Merged:The meeting of 1000 Australians - April 19&20
Silly Old Git
In an article published earlier this week, Blanchett and her summit co-convener, Julianne Schultz, breathlessly explained their goals: “The centrality of creativity to living full and rich lives is what will define the deliberations of the creative stream this weekend.”
The endless desire to keep speaking without making sense is characteristic of the contemporary art world. It may well be one of the side effects of too many Jatz and cheese nights.
......Hitching a ride on the Rudd star may seem like a good strategy at the moment but when the government trips and falls; when it gives off that foul cadaverous smell - as it surely will - Cate and Co will know that they have further entrenched cultural pursuits in the political caper and the artistic community that they represent has been compromised in the process.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com....ultural_prism/
The endless desire to keep speaking without making sense is characteristic of the contemporary art world. It may well be one of the side effects of too many Jatz and cheese nights.
......Hitching a ride on the Rudd star may seem like a good strategy at the moment but when the government trips and falls; when it gives off that foul cadaverous smell - as it surely will - Cate and Co will know that they have further entrenched cultural pursuits in the political caper and the artistic community that they represent has been compromised in the process.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com....ultural_prism/
Just been watching boy blunder talk, apparently He thinks the ideas from the delegates will be like fertilizer to his department 
... the department will probably look at it as though it were simular to natural fertilizer...........
.... Perhaps he should just sing to his department and they might listen to him.
(P. Garret it is)
... the department will probably look at it as though it were simular to natural fertilizer...........
.... Perhaps he should just sing to his department and they might listen to him.
(P. Garret it is)
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Well I couldn't help but snigger when I heard the boy wonder (blunder) state that "we're going to open the windows of our democracy and let in a breath of fresh air". Yeah, right. More like a big stinking pile of ****! So just who did we see attending the 2020 summit today in Canberra? Well I happened to see Lachlan Murdoch making sure he got his head on TV. Just don't mention One-tel. Might give the poor chap some sort of nervous tick or epileptic seizure. Thought I saw Jamie Packer floating by too. Same goes for him. He still winces when he remembers the thought of having to front the old man and explain away the financial fiasco he'd lumbered them all with. Bugger me! Was that Bob Carr? Wonder how the NSW state economy is fairing these days. It was a basket case when he opted out. Smart man though. He got out before the **** really hit the fan. Poor old Morris (he was there to). Is that Pat Dodson with the hat and the beard hiding over there in the corner? Surely not. You know the champion of all indigenous causes and ATSIC. ATSIC as you may well remember was the organisation that rorted and spent more money on it's own bloated and irrelevent bureaucracy and the hangers on within the aboriginal industry, than it ever did on the indigenous population itself. Shameful. David Morgan? Who would have thought. He was MIA when Westpac suffered it's massive loss in the early 90's and nearly went down the toilet. Kerry Packer however, rode to the rescue on his white charger. Made a cool $300Mil out of it too. A bit of prescient thinking there by the big man. He put the money in the bank just in case one of his offspring suffered some sort of massive financial calamity. Just as well.
Geez! There goes Cate Blanchett. Must get her autograph. Well, maybe not. What was the name of that stinker of a movie she made with thingamebob? It was that forgetable I can't remember.
Corinne Grant? WTF? One could go on and on, but I won't.
The only person I heard speak with any sort of common sense or honesty was the youth worker who appeared on the ABC news. He was very dubious about anything being agreed on at all at the summit. When interviewed later on in the day, he basically suggested it was a waste of his effort and time in being there.
As has been said elsewhere all of the politiacins, bureaucrats, actors, journalists, business movers and shakers, high profile sports men and women and various celebrities have over the years already had their say and their oppotunity to present their own ideas. Some have been pushing the same barrow for years. Breath of fresh air? Rubbish.
Yet again the average person on the street has been left out and doesn't have a voice. Can you really expect there to be anything fresh or new presented to the nation when it is noted who is actually attending the gabfest? I'm afraid not. Give it six months and all will be forgotten.
Geez! There goes Cate Blanchett. Must get her autograph. Well, maybe not. What was the name of that stinker of a movie she made with thingamebob? It was that forgetable I can't remember.
Corinne Grant? WTF? One could go on and on, but I won't.
The only person I heard speak with any sort of common sense or honesty was the youth worker who appeared on the ABC news. He was very dubious about anything being agreed on at all at the summit. When interviewed later on in the day, he basically suggested it was a waste of his effort and time in being there.
