Suzanne Bellamy is holding her Fifteenth Annual Open Studio in Mongarlowe this weekend (27-29 November).
I had an opportunity to visit her remarkable studio on Friday. I took some pictures with Suzanne’s permission. I find it impossible to describe such wonderful visual and tactile pieces. To see them in a bush location is an unforgettable experience.
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Posted in Australia, Sport, tagged ABC, Sport, David Crawford, Kate Ellis, Jacquelin Magnay, Nicole Jeffrey, Crikey, Independent Panel, Review of Australian Sport, Wikipedia, Len Johnson, Nick Bryant, SBS, Roy Masters, Rick Mitchell, Tim gavel, Nicola Berkovic, the complaisant Husband, AOC, David Gittens, Saul Eslake, AAP, Margie Macdonald, Andrew Shaw, homophobia, Doug Conway, Olympic sport, Paralympic sport on 27 November, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last week I summarised some of the early response’s to the publication of the Independent Panel’s Review of Australian Sport. This post updates further responses to the Report.
Crikey has aggregated some of the articles posted from 17-19 November.
A Wikipedia page appeared on 19 November.
Len Johnson discussed the Report in his post in the Runner’s Tribe [...]
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Posted in Australia, Sport, tagged Allen Guttmann, Andy Miah, Australian Sport, Buckley Wanderers, C Wright Mills, Charles Leadbeater, Connectedness, Crawford Report, David Crawford, Deference, edgeless, Eric Dunning, Flickr, Fred Inglis, Gregory P Stone, insatiability, Institute 4.0, Ione and Peter Opie, Johan Huizinga, John Hoberman, Kate Ellis, Leigh Robinson, Midnight Basketball, Nikolai Bohlke, non zero sum, Norbert Elias, Prisoner's Dilemma, Private Troubles, Public Issues, Reciprocal Altruism, Robert Wright, Roger Caillois, SEGRA, slow blogging, social traps, sport system, The Commons, Todd Sieling, tragedy of the commons, zero sum on 20 November, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Introduction
This has been a fascinating week for Australian sport. It started with Tiger Woods’ victory at the Australian Masters golf tournament and is ending with visceral debate about play, games, physical education and sport in Australian society. Although I have written two posts about the Independent Sport Panel’s Report I have been mindful of Todd [...]
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Posted in Australia, Sport, tagged ABC, Andrew Southcott, Australia Talks, Australian Olympic Committee, Australian Sport, Charlie Happell, Crawford Report, Crikey, Dan Silkstone, David Crawford, edgeless, Google News, Greg Baum, Institute 4.0, Jacquelin Magnay, John Alexander, John Coates, Kate Ellis, Malcolm Maiden, Mike Hurst, Nicole Jeffrey, PicApp, Radio National, Richard Hinds, Ruth Brown, Sally Robbins, Simon Crean, sport system, The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Commons, Trevor Cook, Wally Mason on 19 November, 2009 | 14 Comments »
The publication of the Independent Panel’s Review of Australian Sport has stimulated enormous discussion. Yesterday I linked to the publication of the report. This post looks at some of the responses in the last twenty-four hours.
This was the Google News graphic at 7.00 p.m. EST on 19 November.
John Coates argued the case for funding Olympic [...]
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