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Blatantly Partisan Party Review VII (NSW 2023): Elizabeth Farrelly Independents

Prior reviews: none, this is a new party.

Where do I start with Elizabeth Farrelly. There was a point a few years ago where I would often sleep in of a weekend and log on to Twitter to find some baffling new discourse, which invariably turned out to be because Farrelly had published another ridiculous column in the Sydney Morning Herald. She had—and has—a particular propensity to piss off urbanists with her NIMBY anti-density views, but her takes on culture and lifestyle were equally good fodder for a solid day’s discourse and in-jokes. It’s hard to convey the depth of eye-rolling Farrelly induces if you didn’t participate in the social media banter about her columns of the late 2010s.

Farrelly’s tenure at the Sydney Morning Herald ended in bizarre circumstances in 2021. In the Strathfield local government elections, she registered for campaign finance purposes with the NSW Electoral Commission as a candidate for the Labor Party, although she was ultimately not chosen to be a Labor candidate; by her telling, she was simply interested in standing for the party either at that election or at state or federal level later. Farrelly did not run in the 2021 local elections, but she did criticise non-Labor candidates in her column without disclosing her affiliation, and the SMH’s editor Bevan Shields (another name to make you roll your eyes firmly if you’re SMH-adjacent) abruptly terminated her employment when he found out.

Ultimately, not only did Farrelly fail to get Labor preselection at local level, she stood against them as an independent at the 2022 by-election for the state seat also called Strathfield. She came third on primary votes—a distant third (9.85%) to the majors (41.05% ALP, 36.24% Liberal) but ahead of the Greens (6.67%). This seems to have made her sufficiently confident to attempt a tilt at state politics. After all, if she could replicate 9.85% statewide, she and her second candidate would both win seats—but rarely can anyone turn modest popularity in their home electorate into anything approximating statewide appeal.

What does Farrelly and her independent grouping actually stand for? They explicitly say they are “not a political party” (despite the fact they’re registered as one), but it is not clear the extent to which two hypothetical parliamentarians would be expected to work together. The platform that Farrelly and her independents share has three main planks: climate action, honest government, and liveable communities.

The climate action policy is pretty decent: net zero commitment for 2030, energy efficient building standards, moving away from mining fossil fuels, getting rid of draconian laws that stop climate protests, all that sort of stuff. The honest government policy is more mixed. Positively, it would strengthen ICAC’s ongoing financial position so that its base funding does not become subject to the whims of government. I’m concerned the proposal to stop “jobs for mates” goes too far—I’m happy with MPs being restricted from moving directly into jobs related to their former portfolios, but Farrelly also wants to stop them from taking any job in other specific sectors for three years: mining, energy, development, gambling, racing. These all just seem to be sectors she’s personally suspicious of, rather than any clear overarching rationale. It would mean an MP could get a job for a trucking company—despite how much the road lobby has skewed Australian transport policy towards unsustainable car-centric choices—but not with a renewable energy company.

The third plank, “liveable communities”, sounds nice until you realise that its contents are what you get when you have full-blown NIMBY brain. Farrelly proclaims to be a lover of cities, but it seems that what she loves is to put cities in aspic. She talks extensively about “over-development”, despite the fact Australia’s cities are horrendously sprawling and that it would be more efficient to start building up and to boost density along existing corridors. There’s a classic NIMBY trick of opposing public transport proposals because existing housing is insufficiently dense and opposing housing developments because there is no public transport, and Farrelly’s played both cards while also citing “heritage” to oppose a range of projects. I’m a historian by profession but I am no fan of how “heritage” often gets cited to protect vast swathes of wealthier suburbs—rather than protecting specific buildings and other historical objects of enduring value, it has often been used to boost property values, enforce certain aesthetic preferences, and keep out imagined "undesirables" (there is a part of the NIMBY brain that bafflingly equates apartments with slums).

It’s hard to imagine how NSW can boost its housing stock and make it affordable when Farrelly wants to implement every possible planning restriction and heritage overlay in the book. Planning processes already skew strongly towards the most conservative, change-averse local residents who have the time, money, and networks to participate, while younger, busier, and poorer residents are either unable to do so or unaware they even can—and prospective future residents get no say at all.

This is easily my longest review of the election, and I’m holding back from an even more sustained critique of the kind of regressive urban planning perspectives that Farrelly champions. I’m passionate about making cities better places to live: more walkable, more PT, more green spaces, more cafes and retail, and more homes, all in a more compact space. These things require density and a readiness to accept that the fabric of cities must keep evolving. Farrelly has some nice lingo but it is all in service to a NIMBY agenda that I do not believe would improve Sydney or any other part of NSW.

Farrelly would lean left on a range of environmental and social issues, and she and her associated independents would be much better than a lot of the rabble contesting the election, but I am on the whole unenthused.

Recommendation: Give Elizabeth Farrelly Independents a middling preference.

Website: https://www.elizabethfarrelly.com.au/

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my generation, part 2

So much history, so much incident, and yet so little of substance has stuck in the collective subconscious of the Baby Boomers, let alone been carried forward by them. For thirty years, we have perceived ourselves, and encouraged younger generations to perceive us, as having been among the instigators of the ’60s ferment, those in whom its unarguable revolutionary and creative energies — not to mention its elusive ideals — coalesced, and yet our memories of that decade are remote, vaporous, and not quite real.

Most of us were too young to have been anything other than spectators in the early ‘60s, despite the saunter we feign now in late middle‐age as survivors and faux‐savants. True, we had been among the casualties at Kent and Jackson States, at Berkeley and several other American universities. We had been roughed up and arrested by police in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. We had even hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails beneath clouds of noxious tear‐gas on the streets of Paris, Rome, Prague, Belfast and London — or of Watts, Hough, Detroit and Newark, where those of us who were black had come under fire from police and National Guards during bloody race riots between 1965 and 1967. In the end, though, they were not our battles. They belonged to the Silent Generation. We lent our support, if we were old enough, but we were on the periphery of most of the struggles, and our understanding of what was really at stake — however genuine our sympathies — was often incomplete.

Instead, we watched on television, and listened to the soundtrack on our record-players. We read eye‐witness accounts in Rolling Stone.

A generation born and raised in peacetime, during a prolonged period of economic well‐being (even in Europe, thanks to the billions invested by the USA under the Marshall Plan), Baby Boomers had no more certainty than the previous generation — forty years on, I sometimes relive the visceral chill of a seven‐year‐old’s terror of The Bomb: cowering with other children under desks during a Los Angeles school drill for a nuclear attack, air raid sirens wailing in the streets — but we were less inclined to hold strong beliefs, let alone agitate for change. We learnt to adjust, to be fluid, to “go with the flow”. In our mediated, proto‐virtual understanding of the world, everything was, and still is, fungible.

