TweetHave the Gods of Australia Day taken umbrage with a PR event, summoning a thick fog to try to obscure the spectacle of a thousand-plus swimmers straddling giant Havaianas thongs in the surf of Bondi Beach? The clear early morning weather presented Bondi naked in all her glory, but at
TweetThis is the Brisbane house I lived in for two years. I finished my Honours degree while living with an Italian, two Brazilians, two Japanese and a couple of fellow Aussies. I hosted parties that are still discussed in reverent tones today. I ran naked in the rain with my
TweetAny business provider of goods and services can see first hand how rapidly purchasing confidence has dwindled with the GFC. Even businesses on higher ground that stayed relatively dry during the GFC floods are shoring up their finances with sand bags full of “thanks, but no thanks”. Irrespective of liquidity,
TweetPeople in finance and senior corporate management have been prime hate bait for some time now. In a random chin wag about organic bread with my local baker, the mention of flour prices had a Jekyll/Hyde effect, turning this mellow surfer dude into someone ready to muster a lynch mob
TweetWith the combined GFC and new media paradigm shifts, traditional media has been feeling the pinch. Once all-powerful, media conglomerates may have steered themselves into an iceberg sensationalizing the GFC, encouraging shareholders to abandon a sinking ship. Its no surprise to see Rupert Murdoch’s authoritative announcement that the GFC has
TweetIf 1977 was the year of the Star Wars cultural watershed, 2007 was the year of the GFC watershed. Both blockbuster and bankbuster, epic stories about the beginning of the end of an evil empire. We’ve probably yet to hit rock bottom and get our Empire Strikes Back. The restoration
TweetNo doubt the zeitgeist is pretty apocalyptic at the moment. Even at the best of times (i.e. before July 2007) us Westerners can be a pessimistic lot. We devised the perfect anxiety drug and now we’re addicted to this anti-valium, available to everyone everywhere – media. As in “the media”
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