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Introduction -- The television personality system. TV must train its own stars : the invention of the television personality -- An "irreconcilable opposition" : music hall, radio and the emergence of televisual skill -- "Too much glamour"? : glamour, gender and "in-vision" announcers -- "Oooh, I'm an entertainer-- it's what I do" : political economy, performance and pleasure. "You don't know anyone."? : the political economy of television fame -- The art of "being yourself" : pleasure, meaning and achievement in performance -- The television personality system revisited : ideology, multiplatform and DIY fame. Just "an ordinary bloke" : national identity and ideology -- Get Internet famous! (even if you're nobody) : multiplatform fame and the television personality system in the digital era -- Conclusion.

I investigate the geographical consequences of demographic-structural dynamics using a spatially resolved agent-based model of agrarian empires in several Old World regions between 1500 BCE and 1500 CE. I estimate and bound key model parameters from two historical datasets. Although several very large-scale polities (e.g., Roman, Persian, Tang empires) do not arise and certain geographical expansions occur at different times, overall the model suggests that factional civil wars, the result of repeated internal demographic-structural crises, can substantially account for the spread of large-scale agriculture throughout the Old World after the Bronze Age.

Australian Technical Colleges (ATCs) were an initiative of the Howard Government to provide technical and skills training to secondary school students. They were somewhat controversial as, in an area of traditional State responsibility, they created schools run independently of State governments. The 2007 election resulted in a change of government, with the Rudd Labor Government taking power. With the change in government came a change in governmental priorities and methods of delivery of vocational education and technical training. The Rudd Government has decided to discontinue funding for all ATCs after 2009, and establish Trade Training Centres in every secondary school across Australia in their place. The ATC that was established at Taree and funded by the Commonwealth has no future after 2009. A future use for the building must be found. A number of local industry and educational groups have conducted 'business case modelling' for the Taree ATC site, which shows that it is not viable to run a technical and trade-focused secondary school from the site. As a result, alternative options for the future use of the building must be explored. When assessing future uses for the Taree ATC building, the demographics of the region and the characteristics of the local economy are important considerations. Taree is a coastal regional city, located on the Mid North Coast (MNC) of New South Wales. Mr Robert Oakeshott MP is the sitting member for the Federal electorate of Lyne, in which Taree is located. The MNC has a growing and ageing population, as many people of retirement age are moving to the area. Also, there is a distinct lack of young people in the area, due to them moving away to regional centres and capital cities in search of education and employment opportunities. Taree, and the surrounding region, also has a significant indigenous population for which social and employment issues are magnified. The unemployment rate is much higher for the local indigenous population than the overall average, and this is especially seen in young indigenous people. The local economy is mainly service-based, with a lack of large employers. Like many NSW regions, the nature of the MNC economy and industry meant that it was unable to capitalise on the national resource boom. As a consequence, most jobs in the area are semi-skilled and service-based, with a high rate of casual employment. When assessing options for the future use of the building, the regional demographics and economy were taken into account in order that an appropriate community benefit could be achieved. This future use would need to address a number of the social and economic challenges facing Taree, and the MNC more generally. A number of uses for the building have been identified, that seek to resolve its futu re long-term use. The three options for the future use of the building that have been assessed each address a number of these challenges. The first option is to establish an Innovation and Business Enterprise Centre. This centre would establish a business incubator model that provides business and mentoring assistance to local small business. It would also have a government presence to help these businesses access government funding, and a career services presence to help local residents, especially youth, access employment and training opportunities. The second option is to establish a Media and Communications Campus. This campus would focus on post-secondary education and provide better access for local students to further and higher education opportunities. It is envisaged that this campus will be establish with links to universities to provide joint study programs. It will also provide local schools with access to state of the art media facilities, and sets out a clear pathway for local students to follow if they want to access higher education in the media and communications fields. The third option is to provide Infrastructure for the National Broadband Network (NBN). This option proposes to use the building as a Call or Help Centre, as part of the government's implementation of the NBN. It would boost the local economy by bringing jobs to the area and train people with the skills required to work in such an environment. At present, the Government is awaiting the results of a feasibility study that it has commissioned into these options to determine which are viable and provide community benefit. Once the feasibility study is received the next steps will be to assess which options are viable and provide the most appropriate outcomes against the community needs criteria and establish a steering committee that is representative of local interests to guide the process from selecting a preferred option through to its completion. Through this committee, Mr Oakeshott can continue to lobby government and other interested parties for a quick, but considered, resolution of the future use of the Taree ATC site.

This article will consider the motivation behind, and timing of, Maurice Shadbolt's interventions as a writer between 1982 and 1988 to determine the extent to which cultural nationalist interpretations of Gallipoli resonated in the decade and how they came about. My argument will pivot around Shadbolt's powerful 1982 stage play (Once on Chunuk Bair), subsequently adapted as a low budget feature film (Chunuk Bair).