video take 2 ... SMITHING!

Hi!

Nick emailed this link to his video today.  He also called and wondered if there was any chance of getting a national/international symposium up for Launceston focused on ‘smithing’. I seem to recall mentioning this before but there was no outcome that I can recall ... Maybe my memory has failed me.

Anyway by any measure Nick is working at the cutting edge and likewise I think that the ||||| might(??) be a venue for such a venue. Moreover I imagine that what Nick has sent here is a taster for the event being a 21stC event if it was possible to invoke the WINIFREDfactor – create  the circumstances for miraclemaking – as we discussed the other day plus manage to get the PUBLICATIONrhizomatics working – as we discussed recently.

What prospects do you see for such an event in Launceston and what might get in its way if you envisage that as a prospect?.

Regards,

Ray

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From: Nick Hackett <nmhmetalworks@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:20:53 +1000
To: <raynorman7250@bigpond.com>
Subject: video take 2

Check this out. Forgot to hyperlink the url last time.

WATCH THE VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/180711170

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nickhackettblacksmithartist.blogspot.com.au ≠ http://nickhackettblacksmithartist.blogspot.com.au


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FTR: See how they run ... A Letter to the BLACKhole

For The Record

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From: Ray Norman 7250 <raynorman7250@bigpond.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:58:58 +1000
Subject: FW: See how they run

Good morning/whatever!

While trying to extract myself from under the doona on Saturday morning Geraldine Doogue interviewed Gideon Haige – You probably know him from your Bradman Museum days  http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/sports-governance/7789878. You too may have listened in or maybe you’ve  read the essay already in the Griffith Review – that wouldn’t surprise. ... Anyway, I imagined while listening that you might be able to ‘ join the dots’ sport-culture-wise, the corporatisation-processes-wise, etc. You’d probably know some of the corporatising SPORTSplayers et al!

Anyway, there was quite a bit that resonated with me MUSINGPLACEwise and I wasn’t thinking about cricket or football or even the BLOODYolympics ! I was kinda thinking about some possibly unfolding serendipity to do with Robin Archer [ http://robynarcher.com/] et al ... Our conversation about publications and ‘data’ ... A QVMAG MAGAZINEidea ... CRITICALthinking vehicle and outcome ... Then there is this imagining of Daniel Thomas – the 20th C champion of the “high and low art idea” – “There were small late nineteenth-century institutions in mining boom cities such as Launceston [now very much post boom] , Bendigo or Ballarat, and also at Warrnambool and Geelong” ... Etc etc etc.

I’m still sniping my way through “See how they run” mining it for this and that but there you go ... HHMMMMMM ... “the use and abuse of power” ....

https://griffithreview.com/articles/see-how-they-run/
“When Williamson wrote The Club, he said that it wasn’t so much about football
as about ‘the use and abuse of managerial power’. In that
respect, sports governance has hardly changed at all.” ....
Last line ... OUR SPORTING LIFE:  ... Strike any cords???
ESSAY:  SEE HOW THEY RUN
GIDEON HAIGH – https://griffithreview.com/editions/our-sporting-life/

A |||||zine ... A MUZINGmag ... while on the face of it is a good idea it, to deliver its inspirational outcomes,  probably needs to be at arms’s length and NOT seen as bureaucratic EMPIREbuilding  using “conscripted capital” and thus an  “unfair competitor in a competitive market” mag ... The Aquatic Centre style critiques that in the end are simply “too much lead in the saddle”!!... OR at the very least more than is helpful and thus counterproductive. IF you know and recognise a problem you can work round it.

Rather step outside and use “Volunteer Capital” ... A cooperative, a not-for-profit corporation, a community trust, whatever ... dividends being “CULTURALopportunities” ... “MARKETINGopportunities” ... “RHYZOMATICnetworking” ... “COMMUNITYnetworking” ... “DYNAMICALLYinterfacing “ ... “SERVICEproviding” ... “IDEASclearinghouse” ... ” EUNTREPRENEURALopportunities” ... freed up from “SILOEDthinking”  ... “COSTcentre mindsets”  and “HIERARCHICALstructuring”  ... “BUREAUCRATICparadigm” and thinking ... Etc. etc. etc.

While the NMA is a an exemplar of what could have been ... by-and-large a 20th C imagining – culturally, socially, technologically ... It is nonetheless a FOUNDATIONstone of a kind that a 21st C MUZINGmag might be built upon. Why do something and limit the tools you can, or will, or are prepared to, use?

BUT.... and isn’t there always a “BUT” ... Any publishing operation coming out of a ‘public institution’ needs to be mindful of NOT EXCLUDING independent authors, researchers, et al, from their collections – public collections that must remain freely available to EVERYONE. You see the BUREACRATICcolonisation of public collections is more than a real danger and it must be overtly resisted at the outset otherwise it’ll happen by stealth – some say it already has.