As has been said elsewhere all of the politiacins, bureaucrats, actors, journalists, business movers and shakers, high profile sports men and women and various celebrities have over the years already had their say and their oppotunity to present their own ideas. Some have been pushing the same barrow for years. Breath of fresh air? Rubbish.
Yet again the average person on the street has been left out and doesn't have a voice. Can you really expect there to be anything fresh or new presented to the nation when it is noted who is actually attending the gabfest? I'm afraid not. Give it six months and all will be forgotten.
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Has this thread been hijacked by some the Liberal party's fan boyz again?
Guys....at least Rudd's trying..........so you didn't get an invite get over it!
What did the last guy do....talk to his Ministers and paid advisor's?....no.
He spoke to his family.....what could 4 possibly 6 family members tell him how to run the country for ALL Australians that his own highly paid staff could not.
Look where he his now, an old has been that history (and his party) will not be kind too.
Australia has over 21 Million people currently living and working here, we need a national conversation to rediscover what we want in Australia's future to progress and develop as a nation. Weather or not the currant incumbants act on the outcomes is up to them.....but at least they tried.
Wheres the aviation in this useless thread?
Guys....at least Rudd's trying..........so you didn't get an invite get over it!
What did the last guy do....talk to his Ministers and paid advisor's?....no.
He spoke to his family.....what could 4 possibly 6 family members tell him how to run the country for ALL Australians that his own highly paid staff could not.
Look where he his now, an old has been that history (and his party) will not be kind too.
Australia has over 21 Million people currently living and working here, we need a national conversation to rediscover what we want in Australia's future to progress and develop as a nation. Weather or not the currant incumbants act on the outcomes is up to them.....but at least they tried.
Wheres the aviation in this useless thread?
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Don't tell me all you people watched this on television today. That old saying about getting a life could apply here. It was a lovely saturday (well at least here in FNQ) so I played golf followed by several beers and home for a curry and a few more beers. Much more enjoyable than TV I can assure you. 
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This update from Annabel Crabb
We approve of Annabel dont we capt Grumpy?
Live Summit Blog
They're all about to break for lunch.
The Members' Hall has a huge table in each corner, piled high with cardboard lunch boxes with a little metal sign atop the pile identifying the lunches as ``Beef'', Chicken'', or ``Vegetarian''.
After a hard morning of thought, the best and brightest will be here any minute.
It's been a gruelling morning, by all accounts, as participants struggle for memorability in a tight field.
The soon-to-be-ex Governor General, Michael Jeffery, turned up to the opening ceremony accompanied by an 80,000-year-old block of ice.
It signified the ``secrets of the past''.
It also made him look very young.
No-one is sure exactly what happened to the ice after the opening ceremony.
Hopes that it might resurface in a late afternoon round of Secrets Of The Past Frozen Daiquiries seemed dashed by the general inclination of just about everybody here against binge drinking.
Already, a huge quantity of butchers' paper seems to have been sacrificed to the cause of 2020, despite early if slightly querulous promises from the Prime Minister's office that none would be involved.
In the Communities group, led by Tim Costello, great drifts of it have already been plastered to the walls, full of aspirational messages and nagging rhetorical questions.
``How do we achieve a vision of inclusivity?'' and so on.
The great thing about this sort of language is that it can be rearranged and read backwards, forwards or any which way and it still means roughly the same thing.
``How do we include a vision of achievement?''
``How do we envision an achievement of inclusion?''
After the ``small groups'' session of the Communities group, the facilitator told participants: ``We've asked you to turn the challenges into the big questions''.
Totally reversible. Try it.
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April 19, 2008 1:08 PM
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Live Summit Blog
They're all about to break for lunch.
The Members' Hall has a huge table in each corner, piled high with cardboard lunch boxes with a little metal sign atop the pile identifying the lunches as ``Beef'', Chicken'', or ``Vegetarian''.
After a hard morning of thought, the best and brightest will be here any minute.
It's been a gruelling morning, by all accounts, as participants struggle for memorability in a tight field.
The soon-to-be-ex Governor General, Michael Jeffery, turned up to the opening ceremony accompanied by an 80,000-year-old block of ice.
It signified the ``secrets of the past''.
It also made him look very young.
No-one is sure exactly what happened to the ice after the opening ceremony.
Hopes that it might resurface in a late afternoon round of Secrets Of The Past Frozen Daiquiries seemed dashed by the general inclination of just about everybody here against binge drinking.
Already, a huge quantity of butchers' paper seems to have been sacrificed to the cause of 2020, despite early if slightly querulous promises from the Prime Minister's office that none would be involved.
In the Communities group, led by Tim Costello, great drifts of it have already been plastered to the walls, full of aspirational messages and nagging rhetorical questions.
