the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector, as a l.....
» 28/07/2015 2:03:19 PM Nicholas Hawkins writes "Reduced scope of the Office of Teaching and Learning should .....
» 12/05/2015 2:40:18 PM Mike Pope suggests amalgamation of universities for "better use of bricks and mortar&.....
» 20/04/2015 10:34:15 AM Many teachers are devoted to teaching and that may be the problem with education. Teachers.....
» 20/04/2015 9:32:20 AM Malcolm King argues that the Returned and Services League (RSL) needs to change to cater t.....
» 20/04/2015 9:19:32 AM Stephen Elder strongly objects to what the AEU are doing in relation to Catholic education.....
» 17/03/2015 12:54:12 PM Leo, the reason I can be certain that global warming is caused by human activity is that c.....
» 17/03/2015 12:41:11 PM Luciferase, EROEI is not a useful measure for working out energy strategies. Even if batte.....
» 16/03/2015 1:36:30 PM What is so special about ‘science’ is that you have to present evidence for claims made. W.....
» 16/03/2015 1:17:40 PM On its own EROEI "energy returned on energy invested" is on use in choosing betw.....
» 7/03/2015 9:37:16 AM Pete (plantagenet) posted, Friday, 6 March 2015 6:22:25 PM: > I see you attended Tande.....
» 6/03/2015 4:50:40 PM In 'Killer' drones for Australia? Peter Coates comments that "Several Royal Australia.....
» 6/03/2015 4:41:05 PM Q: Should Professor Gillian Triggs - President of the HR Commission resign? A: No......
» 24/02/2015 12:08:43 PM I think I will leave predicting cyclones to those qualified to do so. I would not criticiz.....
» 24/02/2015 11:57:03 AM Dr Gruen points out there are numerous calls for more STEM in schools and universities. Bu.....
» 17/02/2015 2:42:42 PM Jason Potts writes that MOOCs are "not dating sites". Fixed: a team of students .....
» 10/02/2015 8:59:05 AM I visited Sri Lanka in 2013 for a computer education conference and was impressed with wha.....
» 10/02/2015 8:39:16 AM University College London (UCL) may be closing down its Adelaide campus, but two other uni.....
» 2/02/2015 12:04:49 PM Nathan, I am not sure the Internet alone will stop global warming, but better use of compu.....
» 27/01/2015 11:11:08 AM Steven Schwartz says "Modern technology ... has had little influence on teaching and .....
» 27/01/2015 10:26:55 AM It was not clear to me what Malcolm King was proposing South Australia do to overcome its .....
» 12/01/2015 3:26:15 PM If a second language is to be learned, then Indonesian would be a good choice, as it is sp.....
» 18/12/2014 10:38:58 AM Joe, I searched for "indigenous researcher" at Australian academic websites and .....
» 17/12/2014 9:27:54 AM Joe, an example of recent research on indigenous issues is Bielefeld (2014) on the governm.....
» 16/12/2014 11:01:47 AM In August 2014 I took part in a workshop at the University of British Colombia (UBC) in Va.....
» 16/12/2014 10:47:41 AM The job of a professor is, generally, to carry out research and teach. If they can solve r.....
» 1/10/2014 9:48:43 AM ConservativeHippie, thanks for the clarification: you are not suggesting all Australians r.....
» 30/09/2014 8:42:49 AM ConservativeHippie, as I understand it, you are advocating the reading of the Koran by Aus.....
» 12/09/2014 11:31:38 AM Australia does not need very large conventional submarines, as most of the jobs in future .....
» 8/09/2014 10:41:40 AM rehctub, there are simple standards for school zones. As an example those for WA: https://.....
» 7/07/2014 10:17:37 AM Given that most important correspondence arrives by email, I would be happy with just one .....
» 6/05/2014 2:40:58 PM A simple solution to the issue of gay marriage would be to de-legalise marriage. A form of.....
» 15/04/2014 3:42:13 PM In my experience Australia's senior military officers are very good. I spent nine years wo.....
» 24/03/2014 4:22:45 PM In "Adelaide lost in space as brain pool shrinks" (24 March 2014) details Adelai.....
» 18/03/2014 8:37:40 AM In "US military might ensures Beijing's bark is worse than its bite", Benjamin H.....