A remembrance ... “Here the object was to impose control on a public institution, to override the professional judgement of its staff and to root out exhibitions that challenged the critic’s preferred version of history. This was no longer a campaign against political correctness, it was an imposition of affirmative orthodoxy (Macintyre and Clark, 2003, pp.197-198). ...
The “New” Cultural Wars: ”Constructing” the National Museum of Australia Dr Greg McCarthy ... https://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/docs_papers/Others/McCarthy.pdf ... SOMETHING TO PONDER UPON

Anyway just a couple of thoughts in passing as I watch on while they fly off on their way to the BLACKhole.

Regards,

Ray

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FTR: City of Launceston's Credibility As A Local Govt Authority

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From: Ray Norman 7250 <raynorman7250@bigpond.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:02:59 +1000
To: "Peter Gutwein {Treasurer & Minister Local Govt.}" <peter.gutwein@parliament.tas.gov.au>
Cc: Will Hodgman <reception@tas.liberal.org.au>
Subject: City of Launceston's Credibility As A Local Govt Authority

Dear Minister Gutwein,

I undertake research in the area of cultural geography and consequently I have a particular interest in local governance issues. Local government is at the cutting edge of issues to do with ‘place’ – placemaking, placescaping, etc. Indeed, Local government’s purpose under SECTION 20 of Tasmania's Local Govt. Act in regard to “health, safety and welfare of the community” is fundamentally to do with ‘the culture of place’ – placemaking.

Given that I live within the jurisdiction of the City of Launceston, its governance is of interest to me on many levels – my ratepayer and research interests in particular and in concert.

As a component of my research effort I facilitate a series of social websites dedicated to local issues, community services and governance issues. Typically website users use these sites as references and to engage in discussions relevant to:

• Matters that are not addressed by local services including government;
• The raising and investigation of matters of local importance;
• The discuss various issues not supported by Council;
• The provision of a forum for points of view and concepts where Council holds alternative points of view .... Etc.
  

One issue that website users, networkers and others frequently raise relates to the quality of services provided by Launceston’s $100 million per year Council.

Speaking for myself, I am finding it increasingly difficult, and often impossible, to address issues that come to my attention through my research. It is particularly so in regard to gaining Council input given that Council treats most – all(?) – public queries as some kind of nuisance and an unwelcomed intrusion.

These repeated concerns about quality of Council services  – and therefore value for rates –  are amplified  when attempting to access Council information. For example, gaining access to information such as Council’s Register of Delegated Authorities has been met with all manner of obstructions. Somewhat concerningly when it was finally possible – after months – to get a copy of the supposed 'register' it was simply not organised according to the kind of rigour one would reasonably associate with a $100 million per year operation.

Indeed, what purports to be the City of Launceston’s Register of Delegated Authorities:

1. Carries no imprimatur that unambiguously identifies the ‘delegation’ with the City of Launceston;
2. Carries no date or other identifiable information that links it to, and lends veracity to, the delegation’s appropriate delegator – open Council meeting, or other;
3. Carries no recital of the delegation thus failing to provide delegations with ‘context and meaning’;
4. Does not identify the person/people to whom an authority to act has been delegated thus rendering the delegation somewhat ambiguous – and arguably compromised ultimately.
   

Moreover, the register is not freely available for public scrutiny say on the Council’s Website. In 2016 this seems to suggest that public scrutiny is not only unwelcomed but also to be discouraged. Indeed, when I showed an Alderman what was sold to me as ‘the city’ register of delegated authorities’ it was not recognised by them albeit that they were able to confirm being in a meeting when an authority was delegated. .... SEE SAMPLES HERE – http://images7250.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/delegated-authorities-samples.html

By extension, without the characteristics I describe it seems that it may be impossible to prove that the authority was indeed delegated which in its turn seems to compromise at the very least the veracity of the document sold to me as a copy of  the City of Launceston’s Register of Delegated Authorities. Furthermore, the issue of ‘Delegata potestas non potest delegar’ – one to whom power is delegated cannot himself/herself further delegate that power – seems, potentially at least, to be an issue. What protection does Council rely upon to mitigate against such an outcome?

Similarly, the Council’s charts of accounts fail to give any detail about expenditures of ratepayer monies and also fail to connect funding to particular initiatives. By way of example, there is a substantial amount of budget dedicated to non-core activities like gymnasia and sports facilities, many of which compete – and arguably unfairly? – with local businesses – and employing ‘conscripted capital’ from ratepayers to do so.

The overall effect of all this is that there is an apparent carelessness attributable to Council that uses little rigour in conducting its various operations and one that appears overly defensive, and deliberately uncooperative, when queried.

All of this would seem to fall outside what is determined as being the “characteristics of good governance” as set out on the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s Website – http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/271170/Good_Governance_Guide_May_2016.pdf – and Council’s own Organisational Values –  http://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/lcc/index.php?c=69 .

More to the point, I am seeking your direct advice in regard to the adequacy of the City of Launceston’s Register of Delegated Authorities. In fact does:

1. The register comply with the Local Govt. Act?
2. The register satisfy any of the legal tests that can be applied to it in accord with the Act?
3. The register represent an adequate level of accountability for an operation of the size and complexity that is the City of Launceston?
   

I look forward to your advice and response to my queries in regard to the matters I’ve raised here given the seriousness of the implications relative to local governance in Launceston and its accountability.


Regards,

Ray Norman

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