CUT & PASTE To back burn, or not to back burn? And how being lazy is just a way of decolonising time
It may be better if the marketing department keep a leash on its patriotic ardour next year. Monash University media alert,   January 20: In the lead up to Australia Day, Monash University experts are available to comment on related topics â€¦ Is there a link between Aussie nicknames and social acceptance? Language issues and migration; Dr Louisa Willoughby, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics â€¦ Are Australia Day products made overseas? The economic issues of imported goods; Professor Stephen King, Department of Economics â€¦ Road safety over the long weekend; Professor Max Cameron, Monash University Accident Research Centre. 
Red-hot claims. Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Tammy Mills exclusive, The Age,   January 14, 2016: A controversial back-burning operation, carried out despite warnings of potential catastrophe, may have led to the Christmas Day devastation of the Wye River township, leaked files reveal.
Cop cold water. Farrah Tomazin, The Sunday Age, yesterday: The devastating fire that destroyed more than 100 homes in and around Wye River could have been much worse if authorities had not embarked on a controversial back-burning -operation before Christmas Day, an investigation has found.
Throwing an Australia Day sickie? No need to feel guilty. Abstract, "Being lazy" and slowing down: Toward decolonising time, our body, and pedagogy, Riyad A Shahjahan, Michigan State University, 2015: In recent years scholars have critiqued norms of neoliberal higher education by calling for embodied and anti-oppressive teaching and learning. Implicit in these accounts, but lacking elaboration, is a concern with reformulating the notion of "time" and temporalities of academic life. Employing a coloniality perspective, this article argues that in order to reconnect our minds to our bodies and centre embodied pedagogy in the classroom, we should disrupt Eurocentric notions of time that colonise our academic lives. I show how this entails slowing down and "being lazy".
A trip to ISIS-controlled Raqqa might help put any perceived local lack of empathy into perspective. The Guardian Live promotion: Can an empathy revolution transform Australian society? Join us for an ambitious conversation about the future of Australia, led by cultural thinker and internationally acclaimed empathy expert Roman Krznaric â€¦ Empathy is the imaginative act of stepping into the shoes of another person and looking at the world from their perspective. It's on everyone's lips - from the Dalai Lama, Angela Merkel and Barack Obama to ... Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Yet, we are simultaneously witnessing a global refugee crisis, the seemingly unending threat of global conflict, and the continued rise of individualism in western society. Are we as individuals and as a community failing to meet our empathic potential? How can we expand the limits of our empathy to meet current and future social challenges? How might empathy transform our lives and our societies â€¦ Empathy in Australia will explore key issues in modern Australian society and how we might turn our empathic potential into a powerful tool for positive impact.
Um ... Why not just go and buy one? Katie Milanowicz on Fairfax's "action-orientated" site thevo.cal:It's up to us to call on the government and industry for more electric cars in Australia.