» 18/03/2014 8:07:49 AM Spindoc asked 16 March 2014 11:12:47 AM: "Could MH370 be the next 9/11?". No, t.....
» 3/03/2014 10:57:21 AM Nations need to look to their own defence. Australia has decided to order eight P-8 Poseid.....
» 3/03/2014 10:40:07 AM Western Australia also produced the Moodle education software, used at universities and sc.....
» 3/03/2014 8:54:21 AM "individual" asked 1 March 2014 9:15:56 AM: "... saw some footage of what .....
» 26/02/2014 9:05:31 AM The idea of schools learning from each other and teachers observe each other's classrooms .....
» 26/02/2014 8:42:07 AM Everett Themer in "Area 51: secret conspiracy or simply science?" has provided a.....
» 17/01/2014 3:32:09 PM While Australia seems to now have a reasonably balanced to fighter aircraft acquisition: b.....
» 2/01/2014 9:12:59 AM In "Why 'fifth gen' helps me sleep at night" (24 December 2013) Baz Bardoe descr.....
» 9/12/2013 8:06:50 AM Sue Thomson writes in "Making the school system work By " (6 December 2013) sugg.....
» 21/10/2013 10:36:37 AM I use an old fashioned laptop computer to access OLO, running a Firefox (Version 24) web b.....
» 23/09/2013 6:22:41 PM chrisgaff1000 asked 16 September 2013 4:03:01 PM: > Could the royal household hate the.....
» 23/09/2013 6:12:57 PM Rather than add to the speculation as to what might be in the next IPCC report, I suggest .....
» 9/09/2013 12:31:15 PM Arjay, there are two separate events commonly referred to as "The Gulf of Tonkin inci.....
» 9/09/2013 12:12:45 PM There many of different faiths and non-faith groupswho do not support the promotion of alc.....
» 4/09/2013 9:58:14 AM Bazz, the Fiber to the Node (FTTN) system in Canberra you might be thinking of is "Tr.....
» 3/09/2013 10:09:30 AM Sam Volkering lists the benefits of the O3b medium-earth-orbit (MEO) satellites in "T.....
» 3/09/2013 9:57:36 AM I read Sophie Love's "FIFO and the GFC from the family perspective" (30 August 2.....
» 26/08/2013 9:27:17 AM "runner" wrote 21 August 2013 5:35:06 PM: "had it been 3 whites shooting .......
» 19/08/2013 9:59:21 AM The primary role for Australia's submarines is surveillance and protection of sea routes. .....
» 19/08/2013 9:47:17 AM LaLegale, yes public servants are limited in their ability to express a political opinion,.....
» 12/08/2013 10:14:59 AM Hasbeen, it is unlikely that the staff responsible for signs on the road near your home re.....
» 5/08/2013 1:47:17 PM Plantagenet, yes I would see the proposed Australian CyberWarfare Battalion working closel.....
» 5/08/2013 1:40:44 PM David, thanks for the suggestion of a three star general to head the Australian CyberWarfa.....
» 5/08/2013 10:25:08 AM David Stephens writes in "'Anzac', 'cyber' and 'drone' are all five-letter words".....
» 29/07/2013 2:31:51 PM The article "How we are impoverished, gentrified and silenced" appears to have b.....
» 29/07/2013 2:26:11 PM In "There's a change coming to the sick room" Kay Stroud - posted wrote (25 July.....
» 15/07/2013 11:24:18 AM Leslie, I recently undertook PR training for academic staff and so am delighted you think .....
» 15/07/2013 10:54:50 AM In "The Cultivation of the Liberal Arts (I)" (Quadrant, June 2013) Peter Coleman.....
» 8/07/2013 12:36:54 PM It is not clear to me how Ross McKitrick's "evidence based approach" is differen.....
» 8/07/2013 10:05:00 AM In "Uncapped university" Andee Jones (8 July 2013) writes:"Last year I enro.....
» 24/06/2013 1:11:42 PM Learning for the sheer joy of it has not disappeared, but not many people have the means t.....
» 24/06/2013 12:49:18 PM The Northern Territory is close to the equator, but the existing RAAF Woomera Test Range w.....
» 24/06/2013 9:42:58 AM There should be no surprise in 'teach to the test' for NAPLAN. This form of national stand.....
» 3/06/2013 2:42:33 PM Ross Elliott in "The demography of employment: the commute" asks us to look at t.....