We dreamed instead. More than any previous generation of the twentieth century, Boomers had been raised amid the constant white noise and screen clutter of increasingly ubiquitous mass information, entertainment and communication media. By the late ’60s, the counter‐culture already had its own media, including magazines like Rolling Stone, New Musical Express and Creem, and aspects of it — all necessarily youth‐oriented — were being assimilated by the mainstream through films, TV and advertising. Gradually, we came to believe that these same media, with their McLuhan‐esque seductive power and their apparent free flow of images, information and ideas, rather than protest and confrontation, were the key to building the new world of our imaginations. It’s a notion borne out by the flood of Baby Boomers — among them Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Timothy Berners‐Lee (all born in 1955) — who, since the late ’70s, have nourished an age of technological invention to rival the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, even if a genius comparable to Tesla or Edison is less apparent.

Baby Boomers preferred the surface of things, the context rather than the content. We were easily distracted. We grew up with the passive, low‐level attention required by ‘old’ electronic media such as TV, radio, film and recorded music to reading — one of the few things we still have in common with other, younger generations. We wanted easy access and the ability to switch between content (we already called it channel surfing) whenever our attention lagged — which was more often than we liked to admit.

Well before the benign effects of the early ’60s counter‐culture seeped into the community at large, we were drawn less to its ideals than to its image. For us, the medium wasn’t just the message: it was everything. For the rest of the century, the Baby Boomers’ unconscious reverence for Marshall McLuhan’s contention that a medium affects society not by the content it delivers, but by the characteristics of the medium itself was evident everywhere. The best entertainment (and advertising) for Boomers was, to use McLuhan’s own jargon, hot or data‐plenty, demanding less concentration but delivering ever‐greater effect. Social protest gave way to the profane. Rock concerts became ‘shows’, each an extravagant gesamtkunstwerk with complex staging and lighting. No longer happy to stand in one place and just sing or play as older performers did — even Elvis, who insinuated the snakey promise of hillbilly rutting into middle America’s subconscious, was still pretty tame — band‐members turned manic and feigned sex with a Fender Stratocaster guitar (or a half‐naked fan), destroyed a wall of speakers, or bit the head off a live chicken before swan‐diving into the crowd. Vinyl LPs were no longer two twenty‐minute sides of discrete, three‐minute songs, but multi‐disc concept albums that were almost Wagnerian in duration and structure.

The Boomers’ preoccupation with scale and spectacle at the expense of nearly everything else became apparent in other media. Steven Spielberg — born in 1946, the first of many successful Baby Boomer directors — turned his back on the sort of smart, unsettling, contemporary character‐driven dramas directed by Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Rafelson, Martin Scorsese and others that had revitalised American cinema during the late ’60s and early ’70s to create Jaws, a film in which the main ‘character’ was a man‐eating shark, and any semblance of coherency in the narrative was subsidiary to the gradual amplification of suspense and the timing of set‐piece action sequences. Jaws was the first ‘blockbuster’ (a word only a Baby Boomer could love, meaning then a big‐budget Hollywood production that grossed over $US100 million in revenues in the United States alone). More importantly, it was a watershed in the entertainment industry’s perception of what the mass audience really wanted — excitement, the more intense the better. With uncanny intuition, honed during a decade of almost obsessive fascination with cause and effect in a variety of media, Baby Boomers knew how to give it to them.

It didn’t take long for this talent to be adapted as a means of exerting greater control. If the Silent Generation had been raised during times when the whole concept of control, let alone the means to exert it, must have been impossible to imagine – a sense of impotence was yet another compelling motivation for it to try to demolish the rickety postwar social order and establish something in which it could have some say — the Baby Boomers understood (as did the Roman Emperor Titus when he completed the Coliseum in 80BC and ordered that it be used for gladiatorial combat) that attention was a form of currency: acquire enough of it and you could transform it into real capital — which, in turn, gave you power.

And what better way to gain attention than by gaining the upper hand in entertainment media? It was an idea that would come into its own during the ’90s technology boom, when Generation X entrepreneurs, in harness with Boomer venture capital, would use the equation to leverage unimaginable value for their development of a new medium, the world wide web, inverting the idea of using fixed programming to capture the passive attention of a faceless mass audience of millions — the measure of value in old media — to create something a great deal more valuable, an infinitely customisable, two‐way interaction with a million‐fold audience of just one.

Control was — and still is — a big driver for Boomers. It underscored our relationship with the rest of the twentieth century, during which we tried to impose our views on others and to regulate their social and sexual behaviour with a zeal that smacked of a new Puritanism. We were stricter with our children, giving them less leeway to make their own decisions than our parents gave us. We were more ready to get involved in their education, or in any other area where we thought we might be able to exert influence on the shape of their lives. (To give us the benefit of the doubt, maybe we figured that if we didn’t, television would do it for us.)

The first of the Boomer legislators, judges and prosecutors were a lot less sympathetic and humanist than those of previous twentieth century generations. They were almost eager to limit or dispense with inconvenient legal and civil rights, impose stiff sentences or resort to the death penalty. As for Boomer politicians, if the Bush and Blair governments are anything to go by (their Silent Generation deputy, John Howard, could be said to be ‘aspirationally younger’), they are conservative, pragmatic, unethical, secretive and suspicious of free speech. They don’t much like the idea of a free press, either. Even if they are not as malignant as Bush, Boomer politicians can be little more than artful constructs (the former New South Wales premier, Bob Carr, springs to mind): a shiney, media‐friendly façade, a few well‐ turned, anodyne phrases and a lack of real empathy. All Boomer politicians have tried to cloak their legislative forays into social engineering as timely, well‐intentioned ‘modernising’ of existing political and social frameworks, but their version of modernity is always more intrusive, restrictive and careless of our rights.

There have been several Boomer political leaders who have tried to adhere to a more liberal, pluralistic and inclusive social philosophy, but there appears to be among them a disturbing propensity to engineer their own failure — as the former Australian Federal Labor party leader, Mark Latham (an on‐the‐cusp Boomer), appears to have done — or to self‐destruct. William Jefferson Clinton, the first Boomer to be elected President of the United States, and arguably one of the most intelligent and charismatic men to have occupied the Oval Office, ended up betraying the expectations of his generation because of a shallow preoccupation with what can only be described as ‘surface effect’, a disquieting moral ambivalence, and a tendency to self‐indulgent excess and hubris that are archetypal of our generation’s flaws.

At the edge of politics, straddling faded dividing lines between church and state, Boomers are among the most vociferous proselytisers not only for Christian fundamentalism — what better way for Boomers to exert control than through a belief system that behaves like an entertainment medium? — but, it might also be argued, for Islamic fundamentalism as well (Iran’s Islamic President Mahmoud Ahnadinejad, born in 1956, and Osama bin Laden, born a year later, are notable examples). Whatever side of the political, religious or cultural fence they’re on, Baby Boomers have a predilection for dogma that stems from their discomfort with — and inability to control — the confusion and contradictions of the times through which they have lived.

