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Pith & Wind - God only knows
When we were over in New Zealand recently, Tony
Brittenden told me that Maurice Askew had an exhibition
of his landscapes in Darfield and that we should
take a look at it on our way over to the West
Coast. I only knew Maurice Askew as my lecturer
in graphic design and photography at Ilam Art
School in Christchurch so I was slightly surprised.
I remember him as a rather elusive Polanski-like
presence with the dual sheen of being an English
émigré, which counted for a lot
in Christchurch society in those days, and having
been employed by Granada as senior graphic designer
and working on such shows as Coronation Street.
Actually, I was quite surprised Maurice was still
alive, let alone actively creative – he
must be in his nineties by now - not to mention
he’d been a rear gunner on a Lancaster bomber
shot down over Germany in 1944 and as a result
captured and incarcerated by the Germans, so it
was amazing he even saw the end of the war, let
alone survived into the 21st century.
Tony and I were students of Maurice’s back
in the early sixties. It was my second year at
Art School and while I quite enjoyed the photography
aspect and the discipline of graphic design, I
was becoming more attracted to pop music (and
fashion) to the detriment of my course. Ultimately
I was so lax that Maurice reluctantly had to fail
a couple of my units in the absence of any evidence
of aptitude or otherwise - in a spooky preview
of the latter-day Rudd, I’d forgotten to
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Toolbox - The NBN snaffu
I don’t know if this
will make you think any differently about the
ever smooth and charming Mr Turnbull but he has,
without a doubt, stuffed up the NBN. And all for
some political point scoring which, along with
egregious pork-barrelling, is going to be a large
stain on our futures and general peace of mind
until the next election is decided. Already we
have an $11 billion fleet of submarines just to
secure the seat of Christopher Pyne and a few
other Liberal representatives in South Australia.
This is a very high price to pay for keeping an
utter twerp off the streets.
Whack-a-mole, where are you when we really need
you?
But I digress. The original gambit of the NBN
– the National Broadband Network was to
provide- Fibre To The Home (FTTH). Technically
this is by far and away the best solution for
the vast majority of buildings in Australia. Fibre
To The Home means you get your own bit of glass
fibre cable to either your front door - or worst
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