» 20/05/2013 9:15:28 AM In "Coronavirus – the next pandemic?" (Online Opinion, 15 May 2013) Peter Curson.....
» 13/05/2013 5:23:07 PM I have found that being formally educated in how to do assessment makes it much easier to .....
» 13/05/2013 9:07:03 AM In "‘A’ is for average" Walt Brasch claims runaway grade inflation has resulted .....
» 9/05/2013 9:57:48 AM shaggyz wrote 30 April 2013 5:00:30 PM: >Online education has gained too much populari.....
» 15/04/2013 9:23:17 AM In "Government needs honesty on Shariah" (15 April 2013), Joseph Wakim criticize.....
» 9/04/2013 1:59:00 PM csteele wrote 8 April 2013 8:27:47 PM: >Dear Tomw, I hear you yet I think that Robert .....
» 8/04/2013 10:37:52 AM Clem Gorman writes "intellectual cafes come back", but did they ever leave? Univ.....
» 8/04/2013 10:30:29 AM Babette Francis provided an entertaining take on "The myth of gender interchangeabili.....
» 8/04/2013 9:41:12 AM Everald Compton asks "Is it a sin to sell a government asset?" (4 April 2013). T.....
» 2/04/2013 12:50:34 PM John Benn's article is titled "School reform in a climate of political instability&qu.....
» 13/03/2013 1:54:37 PM nannabev wrote 5 March 2013 8:49:35 AM: >Tomw the only situation where class size is n.....
» 11/03/2013 1:48:07 PM In "Tabloid or compact: who cares?" John Harrison (Online Opinion, 11 March 2013.....
» 11/03/2013 1:30:04 PM In "Global warming and our itchy printer fingers" Tom Lucas describes rage broug.....
» 4/03/2013 10:24:20 AM Arguments over class sizes seem about as relevant today as discussing what paper size to u.....
» 4/03/2013 10:07:43 AM We have a threat, not from any particular religion, but from intolerance. On a visit to Is.....
» 14/01/2013 11:32:30 AM Mal Fletcher asks "Are we becoming Internet addicts?" (11 January 2013). I have .....
» 31/12/2012 11:15:08 AM In "What went wrong at WCIT" (Online Opinion, 24 December 2012) Paul Budde gave .....
» 3/12/2012 10:13:10 AM Crispin Hull -wrote 3 December 2012: > The change in public opinion is evidence that t.....
» 12/11/2012 5:11:08 PM Kevin Donnelly wrote 8 November 2012: > Prime Minister Gillard’s Asian White paper rep.....
» 5/11/2012 8:32:53 AM I agree with Simon Cowan (5 November 2012) that any Australian-designed Future Submarine r.....
» 29/10/2012 9:46:21 AM Philip S asked "... Should scientists be blamed for failing to accurately foresee the.....
» 23/10/2012 8:05:29 AM GrahamY wrote 23 October 2012 7:01:22 AM: > Thanks for the WC3 checker link Tom. The f.....
» 22/10/2012 11:21:39 AM Yabby wrote 22 October 2012 11:00:17 AM: >... Sometimes the right hand banner ad just .....
» 22/10/2012 10:05:11 AM Yabby wrote 21 October 2012 6:24:21 PM: >... OLO pages ... Sometime they load fine and.....
» 22/10/2012 8:52:41 AM I expect we will be having the same discussion about overseas education centres providing .....
» 10/09/2012 5:10:11 PM The idea of payment by results, with educational institutions receiving payments proportio.....
» 12/08/2012 10:32:34 AM Banjo, Saturday, 11 August 2012 5:21:24 PM: >... cannot find the governments policy on.....
» 6/08/2012 9:03:27 AM Banjo asked 2 August 2012 10:23:29 AM: > ... can anybody explain in simple terms just .....
» 30/04/2012 12:01:47 PM In "The low carbon generation", James Dyson wrote 27 April 2012: >Engineers .....
» 9/01/2012 4:29:30 PM sonofgloin wrote 9 January 2012 4:04:27 PM: >>>tomw ... BER ... more impressive .....
» 9/01/2012 3:36:33 PM Shadow Minister, Monday, 9 January 2012 10:29:32 AM: >Tom, if you are in the IT it is .....
» 9/01/2012 9:53:16 AM The Chinese Ministry of Finance has proposed a carbon tax for China, starting at 10 yuan (.....