Even before the last Baby Boomer came of age — at eighteen, not twenty‐one, entitled to vote and drink — we had stepped out of the long shadow of the Silent Generation, looking for the main chance. We were never really idealists: we were — and still are — innately selfish and cynical (if not downright hypocritical). We focus on achieving a semblance of order, of control — we like to get the façade just right — in the context of right now, but we tend to overlook what it might cost us in the future. The idea that just because something can be done doesn’t necessarily mean that it should doesn’t occur to Boomers. Maybe it’s another indication of our hubris, but we don’t waste much time thinking about consequences.

The Magic Christian, a film directed by Scotsman Joseph McGrath, was released in 1969, the same year as Easy Rider. Adapted by the American satirist Terry Southern from his novel of the same name — Southern also cowrote Easy Rider with its stars, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper — The Magic Christian was an absurdist comic fantasy starring Peter Sellers as Sir Guy Grand, an Englishman of egregious wealth and a wicked sense of irony. Grand adopts a naïve, homeless young man, played by The Beatles’ drummer, Ringo Starr, to be his heir, renaming him Youngman Grand. He instructs Youngman in the operation of the “family business”: exposing and exploiting in most lurid ways the unquenchable greed of everyman. In one of the film’s funniest — if least subtle — moments, Sir Guy fills a swimming pool with excrement and tens of thousands of dollars, then invites passers‐by to retrieve as much money as they want. Soon the pool is overflowing with people fighting each other for fistfuls of cash as they struggle to keep their heads about the foetid shit, all under the gaze of a bemused Sir Guy and a troubled Youngman: “Grand is the name, and, uh, money is the game. Would you care to play?”

Indeed we would.

Film supplanted literature in the late ’60s (if not comic books, which we reconceived as ‘graphic novels’ to market them to a younger generation) as the repository of all our myths and parables. The medium appeals to restless Boomers because it enables us to rework these narratives from time to time. Eighteen years after the premiere of The Magic Christian, Sir Guy and Youngman Grand were transformed into Gordon Gekko, a rich and ruthless corporate raider (played by a middle‐aged Michael Douglas), and Bud Fox, a young if not‐so‐innocent stockbroker Gekko sets out to corrupt (a still fresh‐faced Charlie Sheen), in Wall Street, American director (and Baby Boomer) Oliver Stone’s celluloid eulogy over the fresh corpse of a decade notorious for its avarice and self‐interest. Boomers don’t like to acknowledge it any more (maybe, in part, because it reminds us of just how old we are now), but the ’80s were our best of times. The stern, Boadicea‐like Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom, and the doddery, paternalistic B‐movie actor and pretend‐cowboy, Ronald Reagan went out of their way to reassure us that the worst aspects of our generational character, the very traits that still grated on the Silent Generation, were not just OK but desirable in a world in which old‐fashioned values like ambition, self‐interest, wealth, privilege, heartlessness — oh, and empty‐headed celebrity — had made a comeback. The decade’s bible (or, as another writer would have it, Yuppie porn), was Vanity Fair, a glossy magazine edited by the Baby Boomers’ own brainy It girl, Tina Brown.

Even the collapse of the stockmarket on October 19, 1987 — so‐called Black Monday, when the New York Stock Exchange suffered its steepest‐ever one‐day decline and stripped the Dow Jones Industrial Average of nearly a quarter of its value (by the end of the month, the Australian stockmarket had lost over forty per cent of its value) — couldn’t deflate our confidence. Within a decade, Boomers would set in motion another bubble in stockmarket values, this time partnering with tech‐adept geeks of Generation X — our myriad neuroses and obsessive compulsive tics an unlikely match with their tendency to Attention Deficit Disorder and Asperger’s‐like syndromes — to conceive a New Economy, an alternative system of values underpinned by an entirely new medium of communication, information, interaction, transaction and entertainment.

It was a quartet of Silent Generation scientists at the US Defense Advance Research Projects Agency — Lawrence Roberts, Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Kahn and Vincent Cerf – that developed the technology and architecture to interconnect remote computer networks and thus create the internet, although it was a Baby Boomer, Timothy Berners‐Lee — an Englishman working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (better known as CERN) – who came up with something he called the world wide web. The far‐reaching revolution inherent in Berners‐Lee’s creation was at first lost on his peers (including the hyper‐intelligent head of Microsoft, now the world’s wealthiest individual, Bill Gates), so it was left to a younger generation — the Xers, whose very namelessness reflected a disconsolate sense of being a generation adrift, disenfranchised from a mainstream economic and cultural agenda now dictated (or, more accurately, obscured) by Baby Boomers — to recognise the liberating possibilities of the web’s capacity to interconnect not just documents — text, static images and, later, sound and video — but also ideas.

The Boomers were never big on originality. We were, after all, the generation that invented technology to make the appropriation or ‘sampling’ of anything as simple as a few keyboard strokes on a computer. We were good at refining existing ideas — the World Wide Web was a case in point, so too were the first iterations of Microsoft’s DOS operating system — but what we were, and still are, best at was hype. Our aptitude for effect — the gesamtkunstwerk of those ’60s rock shows — allied to our almost forensic absorption of mass media over the previous forty years meant that we were well prepared for the ’90s dot.com boom. Most of us were less interested in the web’s technology than we were in devising its business models (where, almost instinctively, we sensed the real power would be) and articulating the precarious value equation that turned attention into cash. Nonetheless, the early years of internet entrepreneurism were the apotheosis of the Boomer generation. Too bad that they resurrected in us an ethos that had tainted us during the previous decade — excess in all things, especially greed.

In Wall Street’s best‐remembered scene, Gordon Gekko confronts the restive shareholders of the fictional corporation, Teldar Paper, to convince them to sell off the company’s assets. With the fervour of a TV evangelist leading his congregation in prayer, Gekko tells them: “Greed ... is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms – greed for life, for money, knowledge – has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.” This wasn’t just another of those cinematic moments that resonated briefly in the media‐sensitised subconscious of Baby Boomers before receding into the ambient low‐frequency noise. Gekko’s words became our mantra (Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works.) They permeated our attitude for the next twenty years.

The irony is delicious: Baby Boomers turned out to be the Sir Guys for at least two generations of Youngmans.

Part two of three.

First published as part of a single essay in Griffith Review, Australia, 2006.

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Australia's Top Regional Areas for Permanent Residency

Examining Australia's regional locations is a great place to start if you're thinking about moving there but are unsure where to begin. These outlying neighborhoods of big cities offer affordable housing, distinctive job and business opportunities, and a good standard of living.

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Canberra:

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Fury over PM's call on religious discrimination laws

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/fury-over-pms-call-on-religious-discrimination-laws/

Fury over PM's call on religious discrimination laws

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has caused outrage with an ultimatum on his government’s religious discrimination legislation.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported Anthony Albanese told a Labor caucus meeting on Tuesday morning he wouldn’t put the legislation forward unless opposition leader Peter Dutton and the Coalition supported it.

Scott Morrison’s own religious discrimination bill famously fell apart before the 2022 election. Several Liberal MPs ultimately voted against it in parliament.

At the time, Labor promised to introduce their own reforms. Now, the government has a pair of as-yet-unseen bills ready, the Herald reports.

