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Merge Not Balance, a New Work-Life Mantra Technology Is Making It Time Answering Emails on a Sunday: Lifestyle Are Obvious, of Course: but Endless Other Clickbait OPINION & ANALYSIS ONLINE COMMENT Proud shipping role theherald.com.au Concrete plans When the Newcastle Herald reported at the weekend the Newcastle Urban Renewal reduced to just coal Strategy raised ideas to revive heritage sites, the proposal was met with a mix of enthusiasm and cynicism from our online readers. Phillip O’Neill Stop printing stories on what the state government and Newcastle council’s ideas, proposals, THE ship has shaped our lives more consultations and thoughts are. than we acknowledge. Nothing ever happens out of them. This is the argument put by Lisa William Hasty and Kimberley Peters in an article in the latest issue of the So how much money was wasted geography journal Compass. again on a study into things that are The authors explain how ships not going to happen? have shaped the modern world. Wayne Pugh Ships are perhaps the most powerful artefacts humans have ever made. Of course these buildings should be Certainly ships are the world’s updated and renovated. All modern largest moving objects. Oil cities must adapt. It is important supertankers now exceed though that renovations are 400 metres in length. The world’s undertaken sensitively and the largest container vessel, Marco Polo, historic buildings are enhanced. can carry 10,000 fully laden Any nearby developments must containers and power along at also complement the historic 25 knots. buildings. The iconic Baths Pavilion Head down to Newcastle Harbour would make an amazing restaurant today and you can watch the arrival BUSTLING: Newcastle Harbour has been part of world trade since the middle of the 19th century. with boutique accommodation. of a 275-metre coal carrier, the Karen Japanese Tachibana, and the explorers was that this was an start manufacturing steel . government promises for a role in 278-metre Panamanian vessel unoccupied land, ready for tagging A thriving coastal shipping container trade have been broken. I would like to congratulate the Brilliant River. with British names in anticipation of industry was born, with Newcastle Employment lands on Kooragang people behind these ideas. For Without ships there would be future land claims on behalf of the as its east coast anchor. Iron ore was Island are being eaten away by coal once we have a chance to shape major limits on international trade. monarch, then King George III, the unloaded direct into the world’s stockpiles. The BHP gift of land and our city’s future. Yes there will be According to the International ‘‘mad king’’. largest sinter plant, while coke remediation money shows no return. disagreements but let the debates Maritime Organisation over 90 per The use of ships secured vast ovens brewed and fumed in the The floating dock has been towed to be positive. Don’t let this be a cent of the world’s traded material is empires for the Ottoman, then for background. Namibia, on the west coast of Africa. political football for politicians or carried by sea, weighing 8.4 billion the British, the French, the Spanish, Around the corner in Throsby Fortunately, federal defence special interest groups. tonnes in 2010, over three times the the Portuguese and the Dutch. Basin, railways across northern contracts keep the remaining Gordon Whitehead traffic in 1970. The shape and politics of nations NSW delivered the wheat harvest Forgacs shipbuilders in work. By 2060 international shipping around the world are still heavily and the wool clip for export. Then in But otherwise we have arrived at Great idea, just do it. Newcastle cargo will reach a staggering influenced by the legacies of these the 1960s, Kooragang Island rose the far reaches of a different empire, needs to do something to liven up 23 billion tonnes. colonisations. from dredged mud to become the one headquartered in east Asia. the place. Shipping started in our part of the Over 12 million Africans were site for unloading alumina for the Coal exports from Newcastle now Whiptech1 world in the second week of May shipped as slaves to the USA and region’s aluminium smelters and for exceed 95 per cent of all port 1770 when James Cook steered the Brazil and colonies in between. export of sand to Hawaiian golf turnover by weight, and this More residential, another restaurant Endeavour past the Hunter River. Then ships returned to Britain courses and wood chip to Japanese dominance will grow and grow. just what that end of town The winds were foul, say the logs and Europe with profitable paper mills. Read the aspirations of Newcastle needs. Next there will be paid of Joseph Banks, the botanist on commodities in their holds. Then in the 1980s local federal Ports Corp on its website and you parking and thousands of Newy board, and only a rain squall Newcastle