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Book review: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker
No full textBook review of: El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth, by Geoffrey Baker.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014; ISBN: 9780199341559
($35.00)Publisher PD
Introduction: Sustainability Education for Children and Young People: Educating for the Environmental Crisis
No full textAs these words are being written, it’s a dull day in England and through the window, the leaves can be seen, changing from shades of green to red, orange, brown and gold. The sky is grey and the air misty. It’s mild but cold enough to warrant an extra layer, a reminder that summer has transitioned to autumn, as it has for millennia. It is reassuring for those of us who live here and now to experience the continuing cycle of the environment upon which all life depends. At this time, world leaders are meeting for the COP16 UN biodiversity conference in Columbia. The conference is billed as a united attempt to halt the destruction of the planet. They are discussing plans which include protecting 30% of the planet for nature by 2030. This was one of a range of targets agreed at COP15 in 2022 by almost every country in the world. This suggests that although climate change and biodiversity loss are major concerns, we can be assured that our political leaders are attending to what needs to be done on our behalf. However, more than 80% of countries failed to submit plans to meet the agreement reached at COP 15 (IPBES, 2024). This is no time for complacency. Shue (2022, p. 5) states that:
Failure to act urgently now is a dire threat to future generations. If delay now allows the passing of physical or social tipping points…we miss our unparalleled but fleeting opportunity to make life better for our grandchildren and instead inflict a legacy of danger
The Oslo Accords: International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreements
No full textThis book presents the first comprehensive legal analysis of the Oslo Accords. Professor Geoffrey Watson begins by rejecting suggestions that the Accords are non-binding political undertakings. He argues instead that they are binding international agreements between subjects of international law. Professor Watson next analyses Israeli and Palestinian compliance with the Accords. Watson concludes that each side has a mixed record of compliance, but that neither side has committed so serious a breach as to warrant termination of the Accords. Finally, Professor Watson offers some suggestions on how international law might help shape a final status agreement between the parties.https://scholarship.law.edu/fac_books/1048/thumbnail.jp
Photograph of costumes for the performance of How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne, 20 - 22 October, 2022.
No full textJPEG file uploaded by the Theatre and Dance Platform of costumes for the 2022 performance of How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne.Photograph of costume worn by dancers Lillian Steiner and Samatha Hines for How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC. Credits: Lucy Guerin with the dancers, Choreography; Lilian Steiner and Samatha Hines, Dancers; Geoffrey Watson, Costume Design; Paul Lim, Lighting Design; Katerina Stathis, Musical Composition; Estelle Conley, Producer; Brendan O'Connell, Executive Producer
Photograph of costumes for the performance of How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne, 20 - 22 October, 2022.
No full textJPEG file uploaded by the Theatre and Dance Platform of costumes for the 2022 performance of How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne.Photograph of costume worn by dancer Lillian Steiner for How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC. Credits: Lucy Guerin with the dancers, Choreography; Lilian Steiner and Samatha Hines, Dancers; Geoffrey Watson, Costume Design; Paul Lim, Lighting Design; Katerina Stathis, Musical Composition; Estelle Conley, Producer; Brendan O'Connell, Executive Producer
Photograph of costumes for the performance of How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne, 20 - 22 October, 2022.
No full textJPEG file uploaded by the Theatre and Dance Platform of costumes for the 2022 performance of How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne.Photograph of costume worn by dancer Samatha Hines for How To Be Us, Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC. Credits: Lucy Guerin with the dancers, Choreography; Lilian Steiner and Samatha Hines, Dancers; Geoffrey Watson, Costume Design; Paul Lim, Lighting Design; Katerina Stathis, Musical Composition; Estelle Conley, Producer; Brendan O'Connell, Executive Producer
i DECLARATION I declare that the work presented in this thesis is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, original and my own work, except as otherwise acknowledged in the text. The material has not been submitted, either in whole or in part, for a degree at this or any other university. Geoffrey Norman Watson i i
The invisible worm: how corruption invades and destroys a community
No full textIf corruption does not exist in Australia\u27s federal sector, it would make Canberra the only corruption-free place in the world, Geoffrey Watson argues. In this lecture, the former ICAC counsel calls for the creation of a strong and independent federal anti-corruption commission.
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As a community we have entered a social compact under which we have entrusted our future, and our children\u27s future, to our government. I do not mean just politicians or elected government officials, I include all those public officials working in government-related offices—we have entrusted this responsibility to them as well. This is where a relatively wealthy country like Australia has an advantage over most of the world—we are able to remunerate our public officials, if not handsomely, at least sufficiently.
...based upon my work over four years with the two premier anti-corruption bodies in New South Wales—the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and the Police Integrity Commission—that we are grossly underestimating the nature and extent of corruption, and in our ignorance we are failing to compile sufficient information so that we can understand and assess its effects on our community. All we know is enough to suggest that there is a serious problem.
Geoffrey Watson SC was senior counsel assisting the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. This is an edited extract of his speech for the Cranlana Programme 2015 Alumni Speaker Series
Thomas J. Watson, IBM, and Nazi Germany
No full textConsiders the strategy of U.S.-owned IBM, then a manufacturer of punch cards, in Nazi Germany before 1937. Opens with IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson meeting Adolf Hitler in his capacity as President of the International Chamber of Commerce. IBM had acquired a German company in 1922 and, like other American companies, found itself operating after 1933 in a country whose government violently suppressed political dissent and engaged in intimidation and discrimination against Jews. Explores the tensions between IBM's German affiliate and its parent and provides an opportunity to explore the options and responsibilities of multinationals with investments in politically reprehensible regimes
Geoffrey Robertson on the History of Human Rights
No full textQueen\u27s Counsel, broadcaster and author Geoffrey Robertson has achieved international fame by defending high-profile cases, often representing victims of alleged human rights abuses. Here, at an event organised by Amnesty Australia, he gives a short history of human rights, from the Magna Carta to the present
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