» 9/01/2012 9:47:51 AM The NBN is an expensive and complex undertaking and so it is not surprising if the average.....
» 4/01/2012 9:44:53 AM Ali Omidi wrote 28 December 2011: >... Historically, using speed boats in warfare trac.....
» 12/12/2011 8:44:05 AM Anthony wrote: >... It’s as though the tech train is bearing down on me at light speed.....
» 29/11/2011 7:33:38 AM Hasbeen wrote 28 November 2011 1:12:00 PM: > Tomws post shows how dictatorial these pl.....
» 28/11/2011 10:39:42 AM Evaggelos Vallianatos wrote 28 November 2011: >The West has always been perplexed by G.....
» 28/11/2011 9:28:36 AM Ross Elliott wrote 28 November 2011: >... Albert Einstein, was noted for his powers of.....
» 24/10/2011 10:51:26 AM Stephen Smith wrote 24 October 2011: >... leadership to engage in debate about issues .....
» 24/10/2011 9:46:07 AM Donald Richardson wrote 20 October 2011: >... is the government looking for a culture .....
» 17/10/2011 10:55:57 AM Nattavud Pimpa wrote 17 October 2011: > The Times Higher Education (THE) World Univers.....
» 17/10/2011 10:22:51 AM Nicholas Gruen wrote 11 October 2011: >... Web 1.0, was a platform for point to point .....
» 17/10/2011 8:50:55 AM "TurnRightThenLeft", wrote Friday, 14 October 2011 6:17:06 PM: > Most of you.....
» 3/10/2011 11:22:16 AM John Reid wrote, Friday, 30 September 2011 12:16:42 PM: >... Science is primarily abou.....
» 20/07/2011 3:01:46 PM The Australian Government Carbon Emmissions Strategy seems a reasonable comprise between d.....
» 26/06/2011 12:01:39 PM Julian Cribb wrote 24 June 2011: >Welcome to 2050 ... new Terra Australis ... biggest .....
» 30/05/2011 10:31:23 AM I am still working out what all the fuss with iPads is about. My fellow educators have gon.....
» 23/05/2011 9:42:40 AM "Shadow Minister" writes (18 May 2011 5:13:28 AM) "Only at or above $40/t d.....
» 21/03/2011 8:39:35 AM Graham Young wrote 14 March 2011: >Australia is unique. Nowhere else in the world has .....
» 28/02/2011 7:25:52 AM Andrew Laming wrote 14 February 2011: >Emergency Alert has sent out over half a millio.....
» 21/02/2011 7:55:18 AM StG asked 19 February 2011 1:10:30 PM: >... If we were to offer the people of these na.....
» 14/02/2011 3:58:23 PM Shadow Minister wrote 13 February 2011 5:45:18 PM: >... ranked Conroy's NBN plan poorl.....
» 7/02/2011 11:33:33 AM Systems such as Google's AdSense try to place advertisements on web pages which match the .....
» 17/01/2011 8:23:27 AM individual wrote 12 January 2011 10:00:05 AM: >... Engaging the unemployed under the s.....
» 29/11/2010 11:36:38 AM Shadow Minister wrote 27 November 2010 11:23:00 AM: >... the cost of buying Telstra's .....
» 29/11/2010 11:24:54 AM Antiseptic wrote 22 November 2010 9:44:39 AM: >In the Australian today ... http://www.....
» 10/11/2010 11:18:22 AM Hasbeen wrote 9 November 2010 2:46:39 PM: >... navy has done a reasonable job of catch.....
» 9/11/2010 12:35:30 PM Hasbeen wrote 8 November 2010 4:20:33 PM: >Tomw ... our pilots flying around in B grad.....
» 8/11/2010 10:41:09 AM Anton Roux and John Stanley wrote 1 November 2010: >... suggests that "cities&quo.....
» 8/11/2010 10:30:30 AM Edward Blakelywrote 4 November 2010: >... Christie report on transportation ... Fortu.....
» 8/11/2010 10:14:18 AM Walter Lohman wrote 8 November 2010: >... the US should make the sort of investments i.....
» 9/08/2010 8:00:22 PM The Australian Computer Society has organised an 2010 Federal Election Forum at the Nation.....
» 8/07/2010 12:25:39 PM vanna wrote 7 July 2010 7:24:52 PM: >Tomw ... developing Australian manufacturing indu.....
