Today the government rejected the Productivity Commission’s recommendation to scrap PIRs. In plain terms, this means:
Evil “coalition for cheaper books”: you have been owned
Barely disguised right-wing naysayers on limp blogs: you have been owned
Barely disguised right-wing media outlets: you have been owned
Dozens of people who can’t spell or punctuate who say provocative things in comments [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Parallel importation restrictions happily ever after
Posted in The writing life on November 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Don’t be a cry baby
Posted in The writing life on November 6, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Are you being a sook? Are you agonising over writing something when you should just be putting the words down?
The other night, I was asked to be “captain” at the Queensland Writers Centre’s first real-life writing race. We all sat around with our laptops and wrote to a timer. Between us, this group of about [...]