Anthony Albanese confirmed he’d told Peter Dutton the new proposal must have bipartisan support before he put it forward.

Ultimatum will delay removal of religious exemptions

However, LGBTQIA+ advocates are angry as this ultimately will likely delay one crucial reform: the long-awaited removal of religious exemptions permitting discrimination against LGBTIQA+ staff and students.

Those exemptions in Australian law currently permit religious schools and other faith organisations to discriminate against lesbian, gay and trans people.

Equality Australia has called for the government to repeal the exemptions for years.

They’ve warned Albanese he must keep his election commitment to do so and are frustrated at the prospect of more delays.

“While we continue to wait for the law to change, more people will lose their jobs and more children will be denied leadership roles or be forced to leave school,” Equality Australia’s Legal Director Ghassan Kassisieh said.

“We have spent more than a decade raising this issue, with many reviews and attempts to change the law.

“If the Prime Minister is serious about fulfilling his election commitment, he can take simple and quick steps right now to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ students and staff in religious schools.”

Just.Equal spokesperson Rodney Croome said Coalition support for the move was “very unlikely” and blasted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

“Last year Albanese walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge to mark WorldPride,” he said.

“Now, he’s throwing us off the bridge to appease those who want the right to expel, sack and otherwise mistreat us.

“In its entire time in office, the Coalition failed to protect LGBTIQA+ students and staff from discrimination by faith-based schools. It’s very unlikely to have changed its mind.

“By giving the Coalition a veto over Labor policy, Anthony Albanese has broken Labor’s election commitment and sold out LGBTIQA+ students and staff.”

Rodney Croome said his home state of Tasmania had banned faith-based schools discriminating against LGBTIQA+ staff and students “for a quarter century without the sky falling in.”

Liberal Michaelia Cash argues for religious freedom

At the weekend, the Coalition’s shadow Attorney-General Michaelia Cash said she’d heard “very concerning things” about the Albanese government’s proposals.

She demanded religious schools be able to “operate in accordance with their values, their doctrines and beliefs.”

“There is a real risk here that religious schools will not be able to conduct themselves in accordance with their values,” the Liberal MP told Sky News.

On Monday the Greens argued religious schools – particularly those receiving public funding – shouldn’t be discriminating against people.

Greens LGBTQIA+ spokesperson Stephen Bates said he’s also worried that, just like in 2022, the rebooted religious discrimination debate will “unleash a torrent of LGBTIQA+ hate in our political system, our media and our community.”

“Anti-discrimination laws can’t be a Trojan horse for other kinds of discrimination,” he added.

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14 ideas to build and grow a podcast network today

I recently had the opportunity to express my interest in a field I’ve never officially worked in, for a company I’d never worked for, in an industry I’ve been out of for over a decade: audio, more specifically, audio on-demand, or as we’ve called it for twenty years, podcasting.

I didn’t make it past expressing interest for the position but my application - in the form of audio on demand - was “one of the most creative submissions I’ve seen/heard” said an ABC staff member, which I sincerely appreciate, but my fire and passion for podcasting/audio on-demand has now been given oxygen - after over a decade of self-employment I applied for the job intending to get it.

So, I wanted to at least document my thoughts here on my blog, and then open source them, release my thoughts to the greater podcasting public.

May these gathered thoughts help or inspire you to succeed in the field, even if you got the job as Head of Audio on Demand for the ABC ;)

What I would do if I was the ABC’s Head of Audio on Demand

Create a role of tastemaker for the network. They’re the evangelist for the entire network of shows large and small. They themselves release a regular podcast but are also actively blogging and social media creating about episodes and shows. They’re the network’s number one fan and advocate.

Serve the niches to an extreme. Look for the small, weird, wonderful communities and interests. Niche passions are infectious, interesting, and lead to great audiences. Think Francis Bourgeois.

Serve local extremely well. The ABC already does this so well on every other medium, but the town of Esperance deserves a local daily podcast, as much as the region of Greater Sydney does along with Penrith. Every Australian should have a local podcast they MUST listen to, like it’s the gospel.

Up the metadata game. In radio we called the 1% of ultra-mad fans P1 fans, I was told it was because they had our station on preset one. P1 fans love the metadata that makes podcasts so more enjoyable, things like chapters for skipping to topics, unique and captivating album art per episode, and also album art to visually explain chapters. Like if a chart is mentioned, the chart is that album’s artwork. Metadata includes utilising all of the podcast specifications like categories, episode and season numbers, trailer identifiers, podcast:person tags, and show notes with links to things and people mentioned. Look at Podnews' How-To articles and podcasting2.org and get your CMS or software developers to build support for all the apps.

Album art like Mr Beast. YouTuber Mr Beast knows that the thumbnail of a video is almost more important than the content, it’s what brings people into the episode. Album art is a neglected wasteland in podcasting, up your game.

Unearthed for podcasting. I can still remember when Triple J Unearthed came to Mackay - my friend Leah even has video of me at the event {screen grab of the video to prove I was young once}. Over the past thirty years Unearthed has provided an amazing platform for the up and coming musical acts of Australia. I’m dreaming of a similar program for podcasters. An on ramping exercise to the wider network, developing talent, encouraging it, providing resources and assistance.

Success, how do we measure it? The Triton Digital Australian Podcast Ranker provides a nice big list of podcast success, but I would sincerely ask all stakeholders whether that listing defines our success or not. I just think of my own podcasting efforts as a wedding celebrant. I would have one of the least successful podcasts in the universe but I’m probably a top 1% earner because everyone that listens to my podcast books me to be their celebrant. No podcaster is getting that kind of return from each listener.

Expanding what audio on demand means. We all know what a podcast is supposed to look like today. A regular release, either daily, weekly, monthly, of a drop of audio. But if we look at audio like we do video, there’s feature films, short films, miniseries, documentaries, anthology series, reality TV, ‘straight to home video’ films. How can some of those storytelling mediums be transposed to audio, and could they be released from the “release date” that immediately dates a podcast when released?

Embracing the open web and our own platform. Anil Dash recently wrote this great piece, “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement, and I wholeheartedly will fight for the open web. The simple fact that you or I can publish a website or a podcast without needing permission from Zuckerberg, whoever is running Spotify, or Tim Cook. But then it also makes a lot of sense for a publisher to own its platform, like the ABC does with ABC Listen. So find the balance between the two.

Drop introductions for audio logos. Think of the Netflix Tudum or the Apple Macintosh or Windows XP startup sound. Instead of wasting precious seconds at the start and end of a podcast, employ an audio logo. The first seconds of a podcast are where the decisions to keep on listening are made, don’t waste it with lots of fancy talk about how we’re listening to another ABC Podcast.

Debate what we’re calling this. Before Ben Hammersly mashed together the words iPod and broadcast it was called audioblogging. Today we’re playing with the term “audio on-demand” but it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. My gripe is that people call videos on Youtube a podcast. The terminology is messy, and potentially there’s no fix, but somehow everyone agreed on what radio meant. Maybe the same can happen with recorded audio delivered on RSS or the web at your leisure?

