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GM announced this week that they were ending Australian production of the Holden.  Off into the dust... Hard to categorize that col...

Barnes And Noble reported their first quarter results which were mixed ( Press Release ) First quarter consolidated revenues increased 2.5...

Evonne Goolagong Kooyong 1976 Through family friends we had members tickets to Kooyong and at the 75, 76 and 77 championships I was able...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed looks at the Research Works Act: ( Chron ) Whatever the executive branch decides to do about open-access manda...

Another weekly image from  my archive . Click on it to make it larger. It was race day in Melbourne this past week and the annual big ra...

John Newcombe Kooyong 1976 Another weekly image from the archive. Click on it to make it larger. Close readers of the blog will recall...

From their press release: DA Information Services (DA) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Languages Direct, the leading sup...

The Globe and Mail has the text of a speech given by Australian novelist Richard Flanagan (Sound of One Hand Clapping) during the Sydney W...

In a story line we have been following from a distance, the Australian government has been attempting to address the impact of their protect...

Earlier this week I mentioned the discussion going on in Australia regarding the review of local copyright rules on imported books. The Gu...

The Australian publishing and bookselling community can't seem to decide whether it wants or doesn't want protectionism. Peter Dono...

I just came across a relatively new blogging effort by Peter Donoughue the ex-CEO of Wiley Australia. Peter and I met on a number of occas...