Ryde, Sydney,NSW, Australia-33.816395, 151.109207 In 1897, as the colonies of Australia enthusiastically celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria, a committee was formed in the Ryde area to organise local celebrations. They came up with the idea of buildng a drinking fountain to be installed at theContinue Reading
It is not surprising that Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Human Rights Commission, gave a thoughtful, though provoking provocateur’s address at the Sydney Salon last night (22nd August 2016). It is a little more surprising that she laid the blame for Australia’s recent performance on human rights issues atContinue Reading
Increasingly the information arriving on the desk of business people comes in the form of the PDF document. Whether the document is the latest industry research, a board report, a tender document, the annual accounts of a subsidiary or a myriad of other information, it arrives as the attachment toContinue Reading
The Sydney Salon emerged from the concept of the Salons of the Paris Enlightenment where discussion was seeded by speakers and moved in the direction the audience chose to take it. So it was fitting that the most recent event was held at the Grand Café in the Alliance Française. The guest speaker thisContinue Reading
Jennifer Oriel, a recent contributor to the right wing think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, provided an opinion piece to the Australian on 23 September 2015 which was breathtaking in its inaccuracy, curiously unabashed in its misrepresentation of recent history and laughingly inconsistent and self-defeating in is argument. Evenso,Continue Reading
The Australian election has just played itself out over the last weekend and today we are already hearing the claim that the winners in the House of Representatives have a mandate for all their policies and the Senators should just support them. This is a common theme just after anContinue Reading
How many times have you heard the words “What passes for public debate in this country”? It is usually said by someone who has been critical of political discourse or the latest media outrage, who feels (s)he deserves to be served by an idealised version of democracy or press freedom.Continue Reading
I have spent some time recording my travels on my related blog, Gallimaufry Set and now feel ready to start to record my occasional thoughts and observations while at home in Sydney. Hence, Sydney Noted. Hope it is worth the read………..Continue Reading