Spread it far and wide with the wheel of content. I’m not going to make out like this is a Josh original, but I’ve been banging on about this since I worked at Southern Cross Austereo, 96five, 4BC and Fairfax radio, and everyone there looked at me like I was crazy. It’s my “Wheel of Content” idea. The simple idea is that a story enters the wheel at the hub (the middle), and then it works itself out through the different channels, audio, video, text, short form, longform, infographics, social media posts, all of it. Record the podcast, break it out into a number of blog posts, into smaller podcast episodes, into videos, tweets, posts, toots, whatever. Make that content work not just double time but 10x its usability. Get the story out of the mp3 file and run it far and wide.

Cross-guest. Introduce hosts and personalities from across the network as guests on other podcasts. Pretend like you’re not the only podcast in the network.

A big head with a long tail. This is my final thought that encapsulates all of them. Any one network can most likely only afford the social capital to market ten shows a year well. We’re talking large-scale marketing campaigns. But that same network should have 10x (at least) that number shows it is actively producing. This is not a new idea, Netflix and many streaming apps work the same way. Evangelism is a costly exercise, so evangelise the hits, and let the rest of the network ride off that network-effect of getting listeners interested in the rest of the shows. Build a big fat visible head of up to ten shows, and let that tail grow as long as you can resource.

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The Freud-Hole, and Bernays' Extimate Space

There’s possibly no greater malady for a writer, in our day and age, than to be stuck in the Freud-hole, and yet here eye am. My former friends (please note here the playful melodrama) are glad to have escaped the event horizon of my eternally unsatisfied, ouroborean questing. Truly, they’d have rathered gouge out their eyes in favour of reading anything written by the hand of such a swollen-footed, motherfucking dreamer, affixed only to the chase of his own tail. The teaching staff where I study smile politely but you can see the apprehension in their Is. What’s he gonna do next?, I hear them thinking, what might he be projecting onto me at this very moment? Into what kind of strange, subconscious streamscape has he lost himself this time? What monstrous slips of the tongue? In truth, my close reading of Freud has been minimal over the years, though to admit this might only make things worse.

Because it could be reasoned that the only sin greater than the writer who finds himself stuck in the sinkhole of Freudian thought is the sin of finding one’s way there unwittingly. A few chapters of The Interpretation of Dreams, maybe a few chapters of The Wolf Man, and at one point, on the edges of memory, Civilization and its Discontents and besides these some sections of papers: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Uncanny. If anything, based purely on reading I’m probably more of a Jungian. I said earlier that there’s nothing so frowned upon than a writer who has become affixed in the threads of Freud’s various orbits, but within academia this is perhaps not quite accurate: to be an open Jungian might give your peers the impression that at any moment, you’re likely to begin spouting Swedenborg, or quoting lines of William Blake’s obscurant poetry, or pontificating on the profundity of the writings of Aleister Crowley in relation to man’s collective unconscious. Of course, I’ve probably read more Nietzsche than either of them, but there are some things you dare not admit. In his biography Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung writes, of reading Nietzsche:

I felt like the old peasant who discovered that two of his cows had evidently been bewitched and got their heads in the same halter. “how did that happen?” asked his small son. “Boy, one doesn’t talk about such things,” replied his father.

Recently a team of students from Western Sydney University (WSU) were provided the opportunity to visit New York as part of their training in Digital Communications. One photo, dated 16.07.23 depicts the gang visiting the Museum of Public Relations to learn about “the history and evolution of American public relations.” As part of this tour, the students got the chance to observe and interact with original materials from the offices of Ivy Lee, Arthur Page, and Edward Bernays himself, who, the poster points out in what she describes as a ‘fun fact’ was the double-nephew of none other than the father of psychoanalysis himself. It’s certainly not my intention to grate on the team or the poster here, I’m sure they’re doing a fine job in their role as students, but I can’t help but feel as if this connection may be somewhat understated in contemporary society. That he was Freud’s nephew was certainly never understated by Bernays himself. By all accounts, he used every opportunity to prop up his own reputation by reference to the relation. There is also widespread evidence that many of Freud’s ideas formed a central core of tenets for Bernays’ ongoing practice, his upbringing in Austria putting him in close proximity to his uncle’s rising notoriety.

I bring this up, not just to be a stickler, or as some kind of Freudian knight errant who demands recognition of his Lord. But personally, I can think of no better tale of history to illuminate more succinctly the particular kind of media PR hell we experience today, than that of the application of Freudean theory by Mr. Edward Bernays. Freud’s theories arose from his experience as a medical doctor, beginning with his fellowship with Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist who had developed treatments for hysteria based on hypnosis. Freud developed his ‘talking cure’ as a method to uncover and shed light on strange behaviours in patients, often women, which, to his view, had no seeming basis in objective reality. Freud posited that such behaviours, often otherwise labelled simply as ‘hysteria’ (and perhaps, by a retrospective extrapolation, we might notice the historical proximity of madness with the ‘feminine’ within medical discourse, not to mention the witch-burnings) were in fact victims of psychical events which had played out at some point during their personal history (and in most cases, as he would discover, at various points) beneath conscious awareness, and well beyond the ability to articulate such wounds into language. Noting his uncle’s work in uncovering the power of psychic phenomenon that seemed to operate beneath the active purview of consciousness, Bernays developed his theory of propaganda as “the mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale.” As a practice, Bernays posits propaganda to be a kind of philosophical art-tool grounded in a teleological ends-based politics, utilised best by an ‘invisible government’ for the good of the people. Such an overbearing, yet shadowy agency, according to Bernays, seemed the only way to bring about a socially cohesive zeitgeist, something which could ensure the election of the right candidate (the one funding Bernays, that is) and the dissemination of the right kinds of products (those who hired Bernays as consultant). All for the good of the people. At the time of the publication of his seminal text, Propaganda (1928) Bernays had already forged a reputation for himself, being instrumental in shaping international views regarding America leading up to and during their intervention in WWI. One fan of Bernays’ assertions that “only through the active energy of the intelligent few can the public at large become aware of and act upon new ideas” was Joseph Goebbles, who utilised this vision to construct the Nazi propaganda machine that would sell the population of Germany a concentrated and clearly exaggerated vision of the anti-semitism that had been festering throughout Europe during the 18th Century and beyond. Freud would flee Austria 04.06.38 despite reluctance to do so, even after Hitler, on the 15th of March that same year, had been welcomed by the state leading to an extreme escalation of violence towards the Jewish population. Bernays would move away from the term ‘propaganda’, declaring loudly that any tool, psychological or otherwise, can be utilised for good or evil, depending on the ones that wield it. The new term he coined was ‘Public Relations’. Consulting with Austrian-US psychoanalyst A.A. Brill, Bernays would go on to popularise smoking for women in the adult population of The United States by organising groups of (paid) women to march while smoking cigarettes in the Easter Sunday Parade of 1929, as a way to battle against taboos relating to women smoking, being some considerable market restriction for those paying Bernays. Despite the organisation of these spectacles, Bernays vehemently opposed his wife’s smoking, indicating that he knew at least some of the dangers involved in this.

