G’Day World #339 – Donnie Maclurcan and Project Australia
Posted on 10. Aug, 2008 by Cameron in activism, entrepreneurialism, Podcast, social activism
Today my guests is Donnie Maclurcan, Executive Director of Project Australia, a national organisation helping people launch ideas that seek to create positive social change within communities.
Donnie tells me how the idea came together, how it all works, and what they are trying to do. He’s a terrific example of someone who has taken the bit between his teeth and is putting action behind the dream of a better country.
If you’re wondering about the new intro music, it’s Dies Irae from Mozart’s REQUIEM, a favourite of mine. The lyrics actually come from an old Catholic hymn which starts off:
Dies iræ! dies illa
Solvet sæclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sibylla!
Day of wrath! O day of mourning!
See fulfilled the prophets’ warning,
Heaven and earth in ashes burning!
I love the piece of music (one of my dreams has always been to put together an annual live performance of it) and the lyrics are kind of fitting, don’t you think?
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G’Day World #330 – Kat & Matt from OpenAustralia.org
Posted on 30. Jun, 2008 by Cameron in Australian politics, Podcast, politics
Tonight’s guests – Katherine Szuminska & Matthew Landauer – are the founders of OpenAustralia.org, a recently-launched site which makes politics more transparent.
Based on the British site TheyWorkForYou, OpenAustralia.org scrapes Hansard and makes it much more accessible. You can find out who your local MP is and then subscribe to email alerts whenever they say something in Parliament. And that’s just the beginning. Kat & Matt have a number of exciting features they intend to bring to the site in the next year or two.
This is their first interview.
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Conquest
“Secrets of Life” (mp3)
from “End of Days”
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Curro , Curro “El Bueno, El Feo Y El Malo” (mp3)
from “Silba A Ennio Morricone”
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Michael Brook “Earth Alone” (mp3)
from “An Inconvenient Truth – Soundtrack”
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