was part of the MPs pushed hard and won defence will find all the right things, written residents will be put off travelling allowed up along the coast. commodity game. In the mid 19th contracts for a revived Newcastle obviously by managers on top of daily to one of the town’s most One consequence of the weather century the tricky waters of the shipbuilding industry. For a few their game. But read, too, recent popular free landmarks in favour of was that our coastline didn’t crack a Hunter estuary meant large sailing years, Newcastle looked like plans for Newcastle written in the few with money. name from Cook, unlike Port vessels struggled to offload rock becoming a significant shipbuilding Sydney – the infrastructure plan for cameo Jackson and Port Stephens, named ballast along Dyke Point as they and maintenance centre, within a instance – and see the emphasis on after Cook’s mates in the British loaded coal from skiffs scurrying diversified, genuinely international coal exports as a wealth generator. I’m over reading stories about Admiralty, and Broken Bay, named back and forth to filthy stockpiles port. And ask, whose plans will win out? proposals and plans. Let me know for obvious reasons. lining the foreshore. Three decades on and the port is when something is being built. Still, Cook’s maps tell us enough In 1912, a shipping future beyond famous for one thing – shipping coal Otherwise it’s the same old story. about what was going on. Apart from coal loomed. The NSW government to Asia in giant foreign vessels. Phillip O’Neill is a professor of Local news matters the odd diary note recording fires agreed to dredge a major harbour so Plans for conversion of the former economic geography at the ashore, the assumption of the that the colonial miner, BHP,could BHP wharves have long failed. State University of Western Sydney. Merge not balance, a new work-life mantra Technology is making it time answering emails on a Sunday: lifestyle are obvious, of course: but endless other clickbait. where even executives can leave at what’s new is that, with the British Is surfing Twitter work, if you’re easier to juggle work and 5.30pm to have tea with the children government proposing to extend the ostensibly checking for breaking (as Facebook’s chief executive right to request flexible working news - or play, given you inevitably home – and it’s blurring Sheryl Sandberg famously does) but patterns to everyone from 2014, it’s become sucked into conversation? the gap between our be back on the laptop by 9pm. likely to spread. The downside of this permanently It’s different to the old idea of And what really makes the merge ‘‘switched-on’’ life, of course, is that public and private lives, seeking a balance, which tends to timely is that it taps into two there’s nowhere to hide. writes Gaby Hinsliff. treat work and life as two conflicting important trends in working life. Everyone’s permanently checking opposites - one all hard grind, the The first is a tough new economic in, which means working days have other all pleasure - because reality, which means those torn become both longer and more HOW she explained the background practitioners of the ‘‘merge’’ tend to between work and home life often fast-moving. drone of the hairdryers is anyone’s be driven people who love their can’t afford to reduce their hours: so And while this multitasking guess, but the woman next to me at jobs. the emphasis is on reinventing the lifestyle has been pioneered by the hairdressers the other week was They want to customise the time we have. working women, the merge may be clearly not there to be pampered. corporate day to suit them. And the second trend is the surprisingly well-suited to many Phone jammed to her ear, laptop As Katie Bickerstaffe, the British seamless blurring of private and working fathers, too. Surveys suggest open on her knee, she was blithely chief executive of Dixons, recently public life, made possible by working from home, a way of conducting a conference call from put it: ‘‘I love what I do, but I also technology. blending professional and domestic under her highlighter foils. love my family. I don’t think there’s Home broadband and Wi-Fi on life, appeals particularly to men. Welcome to the world of the work- any reason you can’t do both. You the move have already liberated us Merged living isn’t a panacea, of life merge, the term recently coined just have to make sure you marshal physically from our desks, but the course. It’s not easy for anyone by Facebook executive Emily White your resources and yourself.’’ real game-changer is the platforms whose job requires fixed physical to describe a life in which work and Which for Bickerstaffe means a we use, because that’s what has presence, from binman to brain free time are no longer neatly four-day week, taking Fridays with finally dissolved the boundaries surgeon.
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