Of course, one could write an entire thesis on this relationship. The trajectory we see forming here is undoubtedly more complicated than simply asserting that Freud = Bernays (propaganda) = modern advertising. I’m not out here demanding we hold a parade for Freud and throw Bernays in the trash can, but I would be open to the idea of a world in which I could admit freely that I found value in Freud’s endeavour, notwithstanding the many things I found disagreeable and short-sighted about the man. If I’m to accept (as some of my colleagues keep telling me) that Freud’s legacy is just another ghostly voice of the old dead white hegemony, well then at least I’d like them to recognise that same undead ghost in their freedom torches, their 3am tik-tok deep dive eyes and their Barbie ads.

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6 Signs You Are Interacting With a Fake Tree Lopper

Trees need attention, like other things you have inside and outside your property. You can check their health and see if there are changes that require tree loppers Sydney services. Leaving the job to the professionals can give you peace of mind because every step is correct and they are handled correctly. However, before entrusting your trees to them, ensure you are not interacting with a fake tree lopper. To help, here are some signs that you cannot trust them:

No References or Reviews

Whatever service or product you get, especially if you look online, do not skip checking ratings and reading reviews. They have the power to change the mind of a person because those words were from the previous customers. They will tell you about their experiences with the tree lopper and give insights about the good and the bad. If you see negative reviews, do not get discouraged easily because different things happen, and not all situations are the same. But if the customer review covers everything you do not want to experience, it is enough sign to search for another tree lopper to trust.

No Written Contract

Written contracts must always be present in every service you get. It does not matter how small the deal is because if your property gets affected and there is money involved, getting everything in writing can give you peace of mind and guarantee that you have something to present when anything goes wrong.

Read and understand everything before signing the contract. Once your signature is written, there is no turning back on the deal. And even if the tree project is done, keep the papers and maintain their condition. If something gets damaged because of the mistakes with the task, you can file a proper complaint against the company.

Pushy or Aggressive Sales Tactics

Aggressive sales tactics are a giveaway red flag in every company. No one should ever be pushy with people and respect their decision. Aggressiveness can make people walk far away from you instead of being interested in your offers. It is also the same when searching for a tree lopper online. Sometimes, you will notice it when they offer you various things that are not mentioned on their website or in previous conversations just to catch your interest and attention. They could be irritating, especially if you said no multiple times already.

Unrealistically Low Prices

Although low prices can be a factor in looking for a tree lopping company, unrealistic ones might pose red flags. Do not fall too easily into these offers because you do not know everything about them yet. To ensure you have proper knowledge about tree lopping pricing in your area, contacting different companies is one thing. Ask for an estimate and see the price ranges of their services. If the one you first find is unrealistically affordable, you might wanna ask more questions and see if their answers are convincing and honest enough to keep you on their side.

Lack of Proper Equipment

Professional tree loppers have the correct and proper equipment to do their job. Lacking tools might not guarantee the longevity of the results, and it might cause you more problems than solutions. If you do not know anything about tree lopping equipment, research them and check the high-quality brands. If you do not see it used by the tree lopper, do not blame yourself if you will question them. There is no harm in asking questions as long as you deliver them professionally and not offensively.

Unverified Identity

Before trusting a company, check if they have a website or social media accounts. You will see their history and company background, giving you an idea about how long they have been in the industry. If they are new, research about them and see what previous clients can say.

Fake tree loppers can also pose these other signs:

Poor Communication

Lack of Credentials

No Clear Plan

No Mention of Safety Precautions

Difficulty in Identifying Tree Issues

No Clear Cleanup Plan

Unprofessional Behaviour

Lack of Licencing and Insurance

Never underestimate what research can do, especially when looking for someone you can trust with your trees. By knowing these signs, you can avoid interacting with them, saving time and energy. Entrust your trees with known professionals and companies that are patient enough to perform proper tree care and maintenance.

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americanlifeguard · 7 months

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Critical Lifeguard Shortage Hits the Southern Hemisphere

AUDIO: Lifeguard shortage threatens to delay pool openings [Sydney]

ABC Radio Sydney: Harriet Tatham

With hundreds of vacancies for lifeguards and other staff, there are fears swimming pools in some regional communities won't be able to open.

Full story: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-27/lifeguard-shortage-threatens-to-delay-pool-openings/102905230

Addressing the Lifeguard Shortage with Innovative Solutions here in the USA

The lifeguard shortage has led to some innovative solutions in communities across America. In some places, retired firefighters and other emergency responders have been recruited to work as lifeguards. This not only helps to address the labor shortage but also brings in experienced professionals who are well-equipped to handle emergencies.

Another solution is to provide more flexible scheduling for lifeguards. Many college and high school students work as lifeguards during the summer months, but they also have other commitments like internships, jobs, and summer school. By offering flexible scheduling options, communities can attract more candidates and retain experienced lifeguards.

Furthermore, some communities have taken a more proactive approach by launching awareness campaigns about the importance of lifeguards and the need for more people to take up the profession. These campaigns can include social media, billboards, and public service announcements that highlight the vital role of lifeguards in ensuring public safety and encourage people to consider it as a career.

Investing in Lifeguarding Programs

One way to address the shortage of lifeguards is to invest in programs that train and educate people on lifeguarding. This investment can be made by local governments, community organizations, and private institutions. The programs can range from basic lifeguard training to advance emergency response training. These programs can attract a more diverse pool of candidates, including retirees, veterans, and other professionals who may be looking for a career change.

In addition, investing in lifeguarding programs can help to create a pipeline of qualified lifeguards who can work in their communities for years to come. This can help to address the chronic shortage of lifeguards and ensure that public pools remain open and safe for the community. By investing in lifeguarding programs, communities can also provide job opportunities for their residents and help to boost the local economy.

Full story: https://americanlifeguardassociation.com/the-reasons-for-the-lifeguard-shortage-and-how-to-address-them/

#sydney #lifeguard training #lifeguard class #lifeguards #lifeguard course #swimming #health & fitness #lifeguard #news #swimmers #Southern Hemisphere

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Budget

Kitchen

Kitchen Materials and Fit Out

$1,900 - $2,300 per square meter (ReignInDesign, 2021). If one of the Workshop buildings is transformed it would be approximately 25 square meters for the kitchen to be done. This would amount to a cost of anywhere from $47,500 to $57,500.

Fabrication (Electrical and Plumbing)

Electrician- $75-$110 per hour (In Brisbane) (Kulkarni, 2023).

Working an average of 9 hours a day (HiPages, 2023), for 4 days a week for 2 weeks this would cost $6696 for entire job on the high end.

Plumber- $100 - $150 per hour (in Australia) (Garwood, 2023).

The plumber would be needed less, maybe 2 days for 9 hours a day. This would mean the approximate cost would be $3600 for the entire job.

