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- Duncan Graham
- Education: M Phil (UWA), Grad Dip Cultural Communication (Riverina), BA (Curtin) Languages: English (fluent). Indonesian (intermediate). French (intermediate). Past employers: Fairfax Press (The Age & Sydney Morning Herald – both broadsheet dailies) as a reporter and feature writers for ten years; ABC TV and Channel 9 as a presenter and producer for six years; AAP stringer for four years, Radio 6NR (manager for four years); The West Australian (Perth daily newspaper) where I did my cadetship. Awards: (All in Australia): Walkley Award for Journalism Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Media Award (Twice) Equal Opportunity Commission Media Prize (Twice) Daily News Centenary Prize; Perth Press Club Award; MBE Health Award WA Week Book Award (now the Premier’s Prize) for non-fiction. Media grants: Two from the Western Australian government, one from the Australian government. All to report on issues in Indonesia. Published books: The People Next Door (UWA Press), Being Whitefella (FAC Press), Dying Inside (A & U). SEE ALSO: www.newzealandnow.blogspot.com
CORE PROMISES
Politics is a necessary evil for as Winston Churchill said: It’s better to jaw-jaw, than war-war. But most of us are deeply cynical about the way the game is played and reckon a politician’s promise has a currency value of the Zimbabwe dollar. In this election year thousands of political hopefuls will twist, warp, manipulate, mangle and maul the language to make us think they mean what they say. This dictionary decodes the language of politics. Like the nutrition information on a can of beans CORE PROMISES reveals the value that can be found inside every politician’s pledge. Politics: - N: cunningness, craftiness Adj: subtlety, artificiality, maneuvering, temporisation, circumvention, chicanery, sharp practice, knavery, jugglery, concealment, guile, duplicity, foul play, diplomacy, Machiavellian, jobbery, gerrymandering, artifice, wile, trickery, subterfuge, evasion, imposture, deception, undermine, flatter, V: crafty, vulpine, tricky, wily, insidious, stealthy, foxy, underhand, double-faced, shifty, crooked, leery. (Synonyms collected by Peter Mark Roget) To see the text version, click on the picture
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Good green news
Leading Javanese conservationist Dr Suryo Prawiroatmodjo (pictured) seems to be recovering slowly from the chronic inflammatory bowel condition Crohn's disease that has significently slowed his green activism. Now he's planning a tramping trail across the mountains of East Java - we'll keep you posted. Ironically one treatment recommended by his Singapore doctors is to smoke the occasional cigarette, something this passionate outdoors man finds hard to stomach.
Under threat?
Candi Pari, built during the era of Javanese ruler Hayam Wuruk (1350 - 1389) could be under threat from the unstoppable Lapindo mud volcano just two kilometres distant in central East Java. The huge eruption of gas and mud that started in May 2006 continues to spew thousands of tonnes of gunk into the surrounding countryside, drowning villages and fields, displacing an estimated 20,000 people. The eruption has allegedly been caused by a flawed gas exploration project.
Not a sanitary sight
The river that bisects Surabaya, Indonesia’s second biggest city, is called Kali Mas, meaning Gold River. Maybe, long, long ago. Now locals call it Kali Coca-Cola. The pollutants and filth that give the river its vile color include tonnes of human waste for the river is an open sewer and washroom for the poor who squat on its banks and put up clapboard toilets for a little privacy. Next time politicians and economists talk about improving conditions think of this little girl and her mum – just a couple among millions
Fit, flexible,busy - and 80
Pak Ebes painting a gate in Jl Kayun, Surabaya (Aug 08). In a nation with no universal pension scheme the elderly have to rely on their families for food, and in Pak Ebes case, on doing odd jobs - a task made more difficult becuase he is deaf.
Sharp and In Focus
Radio station Suara Surabaya journalist Supingah, 35, topped the Indonesia-Australia Specialised Training Project - Web-based Journalism - held in Surabaya in August 2008
Cross-cultural complexities
Author Erlinawati answers questions about inter-cultural relationships at a talk-show hosted by Gramedia in Malang to promote her book How to catch Mr Bule. (Click picture for link)
Sorry, no connection
Despite apparent widespread use of cellphones (known as ‘HP’), Indonesia lags behind most countries in the region for landlines, cellphones and PCs. The latest figures show Indonesia ranks number 133 in the world for home phones and 39 for cellphones. Internet connections, where available, are slow.
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