On 22 January 2014 09:20, Jan Whitaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 03:04 AM 22/01/2014, [email protected] wrote: > >Come on Australian governments! Get with the Internet, and, ask opinions! > > > >Make it easy for us to know what you'd like to know. Actively seek ideas. > > > >When a young Aussie *Attorney General* feels we need more public opinion > >for proper law making, and good governance, then by golly, I guess we do! > > I think the medium varies. I just listened to the bi-weekly radio > session of Q&A with the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Robert Doyle. The > exchanges are polite and friendly usually, with points raised and > explanations given for a range of public policies for the city, with > some new ideas emerging and taken into consideration. It's good for > (generally) non-working people who listen to ABC AM radio. But that's > not the medium younger people use, so wouldn't necessarily be the > choice for them. Maybe the Triple Js and youth oriented commercial > stations are a place to go. > Sorry I should not have been flippant. Is there a place for civics in schools. Perhaps something active where kids present policies which are voted on and acted upon. They might be suggestions for a volunteer project or something in the school; theatre sports, community garden, downunder community ride bike team, solar challenge Perhaps each team reports on a project. I don't know if one needs to win against others. Perhaps it might be nicer if they were reported in a mix of media, newspaper, facebook, tv, community ty, triple j as you suggest. There is a lot of trivial win/lose on television and very little negotiated win/win. Where is the space for learning a different modality. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
