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- INDONESIA NOW with Duncan Graham
- Wellington NZ and Malang, Indonesia, New Zealand
- CV 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)(CLICK PICTURE BELOW); 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
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EXTRACT: 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) For the text version click the picture
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