» 7/07/2010 2:53:28 PM vanna wrote 6 July 2010 2:35:42 PM: > Tomw, Moodle is open source. Yes, because Moodl.....
» 6/07/2010 12:48:13 PM vanna wrote 6 July 2010 10:55:51 AM: >Tomw ... I'm affraid Australia has missed the bo.....
» 6/07/2010 10:15:42 AM Cameron Leckie wrote 5 July 2010 >... CSIRO’s recent Our Future World ... increasing e.....
» 30/06/2010 4:41:42 PM Oliver wrote 28 June 2010 4:25:54 PM: >tomw, The issue is broader than technical writi.....
» 28/06/2010 11:23:54 AM Banjo wrote 25 June 2010 8:15:33 PM: >... there have been allegations of some places d.....
» 21/06/2010 10:18:38 AM Peter Corris' Cliff Hardy is one of Australia's great fictional detectives: http://en.wiki.....
» 16/06/2010 10:25:14 AM As well as the factors mentioned in Steven Schwartz's article, Australian international ed.....
» 16/06/2010 9:53:15 AM It seems reasonable to have students learn about ethics in school. It would make teaching .....
» 27/04/2010 12:30:41 PM StG wrote 20 April 2010 9:45:04 PM: >So, what happens if it keeps burning? If the Eyj.....
» 20/04/2010 2:01:51 PM Ben O'Mara wroteFriday, 16 April 2010: >"... The problem is that the rollout of t.....
» 20/04/2010 1:49:19 PM Mercurius Goldstein wrote hursday, 15 April 2010: >... export of Australian education .....
» 13/04/2010 4:06:03 PM John Töns wrote 12 April 2010: >... education policy ... starts with a budget ... Edu.....
» 13/04/2010 3:25:18 PM Sukhmani Khorana wrote 12 April 2010: >... what will happen when the iPad arrives? T.....
» 8/04/2010 5:02:17 PM Pericles, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 9:36:44 AM: >... use of Predator Unmanned Aerial Ve.....
» 15/02/2010 12:43:13 PM Foxy asked 9 February 2010 9:33:13 PM: >... favourite travel destination and why? Dov.....
» 19/01/2010 8:13:29 AM My colleagues at the Sahana Software Foundation have created the "Haiti 2010 Sahana D.....
» 29/12/2009 1:54:53 PM Decided to be environmental and borrowed books from the Leichardt Library: * "Withou.....
» 4/11/2009 7:41:38 AM examinator wrote 3 November 2009 8:40:12 AM: >... ICANN ... internet addresses ... Chi.....
» 2/11/2009 10:35:13 AM In "Cities in planning spotlight" (2/11/2009) Mr. Rudd argues a larger role for .....
» 5/10/2009 12:49:40 PM In "Pass the climate parcel" Tim Wilson wrote 28 September 2009: >Internatio.....
» 28/09/2009 10:48:14 AM Tomas Valasek wrote 28 September 2009: >Washington rankled some of its European allies.....
» 21/09/2009 6:05:46 PM Pericles (21 September 2009 5:27:51 PM) mentioned how someone at Senator Kate Lundy's &quo.....
» 21/09/2009 1:36:20 PM Trevor Cook "The Internet and democracy" (Friday, 18 September 2009), but doesn'.....
» 25/08/2009 7:10:12 PM rstuart wrote 25 August 2009 10:50:24 AM: >... unsupervised learning doesn't happen un.....
» 25/08/2009 10:04:15 AM rstuart wrote 24 August 2009 10:08:44 PM: >... had to use Google to figure out that K-.....
» 24/08/2009 11:49:09 AM The report "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning A Meta-Analysis.....
» 22/06/2009 12:02:07 PM Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation just announced a Australian Governme.....
» 22/06/2009 9:36:47 AM Greetings from "Government 2.0: Policy and Practice" at Parliament House in Canb.....
» 26/05/2009 3:34:07 PM plantagenet wrote 25 May 2009 10:34:21 PM: >Thanks tomw ... Delighted to be able to a.....
» 25/05/2009 9:50:19 PM As an increasingly prosperous country, China is quite reasonably increasing its armed forc.....
» 5/05/2009 12:42:43 PM While anti-viral medicines get most of the press coverage, the most important health measu.....
