Ok, I'd mostly gone but now I'm really gone - to t'other side.

RT @TheSocReview: ”O’Connor believes we should view culture as a public service in the same way as healthcare & education. He is unequivoca…

@beneltham They also own Melbourne's trains I believe.

@rv_southern It was built by aliens I believe.

This floats on top of a chaotic short-termism which, if we did not know it already, suggests a serious systemic dysfunction in Australian government and society.

@beneltham @ali_kyteler ah, Monash. Always good for producing world class leaders

@entschwindet Belgians again [eye roll]

RT @ManchesterUP: Celebrating 10 years of our Manchester Capitalism series, a series of books which confronts our failing capitalism. Goin…

Adelaide’s cultural workforce shrank in the past 20 years and many workers earn below-average wages. What’s at stake, say the authors, ‘is not some micro-percentage of state GDP but a foundational pillar of the lives of South Australians’.

@BenjaminFogel Is there a website where we can sign up to take Paul's money?

This is an excellent article

@Alex__1789 Depends what we mean by democracy. China is the most effective actor, with state capacity to act and to manage private capital. The West struggles to disagree with Thiel's idea that efficiency and democracy cannot co-exist. A new democracy must come out of an ability to act

@Alex__1789 @FT Let's go back to mid-5th century BC - oligarchy? But certainly a collapse in any shared project between those in government and those not, exploited by a right repurposing left positions to ride that wave of political anger-tainment that inevitably follows.

@NickFeik yes, it is

For those in Adelaide on Thursday 21st there's a launch of Ben Eltham and my report on Cultural Employment in Australia, with a discussion from the Reset Collective on the future of cultural policy in this country. @beneltham @satuteppo @tully_barnett

@Alex__1789 Do it because you have to stop, and think, and make a decision - whatever tool you use.

@Alex__1789 Well, let's hope we can do it while becoming richer and freer. And if not, well, we're buggered I suppose.

transitioning to the other side. same handle ....

Yes, looks set to be a good panel, with Kim Williams from the ABC making an appearance.