On 04/05/16 09:26, Roger Clarke wrote:
... how this vast quantity of taxpayers' money can be expended on such straightforward projects?
It is needed to pay for the interpretive dance. One of the weirder events I have been to recently was a free "Future Earth Australia" workshop, in a building shaped like a 1960s flying saucer (the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences). After a day of earnest, but pointless, discussion, we were shepherded across the road to a very trendy bar district to watch performance artists shovel snow, dance in the middle of the street and recite quotes about climate change: https://storify.com/megcevans/future-earth-australia-workshop -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University http://people.cecs.anu.edu.au/user/3890 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4799-8464 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