» 14/04/2009 1:46:16 PM GrahamY wrote 11 April 2009: "... dubious proposition (to any but tech-heads ...&quo.....
» 6/04/2009 3:51:15 PM Sasha Uzunov wrote 31 March 2009: "The Australian media have ... ended the cheerlead.....
» 6/04/2009 2:34:56 PM GrahamY wrote 30 March 2009 5:43:56 PM: "On Line Opinion is now on Twitter...".....
» 30/03/2009 5:05:19 PM The Australian Senate Economics Committee has published the 40 submissions received so far.....
» 29/03/2009 12:42:50 PM On Saturday, I attended Bar Camp Canberra 2. This event was broadly about Internet, web an.....
» 22/03/2009 9:53:42 AM The first assignment for the web design students (COMP2410) at The Australian National Uni.....
» 4/03/2009 9:37:23 AM Belly wrote 4 March 2009 5:54:30 AM: >... What power is proposed? >... in such an .....
» 3/03/2009 1:23:16 PM My talk on Community Warning Systems at the APCO Communications Conference was reasonably .....
» 24/02/2009 4:59:59 PM Next Tuesday I will talking on "Community Warning Systems - Balancing Technology and .....
» 17/02/2009 3:18:21 PM The Federal Court of Australia issued "The use of technology in the management of dis.....
» 16/02/2009 10:58:04 AM examinator wrote 16 February 2009 9:47:17 AM: >Tomw, And if you don't have a mobile/co.....
» 16/02/2009 8:12:03 AM According to media reports the Prime Minister has committed the Australian Government to i.....
» 8/02/2009 11:10:38 AM pelican wrote 7 February 2009 9:40:27 AM: >Much of this is already achieved via tele-c.....
» 7/02/2009 9:36:45 AM Forrest Gumpp wrote 7 February 2009 8:38:43 AM: >... Australian Government Policy Deve.....
» 6/02/2009 12:15:17 PM GrahamY commented 5 February 2009 6:01:04 PM: "I think this is an excellent idea Tom.....
» 5/02/2009 7:58:24 AM The Chairman of the Productivity Commission talked in Canberra last night on "Evidenc.....
» 18/11/2008 1:49:17 PM Thanks to the Online Opinion-ites for the comments and suggestions. Text, slides and a vid.....
» 13/11/2008 9:40:39 AM Posted by Ludwig, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 4:52:33 PM: >Are you or any of your coll.....
» 12/11/2008 3:47:39 PM Posted by Sylvia Else, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 3:31:00 PM: >I'll just fly in from .....
» 12/11/2008 10:13:59 AM I wrote 11 November 2008 4:13:59 PM: > symposium at ANU on Friday ... > http://tomw.....
» 11/11/2008 4:13:59 PM My colleagues in the computer and telecommunications industry (ICT) do not seem to be enga.....
» 6/10/2008 11:32:19 AM VP, Monday, 6 October 2008 10:37:58 AM commented on my article: "In the reference to.....
» 25/09/2008 6:33:15 PM Forrest Gumpp wrote 24 September 2008 6:31:19 AM: "... I visited tomw's website usin.....
» 23/09/2008 3:10:28 PM Ludwig wrote 23 September 2008 1:14:09 PM: "... The object of the exercise seems to .....
» 23/09/2008 3:01:39 PM Col Rouge wrote 23 September 2008 1:00:59 PM: "... more effective to either turn dow.....
» 23/09/2008 12:57:48 PM Bronwyn wrote 23 September 2008 10:35:07 AM: " '... difficult part is motivating peo.....
» 23/09/2008 12:19:18 PM Polycarp wrote 22 September 2008 1:58:27 PM: "Why didn't you just mention that 'Stand.....
» 22/09/2008 12:21:38 PM The Environment Department asked me to suggest a strategy for reducing energy use of PCs a.....
» 19/09/2007 9:33:39 AM Chris Shaw wrote 18 September 2007: "Did you ever think of working for Halliburton in.....
» 18/09/2007 3:45:59 PM Gary Brown wrote 14 September 2007: "... Howard has ordered the so-called Air Warfare.....
» 6/07/2007 10:03:31 AM A national emergency requires a national response. But the way to deal with an emergency i.....
» 5/07/2007 4:44:00 PM The topic of "democracy" is one which most speakers at today's China, East Asia,.....

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