@emmadavidson they are going to be guests on the music show with Andrew Ford on RN next week. #CatEmpire #ABCAustralia #ABCRN #AndrewFord

I enjoyed #ABCRN's The Bookshelf conversations at the #SydneyWritersFestival with #GraceChan (her Every Version of You was one of my favourite books of 2022) and #ShehanKarunatilaka (his 2022 Book Prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is in my TBR pile). And especially the American poet, novelist and creator of graphic stories, #JasonReynolds' response to host Cassie's question about getting young people into reading (approximately 20 minutes into the episode):

We have to figure out what we're more interested in when it comes to kids. Are we interested in them having relationships with literature? Or are we interested in them having relationships with literacy? For me, it's literacy ... Because literacy is what's going to save their lives. A novel will not if you're coming from certain places that I'm coming from. We can push the ideas about empathy, but everybody in this room knows someone who has read all the books and who is a jerk. So ... I'd like [our children] to read anything, whether it's poetry, magazines, video games manuals, I could care less what they're reading because I need them to understand that through the act of reading, one builds concentration, discipline, consistency, persistence, imagination, a broader vocabulary, and the ability to listen to themselves. Now, if we can do that, then we can get to Shakespeare. 👏👏👏

#books #literature #literacy #kids #children

Link to episode: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-bookshelf/the-bookshelf-swf-shehan-karunatilaka-jason-reynolds-grace-chan/102338758

Last weekend's #TheMusicShow on #ABCRN introduced me to a #CountryMusic tribute album to the #RollingStones, #StonedColdCountry. Well worth listening to this episode (which also features the #BrodskyQuartet at 50) and streaming the album. 👏

Link to the episode on the #ABCAustralia website:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicshow/brodsky-quartet-nashville-rolling-stones/102178272

Listening to Uncle Noel Pearson on #ABCRN this morning was absolutely inspirational. Erudite, compassionate, and a visionary. His metaphor of the #LiberalParty position on #ConstitutionalRecognition of indigenous Australians as a judas betrayal during passover is both brilliant and powerfully damning. I believe he's right and the referendum will pass, with those in the LNP and ONP proven woefully out of touch.

Trove’s 50% decline in sessions over 2 reporting years was brushed off by NLA’s DG as just one stat. But it’s the one they publish in their annual report and they have ignored request for other performance figures.

Blaming Google is a cop out. The decline coincides with Trove2020 release which, presumably unintentionally, blocked access by the Internet Archive to Trove lists.

The usage decline continued in April last year when users with older devices lost access to Trove.

#ABCRN #SundayExtra #NationalLibraryAU #TroveAU

For years the National Library has held the public over a barrel.

[We might have to limit or cut access to your valued resource unless we get more money. But we won’t be transparent about our stewardship and performance.]

A government agency, special like no other, applying pressure on the easily led public in preference to making its case in budget cycle.
#ABCRN #SundayExtra #NationalLibraryAU #FundTrove #auspol

The Voice is simply seeking reconciliation, the restoration of friendly relations between Aboriginal and non aboriginal Australians

Noel Pearson articulates this well in an interview with Patricia Karvelas on ABC RN, saying “Australian people need to understand that this demand for detail is a diversion. It’s a diversion from the fact that we’re being asked as a country to vote yes for reconciliation though constitutional recognition”

It’s constitutional recognition that is important here, being enshrined in the constitution means that Aboriginal affairs do not continue to be a political football. Aboriginal’s get a voice on issues that affect them. It is “advice to parliament and after all it is advice, it can be listened to but it does not need to be heeded”

#VoicetoParliament #Reconciliation #ABCRN #Voice #VoiceTreatyTruth

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/-demand-for-detail-on-the-voice-a-diversion-noel-pearson-/101881394

Wow @PatsKarvelas interview on #abcrn with Noel Pearson. Eviscerate the Nats saying will voting no on #VoiceToParliament before there’s a formal plan. #AusPol
https://abclisten.page.link/N8enuwMbKDwM4uks6

Stuff the British Stole podcast is quite interesting. #markfennell #abcpodcasts #ABCRN - This episode about the Gweagal Shield - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stuff-the-british-stole/id1540218461?i=1000502924941

"I think I learn so much about writing every time I speak to you, #GeorgeSaunders. What a pleasure this has been. Thank you." ~ #ClaireNichols on #ABCRN's #TheBookShow. Hear, hear! 👏

#books #ShortStories #writers #writing

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-book-show/george-saunders-ashleigh-meikle-inga-simpson/14108314