The kitchen can take anywhere from 2 - 4 weeks (Tuddenham, 2023)

Ongoing Costs

Staff (Instructors/Chefs)- According to a job listing for a 'Cooking School Instructor' Position at 'New Farm Confectionary', which is also in Brisbane, the cost for a cooking instructor is $29 to $44 an hour "depending on qualifications and experience" ( New Farm Confectionary, 2023). This cost would be covered by the fees charged to the people taking the classes.

Upkeep- The upkeep of the kitchen would be checking its condition once a week and providing cleaning products for patrons. This is feasible as it is both a social and commercial enterprise and this cost would be covered by the the weekly membership fees and cooking class payments.

Income

The intention of this creative concept is that it acts as both a social and commercial enterprise that brings in consistent revenue from the weekly fees as a community kitchen and the one off payments from people taking the cooking classes/paint and sips.

Community Kitchen - $5 a week per person

Cooking Classes - Based on the prices of other cooking classes in Brisbane on the ClassBento website the cooking classes will range from $100 - $150 per person.

Paint and Sips - $30 - $60 per person (ClassBento, 2023)

References

Garwood, Ellis. (2023, March 9). How much does it cost to hire a plumber? | 2023 cost guide. https://www.service.com.au/articles/plumbing/how-much-does-it-cost-to-hire-a-plumber

HiPages. (2022, November 7). Time to give thanks to tradies: Aussies tradies reveal why they haven't taken leave in two years. https://hipagesgroup.com.au/media-releases/time-to-give-thanks-to-tradies-aussie-tradies-reveal-why-they-havent-taken-leave-in-two-years/#:~:text=7%20November%202022%2C%20(Sydney%2C%20Australia)%20%E2%80%93&text=The%20research%20also%20looked%20more,work%20longer%20than%2011%20hours.

Kulkarni, Shreya. (2023, January 29). How much does an electrician cost | 2023 cost guide. https://www.service.com.au/articles/electrician/how-much-does-an-electrician-costs

Luke (2021) How much does a commercial kitchen fit out cost? - reign in design, Commercial Kitchens & Equipment. Available at: https://reignindesign.com.au/how-much-does-a-commercial-kitchen-fit-out-cost/#:~:text=As%20a%20guide%2C%20a%20basic,have%20its%20own%20specific%20requirements.

New Farm Confectionary (2023). Cooking School Instructor Position. https://newfarmconfectionary.com.au/pages/cooking-school-instructor-position

Tuddenham, P. (2023, May 10). How Long Does It Take To Fit A Kitchen? https://www.jmttradeltd.co.uk/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-fit-a-kitchen#:~:text=Final%20Notes%20On%20How%20Long%20It%20Takes%20To%20Fit%20A%20Kitchen&text=of%20the%20design.-,On%20average%2C%20a%20typical%20kitchen%20fitting%20project%20takes%20between%20two,the%20scope%20of%20work%20involved.

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Understanding the market of sale by an agent in real estate

Understanding the market of sale is a crucial aspect of a real estate agent's job. It involves analyzing current market conditions, trends, and property values to effectively assist clients in selling their properties. Here are some key components of understanding the market of sale:

Market Research: Real estate agents conduct thorough research on the local housing market. They analyze recent sales data, current inventory levels, and market trends to gain insights into the overall health of the market.

Comparative Market Analysis (CMA): One of the essential tools for understanding the market of sale is the Comparative Market Analysis. Agents use CMAs to determine a property's fair market value by comparing it to recently sold properties with similar characteristics in the same area.

Pricing Strategy: Based on their research and CMA findings, agents help sellers determine an appropriate listing price for their property. Pricing is crucial, as an overpriced property may linger on the market, while an underpriced property may result in financial loss for the seller.

Market Segmentation: Real estate agents understand that different segments of the market might have varying demand and pricing dynamics. They may focus on specific niches, such as luxury properties, starter homes, or investment properties, depending on the local market's demand.

Property Presentation: Understanding the market also involves knowing how to present a property in its best light. Agents advise sellers on staging, repairs, and improvements that can enhance the property's appeal and increase its market value.

Marketing Strategies: Effective marketing is essential to reach potential buyers. Agents employ various marketing channels, such as online listings, social media, open houses, and networking, to promote the property to a wide audience.

Market Timing: Knowing the best time to list a property can significantly impact its sale. Agents consider seasonal trends, economic conditions, and the overall supply and demand situation to time the listing strategically.

Buyer Demographics: Understanding the preferences and demographics of potential buyers helps agents tailor their marketing and communication strategies to attract the right audience for the property.

Negotiation Skills: In the sales process, agents negotiate with potential buyers to secure the best possible price and terms for their clients. Understanding market conditions and comparable sales data can strengthen their negotiating position.

Market Updates: The real estate market is dynamic and can change rapidly. buyers agent sydney keep their clients informed about market updates, shifts in demand, and any changes that may affect the selling process.

By continuously monitoring and analyzing the market of sale, real estate agents can provide valuable insights and guidance to their clients, resulting in successful property sales and satisfied sellers.

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What are the characteristics of a tourist-friendly destination?

Tourism can bring economic benefits and job opportunities. But sustainable tourism is crucial for long-term success. Sustainable tourism benefits both the local economy and the tourists. It’s attractive as well as convenient for tourists.

Attractions, accessibility, amenities, accommodations, packages, activities, and ancillary services are primary components of any destination. Travel opportunities, arrangements, and information are some more components. These elements make a destination suitable and available for tourists.

Agents like Business Flight Shop will provide you with the necessary support. They will help you to book flights to USA from UK or anywhere else from responsible airlines.

There are many gorgeous and fascinating places worldwide, for example- Kamchatka in Russia. They don't have the infrastructure (good & safe roads and airplanes, good hotels, safe food, water, and air) to support tourists. It’s a case of attraction with no accessibility, amenities, or other facilities.

These are some simple factors that can help a town become tourist-friendly:

A small, hardworking & friendly, year-round local population (human infrastructure). This helps to support tourism.

Local guides who can speak some foreign languages.

A reliable local media presence. This enhances the town's reputation and advertises events. It boosts community engagement and participation. You’ll surely take flights to Philippines from UK after you see the advertisements about Philippines.

Some convenient & comfortable infrastructure.

Has both summer and winter attractions to bring in the economy year-round.

A clean, law-abiding downtown with 100% occupancy. Flights to Sydney from UK will ensure this.

Laws that preserve scenic vistas and keep property values high. Environmental laws make it hard to build houses, leading to scarcity. The current properties become expensive. Hence, overcrowding is avoided.

Food must include some non-local/global food as well. Take flights to South Korea from UK to enjoy the local food.

Local craft shops for buying souvenirs at reasonable prices.

Tourist destinations differ from one another depending on weather, history, culture, traditions, public transportation, food, and hospitality.

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Public Speaker : Brett de Hoedt

Brett de Hoedt speaks on stages across Australia as an emcee and presenter.

In 2014 he was invited by Al Gore to keynote at the former Vice President’s Climate Reality event about the role of media to 550 delegates from around the world.

