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Moto to ‘Tropical Fruits’ NYE party via grand Australian county pubs: Melbourne to Lismore
During the year, I bought a sparkling new moto, a 2019 Suzuki Vstrom 1000, which is a major step-up from the bullet-proof 2008 Suzuki GS 500 that I had been rinding too many places that it wasn’t meant to go. I have been itching to take it on an adventure ride since I bought it…
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Building a moral operating system for IT students: pedagogies and problems
(This is a paper I will co-present at an applied ethics conference in Melbourne in December. Ethics in IT has become a huge deal! Dr Craig Bellamy, Lecturer, CSU Study Centre Melbourne, Nectarios Costadopoulos, Lecturer, CSU Study Centre, Sydney 9th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) Conference, Melbourne, 8-10 December 2019 In this paper, we…
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Hiking Fraser Island, Queensland in Winter
Fraser Island is a considerably sized sand Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Some say it is the biggest sand island in the world (and some find meaning and significance in hierarchising anything and everything). I set off for my six-day, 90 Kms, hiking adventure on Fraser Island from mid-winter Melbourne. Queensland is warm…
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Driving from Melbourne to Uluru
Uluru is a massive rock in Central Australia. Some say it is the biggest rock in the world; some say many things. I was sceptical about seeing Uluru at first as it reeked of instrumental tourism, a place defined by the outcome rather than the journey. So, I started the unaligned journey in Fitz-Roy (the…
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Driving from Melbourne (Fitzroy) to Uluru (Ayres Rock)
Over the Christmas break, I plan to drive the immortal distance from Fitzroy in Melbourne to Uluru, Central Australia. I have never driven this far in Australia before, and luckily I will be with my dapper co-pilot, Sebastian from Cuenca in Ecuador (who I met during that other monumental road trip). Thankfully we will be…
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Would you like to chat? The Ethics of AI in Higher Education
I recently led a session at the eResearch Australasia conference on the ethics of AI in higher education. It is a big topic to handle, and I’m pretty new to this stuff, but the conversation went pretty well, and the awareness of both AI and ethics is high in this community. The ethical challenges posed…
