by cameron | Jan 3, 2007 | Podcast
Tonight Duncan and I talk about:
Australia’s Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott and his Catholic invasion
Casino Royale, what a great Bond film!
Music Industry Changes Its Tune on Podcasting? No, not so much.
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by cameron | Jan 2, 2007 | Podcast
My guest host this week is Duncan Riley (no relation). Duncan was one of the founders and VP Operations of blogging network b5 Media until his sudden departure recently. He hails from Bunbury in Western Australia.
Mitch Denny’s joins us briefly (my PC stopped recording… sorry Mitch) to give us his overview of the Ferrari thing. Read more on his blog.
So… the US had Saddam executed before he could spill the beans on them during the next phase of his trial. Duncan and I debate the whole thing a bit on the show and here’s a list of links for you to read more.
Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein
The High Commissioner for United Nation Human Rights, Louise Arbour, warned that there should be no rush to execute former Iraqi leader Sadddam Hussein saying the trial wasn’t fair. The Human Rights Watch agrees. But John Howard doesn’t. Surprise Surprise.
Apparently someone might be stealing rocket launchers and other weapons from the Aussie Army.
The Europeans launch the COROT satellite to find planets outside of our solar system.
Whatever you do, go listen to these podcasts:
Richard Dawkins interview
Sam Harris interview
Then help me “Cure A Christian” on future episodes! If you’re a Christian, and you want to be cured, come on the show or suggest a friend!
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by cameron | Dec 14, 2006 | Melbourne, Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
This is the second show in my series of interviews with Melbourne’s top business and government leaders that I’m calling “Melbourne’s Top Dogs“. On this show, I’m very fortunate to interview Simon McKeon, Executive Chairman of the Melbourne office of Macquarie Bank, aka “The Millionaire Factory”, Australia’s premier investment bank.
Simon is an inspiring bloke. Not only has he risen from humble beginnings at Dandenong East Primary School through to the top of Australia’s corporate ranks, he’s also a genuine social activist. Five years ago, at the age of 45, Simon went part-time at Macquarie Bank to focus more of his energy on other pursuits – such as his role as a Director of World Vision, Chairman of corporate social responsibility organisation Melbourne Cares, chairing the Australian Federal Government’s takeover panel and volunteering as a counselor to heroin addicts at a St Kilda clinic. Oh and he is also a world champion speed sailor.
During the interview we talked about his background, his motivations, how he handles criticism, and how important empathy is in his dealings with people.
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by cameron | Dec 8, 2006 | Podcast
A few days ago I recorded an interview with Tom Petryshen, CEO of Amplify, a company that helps Australia’s top brands increase traffic and sales via search engine optimisation (SEO), paid search marketing (SEM), email, and affiliate marketing. I asked Tom to explain SEO to me in the simplest terms he could. We talk some of the basic things you need to do to make sure your site is being found and ranked by the leading search engines.
If you want to be part of a future episode of G’Day World, you can find the schedule on our Google Calendar.
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by cameron | Dec 7, 2006 | science, Uncategorized
The decision by Australian Parliament yesterday to overturn the ban on human cloning is a major milestone for Australia. The majority of Parliament voted for SCIENCE and against MYTHOLOGY and I salute them.
You can read the text of the Bill here and the Explanatory Memo here.
To save you the trouble (because I know you’re busy watching some jackass hurt himself on a mega-pogo-stick on YouTube), here’s the duck’s guts:
In summary, a person may apply for a licence to:
* use excess ART embryos;
* create human embryos other than by fertilisation of a human egg by a human sperm, and use such embryos;
* create human embryos (by a process other than fertilisation of human egg by human sperm) containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons, and use such embryos;
* create human embryos using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus, and use such embryos;
* undertake research and training involving the fertilisation of a human egg, up to but not including the first mitotic division, outside the body of a woman for the purposes of research or training;
* create hybrid embryos by the fertilisation of an animal egg by human sperm, and develop such embryos up to, but not including, the first mitotic division provided that the creation or use is for the purposes of testing sperm quality and will occur in an accredited ART centre; and
* create hybrid embryos by introducing the nucleus of a human cell into an animal egg, and use of such embryos.
Now the definition that the NHMRC (The National Health and Medical Research Council) developed for “embryo” is:
A human embryo is a discrete entity that has arisen from either:
(a) the first mitotic division when fertilisation of a human oocyte by a
human sperm is complete; or
(b) any other process that initiates organised development of a
biological entity with a human nuclear genome or altered human
nuclear genome that has the potential to develop up to, or beyond,
the stage at which the primitive streak appears;
and has not yet reached eight weeks of development since the first mitotic
division.
Here is a link to their Dec 2005 discussion paper for those of you interested in more detail.
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