A week ago, the Federal Government gave some money to this parenting website, so that they could distribute a DVD. It wasn’t the first time, the website is funded by the Australian Government’s Stronger Families and Communities Strategy.
“To help parents in their parenting role, the Australian Government is funding the Raising Children Network $4 million [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Parenting websites
Posted in Blogging, Parenting on 30 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
School as Community Hub
Posted in Education, Life, Parenting on 26 August, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Every now and again somebody panics about the state of community these days (e.g. Bowling Alone). My experience, generally is that community is what you put into it. I was reflecting, though, on where most people of my demographic (family with children) tend to put their community efforts these days. A hundred years ago it would [...]
Iconic Objects
Posted in Australian Politics, Civil Liberties on 19 August, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I was idly browsing the Powerhouse museum today, I came across an iconic object – the guitar of Harry Vanda from the Easybeats. I’d only vaguely heard of the Easybeats, but according to Wikipedia, “They are widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s and were the first Australian rock and roll act [...]
The Last Gasp
Posted in Australian Politics, environment, global warming on 18 August, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Michael Duffy had a column in the Sydney Morning Herald today with some (I hope) last gasp global warming denial. Before I got into blogging, I suspect I would have read it as making some valid points. Unfortunately, for Michael Duffy, I had already read the comprehensive demolition from the realclimate blog, and the analysis [...]
Walkability
Posted in Economics, global warming on 8 August, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Via Elizabeth, at Half Changed World, I found this index of walkability of where you live. It works on google maps, which unfortunately isn’t populated for my local part of Sydney, so I don’t know where my house comes out on the scale. To see how the scale works, here’s where I once lived in London, [...]
Mr Chairman
Posted in Feminism, Work and life on 8 August, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Once a month, I spend the best part of two days in a series of Board meetings. Occasionally, the topic of conversation drags, particularly if it is a paper that I’m not expecting to be questioned about, and I watch the interactions play out in the meeting.
Our meetings are very formal, with all statements (at [...]
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