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What is Labor's future?: Mark Latham with Robert Manne
No full textIn this frank and insightful discussion held subsequent to the NSW state election, Mark Latham talks to host Robert Manne about the state of the Labor party, in both its state and federal incarnations. Latham demonstrates again that he\u27s one of the country\u27s most perceptive critics of the Labor party, and an unfailingly interesting commentator on Australian politics generally, as he analyses Labor\u27s seeming lack of direction; the organisational problems that have emerged from NSW and now affect the federal party; the ALP\u27s relationship with the Greens; and its inability to convince a jaded electorate that the party leadership believes in the large reforms that Latham says are a crucial component of a healthy Labor program.
Presented by La Trobe University, April 2011
 
Mark Latham, violin; Liana lam, piano; Kristina Szutor, piano; Theodore Weber, cello
Full text linkMark Latham, violin; Liana lam, piano; Kristina Szutor, piano; Theodore Weber, cell
What is happening in the suburbs?
No full textThese two papers were presented at the Evatt Foundation\u27s Breakfast Seminar on 18 March 2002, Mayfair Room, Southern Cross Hotel, Sydney. Mark Latham MP is the Shadow Minister for Housing and Urban Development. Dr Brendan Gleeson is the Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney (Macarthur).
The discussion was chaired by Foundation Executive Committee member, Professor Frank Stilwell, School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney
Mark Latham gives speech at Sydney University, where three other current leaders, John Howard, Robert Brown, John Anderson also graduated, January 2004 [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscriptions.; Condition: Good.; Inscriptions: "Mark Latham gives speech at Sydney University, where three other current leaders, Howard, Brown, Anderson also graduated." -- in ink on verso.; Published in: Sydney Morning Herald 2004.; Part of the Moir collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3539402; Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Alan Moir, 2005
VoterMedia as Participatory Budgeting
No full textFuture revisions at votermedia.org/publications This paper compares two experimental models for participatory budgeting: the model pioneered by the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil; and the "votermedia " blog competitions implemented at the University of British Columbia and at several municipalities in Metro Vancouver, Canada. The mainstream Porto Alegre participatory budgeting (PAPB) model is well documented elsewhere, so more detailed descriptions are given here for votermedia. Votermedia is designed primarily to fund voter information. PAPB typically funds a range of municipal services, not including voter information. Votermedia is more competitive and entrepreneurial, with open entry for various potential providers, who may make a profit or a loss. With PAPB, the voter-selected services are provided by municipal employees with specified budgets. The system for voting funds in votermedia can be seen as an extension of PAPB-style voting, to further empower citizens to determine the size of each budget slice. Votermedia blog competitions can cost as little as $8,000; PAPB processes generally involve much larger budgets. The changing economics of media have strengthened the case for government funding of public interest journalism, especially at the municipal level. Votermedia is proposed as a cost-effective way to enhance citizen engagement and information in a PAPB process. This would ideally include a continuous-time blog contest with online voting that starts at the beginning of the budget's public consultation stage. Blogs could also be rewarded via a competitive vote on the same ballot when citizens are choosing which projects to fund from the participatory budgeting finalists menu; and/or votermedia could be one of the candidate projects to fund going forward. The potential future evolution of participatory budgeting including votermedia is explored. This could include providing other public benefits besides voter information, as well as political reform of other democracies and corporations. * Mark Latham is a financial economist, and founder of VoterMedia.org
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
From the suburbs: Mark Latham and the ideology of the ALP
No full textMark Latham could justifiably claim to be amongst the most intellectually prolific of Labor politicians, with his output of books, chapters, newspaper articles and key speeches challenging that of other Labor intellectuals such as Gough Whitlam, Gareth Evans and Jim Cairns. Consequently, this paper cannot hope to cover all aspects of his arguments. Rather it focuses on a particular issue in Latham’s thought, namely his views on inequality and uses that focus to throw light on his relationship to broader ideological traditions in the ALP and international social democracy.1 It will be argued that while Latham draws on several Labor traditions in Labor ideology, including some Whitlamite perspectives, his views on inequality show significant differences from those espoused by previous post-war Labor politicians such as Whitlam, Hawke and Keating. The neo-liberal influences on his thought are particularly strong and have implications for his views on class as well as gender, racial and ethnic inequality. The analysis will therefore begin with an account of Latham’s views on capitalism and class.Carol Johnso
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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