December 5 2020. Cartoon by Ed Stein (Rocky Mountain News) The following article, by Associate Professor Johan Lidberg, first appeared in Australian Quarterly (Jan-Mar 2019) and is reproduced here with the permission of the Editor-in-Chief and the author. They say News Corp staff can feel when Rupert Murdoch is in town. The 88-year-old chairman of…… Continue reading The distortion of the Australian public sphere: Media ownership concentration in Australia
Author: Vince O'Grady
Vince emigrated to Australia in 1978 from the United Kingdom, where he was a Police Constable in Brierley Hill, on the outskirts of Birmingham in the West Midlands.
He saw a great deal of dysfunctional society during his four-and-a-half years’ Police service and realised the necessity of always being truthful, factual and slow to judge others.
Deciding to pursue a different career in Australia, he chose telecommunications and has worked in sales, product and marketing management in the public and private sectors.
In 1981, he became ill with arthritis and ceased full-time work in 1992, when he became a sessional teacher at TAFE in a number of subjects — mainly related to manufacturing.
During the Howard years, he became interested in politics and after “hiding in plain sight” for many years, joined the Labor party in 2010.
Vince has many interests, including social justice, inclusion and the good old Australian “fair go” for all. He has policy interests in economics and education. His interest in history shows that we make the same mistakes over and over again and hopes to make a difference to the political debate by clear thinking and analysis rather than by trite sloganeering.
In his private life, Vince enjoys woodwork and also is a keen family historian, with a very Irish paternal side and a very French Huguenot maternal side — and is a mixture of a working class and an upper middle class upbringing.
He has a Bachelors degree in Business and qualifications in Workplace Training and Assessing.
He is also a keen home brewer of fine ales — at least according to his son!
Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? What about CDG’s and Regional Grants? Do “They all do it”? Part 4.
Note: WordPress only give you one font size. To enlarge Hold down the Ctrl key and press + That will make it bigger. To make smaller = Ctrl – The story so far. Part 1. An analysis of the Sports Infrastructure grants scheme which showed the bias against labor electorates which only got 31.54% of…… Continue reading Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? What about CDG’s and Regional Grants? Do “They all do it”? Part 4.
Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? What about Community Development Grants and Regional Grants schemes? Part 3.
Just in case you missed the other two parts of the Rorts Saga here is Part 1. Which is the Community Sports infrastructure scheme. https://vinceogrady.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/were-sports-rorts-another-reason-labor-lost-the-2019-election-part-1/ That went through $100 Million dollars and Labor electorates (68 seats) got 31.54% of the value, The Coalition seats scored 61.58% Following that little exercise, I then wrote Part 2,…… Continue reading Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? What about Community Development Grants and Regional Grants schemes? Part 3.
Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? What about Community Development Grants and Regional Grants schemes? Part 2.
Introduction On Sept 7, I wrote about why Labor lost the 2019 election and said I had co-authored a paper discussing the reasons. I then went onto ask if the Sports infrastructure grants had also played any part in that loss. Showing a graph of total funding for 2019 which was roughly an extra $100…… Continue reading Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? What about Community Development Grants and Regional Grants schemes? Part 2.
Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? Part 1.
Introduction. Following the loss by the Labor party of the 2019 federal Election, I wrote a paper about why the Labor party lost that Election. I asked a good friend and Labor Member, John Collins to write it with me. John agreed and we set about writing a proper and in depth analysis of why…… Continue reading Were Sports Rorts another reason Labor lost the 2019 Election? Part 1.
Vince O'Grady 