Arguably it was the $10b North East Link cost blowout that delayed Airport Rail. Better assessment of major projects before they start, including benefits and costs, is vital. Read our letter in The Age today.
Lukas Parker
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Professor Lukas Parker is the Director of 3C (Communication and Change Co-Lab) and a social change researcher at RMIT University, Melbourne (Naarm). Opinions are my own. Pronouns: he/him 🏳️🌈 On Wurundjeri Country
Yeah yeah yeah, and the USA is the hottest country right now… go back to watching Revenge of the Nerds
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"
Spewing that I can’t buy Haigh’s Chocolate any more. #4corners #foodfraud #sustainability
The various mining companies might as well just offer office space to the WA Premier Roger Cook’s team. It would just be easier.
Thinking of the poor private toll road operator and its shareholders as they paint over #PamTheBird on the Bolte Bridge
📘 New: Social Marketing and Behaviour Change: From Theory to Action by Brennan, @lukasparker.com, Micallef & Luu. A revised toolkit of behaviour change models for #socialmarketing, health promo & beyond. New chapters on macro-social marketing & systems models. 🔗 doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Kids + brands + games = 🎮💰. New study: Korean mothers clock the addiction risk but miss the sneaky ad persuasion baked into advergames. Their fix? "Stop-and-take-a-break." Simple, low-tech, works. 👏 by Eunji Cho & 3C’s Dooyeon Park 🔗 doi.org/10.1108/YC-0... #ConsumerResearch
Is it safe to return here yet? Has the football/soccer thing finished?
This is a good read 👇
3C@3c-rmit.bsky.social · 3w ago📺🏳️🌈 New from 3C: Damien O'Meara (RMIT) & Whitney Monaghan (Monash) chart 3 decades of queer TV storyworlds — from Queer as Folk to Heartstopper — across the US, UK, Australia & Canada. Turns out queer stories thrive on industrial disruption. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1749...
Jayden is in another league to the other racers… the judges fudging the scores is pretty grating. #racearoundtheworld
Is there anything more disingenuous than the "Sorry see you go" messages you get when you click unsubscribe from email spam that you never subscribed to?
Last year a group of Welsh drag queens competed against @cardiff.lions.rfc in a charity rugby match this week 🌈 And they're set to do it again on the 19th July!
Is there anything more eye-glazingly dull than listening to car people whinging about traffic?
You’d think that #Metro didn’t get the memo that PIDs are dynamic and should be adjusted to reflect real world conditions. (The light blue line is closed but you wouldn’t know from the PIDs at Flinders St) #FixYourPIDs #Munnel
I've never said "X" in real life. As a writer, I only use it to say "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter" because I get paid per word and this earns me enough money for an appetizer
Glad that card surcharges will be banned (once more) from October in Australia. Businesses who currently apply these surcharges under the nonsense guise of covering their card costs (like accepting cash has no costs) just look dodgy.
My heart goes out to Transurban, the private road operator, that has to clean up the #PamTheBird graffiti from its private property.
Trump and Fifa cheating together. Who could have seen that coming?
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Australia's best pie is Malaysian prawn. How two brothers from Cambodia created it – video
Not every flavour has been a hit, Khun says, with kung pao chicken, kimchi pork and beef bulgogi among the misses; Singapore chilli crab and lobster laksa are next in development
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Dear Australian journalists: Most stories about the mid-winter ball show how out of touch you are - news sites are not work newsletters. By and large, your social events are not that interesting and they are not news.
Behind the seams: Our new research shows how ethical fashion social enterprises are putting makers and communities at the heart of their marketing - and balancing issues of consent, scepticism, and exploitation along the way. doi.org/10.1080/1756...
Unveiling Production: Marketing Practices That Challenge Fashion’s Hidden Realities
This paper explores how fashion-based social enterprises (FSEs) integrate the people and communities who produce their products into marketing strategies. These strategies typically highlight socia...
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PSA for tomorrow’s minute’s silence theshovel.com.au/2026/06/28/a...
Australians To Observe Minute’s Silence To Commemorate Victims of White Middle-Age Male Privilege — The Shovel
“It will be similar to an ANZAC day service, but instead of commemorating people who lost their lives defending their country, it will honour rich entertainment industry figures who have to pay a litt...
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