``How do we achieve a vision of inclusivity?'' and so on.
The great thing about this sort of language is that it can be rearranged and read backwards, forwards or any which way and it still means roughly the same thing.
``How do we include a vision of achievement?''
``How do we envision an achievement of inclusion?''
After the ``small groups'' session of the Communities group, the facilitator told participants: ``We've asked you to turn the challenges into the big questions''.
Totally reversible. Try it.
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April 19, 2008 1:08 PM
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Silly Old Git
...wait theres more....
From capt Grumpys favourite..
.and..
Ya couldnt make it up...
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a...ng_the_summit/
From capt Grumpys favourite..
Sam Mostyn again:
We have so much to learn from people who were here prior to the First Fleet arriving.
Well, we do, if only we could find some people that old.
We have so much to learn from people who were here prior to the First Fleet arriving.
Well, we do, if only we could find some people that old.
A health workgroup reports back with five of its best ideas, including this one:
Cities where we can come to Parliament House on foot.
Cities where we can come to Parliament House on foot.
To break the blather, Muldoon throws to Hugh Jackman, roving the crowd with a microphone. Jackman and an Aboriginal man then sing From Little Things Big Things Grow. I feel my future being built. Back to the fourth panel spokeswoman, who takes less than 60 seconds to summon up what her panel came up with:
We should reach for the stars… Everybody’s suffering is our busines and we should reduce that.
And with that, and not a single idea, she’s finished. And we’re back to Jackman in the crowd with his mic. He asks one woman what was the highlight of the day:
Meeting you.
We should reach for the stars… Everybody’s suffering is our busines and we should reduce that.
And with that, and not a single idea, she’s finished. And we’re back to Jackman in the crowd with his mic. He asks one woman what was the highlight of the day:
Meeting you.
.and..
Reader Mike:
It’s like Nimbin in suits.
It’s like Nimbin in suits.
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..wait theres more....
From capt Grumpys favourite..
From capt Grumpys favourite..
The Illywacker summit of 2008
Had to turn off the TV. Matilda House-Williams made some interesting comments in the opening, but the summit was mostly downhill from there...
Think I might have voted for the wrong lot
- trouble is there is nothing better.
My idea -
We've got the twitering clowns in one place - Send in the army to surround canberra, wall it off and leave them to it... endlessly discusing how to build a nation.... Lord only knows how we got this far
Had to turn off the TV. Matilda House-Williams made some interesting comments in the opening, but the summit was mostly downhill from there...
Think I might have voted for the wrong lot
- trouble is there is nothing better.My idea -
We've got the twitering clowns in one place - Send in the army to surround canberra, wall it off and leave them to it... endlessly discusing how to build a nation.... Lord only knows how we got this far
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My wife heard Julia Gillard talking in the background while I was watching
TV.
Quote the wife "is that Pauline Hanson on the TV?
Goodness she sounds more like Pauline than Pauline"
God help Australia!
TV.
Quote the wife "is that Pauline Hanson on the TV?
Goodness she sounds more like Pauline than Pauline"
God help Australia!
Silly Old Git
I sorta get the feeling that Julia is getting a little tired of the KEVSTOCK 08 farce and would like to get down to doing something they were elected to do.
...and more from Bolt..
and...
finally...
OMFG...
...and more from Bolt..
Insiders’ Barrie Cassidy this morning discussed with Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard only one fresh summit idea - about the only one he could find, I suspect: Teaching children at school how to choose the best mobile phone package.
Glad we got 1000 “best and brightest” together to save the country with ideas like that.
Glad we got 1000 “best and brightest” together to save the country with ideas like that.
Tim Fischer reads out the latest resolution of his committee:
Children should be encouraged to grow something real.
Fischer suggests a lettuce. A wet one, I presume.
Children should be encouraged to grow something real.
Fischer suggests a lettuce. A wet one, I presume.
One of the delegates says he is 19. The room bursts out into a round of applause.
OMFG...
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2020 summit (Aviation)
Does anybody know who is representing Aviation at the summit in CBR this weekend? Is it the Chief Pilot from QF, JQ, VG or all three. Is there anybody there from the flying schools? Perhaps from the Pilot and Owners Assoc? From the regionals perhaps? Please don't tell me it is only Dick Smith and CASA.
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Now, where are the Chasers in all this? Have they done anything at all here? Rich pickings IMHO.
Or, are they too basking in that Ruddy glow that currently eminates from the new centre of the Universe???
Or, are they too basking in that Ruddy glow that currently eminates from the new centre of the Universe???