It went well: “You will be pleased to know you rated second only to Al Gore.” – Adam Macher, Australian Conservation Foundation.

His presentation skills have been utilised by: CommBank, Netball Australia, Australian Marketing Institute, City of Melbourne, Global Health Conference, Orica, Sustainability Victoria, Landcare, University of Melbourne, Disability Employment Australia, Jobs Victoria, Victoria's Department of Education and Training, United Way and Swimming Australia among dozens.

Since 1999 media and communications trainer Brett de Hoedt has trained thousands of Australians with his Presentation Training Melbourne program which are working with organisations including Red Cross Australia, WWF, Australian Conservation Foundation, Berry Street, World Vision plus dozens of local governments, peak bodies, industry associations and unions.

As a print journalist he has written for New Idea, Truth, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has interviewed everyone from several former Prime Ministers to George Clooney.

He spent several years as a talk radio broadcaster and producer on Melbourne’s 3AK and as a contributor on ABC 702 Perth. In 2015 he returned to radio for a 12 week season on Melbourne station 3MP. He hosts award-winning podcast The Hardest Word.

Through his consultancy Hootville Communications Brett has trained CEOs entrepreneurs, professional athletes, sex workers, young offenders, climate scietists, aspiring politicians, people with intellectual disabilities and people for whom English is a fourth language. He can help you.

He is a dynamic and challenging trainer who works with people as they are. Join our Presentation Training in Melbourne to improve your Presentation Skills.

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The QNews Guide to Mardi Gras in Sydney: The Parade

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/the-qnews-guide-to-mardi-gras-in-sydney-the-parade/

The QNews Guide to Mardi Gras in Sydney: The Parade

The hot Aussie summer sun is about to rise on yet another year of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest LGBTQIA+ festival, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

An event that defines so many moments in Australia: the fight and defiance of the Sydney 78ers, the tireless efforts of queer and trans activists and campaigners, and the freedom and safely to live as our authentic selves.

It is also three weeks of non-stop events, parties, singing, dancing, drag, performances, live music, activities, adventures. Oh, and there’s also a BIG parade too!

Mardi Gras is such a size queen that there is almost too much to fit in! Good thing you have the QNews 2024 Mardi Gras Festival Guide here to help smooth out your entry into the Festival to help you have an iconic time!

Grab your best Judies, your favourite beverages and plan out your Sydney Mardi Gras with QNews (your other best Judy).

For those unfamiliar with Sydney, we have also gone to the liberty of suggesting our favourite spots to Eat + Drink + Shop + Be GAY. There is even a generous sprinkling of Free Events and family-friendly All Ages events for every colour of our gorgeous rainbow family.

Scores of events, thousands of people, and millions of specks of body glitter; the 2024 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is the first year of a new era – let’s celebrate our past, and rejoice in our future.

2023 marked a significant moment in LGBTQIA+ and Sydney Mardi Gras History; the 45th anniversary of the first Mardi Gras and the 78ers, as well as Sydney playing host to World Pride.

These mark the start of a bold new era for our LGBTQIA+, as we reflect on those who have gotten us where we are today, we must also look forward.

Where It All Began

It was a chilly winter’s night in Sydney on June 24, 1978 when a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists took to the streets to protest LGBT discrimination in Australia.

Little did they know that they would soon be marching from the gay bars and right into the Queerstory books to be immortalised as The 78ers. This group of courageous queers unintentionally formed what would become one of the world’s most famous LGBTQIA+ celebrations, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

As 11pm approached, this throng of queer pioneers walked, skipped and danced their way towards Sydney’s Hyde Park, chanting “Out of the bars and into the streets!” All to the sounds of gay liberation anthems blasting from a small sound system, fitted to the back of a single flat-bed truck driven by 78er, Lance Gowland.

Police began rushing the parade goers, confiscating the truck and sound system, in an attempt to break up the protest. Seeing that Hyde Park was blocked, the parade continued towards Kings Cross, which is where the police saw their opportunity to violently move in and arrested 53 attendees, taking them to the Darlinghurst lockup.

Who Are The 78ers?

“You could hear them in Darlinghurst police station being beaten up and crying out from pain. The night had gone from nerve-wracking to exhilarating to traumatic all in the space of a few hours. The police attack made us more determined to run Mardi Gras the next year,” recalls Ken Davis.

The following morning, the Sydney Morning Herald sank to new editorial lows by publishing a complete list of names and occupations of those arrested, outing many and causing some to lose their jobs, accommodation and family relationships.

This was the authorities’ attempt to keep the queer community in line, but as we all know, us queers never stay down. Little did the police and media know that this night of protest and brutality would thrust Australia’s own Gay Liberation Movement into the public spotlight, where we could no longer be ignored.

It was here, through pain, pride and protest, that the first Sydney Mardi Gras was born. A defining moment not only in LGBTQIA+ history but the cultural heritage of Australia.

The 78ers included Garry Wotherspoon, Kate Rowe, Peter Murphy, Julie McCrossin, Peter de Waal, Peter “Bon” Bonsall-Boone, Robyn Plaister, Robyn Kennedy, Ron Austin, Diane Minnis, Lance Day, Lance Gowland and many others who are still active in the community today.

The Parade in 2024

The shining jewel in the crown of Mardi Gras is of course the iconic Mardi Gras Parade; a celebratory expansion of the protest that started everything, which has become one of the most famous LGBTQIA+ parades in the world.

Before the parade begins, at 6.45pm a traditional Smoking Ceremony is performed by our First Nations elders to cleanse the route.

At 7.30pm, the parade then kicks off with a bang (literally!) as the rev of engines and firing of motorcycle cylinders roar over the eager crowd.

The beloved Dykes on Bikes take their place at the beginning of the parade, prepared to lead the way as they always do.

Following directly behind the Dykes on Bikes are the esteemed 78ers, and the First Nations float.

Who Are the Dykes on Bikes?

In 1987, Kimberly O’Sullivan and her partner Sue Perry attended the San Francisco Gay Pride Day and were moved by the sight of a thousand Dykes on Bikes riding.

Inspired by their telling of that event, Deb Thompson and her friends went to all the lesbian venues in Sydney and left pamphlets on any motorbikes parked outside. Deb and Sue were starting a club to ride in the 1998 Mardi Gras Parade.

Eight bikes rode that year, and the next year there were a few more, and then a few more – and until around 250 bikes hit the parade route for the 10th anniversary in 1998.

The Dykes on Bikes lead the parade for two reasons: One, logistically motorbikes don’t travel well behind floats and people marching. Second, is for safety.

The somewhat assertive sight of tough, leather-clad dykes is possibly the best possible way to clear the path of any potential agitators so that our fabulous parade can march on in safety. Also, let’s face it. The loud noise from the bikes is the perfect way to wake everyone up and get them pumped for the march ahead!

The 46th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade is on Saturday March 2, 2024. Oxford Street, Flinders Street and Anzac Parade 6pm – 11pm | Free

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